Seth Alcorn has been accepted to play on America's most famous trivia game show. Seth is pretty good at trivia, but the Game Show Network isn't taking any chances. In an effort to boost sagging ratings, the Network enrolls Seth to the Game Show Institute, an academy designed to build super-contestants for TV game shows. This documentary follows the Institute's crack team of trivia specialists, physical-agility trainers, and image consultants in their attempt to whip the overwhelmed contestant in to game show shape. However, Seth isn't so easily influenced and hilarity ensues as the over-zealous team tries to get Seth to be the trivia dynamo they think he can be.

Seth Alcorn has been accepted to play on America's most famous trivia game show. Seth is pretty good at trivia, but the Game Show Network isn't taking any chances. In an effort to boost sagging ratings, the Network enrolls Seth to the Game Show Institute, an academy designed to build super-contestants for TV game shows. This documentary follows the Institute's crack team of trivia specialists, physical-agility trainers, and image consultants in their attempt to whip the overwhelmed contestant in to game show shape. However, Seth isn't so easily influenced and hilarity ensues as the over-zealous team tries to get Seth to be the trivia dynamo they think he can be.