History Trivia / Flubber

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/TimAllen, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/ChristopherLloyd and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for Phillip Brainard.

* FairForItsDay: The ending hasn't aged well since its release. While it's mostly PlayedForLaughs, few would sympathize with Williams' character due to his inability to commit to his fiancee.

* ChannelHop: This was intended to be a co-production between Disney and Creator/StevenSpielberg's Creator/AmblinEntertainment. Spielberg always wanted Robin Williams to play Brainerd, but Williams refused to work with Disney due to a bitter lawsuit over the actor's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' contract. Spielberg decided to remain loyal to his friend Williams and dropped out of the film. Ironically, a few years later, Williams reconciled with the Disney execs and agreed to accept the leading part.

* ChannelHop: This was intended to be a co-production between Disney and Creator/StevenSpielberg's Creator/AmblinEntertainment. Spielberg always wanted Robin Williams to play Brainerd, but Williams refused to work with Disney due to a bitter lawsuit over the actor's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' contract. Spielberg decided to remain loyal to his friend Williams and dropped out of the film. Ironically, a few years later, Williams reconciled with the Disney execs and agreed to accept the leading part.* CreatorKiller: Despite the movie not doing that badly at the box office, this was the second and last movie Creator/JohnHughes' Great Oaks Entertainment ever made.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** Creator/TimAllen, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/ChristopherLloyd and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for Phillip Brainard.

* ActorAllusion: This isn't [[Film/{{Jumanji}} the first time]] Creator/RobinWilliams plays a character who falls in love with [[spoiler: and later marries]] a character named Sara, albeit spelled differently.
* CreatorKiller: Despite the movie not doing that badly at the box office, this was the second and last movie Creator/JohnHughes' Great Oaks Entertainment ever made.

** This was intended to be a co-production between Disney and Creator/StevenSpielberg's Creator/AmblinEntertainment. Spielberg always wanted Robin Williams to play Brainerd, but Williams refused to work with Disney due to a bitter lawsuit over the actor's ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'' contract. Spielberg decided to remain loyal to his friend Williams and dropped out of the film. Ironically, a few years later, Williams reconciled with the Disney execs and agreed to accept the leading part.

* CreatorKiller: Despite the movie not doing that badly at the box office, this was the second and last movie Great Oaks Entertainment ever made.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/TimAllen, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/ChristopherLloyd and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for Phillip Brainerd.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/TimAllen, Creator/JeffGoldblum, Creator/JohnLithgow, Creator/ChristopherLloyd and Creator/PatrickStewart were considered for Phillip Brainerd.

* MerchandiseDriven: Not only were two types of flubber available in stores when the movie was in theaters (a vaguely humanoid stressball as seen in the big dance number, plus a thicker slime-like substance), but also an electronic talking Weebo toy that spoke likes from the movie.

* ActorAllusion: This isn't [[Film/{{Jumanji}} the first time]] Robin Williams plays a character who falls in love with [[spoiler: and later marries]] a character named Sara, albeit spelled differently.

* ReleaseDateChange: An insert inside the 2012 Blu-Ray of ''Theatre/BabesInToyland'' promotes a 2012 Blu-Ray release of ''Flubber'', in honor of its 15th Anniversary. However, the anniversary came and went without the movie coming to Blu-Ray. Disney provided no explanation for this delay, nor have they revealed a new release date.

* {{Defictionalization}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KsAiX3DlAw People have made Flubber]].

* MerchandiseDriven: Not only were two types of flubber available in stores when the movie was in theaters (a vaguely humanoid stressball as seen in the big dance number, plus a thicker slime-like substance), but also an electronic talking Meebo toy that spoke likes from the movie.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey its [[Creator/WilWheaton Wesley]] as the dean's son!
** Ted from ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' is the basketball coach.
** [[Series/{{Monk}} Captain Stottlemeyer]] as the thug Wesson.
** Clancy Brown is the other thug, Smith.
** [[TheMist Mrs. Carmody]] is Sara.
** [[HappyGilmore Shooter [=McGavin=]]] as Wilson
* HeyItsThatVoice: Disney/TheLittleMermaid herself is the voice of Weebo.

* ReleaseDateChange: An insert inside the 2012 Blu-Ray of ''Theatre/BabesInToyland'' promotes 2013 Blu-Ray releases of ''Flubber'', ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor'', and ''Son of Flubber'' in honor of ''Son of Flubber'''s 50th anniversary. However, the anniversary came and went without any of these movies coming to Blu-Ray. Disney provided no explanation for this delay, and while the Disney Movie Club has announced a March 8, 2016 release of the ''Absent-Minded Professor'' 55th Anniversary Edition Blu-Ray, the ''Flubber'' Blu-Ray still doesn't have a new date.

* ReleaseDateChange: An insert inside the 2012 Blu-Ray of ''Theatre/BabesInToyland'' promotes 2013 Blu-Ray releases of ''Flubber'', ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor'', and ''Son of Flubber'' in honor of ''Son of Flubber'''s 50th anniversary. However, the anniversary came and went without any of these movies coming to Blu-Ray. Disney provided no explanation for this delay, and only one of these titles has received a new release date so far: ''The Absent-Minded Professor'', which the Disney Movie Club has scheduled an exclusive March 8, 2016 release for, in honor of the movie's 55th anniversary.

* ReleaseDateChange: An insert inside the 2012 Blu-Ray of ''Theatre/BabesInToyland'' promotes 2013 Blu-Ray releases of ''Flubber'', ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor'', and ''Son of Flubber'' in honor of ''Son of Flubber'''s 50th anniversary. However, the anniversary came and went without any of these movies coming to Blu-Ray. Disney provided no explanation for this delay, nor have they announced a new release date.

* ReleaseDateChange: An insert inside the 2012 Blu-Ray of ''Theatre/BabesInToyland'' promotes 2013 Blu-Ray releases of ''Flubber'', ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor'', and ''Son of Flubber'' in honor of ''Son of Flubber'''s 50th anniversary. However, the anniversary came and went without any of these movies coming to Blu-Ray. Disney provided no explanation for this delay, nor have they announced a new release date.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Disney/TheLittleMermaid herself is the voice of Weebo.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey its [[WilWheaton Wesley]] as the dean's son!

* HeyItsThatVoice: TheLittleMermaid herself is the voice of Weebo.

** ''[[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic That one guy, whose name you can't remember, but always recognize, because he's the asshole in every movie that he's in]]'' (Christopher [=McDonald=]).

** Ted from ''{{Scrubs}}'' is the basketball coach.
** [[{{Monk}} Captain Stottlemeyer]] as the thug Wesson.

** ''[[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses that one guy, whose name you can't remember, but always recognize, because he's the asshole in every movie that he's in]]'' (Christopher [=McDonald=]).