The limitless amount of wacky stuff his character is capable of is why Conan O’Brien loved writing for him, and likely why Mr. Burns is featured on the show so often.
Sure, The Simpsons can travel across America at the drop of a hat, but can they recall a time they fought Theodore Roosevelt, or have an early prototype of a man-powered airplane stashed away?
When one is writing a story line for C. Montgomery Burns, there are few boundaries.