The Simpsons: 10 Throwaway Lines That Would Have Made Great Episodes

6. Professor Frink Proves Hell Is Real - And Everyone Goes There

Springfield's resident mad scientist Professor Frink has been responsible for some amazing scientific breakthroughs over the years. Whether it's his working time machine, his frog exaggerator, his De Ja Viewmaster or his Nobel Prize winning hammer with a screwdriver attached (it was a slow year). His most recent invention was a machine that allowed people to enter other people's dreams (thus we have an Inception spoof episode). While the Simpsons are using this device to access Homer's dreams (and testing the machine to make sure it's safe to use on chimps), Professor Frink warns them that since he did not update the latest version of Adobe, they will die in real life if they die in the dream. He also warns them that he has proven that "Hell is real, and everyone goes there." Now that sounds like an absolutely hilarious premise for an episode. We can't say for sure how Frink may have achieved this, but it's safe to say it was probably by accident. It also begs the question of why he hasn't shared this information with everyone else, or why he continues his career as a scientist, when it sounds like the Church just may be right. Surely we can work this plot into the next Treehouse of Horror episode.