Henry Crawford is the titular absent-minded professor busy at work in his laboratory. He has a girlfriend but she is getting frustrated at his repeatedly missing their dates and spending more time with his experiments than with her. One day Prof. Crawford makes an incredible discovery a form of rubber that defies gravity with each bounce which he names Flubber. Hopefully with this invention Crawford can prove to his love that he''s not just a hopeless loser stuck doing dead-end research.