- "Glavin!"
- ―Frinks catchphrase
| Jonathan I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink, Jr
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| Character Information
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Jonathan "John" I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink, Jr., better known as Professor Frink and once referred to as Doctor Frink[1], is Springfield's 40-year-old 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, but they usually only make things worse.
Biography
Frink is Springfield's local mad scientist. He has a trademark mannerism of using tourettes-like gibberish when excited, such as "GLAVIN!" and shouting other words that have no relevance to the situation at hand. He also occasionally refers to the importance of remembering to "carry the one" in various mathematical calculations. He is almost never seen without his glasses and has only taken them off once [2].
Frink is said to have an IQ of 197; 199 before he sustained a concussion during the collapse of Springfield's brief intellectual junta. He is a member of the Springfield Mensa [3] and a college professor at Springfield Heights Institute of Technology.
Frink is fond of flubber, a material with enhanced bounce properties which his basketball shoes are made out of.
Professor Frink is the inventor of, among other things, hamburger earmuffs, the flying motorcycle 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, or a secure house 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). Frink has also discovered and cured "Frink's Disease" and discovered "Frinkonium."
In the 1960s, Professor Frink made napalm to drop on Da Nang [4]. He once predicted that computers would be so large and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe would own them, a paraphrase of Thomas J. Watson's misquote.
Professor Frink has frequent contact with Lisa Simpson better than the rest of the Simpsons family because she is more interested in science and makes more frequent visits to places such as the Natural History Museum and the Observatory.
Family
Frink has a wife, though they may be separated or divorced, and a young son who looks similar to him. When his son crashed through a window during a demonstration of a remote controlled airplane, he says "my wife is going to kill me" [5], but his son is seen alive later [6], (this is either a different son or his son survived the accident).
Non Canon Appearance
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Future
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 has committed suicide in the interim - although this could be a clone or his aforementioned son - , his death gone unnoticed by family and friends. However, another episode set further 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, stating "Well, we're up to fifteen!".
Treehouse of Horror
In Treehouse of Horror XIV, it is revealed that Frink had a strained relationship with his father (voiced by Jerry Lewis). Frink said they got along like "positrons and antineutrinos." 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. Frink brought his father back to life after he died from a Shark Attack, but he went on a rampage and younger Frink was forced to kick the elder in the nuts, killing him. It is indicated in this episode that their shared middle name is "Neidelbaum". The two rebuild their relationship when the elder Frink is proud of his son for stopping him like a man.
The Simpsons Game
In The Simpsons Game, he lives inside the Game Engine and marries a Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros.
Behind the Laughter
Professor Frink is voiced by Hank Azaria. The character was originally written as a mad scientist. 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.
Frink was named after writer John Frink; however, that was before he became a writer for the show. Frink was originally animated without his buckteeth. The nonsensical utterances that Frink makes are written in the scripts as "Frink noise".
Trivia
Appearances
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 Episode – "Old Money"
- Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book"
- Episode – "Homer Defined"
- Episode – "Radio Bart"
- Episode – "Lisa the Greek"
- Episode – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
- Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
- Episode – "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show"
- Episode – "Marge in Chains"
- Episode – "Rosebud"
- Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
- Episode – "Homer the Vigilante"
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy Land"
- Episode – "Lisa on Ice"
- Episode – "Homer Badman"
- Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
- Episode – "Bart's Comet"
- Episode – "Lisa's Wedding"
- Episode – "The PTA Disbands"
- Episode – "Lemon of Troy"
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 THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VI"
- Episode – "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
- Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield"
- Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VII"
- Episode – "You Only Move Twice"
- Episode – "The Homer They Fall"
- Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns"
- Episode – "Bart After Dark"
- Episode – "Lisa's Date With Density"
- Episode – "Hurricane Neddy"
- Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
- Episode – "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"
- Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter"
- Episode – "Grade School Confidential"
- Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
- Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII"
- Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
- Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic"
- Episode – "The Joy of Sect"
- Episode – "This Little Wiggy"
- Episode – "The Trouble With Trillions"
- Episode – "Trash of the Titans"
- Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"
- Episode – "Mayored to the Mob"
- Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
- Episode – "Homer to the Max"
- Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories"
