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{{Quote|Glaven!|Frink's catchphrase}}
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name=John Nerdelbaum I. Q. Frink, Jr|
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{{Quote|With the (random object) and the (other random object) and the hey hey hey|Another one of Frink's catchphrases}}
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{{Character
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|name = Jonathan I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink, Jr.
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|image = [[File:Jonathan Frink.png|200px]]
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job=Professor, Inventor|
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|gender = {{Male}}
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relatives=Father - [[Jonathon Frink Sr.]]<br>Wife - [[Martha Polk. Frink]]<br>Son - [[John Frink III]]|
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|hair = Brown
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appearance=“[[Old Money]]”|
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voiced by=[[Hank Azaria]]
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|status = Alive
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|job = Professor<br>Inventor<br>College Professor at [[Springfield Heights Institute of Technology]]
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|relatives = '''Father:''' [[Jonathan Frink, Sr.]]<br>'''Mother:''' Unnamed<ref name="Frinkcoin">"[[Frinkcoin]]"</ref><br>'''Wife:''' [[Mrs. Frink]]<br>'''Son:''' [[Professor Frink's son|Unnamed]]<br>'''Grandmother:''' [[Granny Frink]]
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|appearance = "[[Old Money]]"
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|voiced by = [[Hank Azaria]]<br>[[Karl Wiedergott]]<ref>"[[The Blunder Years]]"</ref><br>[[Josh Groban]]<ref>"[[I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh]]"</ref>
 
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''"Professor frink, Professor frink, makes you laugh, make you think"''
 
  
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'''Professor John I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink, Jr.''' is [[Springfield]]'s main professor, and regularly appears in and around town.
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'''Professor Jonathan "John" I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink, Jr.''', better known as simply '''Professor Frink''' and once referred to as '''Doctor Frink''',<ref name="Future-Drama">"[[Future-Drama]]"</ref> is [[Springfield]]'s local scientist and college professor, and is extremely brilliant, though somewhat socially inept.
  
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==Creation==
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== Biography ==
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Originally, Frink was simply written as a "mad scientist". When [[Hank Azaria]] first performed Frink's voice, he based it on [[Jerry Lewis]]'s character from ''The Nutty Professor''. As reference to this, Azaria pitched the section of "[[Treehouse of Horror XIV]]" in which Frink brings his father back to life, with his father being voiced by Jerry Lewis.<ref name=tvguide>{{cite news|title=Flash! 24 Simpsons Stars Reveal Themselves|accessdate=2007-08-15|date=[[2000-10-21]]|publisher=[[TV Guide]]|author=Joe Rhodes}}</ref> Frink was named after ''The Simpsons'' writer [[John Frink]].<ref name=tvguide/>
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[[File:Professor Frink Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]
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Frink is Springfield's local mad scientist. He has a trademark mannerism of using Tourette syndrome-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.<ref>"[[Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy]]"</ref>
  
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A programming language and a space reactor analysis tool <ref name=frink_space>{{cite news|title=FRINK - A Code to Evaluate Space Reactor Transients|accessdate=2007-08-15|date=[[2007-01-30]]|publisher=[[AIP]]|author=David I. Poston David D. Dixon Thomas F. Marcille Benjamin W. Amiri}}</ref> have been named in honor of Professor Frink.
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Frink has 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]] <ref name="IQ">"[[They Saved Lisa's Brain]]"</ref> and a college professor at [[Springfield University]].<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>
  
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==Character information==
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Professor Frink is the [[Professor Frink's inventions|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).
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Professor John Frink (referred to as Dr. Frink in the episode "[[Future-Drama]]") is generally depicted as Springfield's local stereotypical 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 never seen without his glasses and almost never takes them off.
 
  
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Frink is said to have an IQ of 197; 199 before he sustained a concussion during the collapse of Springfield's brief intellectual junta ("[[They Saved Lisa's Brain]]"). He is a member of the [[Springfield Mensa]].
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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.
  
