History Film / Flubber

** Some of the basketball clan as well.

** Some of the basketball crew from flubber.

* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: Considering all of Phillip's many faults, how did Dr. Reynolds ever get to the point of marrying him? Though considering that she did get to that point, why do they still bug her so much and she does nothing to accommodate them? It isn't until the film's finale that she lets the Weebo successor take his place at the wedding to ensure he's there in some form while he works... though this technically means ''he considered his job more important than his own wedding''.
** It's also worth asking what she saw in Wilson since he's openly a slimeball. Admittedly, if she was willing to put up with Brainard's constant ditching of her, she was probably just happy to date a guy who actually ''showed up''.

* SlapStick: The movie clearly uses the laws of slapstick regarding the ability of objects to bounce and violently (but harmlessly) knock people over. Strangely averted when Weebo actually ''dies''. Then played straight again for the rest of the film.

* DoAndroidsDream: Briefly touched on when Weebo "dies". ("What happens to the soul of a machine, Sara?") Technically he should be able to just rebuild her, of course - but the film tries to explain that Weebo hid the knowledge from him out of jealousy. She didn't want to share him with other models.

* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: The film's excuse for why Weebo is unique and Phillip won't be able to repair here after she is killed. Phillip even claims her sentience was an accident, and he tried several times to recreate with no success. Later, in Weebo's post-mortem video file, she explains that she hid the plans, notes, and ideas to make her... though ''she'' actually did save an improved backup of herself in case she died. Still creates some problems as to how Weebo pulled this off.

* CardCarryingVillain: Phillip's rival, Wilson, who not only admits he's been stealing his ideas for his own benefit, but outright boasts he now wants to steal his fiancée. As in literally. In his very first scene.

** ''And Sara's job''. She is the president of the college he is working to save, so she too would lose her job if Brainard couldn't raise enough money to save the college.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Phillip is more concerned about coming up with a new energy source that will help save his college... despite having a hovering robot capable of speech, emotions, and sentient thought, never mind the ''flying car''. He does ''eventually'' sell the flying car, but the idea doesn't even occur to him until Sara reconciles with him, though Weebo did apparently prevent Phillip from making a duplicate of her somehow.

* AintNoRule: When the opposing coach in the basketball game calls shenanigans over the other team's Flubber-enhanced [[BeyondTheImpossible and physically impossible]] jumping abilities, the ref simply tells him that there's no rule about jumping too high. Even though there are likely rules against performance enhancing substances.

* DoAndroidsDream: Briefly touched on when Weebo "dies". ("What happens to the soul of a machine, Sara?") Technically he should be able to just rebuild her, of course - but the film tries to explain that Weebo hid the knowledge from him for some reason.

* MindRape: Arguably done by Phillip's jealous robot, Weebo, to herself because she wanted to get rid of the flaws to make Phillip happy.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The film treats it as a-okay for Brainard to continually abandon his fiancée at the altar, stalk and antagonize Wilson, and cheat at basketball so his college will win the BigGame.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Phillip is more concerned about coming up with a new energy source that will help save his college... despite having a hovering robot capable of speech, emotions, and sentient thought, never mind the ''flying car''. He does ''eventually'' sell the flying car, but the idea doesn't even occur to him until Sara reconciles with him, though Weebo did apparently prevent Phillip from making a duplicate somehow.

* AvoidTheDreadGRating: The film had one instance of "damn" very obviously inserted just to earn the film a PG rating. Strangely enough, when later aired on ''TheWonderfulWorldOfDisney'', it had the word seamlessly removed to bring it back down to TV-G.

* AintNoRule: When the opposing coach in the basketball game calls shenanigans over the other team's Flubber-enhanced [[BeyondTheImpossible and physically impossible]] jumping abilities, the ref simply tells him that there's no rule about jumping too high.

* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude, He's Like, In A Coma!]] - Weebo eventually creates a holographic projection of herself in order to try and have a physical relationship with the professor... ''when he's asleep''.

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

** ''[[{{Monk}} Captain Stottlemeyer]] as the thug Wesson.

* ObviouslyEvil: Wilson.

** ''[[TheMist Mrs. Carmody]]'' is Sara.

* ReedRichardsIsUseless: Phillip is more concerned about coming up with a new energy source that will help save his college... despite having a hovering robot capable of speech, emotions, and sentient thought, never mind the ''flying car''. He does ''eventually'' sell the flying car, but the idea doesn't even occur to him until Sara reconciles with him. While Weebo did apparently prevent Phillip from making a duplicate somehow, it wouldn't have been hard for him to just sell her as is and have her reverse engineered by people who aren't so absent-minded as to forget how to create ''life''.

* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: Fred [=MacMurray=] in the original.