To surprise the troupe, the audience hid (or attempted to hide) underneath their seats as the Idiots filed into the room. The sudden loud cries of “surprise!” led to a seemingly shocked Idiot and then a brief retelling of Sheer Idiocy’s history. Then it was finally time to begin the games.

Sheer Idiocy is well known for its improv games and its huge gathering of scary faces at each performance. With their cult—which is really just a large gathering of fans—the Idiots spread humor throughout the campus. Most of the fans are already familiar with the games used during the night, but regardless the different delivery of each game still makes the audience laugh.

The Idiots started with their “Sit, Stand, Kneel” game, in which three Idiots scrambled to role-play characters in a barber shop. The only condition: each of them had to be sitting, standing, or kneeling, with no two Idiots performing the same action at the same time. This posed a problem later on, as the players were running out of things to do while kneeling—one of them even tried to remember his Catholic roots (in a barber shop, nonetheless) as he went on his knees.

“Conduct-A-Gripe” featured five Idiots as they complained about a trivial topic—the audience decided to pick the weather as the topic of the night. A conducting Idiot would then point at a different player and that player would start complaining about the different things that they hate about the weather. One complained of the heat, another about the clouds, and still another about the meteorologists. By the end of the game, all five Idiots were screaming on top of each other, proclaiming their hate for the weather.

Another notable game played was “Press Conference,” and an Idiot was sent out as the audience picked the invention he was to be interviewed for. When the player came back in, the first interviewer blatantly had to scream out “You’re a bastard!” for the fact that he had invented taxes. As the interview progressed, the inventor Idiot had admitted that taxes first started out as greeting cards and that he used all of the collected dollars for cocaine—it was only later he realized that he originally invented them.

There was also “Famous Persons Café,” where three Idiots were assigned a famous person whose identity they had to guess using hints supplied by the players sitting next to them. This game is the only one that allows the audience to witness a scene where Barbara Walters, Julius Caesar, and Captain Planet are having friendly conversation.

“Chain Murder” also seems to be a popular game played by the Idiots and an audience member. This time the crime scene was a garbage disposal on the Death Star, the weapon was MTV, and the murderer’s occupation was an exotic dancer. Imagine the amusement to many when the players had to mime exotic dancing.

Later on, “Royal Expert Rumble” was under way. This game was where a two-headed expert (two Idiots saying the same things at the same time) and a three-headed expert (each Idiot spoke one word at a time to form a sentence) clashed against each other in an argument about boxes. The three-headed expert had argued that “paper-esque titanium boxes” were used as “storage for mankind’s things,” whereas the two-headed expert much preferred boxes to be flat. In any case, it made for an interesting debate.

Some other games were played, including “Backwards and Forwards,” “Pan Left, Pan Right,” “Bermuda Triangle,” and “Half-Life.” Even “Slideshow” was played, where an Idiot recounts his vacation by showing pictures of what he did—the pictures were shown by Idiots giving out random poses behind the narrating Idiot.