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He holds an advanced degree in hyperbolic topology, mentioned in "[[Treehouse of Horror VI]]" when Homer gets trapped in the 3rd dimension. (This information could be considered non-canonical, as it appears in a ''[[Treehouse of Horror (series)|TOH]]'' episode.)
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=== Early life ===
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Jonathan Frink was the world's second test tube baby, who his parents created. His parents were both chemists but didn't seem to love each other, loving science more. As a baby, John Frink had to learn science and change the pitch of his voice frequently to get attention from his parents. All through his childhood and teenage years, Frink tried to get a scientific breakthrough but never managed to get one.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>
  
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He is a college professor at [[Springfield Heights Institute of Technology]].
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In the 1960s, Professor Frink made napalm to drop on [[Da Nang]].<ref>"[[Homer's Paternity Coot]]"</ref>
  
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Frink 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, as does Robin Williams in the 1997 ''Flubber'' movie.
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=== Family ===
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Frink formerly had a wife, though they have since 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 said "my wife is going to kill me",<ref>"[[Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?]]"</ref> though his son is also seen alive later.<ref>"[[I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot]]"</ref>
  
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He is also the inventor of, among other things, hamburger earmuffs 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."
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=== Relationships ===
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proffesor frink has also made many crazy inventions on the show especially on the treehouse of horror episodes but they are meant to be non - canon.
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At some point he had a relationship with [[Edna Krabappel]]<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref> and went on a couple of dates with [[Miss Wyoming]].<ref>"[[Replaceable You]]"</ref> He also got together with [[Miss Hoover]] during "Grownup Halloween"<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref> and again at a screening of [[Forward to the Past]].<ref>"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"</ref> When he made himself more desirable to women he slept with [[Cookie Kwan]] and went on dates with several other women including: [[Booberella]], [[Crazy Cat Lady]], [[Selma Bouvier]], [[Lunchlady Dora]], [[Mrs. Muntz]], [[Constance Harm]], [[Ruth Powers]], [[Lindsey Naegle]], [[Agnes Skinner]], [[Astrid Weller]], [[Audrey McConnell]] and [[Miss Springfield]].<ref name="Love is in the Air">"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref>
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professor frink has not made a large role in the series but he has been seen in quite a lot of episode which might suggest that he is a supporting character on the show.
 
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proffesor frink did not make any appearances in season 1 but had 1 speaking role in season 2 and in season 3 he had several speaking roles. since season 3 proffesor frink has become a regular supporting character.
 
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out of the simpsons professor frink seems to know lisa the most because she is interested in science and often visits places such as the natural history mueseam and the observatory.
 
  
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== Family ==
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Frink has a love-hate relationship with a fellow university professor, [[Professor Hessler]]. Whilst they didn't seem to get along, when Frink returned after ten days of being away, the two of them started to make out after Frink told her that he was happy to see her again.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>
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Frink had a strained relationship with his [[Johnathon Frink Sr.|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. In "[[Treehouse of Horror XIV]]", Frink brought his father back to life, 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 "Nerdelbaum". The two rebuild their relationship when the elder Frink is proud of his son for stopping him like a man, and said that he must now go to Hell. Frink managed to catch his father's soul with his newest invention the "Soul Catcher." Since Frink's father was seen in a Halloween episode, this information might be inaccurate, as it comes from a non-canon Halloween special.
 
  
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Frink has a wife,though in later episodes they may be separated or divorced, and a young son who looks similar to him. Also in another episode "[[Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?]]" his son crashes through a window during a demonstration of a remote controled airplane, after this he says "my wife is going to kill me". But since his son is seen in later episodes sugesting that this is either a different son or that his son survived the accident. In [[The Simpsons Game]], he marries a Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros., probably because The Simpsons Game parodies several video games.
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=== Science and inventions ===
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{{Main|:Category:Professor Frink's inventions}}
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Professor Frink has made several scientific advancements and discoveries. He once made himself into a man that women find attractive.<ref name="Love is in the Air"/> Frink also created a test to find the best and brightest minds in Springfield, the [[Personal Value Quotient]] test.<ref>"[[Frink Gets Testy]]"</ref> Frink also temporarily became the richest man in Springfield after he created the {{ap|Frinkcoin|cryptocurrency}} cryptocurrency.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>
  
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== Personal life ==
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== Non-canon ==
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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&mdash;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!". Any successfull attempts to see into the future are most likely not canon.
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{{Noncanon}}
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=== Future ===
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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, his death gone unnoticed by family and friends.<ref name="Future-Drama"/> Another future 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!".<ref>"[[Lisa's Wedding]]"</ref>
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=== Treehouse of Horror ===
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It is revealed that Frink had a strained relationship with his [[Jonathan Frink, Sr.|father]] (guest 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 testicles, 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.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror XIV]]"</ref>
  
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At one moment in ''The Simpsons'', Frink is commanded by a hypnotist to act desirable to women, whereupon Frink loses the glasses and frumpy appearance, and quickly becomes engaged with a nubile young waitress. However, the hypnotist shortly reverts Frink back to his usual nerdy self, with a quick snap of the fingers.
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=== The Simpsons Game ===
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In ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'', he lives inside the Game Engine and marries a Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros.
  