- Episode – "Mom and Pop Art"
- Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student"
- Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"
- Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
- Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"
- Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X"
- Episode – "Faith Off"
- Episode – "The Mansion Family"
- Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddly"
- Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield"
- Episode – "Behind the Laughter"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI"
- Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields"
- Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy"
- Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger"
- Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity"
- Episode – "HOMЯ"
- Episode – "Pokey Mom"
- Episode – "Worst Episode Ever"
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie"
- Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland"
- Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod"
- Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII"
- Episode – "The Parent Rap"
- Episode – "She of Little Faith"
- Episode – "Brawl in the Family"
- Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge"
- Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain"
- Episode – "The Sweetest Apu"
- Episode – "The Frying Game"
- Episode – "Papa's Got a Brand New Badge"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIII"
- Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma"
- Episode – "Pray Anything"
- Episode – "Barting Over"
- Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"
- Episode – "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington"
- Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"
- Episode – "The Bart of War"
- Episode – "Moe Baby Blues"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV"
- Episode – "The President Wore Pearls"
- Episode – "The Regina Monologues"
- Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season"
- Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays"
- Episode – "I, D'oh-Bot"
- Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
- Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding"
- Episode – "Simple Simpson"
- Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner"
- Episode – "Fraudcast News"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV"
- Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War"
- Episode – "Midnight Rx"
- Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass"
- Episode – "There's Something About Marrying"
- Episode – "The Seven-Beer Snitch"
- Episode – "Future-Drama"
- Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer"
- Episode – "A Star is Torn"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI"
- Episode – "Marge's Son Poisoning"
- Episode – "See Homer Run"
- Episode – "Simpson Christmas Stories"
- Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot"
- Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife"
- Episode – "Million Dollar Abie"
- Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums"
- Episode – "The Monkey Suit"
- Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats"
- Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em..."
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII"
- Episode – "G.I.D'oh"
- Episode – "Little Big Girl"
- Episode – "Springfield Up"
- Episode – "Yokel Chords"
- Episode – "The Boys of Bummer"
- Episode – "24 Minutes"
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 – The Simpsons Movie
- Episode – "Funeral For a Fiend"
- Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"
- Episode – "E. Pluribus Wiggum"
- Episode – "Lost Verizon"
- Episode – "Homer And Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
- Episode – "Mypods and Boomsticks"
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
- Episode – "Take My Life, Please"
- Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
- Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"
- Episode – "Wedding For Disaster"
- Episode – "To Surveil With Love"
- Episode – "Moe Letter Blues"
- Episode – "MoneyBART"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI"
- Episode – "The Fool Monty"
- Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
- Episode – "Flaming Moe"
- Episode – "The Blue and the Gray"
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 Comic story – The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth
- Comic story – The Principal of the Thing
- Comic story – The “X” Men
- Comic story – Catastrophe in Substitute Springfields!
- Comic story – Comic Fan No More
- Comic story – Liquid Diamond Is Forever
- Comic story – Sky-High Bart
- Comic story – Somewhere Over The Brain-bow!
- Comic story – The Invisible Nerd
- Comic story – Young Frinkenstein
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 Book – The Book of Moe
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 Video game – The Simpsons Wrestling
- Video game – The Simpsons Skateboarding
- Video game – The Simpsons: Hit & Run
- Video game – The Simpsons Game
- Template:Advert
- The Simpsons Ride
- The Simpsons SU2C PSA
- The Simpsons Trading Card Game
- World of Springfield
- Simpsons Staks
- The Simpsons Classic Collection Volume 1
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Reference
External links
| Factfiles from Simpsons World the Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20
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| Season 14
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| Rock Stars • Audrey McConnell, Third Grade Teacher • Dr. Velimirovic, Plastic Surgeon • Mitch Hartwell, the Reality Channel Producer • Junior (AKA Frank Grimes, Jr.) • Teacher of the Year Award Nominating Committee • Dexter Colt, Private Eye • The Mugger • Larry H. Lawyer, Jr. • Baby Stink-Breath • Booberella • Sara Sloane, Hollywood Movie Star • Cookie Kwan, Red Coat Realtor • Stark Richdale • Declan Desmond • Julio and Grady • Luke Stetson, Junior Wrangler • Suds McDuff, Spokesdog/Mascot for Duff Beer • Marriage Counselor • Jim Proudfoot • Don Castellaneta
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