Is this based purely on his public profile or is it something worse? He’s never appeared on The Simpsons, yet has a good track record for voiceover works like Look Who’s Talking.
What did Bruce Willis do to get so consistently on The Simpsons’ radar? They’ve made many references to his bad behavior, both as a working actor and tonight as a demanding employer whose assistants suffer post-traumatic episodes every time a phone rings. And then it gets worse until he’s prescribed a special sycophant pill popular with disabused personal assistants of the stars. “Just because you chew my food makes you think so we’re on a first name basis,” Burns seethes. Smithers begins to treat his boss in a much more, and yet not quite enough, familiar manner that is a reminder of Burns’ loss status. But He also faces insubordination from his head sycophant. This is, after all the guy who blotted out the sun, so he’s perfectly within his limits. Burns, who thinks cryptocurrency is the cash he keeps in his crypt.Ĭharacteristically Burns sets out to destroy, not only Frink, but all cryptocurrency to keep his crown. It propels the town’s resident mad scientist into the top financial position and makes Frink even richer than Mr. The Simpsons extend that with a pretty good, but obvious visual joke about staring a hedge fund. It even beats Cletus’s roadside corn, and that is currency you can eat. You will keep it in your computer, not in your wallet, and it is all maintained on some cloud.įrink’s reinvention of the dollar catches on. We learn pretty much what we already know super cool consensus-based cryptocurrency will be the cash of the future once the bugs are worked out.
To help explain The Simpsons has to employ both self-affirmed non-nerd Jim Parsons and a medium-level “Schoolhouse Rock” parody. This is pretty heady stuff for the series, if only because even experts don’t quite know what cryptocurrency is. He finally thinks he’s putting his mind to financial use with his latest invention, a new kind of cryptocurrency. But this is the man who invented hamburger earmuffs, robot bears and helped Mr. Accolades come and go on The Simpsons and his recollections make it sound like Frink’s done nothing.
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In spite of a promising beginning, Frink regrets he never quite had his breakthrough, or as he puts it: in a world full of Einsteins, he’s a James Chadwick (who discovered the neutron in 1932). He tells her his parents had great chemistry, no love, but great chemistry. Professor Frink opens up entirely to Lisa, possibly because she is a fellow nerd. It’s no wonder the first conclusion he jumps to by the niceties is that they’re celebrating Lisa’s last meal. This subtly mocks all family-based academia and early learning and development. He dissembles the whole thing as a scam to pit one parent against the other. Marge and Homer take the family out to dinner and Bart figures his parents are sucking up to Lisa so one will be picked as the topic of her Springfield Elementary paper. For the most part, though, as far as laughs, we’re still not filled.
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The series has also been finding better ways to use social commentary without being preachy. The series has been getting deeper into the Simpsons characters in more varied ways now and often gaining more insight. South Park, Family Guy and Rick and Morty have all overtaken the series on a laugh-per-episode basis, and Bojack Horseman took subversive commentary to dark places. It’s not only when we compare to the great early seasons, but with current animated comedies. This season has been an improvement over last year’s but remains unnervingly unsatisfying. Professor Frink finally gets a payoff in The Simpsons, season 31, episode 13, “Frinkcoin.” Not only because he finally invents something which has economic value, but because he headlines a tight and ultimately sweet episode, which is neither forced nor rushed. This The Simpsons review contains spoilers.