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...Flubber. In The Absent Minded Professor, Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber-and then put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mar. 1, 1963 | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...again-Neddie the Nut, that is. Remember him? In The Absent Minded Professor, the nuttiest science-fiction farce of recent years, Neddie (Fred MacMurray) invented "flubber"-lab gab for flying rubber. In Professor the professor put flubber in a flivver and flew. In this picture he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and starts blowing flubbles. Infantile? Absolutely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Feb. 22, 1963 | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

...name is Neddie the Nut (Fred MacMurray) and he teaches chemistry at Medfield College. One day he blows up his lab and in the debris discovers flubber-the word means flying rubber, and the substance it describes repeals the law of gravity. In Son of Flubber he turns flubber slubber into flubbergas and shoots it through Big Flubbertha (a plastic howitzer that looks as if it cost at least 39,000 bubble-gum wrappers) at a passing cloud. He wants to make rain but he only breaks windows-20,000 windows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Locomotive Laugh | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

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