A talking kettle yanks two modern kids into ancient Baghdad and leaves them to figure out how to survive with medieval royalty while separated from their only way home. The comedy comes from watching a soccer player and a musician improvise their way through a world where they don't belong, armed with nothing but modern stubbornness. Abdullah keeps showing up like a cartoon villain who never learns, the princess needs rescuing again, and Hayato is still thinking about getting back to his girlfriend in a world where that makes no sense whatsoever.

Hayato, a soccer fan, and his girlfriend Yumi, a budding musician, visit Dr. Leonard's lab and accidentally switch on Tondekeman, a comical talking kettle that sends them centuries back in time. In Baghdad the two find each other again but lose track of Tondekeman. There they meet Aladdin, Prince Dandarn and Princess Shalala, along with the scheming Abdullah, who keeps trying to abduct the princess so his master can marry her. When Abdullah flees through time with Shalala as his target, Hayato and Yumi chase him across many places and eras, running into historical and literary figures along the way. They remain stranded in the past until they can win Tondekeman back from Abdullah.