Editing Professor Frink (section)

==Reception==
Frink is a popular character on ''The Simpsons'' and he has received acclaim from critics. Mark Hughes Cobb of ''[[The Tuscaloosa News]]'' named him his favorite secondary character from the show.<ref name="Tuscaloosa"/> ''[[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]]''{{'}}s Robert Philpot called the professor one of the five best supporting characters on ''The Simpsons'', writing that "Springfield's mad scientist is a triumph of style over substance, with Hank Azaria giving him a ripoff Jerry Lewis voice that reminds you why we once thought Lewis was funny."<ref>{{cite news |last=Philpot |first=Robert |title=D'oh-boy! – 'The Simpsons ' marks its 300th episode of razor-sharp satire |newspaper=[[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]] |date=2003-02-15 |page=1}}</ref> On their list of the top twenty-five peripheral ''Simpsons'' characters, [[IGN]]'s Eric Goldman, Dan Iverson, and Brian Zoromski listed Frink at number fourteen, commenting that he fits nicely into the ''Simpsons'' universe "as the town's brilliant mad scientist." They highlighted a scene from the episode "[[The PTA Disbands]]", in which Frink becomes a kindergarten substitute teacher and keeps one of the children's toys to himself because the children "wouldn't enjoy it on as many levels" as he did.<ref name="IGN">{{cite web |url=http://uk.tv.ign.com/articles/730/730957p2.html |title=The top 25 Simpsons peripheral characters|access-date=2010-08-01 |date=2006-10-06 |website=[[IGN]]}}</ref> Nick Griffiths of ''[[Radio Times]]'' named Frink one of the best characters of the show, stating that he has "always loved Professor Frink", particularly because of his appearance, gibberish talking, and overuse of the word "the", and because of his inventions such as the matter teleporter that turns Bart into half-human half-fly.<ref name="RadioTimes">{{cite news|last=Griffiths |first=Nick |title=The best... Simpsons character |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/simpsonscharacter/ |access-date=2010-08-31 |newspaper=[[Radio Times]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20100907071451/http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/simpsonscharacter/ |archive-date=2010-09-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]''{{'}}s David Hollingworth profiled Frink in his list of "TV's great tech figures", writing that apart from being smart, the professor is best known for his "rather idiosyncratic speech patterns{{snd}}hmmguyvin-whey-hey."<ref name="Hollingworth">{{cite news |last=Hollingworth |first=David |title=As seen on TV{{snd}}TV geeks |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=2000-11-30 |page=18}}</ref> Joe Rhodes of ''TV Guide'' listed the following as the professor's most memorable line: "Sorry I'm late. There was trouble at the lab with the running and the exploding and the crying when the monkeys stole the glasses off my head."<ref name=tvguide/>

Several critics have commented on Frink's inventions. Patrick Goss of [[MSN]]'s ''Tech & Gadgets'' wrote that "When it comes to gizmos, Frink is the king", and listed the Death Ray as one of the greatest gadgets featured in ''The Simpsons''. Although he added that it "was not one of [Frink's] most successful", since it never received the funding it needed from Grampa.<ref name="MSN">{{cite web |last=Goss |first=Patrick |title=Great gadgets of The Simpsons |url=http://tech.uk.msn.com/features/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=149575278 |work=Tech & Gadgets |publisher=[[MSN]] |access-date=2010-08-02 |date=2009-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229210959/http://tech.uk.msn.com/features/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=149575278 |archive-date=2010-12-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> On the same list, Goss also featured Frink's automatic phone dialer, intra bovine ice-cream maker (an invention that is inserted into a cow and uses the [[cattle#Anatomy|four stomachs]] to mix the various ingredients), and hamburger earmuffs.<ref name="MSN"/> In a profile about Frink, the publication [[UGO Networks]] wrote: "Where would the town be without your Jerry Lewis/Julius Kelp-inspired voice and antics? A lot safer most likely. Professor John Frink's inventions range from distracting to disruptive. Who can forget his hamburger earmuffs? Or his teleportation device, responsible for switching Bart Simpson's head with that of a housefly?"<ref name="UGO">{{cite web |title=Professor Frink |url=http://simpsons.ugo.com/?cur=frink |publisher=[[UGO Networks]] |access-date=2010-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012021428/http://simpsons.ugo.com/?cur=frink |archive-date=2013-10-12 }}</ref> Howard Waldrop and Lawrence Person of ''[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]'' listed the scene in ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'' that features Frink's drilling machine invention as one of the highlights of the film.<ref name="locus">{{cite news |author1=Waldrop, Howard |author2=Person, Lawrence |title=Movie review of The Simpsons Movie |url=http://www.locusmag.com/2007/WaldropPerson_Simpsons.html |access-date=2010-08-02 |newspaper=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]] |date=2007-07-30}}</ref>