Urmel, an odd guileless creature out of the past, has a lot to learn about the world. Fortunately, with just a few drops of her special formula and a few elocution lessons, Prof. Ophelia Tiddypom teaches him to talk... like all her furry and feathered friends at her schoolhouse lab. Things would be just peachy except that the dastardly and bumbling Dr. Findler wants to snatch up the lot of them. What marvelous stuffed specimens they will make for his museum!