Flubber - A rubbery substance that when bounced has the ability of create it own energy. If a piece of Flubber was dropped to the floor, it would begin to bounce higher and higher, creating additional surges of energy as it bounced skywards. Flubber was first introduced in the classic Disney film The Absent Minded Professor (1961) starring Fred MacMurray as inventor Professor Ned Brainard and later in the sequel Son of Flubber (1963) and the remake Flubber (1997) starring Robin Williams. Discovered via an accident in the lab, Flubber was used to make the professor's Model-T Ford fly and the local basketball team spring about their playing court with the agility of a kangaroo. The TV adaptation of the film called THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR/NBC/1988-89 featured Harry Anderson as Henry Crawford, a Medfield College physics professor who discovered a green, rubbery substance known as Flubber. The term "Flubber" was a blending of the words "flying" and "rubber."

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