In additional than 150 episodes, ABC has staged weird, awkward, and legal conditions, recorded the reactions of unsuspecting passersby, and requested What Would You Do? Now the hidden-camera present is coming again for its midseason return on Wednesday, January 8, and we’re itemizing our picks a few of the wildest hypotheticals from the present to date.
An inventory of episodes exhibits WWYD banks on conditions of discrimination, whether or not they’re “phobias” — homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, et cetera — or “isms” — racism, sexism, ageism, and the like.
Then there are the extra humorous set-ups — a buyer takes too many free samples, a baby drops profanities in a retailer, a lady rips recipes out of a cookbook she didn’t pay for, and so forth.
However the WWYD conditions under — listed as they seem in Wikipedia synopses, together with our commentary — are those we discover most ridiculous.
16. “A husband and spouse disagree over whether or not the husband ought to get a vasectomy.” To not get snippy, however maybe WWYD began to expire of concepts by the point of this 2024 episode? (Props to W. Kamau Bell, although, for sharing his expertise.)
15. “An outdated man with a coronary heart situation tells his granddaughter to not fear once they go ziplining.” Ziplining?! This What Would You Do set-up seems like the results of a Mad Libs recreation.
14. “A mom stops her car and tells her youngsters within the again seat to get out of the automobile and stroll residence.” Our dad and mom simply threatened to “flip this automobile round” after we weren’t behaving, however consider it or not, this type of factor does occur in actual life.
13. “A mom takes photographs of her daughter on a fitness center rowing machine so she will be able to make it appear as if the daughter is on her highschool’s rowing group.” We might title this episode “What Would You Do: The Lori Loughlin Story.”
12. “A pair yell at a pregnant teen who not desires to be their surrogate.” We are able to simply think about some ABC worker watching Juno after which operating out of the movie show with the subsequent nice What Would You Do? thought.
11. “An individual who believes in life exterior Earth and a nonbeliever argue at a museum.” Until the 2 persons are arguing too loudly — and these are actors attempting to be overheard, in order that they in all probability are — we don’t know why anybody would hassle getting concerned.
10. “A girl asks strangers to faux to be her boss in entrance of her mother.” There should be simpler methods to make your mom assume you’re nonetheless employed… and why would the girl go away the desk through the ruse?! The jig ought to have been up proper then.
9. “At a grocery retailer, a younger lady permits an aged lady to skip her in line, solely to argue together with her when the aged lady will get a money prize for being the 5 millionth buyer.” That younger lady took the specific (checkout) lane from selfless to egocentric, however on this state of affairs, maybe the older lady might have no less than given her a minimize of the jackpot?
8. “A person takes one other particular person’s operating pump at a gasoline station whereas they’re inside the shop.” We are able to’t even think about the logistics of this occurring in actual life. However on the plus facet, the WWYD producers had been displaying fully-leaded creativity!
7. “On a date with a blind man, a lady lies to the person by saying she’s a supermodel.” We simply really feel dangerous that some actor was employed for what WWYD producers deemed to be sub-supermodel appears to be like.
6. “A test-taker cheats throughout a Who Needs to Be a Millionaire take a look at audition.” Good cross-promotion, ABC, however this case appears far-fetched — as if the overseers of a recreation present with a $1 million prize would sleep on the job.
5. “A mom asks prospects to take heed to her child by way of her child monitor whereas she takes a break.” So many questions! Don’t dad and mom use child displays at residence, to observe infants of their cribs? Did this mom take her child monitor together with her on a purchasing journey?
4. “A client obsessive about selfies takes an image with an injured man who simply fell off a ladder.” We are able to consider extra believable conditions the place folks would possibly take inappropriate selfies, however then once more, we additionally wouldn’t put this fake pas previous the image-obsessed amongst us.
3. “An unhygienic ice-cream retailer worker touches (and even tastes) a buyer’s ice-cream.” Apparently, this episode aired mere weeks earlier than Ariana Grande’s #DonutGate scandal. It was a giant summer time for fast-food cooties.
2. “Without cost meals at a drive-thru, strangers are requested to do leaping jacks or to sing their order.” What would we do? Without cost meals, we’d do leaping jacks or sing our order! Is that even a query?
1. “A younger boy begs strangers to pose as his karate teacher to fend off bullies.” What’s extra ridiculous: that the child bullies examined strangers on their karate talents to gauge the veracity of the boy’s claims, or that this state of affairs had adults threatening kids?
What Would You Do? Midseason Premiere, Wednesday, January 8, 10/9c, ABC