This plant violates every labor law in the book! We found a missing Brazilian soccer team working in your reactor core!
Mr. BurnsThat plane crashed on my property!
A character in The Simpsons
Played by Harry Shearer
The Simpsons · 3,477 quotes
6th most-quoted character in The Simpsons: in 140 of its 3,477 quotes
Most scenes with: Waylon Smithers (51), Homer Simpson (40), Bart Simpson (13)
This plant violates every labor law in the book! We found a missing Brazilian soccer team working in your reactor core!
Mr. BurnsThat plane crashed on my property!
[An alarm starts blaring at the power plant]
Someone is charging room service to the company, sir.
Mr. BurnsWell we'll just see about that! [uncovers a cage hold several winged monkeys] Fly, my pretties! Fly! [the monkeys leap out of the window, only to plummet to their deaths] Oh...[to Smithers] Continue the research.
Mr. BurnsThank you for visiting our plant, Dr. Kissinger.
It was fun.
We'll let you know if your glasses turn up.
Yes well, I'm sure I left them in the car. [thinking] No one must know I dropped them in the toilet. Not I, the man who drafted the Paris Peace Accords.
I'm afraid Robert Goulet hasn't arrived yet, sir.
Mr. BurnsVery well, begin the thawing of Jim Nabors.
[to Bart] And now you can go back to just being you, instead of a one-dimensional character with a silly catchphrase.
[breaking a lamp] D'oh!
Ay, caramba!
[groans]
[sucks her pacifier]
Hi-dilly-ho!
[belches]
Ha, ha!
Mr. BurnsExcellent.
[Long pause. Everyone looks expectantly at Lisa.]
If anyone wants me, I'll be in my room. [She walks away.]
What kind of catchphrase is that?
[Smithers turns on his computer, its boot screen displays a computerized version of Mr. Burns]
Mr. BurnsHello, Smithers. You're. Quite. Good. At. Turning. Me. On.
Uh, you probably should ignore that.
[Mr. Burns talking to football players before the game]
Mr. BurnsMen, there's a little crippled boy sitting in a hospital who wants you to win this game. I know because... I crippled him myself to inspire you.
[Cuts to Milhouse lying in a hospital bed with a broken leg and his parents at his side.]
I hope they win or Mr. Burns said he's coming back.
I got a mink chamois, sir. I hope it-- [gasp] Oh, my God, Mr. Burns is dead! Aw! Why do the good always die so young?
Mr. Burns[emerges, strangles Smithers] You almost killed me!
Please, sir... [places towel on Burns' shoulders] you'll catch..cold.
I have nothing to offer you but my love.
Mr. BurnsI specifically said no geeks!
[dejected] But my mom says I'm cool...
Mr. BurnsNext!
Give me your fortune or I'll pound your withered old face in!
Mr. BurnsOoh, I like his energy. Put him on the callback list.
[Singing] Clang, clang, clang went the trolley! Ring, ring, ring went the bell! Zing, zing, zing went my heartstrings--
[Nelson runs onto the stage and cold cocks him. Martin collapses.]
Mr. BurnsThank you. Give the bully an extra point.
[clears throat] I propose to you that your heir not need be a boy. In this phallocentric society of ours -
Mr BurnsI don't know what 'phallocentric' means, but no girls!
[offstage, in a dress and wig] So much for Plan B.
[a stone suddenly crashes through Burns' library glass window, landing at his feet]
Mr. BurnsOh, look. A bird has become petrified and lost its sense of direction.
I think it is a rock, sir.
Mr. BurnsWe'll see what the lab has to say about that.
[Bart smashes up Burns' residence in anger for not being chosen as the heir, smashing windows and decapitating statues]
Mr. BurnsHeh heh, look, Smithers -- a creature of pure malevolence. He's the perfect one to suckle at my proverbial teat. [opens window] You there, boy! What day is this?
[with an exaggerated Cockney accent] Today, sir? Why, it's Christmas Day!
Mr. BurnsI was talking to him. [points at Bart] You! What day is this?
Huh?
Mr. BurnsI'll tell you what day this is: today is the day you become my heir!
[Bart throws a rock which hits Smithers in the head]
Mr. BurnsOoh, I like him a lot.
Mr. BurnsPeople, that was all wrong! Homer Simpson doesn't say "Boh", he says... [Flips through a script to he gets to a page.] Doh!
[The fake Homer and Marge take off their masks.]
Sorry, M.B., but I'm having trouble with this character. Is he supposed to have some kind of neurological impairment like Rain Man or Awakenings. I mean, what the hell am I doing here?
And this dialogue has none of the wit and sparkle of Murphy Brown.
[Takes off his mask and smokes his cigar] Hey, you know we are getting into Golden Time.
Mr. BurnsYes well just get it right, or you'll be back doing Come Blow Your Horn at the Westport Dinner Theatre.
Oh, Monty, I swear you're the devil himself.
Mr. BurnsI...Who told you?! ...Oh, ah, yes.
Mr. BurnsI specifically requested no romantic music! What…?
[stops playing organ, trying to pounds the window] Mrs. Bouvier! Mrs. Bouvier! [Glass breaks, he falls to the church floor, saved Jacqueline] Mrs. Bouvier!
Oh, I hope I haven't upset you... bongo-head!
[starts playing the bongos on Burns' head]
Mr. BurnsOh, I should be resisting this, but I'm paralyzed with rage... and island rhythms.
[Homer drives through the plant and everyone cheers as Homer continues playing]
Yeah, way to play the boss's head like a bongo, Homer!
He's getting a pretty good sound out of that guy.
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