History Film / TheAbsentMindedProfessor

* GretzkyHasTheBall: In reality, there is no way the Professor's basketball team could have played with those flubber enhanced shoes for long before a competent referee would have called them for cheating.

''The Absent-Minded Professor'' is a black and white 1961 live action {{Disney}} movie. Professor Brainard, the eponymous Absent-Minded Professor, forgets his wedding, not for the first time, but nonetheless succeeds in inventing a substance, flubber, which has mysterious properties including the ability to add kinetic energy with every bounce and flight. With this substance, he proceeds to foil the amorous attempts of a rival English professor on his fiancee, cause the college basketball team to unexpectedly win their game, and to win the girl. Unfortunately, the only one interested in giving Brainard any money for his invention is CorruptCorporateExecutive Alonzo Hawk, who's threatening to foreclose on the college...

* FlyingCar: If you bombard Flubber with gamma rays it levitates.

* LoopholeAbuse: The referee points out that there's no rule that says one team can't jump higher than the other.

* PinkElephants: The police officer assumes that Shelby was hallucinating when he describes the unseen flying car. "Oh, ''that'' kind of a thing..."

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Brainard is shown stalking his jilted ex-fiancee who currently wants nothing to do with him and also terrorizing the man that she's now dating; a character mind you that hasn't really done anything that bad except currently be the main character's [[DesignatedVillain romantic rival]]. Also, basketball players putting flubber in their shoes to make them jump extra high and win the game? Since the audience is on their side, it's a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. However, if the OpposingSportsTeam did it, it would surely be seen as blatant cheating.

''The Absent-Minded Professor'' is a black and white 1961 live action {{Disney}} movie. Professor Brainard, the eponymous Absent-Minded Professor, forgets his wedding, not for the first time, but nonetheless succeeds in inventing a substance, flubber, which has mysterious properties including the ability to add kinetic energy with every bounce and flight. With this substance, he proceeds to foil the amorous attempts of a local real estate agent on his fiancee, cause the local basketball team to unexpectedly win their game, and to win the girl.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In case you were wondering why Betty is in love with Brainard rather than Shelby, consider that [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Shelby's specialty is romance languages and Brainard's is physical chemistry.]]

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Basketball players putting flubber in their shoes to make them jump extra high and win the game? Since the audience is on their side, it's a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. However, if the OpposingSportsTeam did it, it would surely be seen as blatant cheating.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: Basketball players putting flubber in their shoes to make them jump extra high and win the game? Since the audience is on their side, it's a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. However, if the OpposingSportsTeam did it, it would surely be seen as DickDastardlyStopsToCheat.

* GlassShatteringSound: Both invoked and parodied in the opening scene of the first movie. It features Professor Brainard attempting to demonstrate this with a trumpet and a glass placed on the table. His playing fails to crack the glass but manages to shatter every other glass object in the room, including beakers full of chemicals that fill the room with smoke as the opening credits roll.

* HelloAgainOfficer: Shelby Ashton and Alonzo Hawk and his henchmen are all constantly foiled whenever their car crashes into a cop car, which always causes the two cops in question to spill "BOILING HOT COFFEE!!" in their lap. Needless to say, they promptly arrest them.

* HelloAgainOfficer: Shelby Ashton and Alonzo Hawk and his henchmen are all constantly foiled whenever their car crashes into a cop car, which always causes the two cops in question to spill "BOILING HOT COFFEE!!" in their lap. Needless to say, they promptly arrests them.

* PerpetualMotionMachine: Flubber is a perpetual motion substance.

* CloudCuckoolander: Biff Hawk, to a degree.

* FollowInMyFootsteps: Hawk clearly expects his son Biff to [[TurnOutLikeHisFather turn out just like him]].

* JerkJock: Averted. Biff is the star player of the basketball team, but is actually quite a [[SpoiledSweet nice kid]] - especially when his father's not badgering him to help with the [[FamilyBusiness family business]].

* FollowInMyFootsteps: Hawk clearly expects his son [[SpoiledSweet Biff]] to [[TurnOutLikeHisFather turn out just like him]].

* JerkJock: Averted. Biff is the star player of the basketball team, but is actually quite a nice kid - especially when his father's not badgering him to help with the [[FamilyBusiness family business]].

* CoolCar: It's a Model T! With no engine!

[[caption-width-right:250:I said it's [[CloudCukoolander Neddy the Nut]] flying his... [[DoubleTake old Model T.]]]]

[[caption-width-right:250:Neddy the Nut flying his... [[DoubleTake old Model T.]]]]

!!''The Absent Minded Professor'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* ChekhovsSkill: The "Shelby Stomper"
* ChronicallyCrashedCar: In both movies, police officers Hanson and Kelly's police car keeps getting crashed into by other cars, thanks to Brainard in his FlyingCar.