Mr. Burns was taken over by Harry Shearer, who also provides the voice for characters including Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders and Reverend Lovejoy. Erik Pendzich ...

Her son, meanwhile, presses his fingers together in Burns’s familiar pose and intones, “Smithers,” with Burns’ shaky voice. (Smithers is Burns’s adoring assistant on the show.) ...

Harry Shearer, who also voices Ned Flanders and Smithers in The Simpsons, took over the voice of Mr Burns in 1990, and has continued the role for more than three decades.