Dr. Alex Beenyman (Chris Addison) is the last sane man in the Arnolfini Research Laboratory, and he’d be really, really good at his job if it wasn’t for the dypsomaniac professor (Geoffrey McGivern). And the giant snails. And his space cadet best friend (Josephine Enright). And the egg-hurling protesters. Oh, and the borderline psychopathic lab technician (Dan Tetsell). And the indoor blizzards. And his unfathomable, dutch boss (Selina Cadell), come to that. And the man in the pink mohair jumper and purple leggings in suspended animation in the back room. And the mardy secretary (Helen Moon). And, of course, the fact that he’s really, really not very good at his job.