While being an inventor doesn't seem to be the best line of profession for the accident prone, an inventor working on a way to speed up the cooking time of a microwave unknowingly invents the first time machine. Not realizing what he has just made, he throws it out with all of his other nonworking inventions only realizing what it was he had made after it is stolen. After a daring rescue and a visit to the oracle (really just a crazy old cat lady), he must save time and maybe even fall in love armed with just a superheated ice-cream scoop, a modified version of his time machine, and his talking cat Gitz.