Flubber

Professor Philip Brainard, of Medfield College, is an absentminded professor who is developing a new energy source to raise enough money to save the college from closure. His preoccupation with his research distracts him from his fiancée and college president Sara Jean Reynolds; he has already missed two wedding dates, much to Sara’s ire. On the day of the third attempted wedding, Brainard is approached by his former partner Wilson Croft, who has profited from ideas stolen from him, and now intends to steal Sara. Brainard takes this declaration as a joke.

Before Brainard can make it to the wedding, his latest experiment shows quick progress, causing him to miss the wedding. The resulting substance created from the experiment is a sentient green goo with enormous elasticity and kinetic energy. It increases in speed as it bounces and proves difficult to control, wreaking havoc on the neighborhood before the professor finally manages to capture it. Weebo, Brainard’s hovering robot assistant, classifies the substance as “flying rubber”, leading Brainard to christen it “Flubber”.