The show features Michael Ian Black as the host, Randall Tyree Mandersohn: a "totally blind", volleyball-obsessed, self-help guru.

Along with his wife, Pam (Cathy Shim), Mandersohn aims to help people using his bizarre, convoluted systems of objects and actions.

Art Siriwatt of The Daily Californian observed Showalter to be the "straight man" to Black's antics, with both frequently breaking character.

[13] Critical reception was positive, with many reviewers praising Black's performance and the satirizing of American self-help gurus, as conveyed through his casual racism and cultural appropriation of foreign rituals.

Club found that the show conveys itself "in a manner familiar to anyone who's ever killed time before daylight by flipping through their cable package.

[15] Similarly, Aisha Harris of Slate wrote that Black's performance was "wonderfully committed", while the show "has pretty much every common trope of the self-help craze covered", citing the appropriation of foreign customs for Western audiences as "perhaps the most scathing treatment".

[1] For Splitsider, Bradford Evans dubbed the show "a more mainstream version"[17] of Paid Programming, an unsuccessful pilot that was also pitched as a mock-infomercial.