High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Burns, Baby Burns" is the fourth episode of The Simpsons` eighth season, first aired by the Fox network on November 17, 1996.Mr. Burns` long lost son Larry returns and although they at first get along well, Mr. Burns begins to see that his son has turned out to be an oaf. It was directed by Jim Reardon and was the first episode written by Ian Maxtone-Graham. It guest starred Rodney Dangerfield as Larry Burns.