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Is it a bird? Is it a plane?

No! It's health-food store owner George Sunday (Ardal O'Hanlon of Father Ted), better known as the world's most famous superhero, Thermoman.

Not very familiar with Earth's customs, Thermoman is often embarassingly honest and tends to take everything too literally. When he falls in love with nurse Janet Dawkins (Emily Joyce), his behavior appears most peculiar to her family and co-workers.

Thermoman met Janet when he rescued her from the Grand Canyon, but since then his mission to save the world from destruction often comes in the way of his earthly romance. Day-to-day, the couple has to overcome the conflicts that arise from Thermoman's double life: Did Janet really have to put his suit in the wash on the day when an abandoned space station was on course to destroy a small town? Should George stay for lunch with Janet's parents or fly off to stop an erupting volcano? Will George's life be worth living if he flies off?

Even Thermoman can't be in two places at once, and his continual disapearance in and out of the bathroom in Janet's tiny suburban apartment or at the surgery where she works is not easy to explain.