History Film / Flubber

* AccidentalMisnaming: Philip keeps forgetting Martha's name. And for some reason it's names that ends with a 'y'.

* GadgeteersHouse: Professor Brainard's kitchen has automated machines in his kitchen to prepare breakfast for him. A ''[[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Mac Plus]]'' automatically runs all the machines around the house.

* NonDubbedGrunts: Towards the end of the film, Hoenicker's scream [[spoiler:as he gets sent flying into the pond]] is unchanged in quite a few foreign dubs (including Latin Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese).
* NeverTrustATrailer: Trailers for the movie ''really'' emphasized the presence of the CGI Flubber creatures. It's ''barely'' in the movie at all.

** Shelby in ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor'' was not the main villain, but just a prideful {{Jerkass}} who gets in the way of Professor Brainard in his pursuits of his girlfriend. In the remake, he is [[AdaptationNameChange renamed Wilson]] and he is [[spoiler: working closely with the other main villain, Hoenicker]].

* AlasPoorVillain: Near the end, Philip and Sara witnessed the Flubber flying into Wilson's mouth, and Wilson is forced to eject the Flubber through his ass before passing out from exhaustion, an act that left both Philip and Sara shocked and showing pity for Wilson - he may be a {{Jerkass}} but that ''had'' to hurt.

* BrickJoke: One scene has a boy who's afraid to go to sleep, so his father shuts the window in his room to reassure him that nothing can get in. Cue Flubber smashing through the window and bouncing around the room. At the end of the movie, the same boy's flying on an airplane, with his father once again reassuring him that there's nothing all the way up in the sky. The boy looks out the window, and sees Brainard's flying Thunderbird driving next to the plane (with Flubber riding in it).

* CuteMachines: Weebo, a small, hovering droid with a flip-up screen that shows pictures and video clips when she's [[DeadpanSnarker snarking]]. [[spoiler:After her death at the hands of Hoenicker's henchmen, her "daughter," Weebette, proves to be even cuter.]]

* DestinationDefenestration: Sara throws the Flubber at Hoenicker, sending him out of a window into a pool of water.

* DownToTheLastPlay: The Medfield College basketball team was down by one point during the final seconds of the game. A player with Flubber on his shoes manages to make the final score by jumping all the way across the field and going through the hoop with the ball just before the buzzer rings.

* ExplosiveResults: When Professor Brainard attempts to create the compound that would later be known as Flubber, it explodes, turning his lab/basement into a disaster area. At the end of the movie when Brainard is getting married via video screen, he mixes two smoking chemicals together assuring his bride that "there is no chance, that anything could go wroooonnnngggg!!" as his house explodes. Again.

* GadgeteersHouse: Professor Brainard's kitchen has automated machines in his kitchen to prepare breakfast for him. A ''[[UsefulNotes/AppleMacintosh Mac Plus ]]'' automatically runs all the machines around the house.

* MustacheVandalism: In one scene, a piece of Flubber lands in a jar of ink and then paints a replica of the Mona Lisa, finishing it off with a long thin mustache.

* NonDubbedGrunts: Towards the end of the film, Hoenicker's scream as he gets sent flying into the pond is unchanged in quite a few foreign dubs (including Latin Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese).

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Again, it's a complicated instance. It's basically because he's so absent-minded that he gets too caught up in the inventions themselves to capitalize on them.

* RunningGag: The boy who keeps seeing Brainard's antics out his bedroom window causing him to run screaming down the hall. In the very final scene, he's flying on an airplane, too afraid to look out his plane window. When he finally decides to open it, he becomes shocked to see the newly-wed Brainard and Sara in Brainard's flying car.

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When Wesson misunderstands Chester's euphemisms for shooting Philip with a water gun by spraying him with it instead of handing the gun back, Wilson is laughing as the scene goes on and it's not even out of malice.

Medfield College professor Philip Brainard (Williams), an AbsentMindedProfessor-type searching for an energy-based scientific breakthrough in order to save the college from closing for lack of funding. He stumbles across such a creation in the form of "flying rubber" (the eponymous "flubber"), a physics-defying green rubber-like substance that can somehow both bounce with inexhaustable kinetic energy and defy gravity. With it and the help of his RobotBuddy, Weebo (Creator/JodiBenson), Brainard hopes to save his college and his relationship with his long-suffering fiancee Dr. Sara Jean Reynolds (Creator/MarciaGayHarden), while fending off an ObviouslyEvil rival Wilson Croft (Creator/ChristopherMcDonald) and a corrupt college sponsor named Chester Hoenicker (Raymond J. Berry), who try to steal Flubber for themselves.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Shelby in ''Film/TheAbsentMindedProfessor'' was not the main villain, but just a prideful {{Jerkass}} who gets in the way of Professor Brainard in his pursuits of his girlfriend. In the remake, he is [[AdaptationNameChange renamed Wilson]] and he is [[spoiler: working closely with the other main villain, Hoenicker]].
** Biff in the original film was a VillainyFreeVillain who just aided his father out of their familial bond and was never comfortable with his crooked way of doing things, ultimately having a HeelFaceTurn in the sequel. His counterpart in this film, Bennett, is a straight-up villain without any remorse.

* BrickJoke: One scene has a boy who's afraid to go to sleep, so his father shuts the window in his room to reassure him that nothing can get in. Cue Flubber smashing through the window and bouncing around the room. At the end of the movie, the same boy's riding an airplane, with his father once again reassuring him that there's nothing all the way up in the sky. The boy looks out the window, and sees Brainard's flying Thunderbird driving next to the plane (with Flubber riding in it.)

** Dr. Brainard admits that he invented his artificially intelligent robot sidekick Weebo by accident, and that even today he has no idea how Weebo achieved true intelligence and free will. [[spoiler:Turns out Weebo had been doing research into her creation on her own, and managed to come up with a design that allowed Brainard to create a second intelligent robot.]]

* SpoiledBrat: Chester Hoenicker's son Bennett marches through his house, blaming his dad for screwing up. What was the screw up? He didn't do a good enough job bribing his college teachers into giving him a good grade.

** When Philip avoids Smith and Wesson's attack and lands on a ladder, he says "Oh, dear." upon seeing the deer head hanging right near him.