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Montgomery Burns - Age

Burns' birthday is September 15, but the year of his birth is uncertain. His age is most often mentioned as being 104 years. (Though once in the episode "Simpson and Delilah" where Homer became an executive, he stated his age as 81 after Homer guessed 102; and he once had a ninetieth birthday during the series.) The season 15 episode "The Regina Monologues" stated that his age was a three-digit number (his ATM code is his age, and he pressed four buttons, including, presumably, the enter key). In another episode he is portrayed terrorizing children in a 19th century woodcut. However, in a flashback episode (see Flying Hellfish squad), WWII stories told to Bart by Grandpa Simpson show Burns as an arrogant private serving under the then Sergeant Simpson in the European Theater - although it was also stated that Burns originally held a higher rank, and suffered a sever demotion, most likely for treason. He also claimed to have similiarities to Oskar Schindler. "Schindler and I are like peas in a pod. We're both industrialists. We both made shells for the Nazis but mine worked, dammit!" Due to the fact that Burns said "I" it is unlikely that he would be both a soldier and an established industrialist unless he did so through an inherited company. In one episode, he claimed to have made a bet with the former Empress of Russia Catherine the Great (putting his birthdate somewhere before 1796).

He has credited his longevity to Satan, and/or an operation done to him every Friday night. He has the same blood type as Bart Simpson, "double-O negative". According to tests done at the Mayo Clinic, he has every single disease known to man (including several newly discovered ones) in him, and survives only because they are just barely but perfectly counteracting one another. This fictional medical anomaly is called "Three Stooges Syndrome." He mentions casually in one episode having leprosy after losing a fingernail in Homer's beer, a malady largely unseen today in the Western Hemisphere.

In "Goo Goo Gai Pan", it was revealed that his driver's license expired in 1909, which would perhaps mean he was born around 1889–1890. Burns graduated from Yale University in the class of 1914 (accordingly, it is probable that he was born in or around 1892). He also claims that he endured 5 years of 'McKinleynomics', further suggesting that he must have been born at some point in the 19th century.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Age", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki