Professor Frink

Biography

Frink is Springfield's local mad scientist. He has a trademark mannerism of using gibberish when excited, such as "GLAYVIN!" 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. 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 and a college professor at Springfield Heights Institute of Technology or Springfield University, and he consults at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He is fond of flubber, a material with enhanced bounce properties, of which his basketball shoes are made. 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."

Biography

In the 1960s, Professor Frink made napalm to drop on Da Nang. 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 more frequent contact with Lisa Simpson than the rest of the Simpson family because she is more interested in science and makes more frequent visits to places such as the Springfield Museum of Natural History and the Springfield Observatory.

Family

Frink's father appears in the season 15 premiere Treehouse of Horror XIV. It is revealed that they do not have a good relationship, but since this episode is non-canon, it is unknown how well the younger Frink and his father actually get along. In the canon his parents were great chemists who paid attention to their work, so to get noticed Frink used science and changing the pitch of his voice so they couldn't help but notice him.

Personality

Frink is Springfield's nerdy scientist and professor and is extremely intelligent, though somewhat mad and socially inept. Frink often tries to use his bizarre inventions to aid the town in its crises but they usually only make things worse.

look like

brown hair only on top of his head, glasses, buck teeth, white button up shirt, long white lab coat, blue bow tie, pink pants, brown belt, black and white shoes

say

He has a trademark mannerism of using Jerry Lewis-style gibberish when excited, such as "HOYVIN-GLAVIN!" and "FLAVIN" and impulsively shouting other words that have no relevance to the situation at hand.