Professor Frink
All you want to know about Professor Frink
| The Simpsons character | |
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| John Frink | |
| Gender | Male |
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| Job | Scientist, inventor, professor |
| Relatives | Father: John Frink, Sr. |
| Voice actor | Hank Azaria |
| First appearance | |
| The Simpsons | "Old Money" |
Professor John I.Q. Nerdelbaum Frink, Jr. is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons. He is voiced by Hank Azaria, and first appeared in the episode "Old Money". He is Springfield's local scientist and college professor, and is extremely brilliant, though somewhat socially inept. Frink often tries to use his bizarre inventions to aid the town in its crises, especially during the Treehouse of Horror episodes, but they usually only make things worse.
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Role in The Simpsons
Prototype
John Frink (referred to as Frink in the episode "Future-Drama") is generally depicted as Springfield's local stereotypical nerdy scientist/inventor. Frink is a college professor at Springfield Heights Institute of Technology. He has a trademark mannerism of using gibberish when excited, such as "HOYVIN-GLAYVIN!" and shouting other words that have no relevance to the situation at hand, possibly suggesting that he has Tourette's syndrome[citation needed]. He also occasionally refers to the importance of remembering to "carry the one" in various mathematical calculations and also has a tendency to over complicate simple matters, such as "Father and I got along like positrons and antineutrinos!". He is rarely seen without his glasses and almost never takes them off.
Frink has an IQ of 197; 199 before he sustained a concussion during the collapse of Springfield's brief intellectual junta, and is a member of the Springfield chapter of Mensa.[1]
Frink is also the inventor of, among other things, automatic tapping shoes for tap dancing, the frog exaggerator, monsterometer, the sarcasm detector, hamburger earmuffs (which are apparently much more complicated than one would think, with problems that include the "pickle matrix") and the 8-month after pill. Some of Frink's inventions, such as the automatic phone dialer, work better than others, such as his radio-controlled plane, which carries babies as passengers under their parents' control (it crashed), or a secure building that sprouts legs and runs away from potential danger (the legs of which often collapsed causing the house to crash to the ground and catch fire). Also, in the 1960s, Frink made napalm to drop on Da Nang.[2] Frink has also discovered and cured "Frink's Disease" and discovered "Frinkonium." Frink has mastered astrology to the point where he can use it to accurately predict the future, and has been shown to be capable of time travel.
Many of Frink's major appearances have been in the Treehouse of Horror episodes, which are usually not accepted as canon. Frink's bizarre inventions and understanding of advanced physics usually fit very well into these supernatural plotlines. This makes many of Frink's facets revealed in these episodes, such as his college degree and relationship with his father, difficult to accept as canon.
Family
Frink has a wife, who he refers to in his first appearance and has appeared as an equally nerdy scientist, though in later episodes they may be separated or divorced based on dialog, and a young son who looks similar to him. His son, who resembles him, has only been seen on two occasions: during a convention for infant and toddler products as a pilot of a remote-controlled plane in "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?" (Frink's son flew out the window while in the plane), and the other at a robot battle in "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot" (operating the robot).
Character
Frink was originally written as a mad scientist.[3] However, when cast member Hank Azaria ad-libbed a voice for Frink, he did an impression of Jerry Lewis's The Nutty Professor character, and the writing staff started making Frink more of a parody of Lewis.[3] As an homage to Lewis, Azaria conceived the idea of the segment of "Treehouse of Horror XIV" in which Frink revives his dead father, who is voiced by Lewis.[4] Frink was named after Simpsons writer John Frink; however, that was before he became a writer for the show.[3] Frink was originally animated without his buckteeth.[3] The nonsensical utterances that Frink makes are written in the scripts as "Frink noise".[5]
Cultural impact
A computer programming language and a space reactor analysis tool have been named in honor of Frink.[6]
References
- ^ "They Saved Lisa's Brain". Selman, Matt; Michels, Pete. The Simpsons. Fox. No. 22, season 10.
- ^ "Homer's Paternity Coot". Cohen, Joel H.; Anderson, Mike B.. The Simpsons. Fox. No. 10, season 17.
- ^ a b c d Groening, Matt; Jean, Al; Kogen, Jay; Silverman, David; Wolodarsky, Wallace (2002). Commentary for "Old Money", in The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
- ^ Joe Rhodes (2000-10-21). "Flash! 24 Simpsons Stars Reveal Themselves", TV Guide. Retrieved on 15 August 2007.
- ^ Groening, Matt (2000-02-16). Simpsons Comics A Go-Go, Simpsons Comic #30, 10. Bongo Comics. ISBN 0-0609-5566-X.
- ^ David I. Poston David D. Dixon Thomas F. Marcille Benjamin W. Amiri (2007-01-30). "FRINK - A Code to Evaluate Space Reactor Transients", AIP. Retrieved on 15 August 2007.
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