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There was a deleted scene in which Lewis takes Bowler Hat Guy back to the past with him to give him the chance to wake a younger Goob up in time to catch the ball, an offer he accepts with heartfelt thanks as he disappears from existence. Compare that to what actually happened in the movie, in which a nervous Bowler Hat Guy disappears leaving his trademark list behind, the final item being a question mark. Lewis later goes back to the past alone, and wakes Goob up himself, thusly flinging Bowler Hat Guy headlong into nonexistence. Keep Moving Forward!
Actually he's probably happy somewhere, maybe playing baseball. He didn't erase him from existance unless Goob died between then and then.
To explain, the Bowler Hat Guy was necessarily erased in that he no longer exists. Because Goob woke up, caught the ball, and won the game, chances are that his life is going to go into a different direction. The Bowler Hat Guy still exists, only he's not the Bowler Hat Guy, he's just an adult Goob who'll have probably had a better life.
Hilarious in Hindsight: At the science fair, Wilbur knocks over a box full of frogs and their owner makes him pick them all up. He isn't too pleased, calls her "annoying little girl", and she warns him: "I know karate". It's hilarious on later viewings when you realize the little girl is Franny in the past, Wilbur was calling his Mom an annoying little girl, and yes, she really does know karate.
Moral Event Horizon: Doris gets one when she brutally murders Carl in order to steal the memory machine back. This foreshadows what happens to the future as a result of her and Bowler Hat Guy changing it very well. Fortunately both of these events get an in-universe Ret-Gone.
No Yay: People pair Wilbur and Lewis. The weird time traveling incest doesn't put them off.
Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped: "Keep Moving Forward". Repeated over and over again both directly and thematically. And it works.
Squick: Ummm... well, at one point Lewis is almost adopted by his future wife!
And he calls her "Mom"... which is not helped by the fact that the studio took Franny's character model and covered it with a cloak for use as Lewis's mom.
Tear Jerker: The very end, revealing where the arc words were taken from, reduced many a sentimental viewer to tears.