16 Facts About Professor Frink

Professor Frink is voiced by Hank Azaria, and first appeared in the 1991 episode "Old Money".

Professor Frink was originally depicted as an evil scientist in "Old Money," since he was trying to secure funding for a death ray.

Professor Frink has been featured in other media relating to the show, such as comics, video games, and The Simpsons Ride, a simulator ride at Universal Studios Florida and Universal Studios Hollywood.

John Professor Frink is generally depicted as Springfield's stereotypical nerdy, mad, and socially inept scientist, inventor, and mathematician.

Professor Frink wears thick glasses, a white lab coat, a blue bow-tie atop a white buttoned-up shirt, and pink pants, and has buckteeth.

Professor Frink occasionally refers to the importance of remembering to "carry the one" in various mathematical calculations.

Professor Frink often tries to use his mad and bizarre inventions to aid the town in its crises, but they usually do not work or only make things worse.

Professor Frink is the inventor of, among other things, a frog exaggerator, automatic tapping shoes for tap dancing, the sarcasm detector, hamburger earmuffs, the 8-month-after pill, and a drilling machine that can cut through anything.

Professor 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.

Professor Frink often appears in the Treehouse of Horror Halloween episodes of The Simpsons, which are not accepted as canon and always take place outside the normal continuity of the show.

In "Treehouse of Horror XIV", it is revealed that Professor Frink had a father who was killed by a shark, whom he brings back to life in the episode by piecing together his body parts.

Professor Frink first appeared in the season two episode "Old Money" that aired on.

Professor Frink eventually decides to spend it on people who are in need of money and holds interviews.

Julius Kelp is a nerdy, mad professor, albeit not evil, and is often unsuccessful with his experiments, so Frink became more like that as the show progressed.

Writer Jay Kogen named the character after his friend and fellow television writer John Professor Frink, who was later hired on The Simpsons.

Professor Frink is a popular character on The Simpsons and he has received acclaim from critics.