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I’ve actually been keeping up with the unbelievably pointless Primetime series “What Would You Do?”, but last night my DVR, in an act of inanimate object tough love, “forgot” to tape it. Lucky for me, The Hater caught the latest episode, which, as usual, used a completely fake setup and hidden camera in order to goad bystanders into taking action and ask viewers to fake-search our fake-hearts about what we would do in the fake situation. Except this time they’ve gone to far. Last night’s question was: “What would we do if we were in a restaurant and overheard a group of fundamentalist Latter Day Saints attempting to convince a child to become a grown man’s third wife?” No, seriously: that’s the premise. With costumes!
Even though previous episodes have featured outlandish scenarios (a man hitting a woman in a public park in broad daylight three feet away from passersby, a deli worker screaming racial slurs at customers), they at least fell within the category of “Things regular people have witnessed before, in the world.” But this scenario, in which a secretive, segregationist cult conducts business for which they’ve been recently mass hauled off to jail in the middle of a restaurant just would. not. happen. Somebody needs to tell John Quinones that Big Love is just a big fake TV show.
Also, if you do tune in in the future to this infuriatingly ridiculous show, keep watch for the best part of almost every episode: when John Quinones approaches a bystander and reveals who he is, and nobody ever recognizes him, ever, and he’s always surprised by it. Chris Hansen-sized ego on that guy.
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YOU JUST GOT PUNK’D!
I miss To Catch A Predator =[[ As much as pedophilia is terrible, it’s MUCH more entertaining for an hour than this is.
As I’ve come to terms with being a douchebag I can comfortably say I would do nothing. Yay for not getting involved!
Primetime: What Would You Do?! You’re in a record store, and a child attempts to purchase the new Nickelback CD.
How about Primetime: What Would You Do?! Your roommate is about to watch a Mind of Mencias Marathon.
Murder/suicide.
Not that I ever made plans to join Twitter, but hearing John Quinones asking the viewers to contact him via Twitter at the end ensured that I’ll never touch that website. And I thought Martin Bashir was going to be the blight on ABC’s news team… (John Stossel notwithstanding).
4 and a half minute douchchill
Hahahaha good SNL sketch. The black jacket lesbian was hilarious!
The rage I feel toward Utah polygamists far, far, outweighs the rage I feel toward a show trying to get people to fuck with them.
I love ow the premise is Punk’d but ‘the surprise, we gotchya line!’ is a solemn “You’re a hero and we want to congratulate you”
I got filmed in one of that idiots segments in Hoboken. They had a kid wimpering on the sidewalk and I walked right past. Figured he was waiting on someone to get out of a car. 1/2 a block later a bunch of producers were getting people to sign release statements and asking if they saw the kid. Idiots.
http://hoboken411.com/archives/8928
Never watched the show, but this episode sounds ridiculous. While the FLDS & what they’re doing in regards to child molestation is disgusting, they would not be talking about it at a resturant. For one, the FLDS groups do not go out into society with the kids & talk about this stuff & for two, the girls don’t need to be talked into marrying someone, they just have to do it or they are convinced they are going to hell. This show is making a mockery of a serious situation in my opinion. As a former mormon & a human being, this issue gets my blood boiling.
I actually saw this…it’s so stupid..it would never happen!
“are you a good person?”
I would guess that 75% (at most) wouldn’t care about someone else’s problems
This is in response to the people knocking this show. I actually think this show opens peoples eyes to the messed up sh** that still happens today. As ridiculous as this episode was, this still happens, and its ignorant to think it doesnt. Everyone wants to believe rasicm is dead but this show also shows that, rasicm is still obviously present today. While people watch staged shows like, survivor, the hills and “reality” tv without saying a negative word, a show comes along that points out the real problems in this fuc*** up country, people bash it?? Ok maybe they should do an episiode showing how unintelligent the people in this country are.