8. Professor John Frink
Professor Frink! Professor Frink! Hell make you laugh! Hell make you think! He likes to run, and then the thing with the person Springfields resident inventor is a genuine genius with an IQ of 199 and an adorable speech impediment (glayvin). Friendship with Frink would hopefully give you access to his collection of weird and wonderful inventions, from his frog exaggerator to his virtual chilli, by way of his ice cream-dispensing cow, his various robots and his 'really useful' sarcasm detector. The man even invented a flying motorcycle, and if that doesnt convince you that he is worth knowing, nothing will. The lovely thing about Professor Frink is that while he spent his first appearance on the show trying to raise money for a death ray, he quickly cleaned up his act and became the gentle eccentric we know and love. A recent episode showed Miss Wyoming to be desperately in love with him. And really, who can blame her?