 Shafer combines mock interviews (both with some of the actual people involved and with actors standing in for the actual people) with archive footage from Shafer's appearances on talk shows like "Donahue", "The Maury Povich Show" and "The Jerry Springer Show" (along with an early appearance on "Dance Fever") and recreations of events like his Playgirl photoshoots, his "fantasy date" with a "Playgirl" reader and the death of his friend Pledge Cartwright (played by actor Bill Brochtrup) of an AIDS-related illness to relate the story.