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'''Frink''': I don't wanna go back to the nothing!...Oh dear, I've re-dorkulated!
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=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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==== Professor Frink ====
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{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Oddballs|Frink}}
  
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A similar event happens when Frink drinks Abraham Simpson's aphrodisiac tonic. Both events are references to [[Jerry Lewis]]' character from ''The Nutty Professor'' transforming into Buddy Love.
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==== Costumes ====
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<gallery>
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File:Number 314.png|[[Number 314]]
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File:Sorcerer Frink.png|[[Sorcerer Frink]]
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File:Time Traveler Frink.png|[[Time Traveler Frink]]
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</gallery>
  
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In the 1960s, Professor Frink made napalm to drop on Da Nang, according to "[[Homer's Paternity Coot]]." 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.
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==== Standalone ====
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<gallery>
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File:Baby Frink.png|[[Baby Frink]]
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File:Advisor Frink.png|[[Advisor Frink]]
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</gallery>
  
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==Episode Appearances==
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== Behind the Laughter ==
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* [[Old Money]]
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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]]' character, Julius Kelp, from ''{{W|The Nutty Professor}}'', and the writing staff started making Frink more of a parody of Lewis.
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==External links==
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Frink was named after writer [[John Frink]]; however, that was before he became a writer for the show. This was because [[Jay Kogen]], a writer at the time, knew Frink and named the character after him. Frink was originally animated without his buckteeth. The nonsensical utterances that Frink makes are written in the scripts as "Frink noise".
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* [http://www.lowb.org/alan/frink/ Frink Rules Website: Audio Clips]
 
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* [http://www.internerd.com/frinky/ The Definitive Frink]
 
  
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== Trivia ==
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*The character's popularity has led to him giving name to a computer programming language.
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*He thinks nerd stands for "Not Even Remotely Dorky". ("[[Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind]]")
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*His [[Stonecutter]] number in [[The Simpsons: Tapped Out Stonecutters content update|Tapped Out]] is 314, which could be a reference to the number Pi/π which is 3.14159...
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*It's mentioned that he is one of Springfield's most renowned scientific minds, he discovered the element Frinkonium, discovered and cured Frink's disease and created the 8 month after pill.<ref>"[[Springfield Up]]"</ref>
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*He has an IQ of 197. It used to be 199 before he hit his head and lost two points.<ref name="IQ"/>
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{{Season35A
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'''Treehouse of Horror:'''
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{{TreehouseA
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'''Bart Simpson:'''
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'''Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book:'''
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*{{bon|Seems Like Old Crimes!}}
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}}
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'''Merchandise:'''
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*{{merch|Simpsons Mania! (Inkworks)|pipe=yes|3=Simpsons Mania!}}
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"Glaven!"
―Frink's catchphrase
"With the (random object) and the (other random object) and the hey hey hey"
―Another one of Frink's catchphrases
Jonathan I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink, Jr.
Jonathan Frink.png
Character Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Status:
Alive
Hair: Brown
Occupation: Professor
Inventor
College Professor at Springfield Heights Institute of Technology
Relatives: Father: Jonathan Frink, Sr.
Mother: Unnamed[1]
Wife: Mrs. Frink
Son: Unnamed
Grandmother: Granny Frink
First appearance: "Old Money"
Voiced by: Hank Azaria
Karl Wiedergott[2]
Josh Groban[3]
v • d • e • h


Professor Jonathan "John" I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink, Jr., better known as simply Professor Frink and once referred to as Doctor Frink,[4] is Springfield's local scientist and college professor, and is extremely brilliant, though somewhat socially inept.

Biography

Professor Frink Every Simpsons Ever.png

Frink is Springfield's local mad scientist. He has a trademark mannerism of using Tourette syndrome-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.[5]

Frink has 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 [6] and a college professor at Springfield University.[1]

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).

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.

