A lovable loser, Walter Clydepepper (Vic Dunlop) eats an alien from outer space in his cereal and becomes a deadly stand up comic.

據《魯迅日記》，魯迅曾于1934年十一月六日同許廣平在新光戲院看此電影，十一月八日又看了這部電影的後集。當時的譯名爲《科學權威》。