Bart 'N' Frink
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"Bart 'N' Frink"
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Episode Information
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"Bart 'N' Frink" is the sixth episode of broadcast season 37 of The Simpsons and the seven hundred ninety-sixth episode overall. It originally aired on November 9, 2025. The episode was written by Brian Kelley and directed by Rob Oliver. It guest stars Glenn Howerton as Peter Linz and Danny Pudi as Johnson Bryans.
Synopsis
- "When Bart becomes Professor Frink's lab assistant, the Simpsons are thrown into a world of tech billionaires determined to live forever, with the future of the internet at stake."
Plot
When Bart and Lisa run toward the Fun for your Lives! Game Store for games they come to a screeching halt when they find it full of people playing card games and building figurines inside. When Martin has to take a bathroom break he asks Bart to take over his role as his character in a game of Dungeons and Dragons as Dendelion Tenderjape.
In the game they are taking on the dragon Balfalmagoy and Bart decides to attack him, despite Professor Frink, as Mythagolas the Bold, deciding to retreat. He gets charred to almost death and Mythagolas decides to not leave his companion behind. He starts using elemental spells against the dragon but gets killed by its Egg of Death piercing the shield he created due to bad dice rolls, and Dungeon Master Comic Book Guy rips his card off making him cry. Lisa tells Bart she is going to rattle to Marge on how he made Frink cry.
Later, Marge takes Bart to Frink's House to apologyze, and he invites them in. Marge talks to Frink about his emotional attachment to the character while Bart starts playing around his lab, until Marge proposes for Bart to become his lab assistant, which both agree to. They start having fun and destruction until after a discussion on how Bart sees himself as dumb and Frink disagrees, Frink receives an invitation to a college reunion, and invite the whole Simpson family to the rich party at the location, Peter Linz's Mansion.
There, Bart overhears other rich people wondering how Frink can stand Peter and after asking why, they tell him how in college, at the Silicon Valley Tech college Frink invented stuff but didn't take profit off them, leaving it to others to take, and Peter stole his invention of an electronic assistant, Susan, to create Amazon Alexa.
Meanwhile, Lisa is trying to get one of the rich people to give her a scolarship since they spent her college fund for the parking fees but is unsuccessful. Homer and Marge find out that the people are in a radical life-extension program to solve aging, so no fat food or alchohol, and they try testing his blood for it. While talking to Peter, Frink pulls out his latest invention, glasses that reveal other people's emotions and Peter immediately seize the opportunity to steal them.
Homer is informed that his blood is a miracle as he has bio-markers of a 26 years old man and he tells them his secret is beer and Doritos. Bart then notices how Peter is about to rob Frink of another invention and opens his eyes to his schemes making him feel angry for the first time, and Frink opens Bart's eyes on how he is not dumb but smart. Meanwhile tons of Duff Beer and Doritos and a Krusty Burger restaurant arrive via drones to the mansion.
To take revenge on Frink, Bart allies with Peter to take the schematics from him. Meanwhile, Lisa points out its not Homer's blood that was tested and Homer confirms he used Bart's, a 10 year old with a bio-mark of a 26 years old. Bart prepares the schematics but when a Komodo Dragon gets loose and tries to attack him, Frink saves him, in sorcerer clothes, and Bart hugs him and return as friends.
Bart then confesses he reproduced his schematics for Peter and Frink is impressed on how he did it from memory further proving he is smart. The glasses show how proud of him he is and promises fufure scholarship for him (but not Lisa, making her angry). In the end when they are leaving, Frink spills out they were in New Zealand since he didn't sign the NDA, and then at the lab shows the new Komodo Dragon translator.
