To begin the show, the Idiots turned off all the lights and invited the audience to come up on the stage to join them in an unorthodox dance party. A couple of the Idiots beat-boxed and some even attempted to break-dance, to the delight of the partying audience. As the lights came back on, a new Idiot—Rohit Kumar ’10—was inducted into the group for being “different.”

Their first game was called “Pan-left, Pan-right,” where a number of scenarios were played regarding certain nouns that the audience cooked up. The game consisted of chaotic situations which included scrubbing in for the surgical delivery of a moose and the use of banana peels as dangerous weapons in Mario Kart.

“Sit, Stand, Kneel” is always quite an interesting sketch. The game consists of three Idiots at a specific location—for this instance, the location was a farmer’s market situated in the Death Star—and each Idiot has to be sitting, standing, or kneeling while performing the scene, with no two in the same position at the same time. The entire game became a humorous skit about a robot for sale.

In another game—one of the Idiots’ newer ones—a certain letter was replaced, and an act was played involving two Idiots. The game soon became a series of miscommunications between Santa and his elf in his workshop. To make things worse, it was harder to say “presents” when pronouncing it became “prpspnts.”

Then came the game called “Slide-Show,” where two actors posed for a series of photographs that portray the adventures of one Idiot. Like many of the games, the Idiots asked for input from the audience on what the scene should look like. The end resulted in Trent Gillaspie ’08 traveling with his future self to a petting zoo. At the zoo they harassed bunnies, ate cotton candy, and fed nickels to the animals. The accompanying snapshots—where the two Idiots posed each time a click of the camera was made—set the audience laughing the whole time.

Sheer Idiocy also performed “Royal Expert Rumble,” where a two-headed expert (two Idiots speaking up at the same time) and a three-headed expert (three Idiots each saying one word after the other to complete a sentence) faced off in a heated debate about plaid. At some point, the pro-plaid vs. anti-plaid debate became a war against bagpipes.

It didn’t end there. One of the more popular games used the direct involvement of an audience member. In “Chain Murder,” each player acts out the location of a murder, the occupation of the murderer, and the weapon used for murder. A number of laughs emerged from the audience once the players confused Trump Tower with Nazi Germany (who knew that Donald Trump’s signature “You’re fired!” can look similar to “Heil Hitler!”?).

As the night wore on, a few more acts took place. Some of them included the Idiots’ ever-funny “Half-Life” game, where the players had to re-enact the same scene—a burning Price Chopper—in a shorter amount of time; “Backwards and Forwards,” where two Idiots played as Medieval re-enactors progressing and regressing the story depending on the cue; and the popular “Lines from a Hat,” a game in which Idiots act out a scene and fill out their sentences with written phrases that they pull from their pocket.