Professor Frink

Professor John Frink is a fictional character, a scientist and professor on The Simpsons. He is named after John Frink, a writer and producer for the show.

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Fictional character - Scientist - The Simpsons - John Frink - Producer

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Professor John Frink is Springfield's local mad scientist voiced by Hank Azaria. His character is a mild parody of Jerry Lewis' character, The Nutty Professor. He has a trademark mannerism of using gibberish when excited, and he's often excited. For example, when a meteor is approaching Springfield in a Paul Bunyan portray, he exclaims "That meteor is headed straight for us! With the fire, and the impact, and the hundred percent chance of PAIN! PAIN IN THE GLAYVIN!"

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Mad scientist - Hank Azaria - Jerry Lewis - The Nutty Professor - Gibberish - Meteor - Paul Bunyan

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His laboratory phone number is 555-5782.

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He is fond of flubber, a fictional material with enhanced bounce properties originating in the movie The Absent Minded Professor. Professor Frink has basketball shoes made of flubber.

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Flubber - The Absent Minded Professor - Basketball

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Choice quotes:

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• "Professor Frink, Professor Frink/He'll make you laugh, he'll make you think!/He likes to run, and then the thing/With the... person?" - Professor Frink's theme song, written by Professor Frink
• "Good morning ma'am, good afternoon sir. ...It passed noon while I was speaking, so that was technically accurate."
• "Here is an ordinary square. But, suppose we extend the square beyond the two dimensions of our Universe along the hypothetical Z-axis, there. This forms a three-dimensional object known as a "cube", or a "Frinkahedron" in honor of its discoverer. Ingle-hey, mwa-hey."
• "I predict that within 20 years computers will be twice as fast, one thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the three richest kings of Europe could afford them."-1970's Professor Frink to Apu Nahasapimapetilon.

He is also the inventor of, among other things, hamburger earmuffs. Using his famous method of combining two already existing inventions, he soon had a hot, marketable product on his hands. However, Homer Simpson attempted to steal this brilliant idea after failing to come up with an invention of his own. Frink was confident though, reassuring himself that "these babies'll already be on the shelves while he's still grappling with the pickle matrix!"

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Frink never had a good relation with his father, (who was voiced by Jerry Lewis). Frink said they got along like "positrons and anti-neutrinos". The senior Professor Frink was a "he-man" scientist who, according to his son, worked on the atom bomb by day, slept with Marilyn Monroe by night, and sold secrets to the Russians at lunch. In the 14th Halloween Episode, Frink brought his father back to life, but he went on a rampage and younger Frink was forced to kill the elder.

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Atom bomb - Marilyn Monroe - Russia - Halloween

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Frink has a wife, though in later episodes they may be separated or divorced, and a young son who is a chibi of the elder Frink.

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In Future-Drama, an episode set eight years into a possible future of Bart and Lisa's, a bespectacled skeleton dressed in a lab coat is observed hanging on a rope from a rafter in Frink's basement laboratory—indicating the professor had committed suicide in the interim, and his passing had gone unnoticed by his family and friends. However, another episode set in the future, Lisa's Wedding, shows him alive and well as he leads a team trying to discover the cure for seventeen stab wounds in Mr Burns' back.

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Future-Drama - Suicide - Lisa's Wedding - Mr Burns

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A programming language/calculating tool called Frink has been named in honor of Frink http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/.

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Programming language - Frink

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