Einstein's comedic depiction was of a naive, although always optimistic, stuntman who was frequently, comically injured when his stunts went spectacularly wrong.
Typically, the character would perform outrageous daredevil stunts, which often went disastrously awry resulting in the appearance of grievous bodily injury.
These included such mishaps as being knocked off the top of the enormously high CN Tower, in Toronto, after determining it was too windy to do a cabled jump or being run over by a steamroller after failing to escape from inside a locked trunk.
His signature logo, a caricature of his head inside a crash helmet directly atop a pair of crushed silver boots with no visible body, was from an iconic early sketch, "Balloon Ball", a "stunt" consisting of his standing in a hole in the ground reciting "Balloon Ball" as a mantra which was supposed to imbue him with the ability to not be harmed by anything, as a mobile pile driver rammed the top of his head a number of times.
Super Dave is often accompanied on his various exploits by a loyal friend, sidekick, and assistant stunt coordinator Fuji Hakayito (played by comedian Art Irizawa), and his segments are introduced and commentated on by former sportscaster/actor Mike Walden.