Meet Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company who is constantly busy with his job and disappoints his son. After missing his son's karate exposition, he tries hard to come up with a way to make it up to him. This is when his son tells Howard what he wants for Christmas: an action figure of his son's television hero, Turbo Man. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man figures. Now Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else including a mail man named Myron to find a Turbo Man action figure, and to make it to the Wintertainment parade which will feature Turbo Man.