A variety of futuristic sci-fi gags included elaborate props such as gigantic hydroponic plants, robots, flight suits, and intimacy-free techno-gadgets (the Orb, videophone, and the automated Orgasmatron).Suddenly, in an upstairs bedroom, the ringing of an alarm clock is heard, and Firefly appears in bed with a nightshirt, nightcap, and cigar."The teen was drawn into and surrounded by a cartoonish world of psychedelic colors (to the tune of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly) - and literally grabbed, dragged or sucked into the television world, where a virtual Freddy Krueger was manipulating a joystick to control a Mario Bros.Directed by Irving Rapper, its screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the 1941 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty (who also wroteStella Dallas).