

Also, in the 1960s, Frink made napalm to drop on Da Nang 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. 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). He is rarely seen without his glasses and almost never takes them off.įrink 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.įrink 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. 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 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. Frink is a college professor at Springfield Heights Institute of Technology.

John Frink (referred to as Frink in the episode “Future-Drama”) is generally depicted as Springfield’s local stereotypical nerdy scientist/inventor. 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. He is Springfield’s local scientist and college professor, and is extremely brilliant, though somewhat socially inept. He is voiced by Hank Azaria, and first appeared in the episode “Old Money”.

#PROFESSOR JOHN FRINK SERIES#
is a recurring character in the animated television series The Simpsons.
