Ronald Miller is tired of being a nerd, and makes a deal with one of the most popular girls in school to help him break into the cool clique. He offers her a thousand dollars to pretend to be moxia.cc his girlfriend for a month. It succeeds, but he soon learns that the price of popularity may be higher than he expected…

一个外星人家庭在不幸意外地被美国探测太空船携回地球，他们在一阵混乱中冲出太空总署逃向沙漠，但小外星人麦克与家人失散，溜上了不良于行的艾瑞克家人的旅行车而跟著车到了内华达州。麦克在一次意外事件中救了艾瑞克之后，与艾瑞克兄弟和邻居女童黛比等人结为好友，并要求他们协助搜救在沙漠中垂死的家人。艾瑞克一行人终于在麦克的指引下找到…