Professor and wannabe adventurer Hector "Heck" Burrows is fired from Pimento University after cutting his own classes to hunt down rare animated films. While screening films from his private collection, his estranged ex-girlfriend and American Classic Movie channel TV host Laurel Marsh shows up to seek his help. She's on the trail of a film reel that, as legend has it, can invalidate media giant Pinnacle Pictures' ownership of its 95 year-old flagship cartoon character "Boffo." Laurel hopes to use the film to boost her show's ratings and restore the character's rights to the reluctant descendant of Boffo's original creator. Heck believes the film will restore his reputation--and his professorship. The race is on, but it's a whole new ballgame when they bump into Mr. Fixit, Pinnacle Pictures' ultra-loyal senior assassin, who's been sent to destroy the film and anybody who tries to stop him.