During the Idiots’ first performance of the semester, Mother’s was standing room only. For this performance, they were sold out in a way—the event was free as part of Family Weekend, but almost every seat was taken. When the announcement was made that the performance was full to capacity, the line stretched from the fourth floor entrance to the theatre and ended on the fifth floor café. In the end, parents of performers were the only ones not turned away.

This performance had a slight variation from the one at Mother’s. The EMPAC God was there. God, also known as Kevin Deraney ’11, along with his apprentice angel, Brian Heller ’12, and his apprentice grim reaper, Partha Panwala ’12, caused mischief with a massive remote control. At various points during the games, God would decide to throw just one more thing at the Idiots. His faithful sidekicks were there to facilitate his mischief-making: If a desert setting was called for, a cactus would appear to set the mood. When Garrett McCutcheon ’09 and Nick Sosin ’11 were about to start the game “That Damn Clap,” it was decided that they would be giants, and so a miniature city appeared.

The Idiots performed all the games from their previous performance in addition to several new games. One of the newer ones was called “RALPH,” which was perfectly named, considering that RPI is a school of acronyms. RALPH stands for “Replace A Letter Please Homie”—meaning that one letter of the alphabet was always replaced with a different letter. R became V, leading to shouts of “It’s a wav!” “A vescue helicoptov!” and “We’ve heve, we’ve heve!” A war zone has never been so funny as with Rohit Kumar ’10 as the unlucky “pvivate” and Sean Bender ’09 as his superior officer.

As always, the Idiots all put on amazing shows. For the last game, “Last Line, First Line,” the Idiots asked alumni to join them on stage, so all the Idiots—new, not-so-new, and former—could come together for this game, where the last line of one act becomes the first of the next.

The Rensselyrics performed in between the Idiots’ games. They sang a range of genres, from country to soul, with incredible talent. Between the background vocals and their amazing beat-boxer, it was easy to forget that they are actually an a cappella group. The singers were all upbeat and projected an energy to the audience members that made them want to get up and dance.

Ben Bishop ’10 opened for the Rensselyrics’ cover of Toto’s “Africa,” then Lauren Klayman ’10 did a passionate rendition of Alicia Keys’s “No One.” Noah Peyser ’10 sang two different solos, both of which he hit dead on. His duet with Becca Thakar ’11 on “When the Stars Go Blue,” was reminiscent of Tim McGraw and Faith Hill’s sound. His version of Secondhand Serenader’s “Fall For You” touched the hearts of a few couples in the audience.

John Petsche ’10 covered the Red Hot Chilli Peppers’ “Can’t Stop” with more than enough charisma to make the crowd want to dance in the aisles. Another Red Hot Chilli Peppers song had the crowd dancing in their seats: “Zephyr Song,” performed by Mike Stark ’11. The Rensselyrics’ final song was Blink-182’s “What’s My Age Again?” As Ben Esposito ’11 closed the night for the Rensselyrics, the Idiots danced along, making the crowd roar with laughter as they leaped, twirled, and ran across the stage.

Both groups put on amazing performances, holding true to their reputations. The turnout was beyond capacity, leaving many seat-less. The Idiots’ next performance will be in the McNeil Room on November 21. As before, this one should provide plenty of laughs and very little empty seating. The Idiots’ performance promises more of the same.