History YMMV / TheAbsentMindedProfessor

* OlderThanTheyThink: Many Creator/{{Disney}} sequels of the 21st century receive criticism for [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks reusing the original movies' stories with only minor variations]]. ''Son of Flubber'' provides an example from Walt's lifetime, with a script contrived to retread ''The Absent-Minded Professor''.

* SignatureScene: The basketball game where the players are sailing through the air due to Professor Brainard putting flubber on their shoes is an extremely memorable and celebrated sequence.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: The fact that the main characters hide behind the US Capitol Building does not deter the military from threatening to blow them out of the sky, not even when the officer responsible is told that both houses of Congress are currently in session. This becomes HarsherInHindsight to many modern viewers following the events of January 6, 2021.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: The fact that the main characters hide behind the US Capitol Building does not deter the military from threatening to blow them out of the sky, not even when the officer responsible is told that both houses of Congress are currently in session. This becomes [[ValuesDissonance far less acceptable]] to many modern viewers following the events of January 6, 2021.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Many Creator/{{Disney}} sequels of the 21st century receive criticism for [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks reusing the original movies' stories with only minor variations]]. ''Son of Flubber'' provides an example from Walt's lifetime, with a script contrived to retread ''The Absent-Minded Professor''.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: The fact that the main characters hide behind the US Capitol Building does not deter the military from threatening to blow them out of the sky, not even when the officer responsible is told that both houses of Congress are currently in session.

* DesignatedHero: Brainard becomes this by the midpoint in the film. He's shown stalking Betsy after she angrily breaks up with him and tells them she does not want to see him again, and then immediately after terrorizes and chases her new boyfriend, getting him to crash his car as a result, while he congratulates himself about it. It's really hard to see him as a heroic character again after that.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Many Creator/{{Disney}} sequels of the 21st century (such as the direct-to-video ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIReturnToTheSea'' and the theatrical ''Film/MaryPoppinsReturns'', [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement to name a few]]) receive criticism for [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks reusing the original movies' stories with only minor variations]]. ''Son of Flubber'' provides an example from Walt's lifetime, with a script contrived to retread ''The Absent-Minded Professor''.

* DesignatedHero: Brainard becomes this by the midpoint in the film. He's shown stalking Betsy after she angrily breaks up with him and tells them she does not want to see him again, and then immediately after terrorizes and chases her new boyfriend, getting him to crash his car as a result, while he congratulates himself about it. It's really hard to see him as a heroic character again after that.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: The fact that the main characters hide behind the US Capitol Building does not deter the military from threatening to blow them out of the sky, not even when the officer responsible is told that both houses of congress are currently in session.

* AcceptableTargets: The fact that the main characters hide behind the US Capitol Building does not deter the military from threatening to blow them out of the sky, not even when the officer responsible is told that both houses of congress are currently in session.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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 OpposingTeam did it, it would surely be seen as DickDastardlyStopsToCheat.