Acknowledgements:

Omi as always
The BTN8rs - with apologies
Jelsemium - because she asked for crack fic

Disclaimers:

"A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend" - Willow, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I do not own any Numb3rs characters nor do I have any rights to
anything related to the TV show Numb3rs. I plead fair use and claim
only my own writing and characters.

Despite Don repeatedly telling his brother that Flubber was fictional and from a kid's movie, Charlie ignored him and invented it anyway.

Early samples were met with mixed reactions. Alan liked the new sproingy floor tile at the Craftsman - saying it put a spring in his step as an old man - but Don kept cracking his head on the ceiling because he stomped too hard on it walking in the door from work.

The experimental Flubber tires came off the Prius pretty quickly. Charlie really needed to keep his driver's license and apparently cars leaving the asphalt counted as reckless driving even if Charlie swore he had full control the whole time he was bouncing down the freeway.

Everyone anxiously awaited the appearance of Flubber shoes on the Cal Sci basketball team, but Charlie swore their suddenly vastly improved record came merely from him simply telling the players they now had a tiny amount of liquefied Flubber sprayed on the soles of their shoes. Of course, the vastly improved record was their second win, so the issue remained hotly debated by the three people outside of the Eppes family who cared at all about Cal Sci basketball (a number which will go down to two once Amita marries Charlie).

In the end Charlie's Flubber work was confiscated by the Department of Defense in the name of national security and listed as classified at too high a level for Cal Sci. Everyone at the university was shocked at Charlie's failure to fight for his academic rights, but he just smiled serenely and said it was all for the best.

And when reports came in of bullets bouncing off the FBI's new tactical gear - put on the street in a pilot program in LA first - Charlie just smiled again, looking oddly pleased with himself, and said 'no comment'.