Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 Phillip Brainard: If we were interested in making money, we wouldn`t have become teachers. Phillip Brainard: I love you with every cell, with every atom. I love you on a subatomic level.
Professor Philip `Phil` Brainard: I was just gonna, you know, grade my lunch, eat a few tests and hope for the best.
Martha George: [about the excitement of getting married] How do you hold it in?
Professor Philip `Phil` Brainard: [thinking she meant waste] Well, like everybody else, Ruthie. I just cross my legs real tight.
Martha George: [gets a little tickled by that answer] I was talking about your excitement
Weebo: Maybe you should just go without me.
Professor Philip `Phil` Brainard: Why?
Weebo: Because I get car sick.
Professor Philip `Phil` Brainard: Oh, come on. You`re not gonna blow chips.
Weebo: No!
Professor Philip `Phil` Brainard: You don`t have a stomach.
Weebo: I have a queasy gyro.
Wilson Croft: What happened between us, Phil?
Professor Philip `Phil` Brainard: Well, I just got tired of you stealing my ideas, Wilson.
Wilson Croft: I`m not an innovator like you, Phil. I`m an adapter, and to that end, I have profited from your ideas.
Professor Philip `Phil` Brainard: Why are you here?
Wilson Croft: Well, to be honest. I`m here this weekend to steal your fiancee. And make her my wife.
Professor Philip `Phil` Brainard: Well, I think you`ll be sadly disappointed.
[Smith and Wesson discuss the incident at Brainard`s house]
Chester Hoenicker: All right. One more time, what happened?
Wesson: He took a golf ball. He rubbed this cream on it and then the golf ball took and...
[Wesson makes a popping sound]
Wesson: ...popped Smith in the head.
Smith: Several times.
Chester Hoenicker: Mm-hmm.
Wesson: I got hit with a bowling ball.
Smith: Repeatedly.
Chester Hoenicker: Were you drinking?
Wesson: No.
Smith: Two bears at dinner. Wesson had a white wine.
Wesson: With dinner.
Chester Hoenicker: Right.
Wesson: It`s this stuff he`s got, sir. Its... I don`t know what it is. I don`t know where it come from, but...
[Smith and Wesson both sigh]
Wesson: ...It will give you one heck of a headache.
Chester Hoenicker: Oh... goodness.
[after two of Brainard`s balls hit Smith and Wesson while testing the Flubber, the bowling ball knocks the cap off a tank of a compressed gas]
Phillip Brainard: [high-pitched voice] This definitely has applications in the field of sports. Ho, ho, ho! Yes!
Rutland Coach: Hey, are you blind? They`re doin` something illegal out there.
Referee: Coach, nowhere in the rule book does it say anything about jumpin` too high. Now sit down!
Father: There`s not a darn thing to be afraid of, pal. How can anything get in your window? It`s closed, OK?
[Flubber crashes through the neighbor`s window, bounces around and the boy covers himself in a blanket]
[Brainard and Reynolds are visiting Hoenicker to discuss the Flubber]
Chester Hoenicker: You came to repay your loan?
Phillip Brainard: No.
Chester Hoenicker: I know you didn`t. I was just having a little fun.
Phillip Brainard: I`m here to sell you the Flubber.
Chester Hoenicker: You been to your house recently?
Phillip Brainard: Yes.
Chester Hoenicker: Do I really need to buy it?
Phillip Brainard: Flubber`s a very quixotic substance. It`s very difficult to handle. Have you tried to do anything with it?
Chester Hoenicker: My man is working on it. It won`t be a problem.
Phillip Brainard: Well, I could make it a lot easier for you. If you give us a 30 day extension on the loan, I`ll tell you everything I know... and make you a great deal of Flubber.
Chester Hoenicker: I`ll give you the 30 days, and after that you give me two years. Whatever you come up with over the next two years is mine.
Sara Reynolds: That`s not fair.
Chester Hoenicker: Shop somewhere else, lady.
Phillip Brainard: Sara. Sara. I`ll do it.
Trivia
Sound designer `Andrew M. Somers` created the sound of Flubber by using a rubber balloon filled with water, Metamucil, and air. The Metamucil became "gloopy" and in the balloon, it helped make a rubbery, gurgly sound. The voice of Flubber was performed by Scott Martin Gershin, and was processed to raise the pitch to sound small and squeaky.
Cameo: [Nancy Olson] Nancy Olson, who played Betsy Carlisle in the original _Absent Minded Professor, The (1961)_, appears as a Secretary at Ford Company (uncredited).
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# According to Wil Wheaton, in the scenes that he was in with Robin Williams, they would film a take the way it was supposed to be filmed. After that take, Williams would often want to improvise scenes differently than the script, just for fun. Those scenes were not added to the actual film, but there were enough scenes to make an entirely different movie.
John Hughes` first choice for the lead role was always Robin Williams, but at the time he was in a bitter fall out with the Walt Disney Company and refused to be in the film. Hughes lined up some other choices including Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum, `John Lithgow` and Patrick Stewart. As soon as Robin Williams made peace with the Walt Disney Company, Hughes immediately cast him in the lead.
During late 1993, when this movie was first announced, Steven Spielberg considered being the executive producer of this film, and have the film released under the Amblin label. But he decided not to go through with it because his only choice for the lead role, Robin Williams, was at the time in a bitter fall out with the Walt Disney Company and refused to be in the film.
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