High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Mountain of Madness" is the twelfth episode of The Simpsons` eighth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 2, 1997. In the episode, Mr. Burns tries to encourage more teamwork among his employees and forces the workers of Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to go for a hike in the mountains. Burns and Homer are paired together and trapped in a cabin that was buried by avalanches.