So, instead they shift gears and come up with a way to destroy all cryptocurrency, which would wipe away Frink’s wealth. So, they hire Homer’s old nerd buddies to create a new cryptocurrency, but they’re unable to create an algorithm better than Frinks. And, the only way they see that being possible is to invent his own crypto. Meanwhile, Burns is still mad about Frink, and weirdly Smithers for the name thing, and Smithers has been tasked with finding a way to make Burns richer again. And, thanks to Frink’s vast knowledge base, he ends up cleaning up at the trivia game, and ingratiates himself with the guys, and he actually starts to feel happy for once. And, in order to avoid an evening with Patty and Selma, Homer agrees to take Frink to Moe’s for a night of bar trivia. Lisa starts to think that the reason Frink is so sad is that he doesn’t have anyone to share his life with, and tries to encourage Homer to become Frink’s friend. Frink does everything he think will make him happy, like buying a mansion and a bunch of stuff, but he’s still feeling unfulfilled. Lisa comes to visit him and he’s still just as depressed, even though he spent the first couple million dollars of his fortune paying off his student loans. He’s furious that Frink has taken his spot, and has Smithers explain crypto to him, only to get more bothered by the fact that Smithers calls him Monty, and promptly stops listening.īut, while Burns is scheming, we see that instant fame and fortune hasn’t done much to cheer Frink up. Which, really pisses of the previous holder of that title, Mr. And, just like that, Professor Frink is a billionaire, and the richest man in Springfield.

Crytpo! That’s right, Professor Frink thinks he’s going to set the world ablaze with a new cryptocurrency, and even plays a weird little video featuring that Sheldon guy attempting to explain the blockchain to the old people watching Fox in Schoolhouse Rock terms.įrink then releases his crypto, Frinkcoin, and it immediately becomes the most stable source of currency in the world somehow. Luckily though, he’s come up with something he thinks will turn his luck around. However, Frink is depressed because he’s never invented anything that has made him successful, which he thinks is the key to happiness. And it’s sad! Frink explains that he has loved science every since he was a child, because he was a test-tube baby, and was raised by two prominent scientists. She goes and visits his small office in Springfield University, which he shares with a humanities professor who seems to hate him, and they get chatting. Professor Frink! It’s not exactly explained why, other than him being interested in science, but Lisa has set up an appointment to meet with Frink and write about him. Which, she promptly shoots down, insisting that she’s already picked her topic. It turns out that Lisa is supposed to be writing some essay about the most interesting person she knows, Homer and Marge have learned about said essay, and have decided to bribe her with a trip to a vegan restaurant in order to convince her to write about one of them. Bart assumes it’s because she’s dying and the parents are trying to do one last thing for her, but the actual answer is somehow weirder.

Which, makes her pretty damn suspicious from the get-go, assuming that there’s some sort of ploy going on here. The actual episode begins with the Simpsons visiting Springfield’s only vegan restaurant, indulging Lisa’s interests for once. Well, after an accidental lapse in coverage, we’re back talking about more Simpsons episodes folks! And, it wouldn’t be a modern episode of the show if the subject wasn’t at least four years out of date! That’s right, who wants to talk about cryptocurrency again? But, at least they were contemporary enough to have the couch gag become a fever-dream reference to the insane Cats movie.

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