[2] Noted in the DVD commentaries of "The Deep South" and "Roswell That Ends Well", Burns has an M.A.
[3] Burns is partly credited for The Simpsons' inclusion of a number of complex mathematical concepts and jokes within the series.
[4][5][6][1] Burns was famously referenced in a 1993 Newsweek article about his decision to jump from pursuing a graduate degree in mathematics to writing comedy: "You could read the entire story of American decline in that one career move.
Burns developed and has served as the game runner of The Simpsons: Tapped Out[8] since its inception.
Burns has won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Animation Program four times — for Futurama in 2002, and for The Simpsons in 2006, 2008 and 2019.