History Film / Flubber

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* UnluckyExtra: A boy neighbor of Philip who is scared of what might come from behind the window.

* CreatingLifeIsUnforeseen: Weebo was a "glorious accident," and [[KilledOffForReal can't be repaired when she is damaged]]. However, she designed an improved version of herself that shows up at the end. The Flubber itself is far more alive and intelligent than intended.

* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Weebo dies before the climax, thus leaving the LoveTriangle missing a point. It verges on SpurnedIntoSuicide given that she deliberately hid her own blueprints]].

* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: [[spoiler: The film's reason for why Weebo is unique and Philip won't be able to repair her is this trope. Philip claims her sentience was an accident, and he tried several times to recreate this event with no success. Later, in Weebo's post-mortem video file, she explains that she hid the plans, notes, and ideas to make her. In this same video she reveals that she kept a copy of her design specs in case she died.]]

* BigBad: Chester Hoenicker, Medfield College's sponsor who wants to help his son Bennett and eventually get Flubber.

* DeadpanSnarker: Weebo is very sarcastic, especially towards the Brainard's relationship with Sara.

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, 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.

* SpoiledBrat: Chester Hoenicker' son 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.

* WaterGunsAndBalloons: Dr. Brainerd shows up at the BigBad's house with a water pistol that he says he uses to lower the temperature of the flubber storage tank. [[spoiler:In actual fact, the pistol is filled with a liquid flubber solution.]]

The film also stars Creator/ClancyBrown as Smith and Creator/TedLevine as Wesson.

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, 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 his corrupt dean, Chester Hoenicker (Raymond J. Berry), who try to steal Flubber for themselves.

* LookMaNoPlane: At the end of the movie, Brainard and his newly married wife fly their flying car next to a commercial plane, where they are spotted by the little boy who they've been frightening all throughout the movie.

* 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 sees the newly-wed Brainard and Sara in Brainard's flying car.

* RunningGag: The boy that keeps seeing Brainard's antics out his window causing him to run screaming down the hall. In the very final scene, he's flying in an airplane, too afraid to look out the plane window. When he finally decides to open it, he sees Brainard in his flying car.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Wesson calls Philip "Ein-STEEN," prompting the professor to correct him ("Ein-STEIN").

* NoOneShouldSurviveThat: Wesson is repeatedly hit on the head by a BOWLING BALL, either falling from a great height or (in the first instance) moving at an incredible speed.

* RelationshipSabotage: Weebo sabotages Brainard's relationship with Sara, among other things such as deleting their wedding from his schedule to ensure he'll forget about it, in order to keep him to herself. However, she regrets it once he had found out about her true feelings for him, and atoned for her actions by persuading Sara to make up with Philip.

* RelationshipSabotage: Weebo sabotages Brainard's relationship with Sara, among other things such as deleting their wedding from his schedule to ensure he'll forget about it, in order to keep him to herself. However, she regrets it once he had found out about her true feelings for him, and made it up by having Sara to make up with Philip.

** Philip when he heard the coach said the opposing team has "remained undefeated in their last 108 games". He was applying the Flubber-padded thumbtacks on the home team's shoes, which means they're gonna get pulverized before the thumbtacks kick in.

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

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:When Wesson and Smith burgle Philip's house, Weebo yells ''"Kiss me, big boy!"'' just before Wesson kills her with Philip's baseball bat]].

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Weebo is critically damaged by Wesson. Philip talks about "downloading her" in order to cheat death, but he doesn't get to it in time so she's KilledOffForReal]].

* PunnyName: [[ThoseTwoBadGuys The two thugs]] are named Smith and Wesson.

* ThoseTwoBadGuys: [[ThemeNaming Smith and Wesson]].

* AmbiguousSyntax[=/=]SustainedMisunderstanding: One of the goons takes a long time to understand that his boss' various euphemisms for shooting someone (with a water pistol, thankfully) were actually meant literally.

* AmbiguousSyntax: One of the goons takes a long time to understand that his boss' various euphemisms for shooting someone (with a water pistol, thankfully) were actually meant literally.

'''Chester Hoenicker:''' No, no, no, no, no. ''Give the gun to him''!!\\
'''Wesson:''' Oh.

* SustainedMisunderstanding: It takes a few tries for the BigBad to elucidate that "give it to him" means handing Philip the squirt gun, rather than squirting him with it.
-->'''Chester Hoenicker:''' Let him have it.\\
'''Wesson:''' ''(squirts Philip Brainard in the face)''\\
'''Chester Hoenicker:''' N-No, no. Give it to him.\\
'''Wesson:''' ''(squirts him again)''\\
'''Chester Hoenicker:''' W-- Stop that and give it to him.\\
'''Wesson:''' ''(squirts him again)''\\
'''Chester Hoenicker:''' Put-Put it in his hand and give it to him.\\
'''Wesson:''' ''(squirts him in the hand)''\\
'''Chester Hoenicker:''' No, no, no, no, no. ''Give the gun to him''!!

* HeroicBSOD: Philip goes into a brief depression shortly after [[spoiler:Wesson kills Weebo]].

** 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. His counterpart in this film, Bennett, is a straight-up villain without any remorse.