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 John Frink
In a flashback we see him lecturing at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology, demonstrating the Frinkiac supercomputer and predicting that "within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them. M-huy."
He 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.
"Professor Frink, Professor Frink/He'll make you laugh, he'll make you think!"
He is also the inventor of Hamburger Earmuffs. Using his famous method of combining two already existing inventions, he soon had a hot, marketable product on his hands. However, Homer Simpson attempted to steal this brilliant idea after failing to come up with an invention of his own. Frink was confident though, reassuring himself that "these babies'll already be on the shelves while he's still grappling with the pickle matrix!" He promptly added "hoy-ven-glay-ven!"
Frink never had a good relation with his father, played by Jerry Lewis. His mother said they were like "positrons and anti-neutrinos". 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 the 14th Halloween Episode, Frink brought his father back to life, but he went on a rampage and younger Frink was forced to kill the elder.
A programming language/calculating tool (http://futureboy.homeip.net/frinkdocs/) has been named in honor of the brilliant Professor Frink.
Professor Frink was named after an actual producer of The Simpsons, named John Frink.
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