A rare example of the genre-crossing of science fiction and slapstick comedy, Who Killed Jessie? weds 1960s Pop art experimentations with a decidedly Eastern European take on the joys of anarchy. An unhappily married scientist couple find more pleasure in their labs than in their home, with the husband hiding in comic books and the wife busy inventing a serum that controls dreams (dutifully demonstrated on a sleeping cow shown dreaming of being chased by flies and gently serenaded by a cello quartet). When the wife tries the serum on her husband, however, dreams inexplicably enter reality, and suddenly their environment is invaded by comic-book characters recently dreamed by the husband. As cowboys, supermen, and cavewomen wreak anarchy on an all-too-rational city, their battle cry could be taken up by surrealists everywhere: “Liberty to dreams!”