

In the 1960s, Professor Frink made napalm to drop on Da Nang. All through his childhood and teenage years, Frink tried to get a scientific breakthrough but never managed to get one. As a baby, John Frink had to learn science and change the pitch of his voice frequently to get attention from his parents. His parents were both chemists but didn't seem to love each other, loving science more. Jonathan Frink was the world's second test tube baby, who his parents created. 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. 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 is the inventor of, among other things, hamburger earmuffs, the flying motorcycle and the 8-month after pill. He is a member of the Springfield Mensa and a college professor at Springfield University. įrink has an IQ of 197 199 before he sustained a concussion during the collapse of Springfield's brief intellectual junta.


He is almost never seen without his glasses and has only taken them off once. He also occasionally refers to the importance of remembering to "carry the one" in various mathematical calculations. 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. Frink is Springfield's local mad scientist.
