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The Nutty Professor is the title of a 1963 comedy film written, directed by, and starring Jerry Lewis, generally considered his best film.

The plot is a loose parody of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Lewis plays Julius Kelp, an unkempt, buck-toothed, introverted, socially inept college professor who invents a serum that turns him into the extremely smooth, obnoxious, girl-chasing hipster Buddy Love (often interpreted as a lampoon either of Frank Sinatra or of Lewis' former showbiz partner Dean Martin). Stella Stevens costars as one of Kelp's students, who becomes one of Buddy's would-be conquests. In 2004, the original film was added to the National Film Registry.

A 1996 remake starred Eddie Murphy as nice university professor Sherman Klump, suffering from severe obesity. He invents a miracle weight loss potion so he can seduce the girl of his dreams. He eventually discovers that an unfortunate side effect of his invention is disassociative identity disorder. Like the original movie's Julius Kelp, Klump's trim and stylish, but arrogant, alter ego is also named Buddy Love. A sequel to the remake, called Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, was released in 2000.

The Professor Johnathan I. Q. Frink, Jr. character from the animated television series The Simpsons loosely borrows much of his mannerisms and technique from Jerry's delivery of the Julius Kelp character. The character of Frink's father was even voiced by Jerry himself.

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