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''[[The Boy in the Plastic Bubble]]'' is a 1976 made-for-TV movie. The film centers on the life of Tod Lubitch ([[John Travolta]]), who was born with an improperly functioning immune system. This means that contact with unfiltered air may kill him, so he must live out his life in [[Bubble Boy|incubator-like conditions]]. He lives with his parents, since they decided to move him from Texas Children's Hospital where he was being kept as a boy. He is constricted to staying in his room all his life, where he eats, learns, reads and exercises, while being protected from the outside world by various coverings.

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* [[Bubble Boy]]: The title Character
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Robert "[[The Brady Bunch|Mike Brady]]" Reed as the dad!
* [[Riff Trax]]
* [[Situational Sexuality]]: There's a part of the film where Tod spends time in a hospital with another boy named Roy. Roy is Todd's age and shares his condition who seems a little too happy to have a bunk mate and won't really talk about anything other than masturbation and/or sex. And how he wants to have sex with everything. [[Anything That Moves|EVERYTHING]].
* [[Stalking Is Love]]: Tod watches Gina through binoculars which is ether endearing or weird.
* [[The Woobie]]: You can't help but feel a little bad for Tod.

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