Michaela Dowd
Director
Primetime: What Would You Do? (2009)
Season 9
An American television news magazine and hidden camera show. Actors act out scenes of conflict or illegal activity in public settings while hidden cameras videotape the scene, and the focus is on whether or not bystanders intervene, and how. Variations are also usually included, such as changing the genders, the races or the clothing of the actors performing the scene, to see if bystanders react differently. Quiñones appears at the end to interview the bystanders about their reactions. As the experiment goes on, psychology professors, teachers, or club members watch and discuss the video with Quiñones, explaining and making inferences on the bystanders' reactions.
Released Feb. 26, 2008
Episode 59 min
10+
Genres: News, Reality, Reality TV
Keywords: tmdb.bullying, tmdb.hidden-camera, tmdb.bigotry, imdb.social-experiment, tmdb.illegal-activity, imdb.reenactment, imdb.ethics + 5 more, imdb.hidden-camera, imdb.docusoap-reality-tv, imdb.question-in-title, imdb.question-mark-in-title, imdb.punctuation-in-title
Watch Providers: Hulu, fuboTV, Disney Plus
Production Companies: ABC News, Lincoln Square Productions
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S9E1 - May 23, 2014
Daymond John appears in a scenario as a shopper who is being scrutinized at an upscale clothing store. Also: An intoxicated couple prepare to take their boat for a cruise; a teen basketball player tells his teammates and coach that he's gay; a diner at a restaurant takes food from another customer's plate; and a homeless man is asked to leave a bar in New Orleans.
May 23, 2014, midnight
S9E2 - May 30, 2014
Scenarios take place along the Mississippi River. Included: A hairstylist disapproves of her white male customer dating a black woman; patrons at a Memphis restaurant deal with an incompetent waiter; and a thief blatantly steals from an unlocked car. Also: reactions to public displays of affection and a greedy psychic.
May 30, 2014, midnight
S9E3 - June 6, 2014
Included: People react to a person they let cut them in line winning a trip to Hawaii for being the five millionth customer; and audience members at "The Bethenny Show" witness someone being intentionally embarrassed in public. Other scenarios involve two college kids spiking a girl's drink; a fed-up mother leaving her young child outside of a restaurant on "time out"; and a woman being treated rudely because she speaks very little English.
June 6, 2014, midnight
S9E4 - June 13, 2014
Scenarios include: obese customers being heckled and harassed at a buffet; an obnoxious diner leaving an envelope stuffed with $100 bills behind; a transgender girl trying on prom dresses; and a woman in a wedding dress entering a bar with cold feet.
June 13, 2014, midnight
S9E5 - June 20, 2014
Scenarios include a man trying to weasel his way out of paying a big bet; a white kid being encouraged not to shop at a fashion boutique specializing in urban clothing; a woman using a fake pregnancy test to get her boyfriend to propose; a street musician who bullies passersby; and a restaurant manager who's abusive to a busboy.
June 20, 2014, midnight
S9E6 - June 27, 2014
Scenarios include a thief using a skimmer to steal credit card information; a bridesmaid spilling red wine on a wedding dress; and a nanny trying to calm a toddler with allergy medicine.
June 27, 2014, midnight
S9E7 - July 4, 2014
Scenarios include a thief trying to pawn off stolen diamonds; a restaurant server being criticized over his accent; teens attempting to dine and dash; a runaway girl receiving a questionable offer from a strange truck driver; and a children's tea stand that's a rip-off.
July 4, 2014, midnight
S9E8 - July 11, 2014
What Would You Do when you see a situation that you know is wrong?
July 11, 2014, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 59 min.
Season Runtime: 5959 min.
Released: Feb. 26, 2008
Last Air Date: Oct. 7, 2024, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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