One in a Million Trillion
This is a Documentary series primarily using Errol Morris’ invention the Interrotron for unusual people to tell their outré stories directly into the camera to the viewer. Every documentary episode is focused on one person, especially scientists, criminals, cranks, plus everyday folks in strange circumstances.
What do you do when things don’t quite go your way? Give up? Move on? Try something new?
Not if you’re Rick Rosner. Obsessed with “getting it right”, Rick went back to high school. Not once, not twice, not three times. Four seperate times. In fact, he kept going back until he was 34 years old using a combination of fradulent IDs, wigs, and prosthetics.
You might consider him an expert, not on make-overs, but on do-overs. Now a bouncer, a nude model, and a cosmologist, Rick has taken that same commitment of repetition to the television program, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. You see, Rick was on the show, and he lost to a bad question. With his record breaking IQ, he didn’t take it too well.
After two years of exhaustive statistical analysis, looking at every question in every version of the game, he has ruined his very own life. Now on the edge of sanity, he is advancing a theory of cosmology in which the universe is seen as trillions of years old. “Why so old?” you might ask. – To give it the opportunity to endlessly copy itself.