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The Absent-Minded Professor

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The Absent-Minded Professor	comment	The Absent-Minded Professor is a 1961 live-action Disney comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Fred MacMurray as Prof. Ned Brainard, the eponymous Absent-Minded Professor, who teaches chemistry at Medfield College.One day, while forgetting his own wedding—not for the first time—Brainard nonetheless succeeds in inventing a substance which has mysterious properties, such as the ability to add kinetic energy with every bounce and flight. Using this substance, which he dubs "flubber", Brainard proceeds to foil the attempts of a rival English professor to woo his fiancée, help Medfield's basketball team to unexpectedly win their Big Game, and win back his girl. Unfortunately, the only person who seems interested in giving Brainard any money for his invention is Corrupt Corporate Executive Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn), who is also threatening to foreclose on the college...Based on a 1943 short story ("A Situation of Gravity") by Samuel W. Taylor, the film was followed by the 1963 sequel Son Of Flubber. Remade twice, first in 1988 as a TV film shown on The Magical World of Disney and starring Harry Anderson as Prof. Henry Crawford (and introducing the idea of a computer sidekick), and then in 1997 as Flubber, starring Robin Williams.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_1a47a6a7	type	Chronically Crashed Car
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_1a47a6a7	comment	Chronically Crashed Car: In both movies, police officers Hanson and Kelly's police car keeps getting crashed into by other cars, thanks to Brainard in his Flying Car performing his "Shelby Stomp".
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_1cb68381	type	Pom-Pom Girl
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_1cb68381	comment	Pom-Pom Girl: The Medfield cheerleaders seem genuinely impassioned and excited by their basketball team doing well and manage to maintain an encouraging spirit even when their team is forty points behind.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_1ce162d	type	Miraculous Malfunction
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_1ce162d	comment	Miraculous Malfunction: The creation of Flubber. Brainard's lab explodes, which was clearly not what he intended - but the Flubber turned out great!
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: The government official stops listening to Brainard when he's listing all the areas of government could help when he gets to Agriculture and transfers him to the agriculture department, where another official starts listing off a series of questions without even listening to what Brainard is saying.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Alonzo Hawk is irate at Professor Brainard for flunking his son Biff, making him ineligible to play in the big basketball game, and threatens to pull funding from the college because of it. Brainard points out in his defense that Biff not only answered every question wrong but misspelled the name of the college.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_2a62c863	type	Hello Again, Officer
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_2a62c863	comment	Hello Again, Officer: Shelby Ashton and later Alonzo Hawk and his henchmen are all constantly foiled whenever their car crashes into a cop car, which always causes the same two cops in question to spill "BOILING HOT COFFEE!!" in their lap. Needless to say, they promptly arrest them.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Hawk, the greedy Big Bad, is horrified when Brainard jumps out the window before realizing he's just demonstrating his bouncing shoes.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_348e3263	type	'50s Hair
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_348e3263	comment	'50s Hair: As the majority of filming took place between 1959 and 1960, many of the characters, even the college students, bear this, mixed with early '60s hairdos like the beehive, crew cuts, bouffants, and flips.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_38a57680	type	Flying Car
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_38a57680	comment	Flying Car: If you bombard Flubber with gamma rays it levitates, even if it's attached to a Model T!
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_3a234e46	type	Runaway Bride
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_3a234e46	comment	Runaway Groom: Brainard skips his own wedding three times— not on purpose, mind you, but because he was too preoccupied with research and just forgot. His poor fiancée is understandably upset.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_4376f049	type	Career Versus Man
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_4376f049	comment	Career Versus Man: I'm just tired of having a spinster for a secretary.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_4966bf38	type	Perpetual Motion Machine
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_4966bf38	comment	Perpetual Motion Machine: Flubber is a perpetual motion substance.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Shelby, to Brainard's disgust. Also, Alonzo Hawk.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_56725578	type	Driving a Desk
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_5c554458	type	Dumb Jock
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_5c554458	comment	Dumb Jock: Biff Hawk flunks Brainard's chemistry class, disqualifying him from the big game and making his father upset—at Professor Brainard, not his son.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_63689d13	type	Football Fight Song
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_63689d13	comment	Football Fight Song: “The Medfield Fight Song”, the first of many, many songs The Sherman Brothers wrote for Disney.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_679d7cc7	type	Goomba Stomp
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_679d7cc7	comment	Goomba Stomp: The "Shelby Stomp", a.k.a. Brainerd damaging someone else's car by bringing his Flying Car down on them repeatedly.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: BRAINard.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_76cbbc0b	type	George Lucas Altered Version
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_76cbbc0b	comment	George Lucas Altered Version: As was common at the time, Disney would release a colorized version in The '80s.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_7de3aec2	type	What Does She See in Him?
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_7de3aec2	comment	What Does She See in Him?: Even Brainard's Kindly Housekeeper tells him that Betsy is too good for him and its surprising she stayed around after missing their wedding two times.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_7efe2c19	type	Portmanteau
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_7efe2c19	comment	Portmanteau: "Flubber" is a mashup of the words "flying rubber."