Early life

Jonathan Frink was the world's second test tube baby, who his parents created. His parents were both chemists but didn't seem to love each other, loving science more. As a baby, John Frink had to learn science and change the pitch of his voice frequently to get attention from his parents. All through his childhood and teenage years, Frink tried to get a scientific breakthrough but never managed to get one.[1]

In the 1960s, Professor Frink made napalm to drop on Da Nang.[7]

Family

Frink formerly had a wife, though they have since 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 said "my wife is going to kill me",[8] though his son is also seen alive later.[9]

Relationships

At some point he had a relationship with Edna Krabappel[10] and went on a couple of dates with Miss Wyoming.[11] He also got together with Miss Hoover during "Grownup Halloween"[12] and again at a screening of Forward to the Past.[13] When he made himself more desirable to women he slept with Cookie Kwan and went on dates with several other women including: Booberella, Crazy Cat Lady, Selma Bouvier, Lunchlady Dora, Mrs. Muntz, Constance Harm, Ruth Powers, Lindsey Naegle, Agnes Skinner, Astrid Weller, Audrey McConnell and Miss Springfield.[14]

Frink has a love-hate relationship with a fellow university professor, Professor Hessler. Whilst they didn't seem to get along, when Frink returned after ten days of being away, the two of them started to make out after Frink told her that he was happy to see her again.[1]

Science and inventions

Main article: :Category:Professor Frink's inventions

Professor Frink has made several scientific advancements and discoveries. He once made himself into a man that women find attractive.[14] Frink also created a test to find the best and brightest minds in Springfield, the Personal Value Quotient test.[15] Frink also temporarily became the richest man in Springfield after he created the Frinkcoin cryptocurrency.[1]

Non-canon

Donut Homer.png The contents of this article or section are considered to be non-canon and therefore may not have actually happened or existed.

Future

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, his death gone unnoticed by family and friends.[4] Another future 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!".[16]

Treehouse of Horror

It is revealed that Frink had a strained relationship with his father (guest 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 testicles, 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.[17]

The Simpsons Game

In The Simpsons Game, he lives inside the Game Engine and marries a Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros.

The Simpsons: Tapped Out

Professor Frink

This section is transcluded from The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Oddballs. To edit it, please edit the transcluded page.
Professor Frink
Image Cost Unlock method Unlocks with Unlock message Yearbook
Tapped Out Unlock Frink.png Donut Tapped Out.png150 Level 6
Premium 		Frink's Lab So nice to be unlocked, with the grass, and the buildings, and the exPERIENCE points. Character is available via the Yearbook Mystery Box
Donut Tapped Out.png30
Donut Tapped Out.png200 SciFi
Premium (with LadyBot)
Donut Tapped Out.png100 Treehouse of Horror XXIX
Premium (Sorcerer Frink Bundle)
Donut Tapped Out.png75 Thanksgiving 2018, All American Auction, Blargsgiving, Northward Bound, The Atom Smasher and Cold Turkey
Premium (Cyber Mystery Box)
Donut Tapped Out.png75 Thanksgiving 2018, All American Auction, Blargsgiving, Northward Bound, The Atom Smasher and Cold Turkey
Premium (Cyber Mystery Box; with LadyBot)
Gold Box Token.png1 Thanksgiving 2018, All American Auction, Blargsgiving, Northward Bound, The Atom Smasher and Cold Turkey
Gold Mystery Box
Technical Information ID Groups Internal Name
19 Premium Characters, Premium Male, Brainiac, Kook, Adult, Nerds Frink

Costumes

Standalone

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' character, Julius Kelp, from The Nutty Professor, 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. This was because Jay Kogen, a writer at the time, knew Frink and named the character after him. Frink was originally animated without his buckteeth. The nonsensical utterances that Frink makes are written in the scripts as "Frink noise".

Foreign dubs

Language Voice dubber
Czech Republic flag.png Čeština Pavel Tesař
Germany.png Deutsch Kai Taschner
Spain flag.png Español Abraham Aguilar

Trivia

  • The character's popularity has led to him giving name to a computer programming language.
  • He thinks nerd stands for "Not Even Remotely Dorky". ("Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind")
  • His Stonecutter number in Tapped Out is 314, which could be a reference to the number Pi/π which is 3.14159...
  • It's mentioned that he is one of Springfield's most renowned scientific minds, he discovered the element Frinkonium, discovered and cured Frink's disease and created the 8 month after pill.[18]
  • He has an IQ of 197. It used to be 199 before he hit his head and lost two points.[6]

Appearances

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Frinkcoin"
  2. ↑ "The Blunder Years"
  3. ↑ "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Future-Drama"
  5. ↑ "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
  7. ↑ "Homer's Paternity Coot"
  8. ↑ "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
  9. ↑ "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot"
  10. ↑ "The Ned-liest Catch"
  11. ↑ "Replaceable You"
  12. ↑ "Halloween of Horror"
  13. ↑ "The Dad-Feelings Limited"
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"
  15. ↑ "Frink Gets Testy"
  16. ↑ "Lisa's Wedding"
  17. ↑ "Treehouse of Horror XIV"
  18. ↑ "Springfield Up"


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