Francis Winkler Jr., son of Francis Baisley Winkler and Edna Mae Winkler (and the father of Henry Winkler), is a simple American schoolteacher. He enjoys hot tea in the winter and bluegrass under the night sky, and is known for the relative ease of his assignments, his patented beige-and-puce scarf pattern, and his near-professional homosexuality. An incident at a Kansas middle school involving a disgruntled student made him nationally famous, and his name became a common utterance, even going so far as to be adopted into some languages as a word meaning "One who is boring, but has his moments."