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Kindly Housekeeper Mrs. Chatsworth is prominent early on but disappears in the second half of the movie and doesn't return for the sequel.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_863fac26	type	Jerk Jock
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_863fac26	comment	Jerk Jock: The ridiculously tall Rutland basketball players are quite petty, as shown when they go out of their way to smugly hold the basketballs just out of the Medfield players' reach and condescendingly pat their heads.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_89434320	type	Protagonist-Centered Morality
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_89434320	comment	Protagonist-Centered Morality: 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 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 Moment of Awesome. However, if the Opposing Sports Team did it, it would surely be seen as blatant cheating.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: It's a Model T! With no engine!
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_8b221a63	type	Reed Richards Is Useless
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_8b221a63	comment	Reed Richards Is Useless: Subverted. Brainard tries to sell flubber to the government, but all he talks to are uninterested bureaucrats who don't understand or care. By the time he manages to get someone to come down to check out his invention, it's already been stolen and replaced with a fake by his rival, making him look like a fool. Things work out for the best in the end, however, when he actually flies the car to Washington.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_90c3ce7	type	Pink Elephants
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_90c3ce7	comment	Pink Elephants: The police officer assumes that Shelby was drunk and hallucinating when he describes the unseen flying car that gave him the "Shelby Stomp."
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_9315c635	type	Lovable Jock
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_9315c635	comment	Lovable Jock: Biff Hawk 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 family business.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_938e9bc0	type	Absent-Minded Professor
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_938e9bc0	comment	Absent-Minded Professor: Naturally!
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_9716b4f7	type	Finish Dialogue in Unison
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_9716b4f7	comment	Finish Dialogue in Unison: In "Son of Flubber", Betsy is preparing a special dinner with some special friends, and Brainard is curious as to who is coming
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_99926ad3	type	Inter-Service Rivalry
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_99926ad3	comment	Inter-Service Rivalry: The Army, the Navy, and the Air Force all squabble to get their hands on the rights to flubber.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_9d5a2cdf	type	Intimidating Revenue Service
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_9d5a2cdf	comment	Intimidating Revenue Service: In the sequel, Affably Evil IRS Agent Harker gives the Brainards a tax bill for far more money than they have and refuses to cut them any slack, even though the federal government has unjustly confiscated the source of income they based that tax estimate on. He also fondly recalls that he arrested his own mother for not reporting bake sale money and makes a note to tax a preadolescent paperboy.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: In "Son of Flubber", as Brainard is carted off by the police after Medfield wins the football game against Rutland, a bunch of Spinning Papers appear, headlining Brainard's trial. The music sobers up dramatically, too.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: The guests of Brainard's and Betsy's third wedding express hope that he'll finally show up, when they remind Betsy that "Third Time's The Charm." When Brainard misses the wedding, Betsy cries, "three strikes, and you're out!" Their fourth wedding goes off without a hitch, though.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: The "Shelby Stomp", which ultimately results in a...
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Betsy, of all people, gives this zinger when Brainard is attempting to explain how the properties of Flubber led to him missing their wedding:
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: When the Rutland coach in the basketball game calls shenanigans over Medfield's Flubber-enhanced jumping abilities, the referee points out that there's no rule that says one team can't jump higher than the other.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: At the US government. When the military officer is about to fire missiles at the flying car, he hears that it went on the other side of the capital building, but keeps counting down. He is told that Congress is in session, and he keeps counting down. He hears the building just got remodeled, and finally decides to hold his fire.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_baeb2d6f	type	Glass-Shattering Sound
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_baeb2d6f	comment	Glass-Shattering Sound: 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. He also manages to shatter one student's pair of glasses.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_c55269ac	type	Dumbass No More
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_c55269ac	comment	Dumbass No More: In the first movie, Biff Hawk gets every question on Brainard's exam wrong, but he's working as the professor's lab assistant in the sequel and is pretty adept at the job.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Biff Hawk is apparently a good enough basketball player that he could have singlehandedly won the Medfield-Rutland game, but he's never actually seen on the basketball court, and therefore never gets to demonstrate that level of skill.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: The main Big Bad, Alonzo Hawk, president of the Auld Lang Syne Loan Company.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: Filmed and released in black-and-white to better hide any flaws in the special effects.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Cloud Cuckoolander: Brainard, to an extent, whom Biff Hawk calls "Neddy the Nut".
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_db0ffe92	type	Follow in My Footsteps
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_db0ffe92	comment	Follow in My Footsteps: Hawk clearly expects his son Biff to turn out just like him. He doesn't.
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The Absent-Minded Professor / int_e0f41c94	type	Delayed "Oh, Crap!"
The Absent-Minded Professor / int_e0f41c94	comment	Delayed "Oh, Crap!": When Alonzo Hawk sees Brainard flying his car and asks his son Biff what he sees.
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