The children's mother leaves home to present a lizard paper, leaving the forgetful father in charge.

The children search the fridge and find there is no milk left for their breakfast cereal.

The father walks to the corner shop to buy milk for his waiting children.

A silver spaceship hovering above the street sucks the father up off the pavement.

Green globby aliens demand the father sign over ownership of Earth so they can remodel it.

The father jumps through the spaceship's emergency exit and plunges through the space-time continuum into the sea.

The Queen of Pirates hauls the father onto her ship and offers him a choice: join her crew or die.

Professor Steg lowers a rope ladder from a hot air balloon and rescues the father as he walks the plank.

The father holds up the milk bottle, fulfilling a prophecy that spares him and Steg from being sacrificed to Splod.

The volcano worshippers present Professor Steg with the Eye of Splod, the special green stone the time machine needs.

Pale, hungry wumpires surround the father and Professor Steg and decide they would make a satisfying meal.

Just as the father says goodbye to Professor Steg outside his house, the alien spaceship sucks them both back up.

The father reaches through a small time window and grabs the milk from himself fifteen minutes in the past.

Galactic Police dinosaurs on space bikes arrive and charge the aliens with breaking into planets and redecorating them.

The father arrives home and places the milk bottle on the kitchen table as proof of his story.

When the children's mother leaves for a lizard conference, she puts the distracted father in charge, setting off a chain of events beginning with an empty milk carton. The father's simple trip to the corner shop turns catastrophic when a silver spaceship abducts him, and aliens demand he surrender Earth for remodeling. Escaping through the emergency exit, he crashes into the sea and lands on a pirate ship, where he narrowly avoids death and is rescued by a time-traveling Stegosaurus named Professor Steg. Together, the father and Steg travel through time, encountering volcano worshippers, dangerous wumpires, and a second run-in with the aliens aboard their upgraded spaceship. The father outsmarts the aliens by threatening to collapse the universe using two identical milk bottles, and the situation is resolved when Galactic Police dinosaurs arrive to arrest the aliens. Against all odds, the father makes it home and places the milk on the kitchen table, proof of everything he has just survived.

The father's wild journey from the corner shop back to the kitchen table.

The father fails to heat the children's labeled frozen meals and takes them out to dinner instead.

The children consider pouring ketchup or mayonnaise on their cereal since there is no milk in the house.

The children drink orange juice and debate eating pickles while waiting for their father to come home.

The father suggests walking the plank to the confused pirates, who happily build one for him.

The father and Professor Steg eat coconuts in the balloon and discuss whether dinosaurs ever drink milk.

Removing the Eye of Splod triggers the ancient prophecy, and the volcano erupts in fury.

The erupting volcano jolts the balloon and the father drops the milk, which lands on Splod's head.

A second identical hot air balloon appears during the volcanic eruption and descends toward the crater.

A future version of the father climbs down from the second balloon, restores Splod's eye, and retrieves the dropped milk.

A mysterious arm reaches through a hole in space, snatches the milk, then hurls it back with a shout of 'Catch!'

The aliens proudly display their remodeling plan, replacing trees with plastic flamingoes and mountains with throw cushions.

The aliens press the grundledorfer button, summoning every angry creature the father and Steg have met on their travels.

The Pteranodon and the dinosaur police are struck speechless when they realize the famous Professor Steg is right in front of them.

The dinosaur police take photographs with the famous milk bottle and treat the father to dinosaur songs in six-part harmony.

The children spot a hot air balloon calendar, toy ponies, a vampire book, and a volcano painting around the kitchen.

The trouble begins the night before when the father fails to heat the children's labeled frozen meals and takes them out to dinner instead, forgetting entirely to buy milk. The next morning the children endure a hungry wait, debating peculiar cereal substitutes before their father finally sets off for the shop. Once inside his story, the adventure is packed with memorable details: the pirates constructing a plank on the father's own instructions, the volcanic eruption that follows the removal of Splod's eye, and a mysterious future version of the father appearing in an identical balloon to set things right. Back on the alien spaceship, the situation escalates rapidly as the aliens unveil their tasteless remodeling plans and then summon every enemy the father has made on his travels using a button named after their brood-aunt. The crisis is broken when dinosaur police arrive and the awestruck officers discover Professor Steg herself is among them, leading to an unexpected celebration of photographs and six-part harmony before the father is finally freed. The adventure ends in the kitchen, where the children quietly spot the calendar, toys, and books that inspired every character in their father's tale.

The vivid details and turning moments that filled out the father's remarkable adventure.

The little sister practices violin while waiting for her father, until her brother asks her to stop.

Professor Steg explains the time machine needs a special-shiny-greeny-stone to travel accurately through time.

The father presses the time machine button for the first time and lands on a jungle temple platform.

A man warns the father that removing the Eye of Splod will trigger the devastating destruction of the land.

Professor Steg jumps to the far future, where colorful ponies roam and the extinct volcano still holds its green eye.

The father removes the green stone from the extinct future volcano, giving them two identical stones at the same time.

Professor Steg warns that if two identical objects from different times touch, the universe will probably cease to exist.

Professor Steg travels back in time to deliver the Splod prophecy to the Priest, deliberately creating the time loop.

A curious wumpire presses the time machine button by accident, sending the wumpires into daylight where they melt away.

The time machine delivers the father and Professor Steg to the father's own street, apparently completing the journey home.

The father threatens to touch the two milk bottles together and end the universe unless the aliens release everyone.

The aliens attempt a compromise, asking permission to remodel only the Southern Hemisphere before being refused.

A Pteranodon addresses Professor Steg as 'Madam,' revealing to the startled father that Steg is female.

The father accidentally touches both milk bottles together while reaching out to shake the Pteranodon's hand.

Both children tell their father they don't believe a word of his story, but he simply places the milk on the table as proof.

While the children wait hungrily for their father to return, small domestic moments in the kitchen quietly mirror the fantastical adventure their father is secretly living through. Once his story begins, the key turning points come rapidly: learning the time machine is broken without the right stone, pressing the button into the unknown, and being warned that stealing a god's eye will bring catastrophe. The resolution of the volcano crisis requires a daring loop in time, with Steg deliberately planting a prophecy in the past to ensure safe passage in the future, and the father taking a second stone from a ruined future volcano despite being warned the two must never touch. The wumpire encounter ends not through heroism but through a wumpire's own curiosity, and what seems like a safe return home turns out to be just another trap. The climax arrives when the father uses the threat of universal destruction to force the aliens' hand, a plan nearly derailed when he accidentally does exactly what he promised while shaking a stranger's hand. The story closes with the children skeptical but satisfied, and the father quietly triumphant as he produces the one piece of evidence no one can argue with.

The discoveries, warnings, and decisions that shaped every twist in the father's tale.