| “ | Mr. Burns has a mother? She must be a hundred million years old! | „ |
| ~ Homer Simpson[src] |
Daphne Burns (née Charles) was the only child of Jean-Claude Charles and Ophelia Charles and Charles Montgomery Burns' mother. She was married to Clifford Burns, and once had an affair with President Taft. She was born around the late 1850s to the early 1860s. Her date of death is unclear, with her appearing to either have died in the 1930s while Mr. Burns was still at school,[1] or lived to 122 by the 1990s.[2]
Children[]
Daphne had many children, including Charles Montgomery Burns, George Burns, Zeph Burns, Cornelius Burns, Cornelia Hernandez, Clifford Burns Jr., Dominique Burns, Archibald Burns, Ernest Burns, Sarah Drew Linscott and 10 other unnamed children.[3]
Personality[]
From what has been seen in the episode Homer the Smithers, Daphne has been shown to have a feisty and cantankerous disposition. As evidenced by the way she spoke in the same episode, her mannerisms are out-of-touch with modern times. instances include "Lack-wit" (Idiot), "Improvident" (thoughtless), "Atom Mill" (Nuclear Power Plant).
Biography[]
How long Daphne Burns lived and what her apparent cause of death was depended on the episode. In one episode, she was last seen alive by Mr. Burns in 1935 before he was sent to boarding school.[1] In another, she was still alive in the 1990s, having lived to at least 122 years old and only capable of dialing phone numbers and yelling, following a failed attempt by her son to kill her five decades prior to that as revenge for her extramarital affair with President William Howard Taft.[2] In another episode, during a medical check up Mr. Burns once listed the cause of his parents' deaths as "got in my way".[4] After buying out KBBL and firing Bill and Marty, Mr. Burns commented that the lack of indoor plumbing killed his mother.[5] Mr. Burns also once asked Smithers where his "stuffed mother" was, implying that his mother is deceased.[6] It is possible that, in these instances, he is actually referring to his grandmother Evelyn Graycomb, much like how he once referred to his grandfather Wainwright Montgomery Burns as his father[7].
Trivia[]
- It is implied on The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album that Daphne had another partner, or was unfaithful to her husband, as Zeph, Cornelia, and Cornelius Burns all had "father unknown" listed underneath their names.
- According to The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World, Daphne Burns had an uncle named Ramses Burns, whom her son considered his favorite, implying she may be of Egyptian descent.
Appearances[]
Episode – "Rosebud" (flashback)- Episode – "Homer the Smithers"
- Episode – "The Mansion Family" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Fraudcast News" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble" (seen in a picture)
- Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Dark Knight Court" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" (flashback)
- Episode – "101 Mitigations"
- Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside" (flashback)
- Episode – "Burger Kings" (flashback)
- Book – The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album
- Book – C. Montgomery Burns' Handbook of World Domination
- Comic book – A Brand New Burns - Part One (mentioned)
- Comic book – Oh, Brother!
- Comic book – The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Ominous Omnibus Vol. 1: Scary Tales & Scarier Tentacles (1001 Nightmares of C. Montgomery Burns)
| The Simpsons: Season Five | ||||
| "Homer's Barbershop Quartet": | "Cape Feare": | "Homer Goes to College": | "Rosebud": | "Treehouse of Horror IV": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent |
| "Marge on the Lam": | "Bart's Inner Child": | "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood": | "The Last Temptation of Homer": | "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Homer the Vigilante": | "Bart Gets Famous": | "Homer and Apu": | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": | "Deep Space Homer": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Homer Loves Flanders": | "Bart Gets an Elephant": | "Burns' Heir": | "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song": | "The Boy Who Knew Too Much": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Lady Bouvier's Lover": | "Secrets of a Successful Marriage": | |||
| Absent | Absent | |||
| The Simpsons: Season Seven | ||||
| "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)": | "Radioactive Man": | "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily": | "Bart Sells His Soul": | "Lisa the Vegetarian": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Treehouse of Horror VI": | "King-Size Homer": | "Mother Simpson": | "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": | "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Marge Be Not Proud": | "Team Homer": | "Two Bad Neighbors": | "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield": | "Bart the Fink": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Lisa The Iconoclast": | "Homer The Smithers": | "The Day The Violence Died": | "A Fish Called Selma": | "Bart on the Road": |
| Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "22 Short Films About Springfield": | "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"": | "Much Apu About Nothing": | "Homerpalooza": | "Summer of 4 Ft. 2": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
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