What Would You Do?
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What Would You Do? was a 30-minute television show hosted by Marc Summers shown on Nickelodeon from 1991 to 1993. Robin Marrella acted as the on-camera stagehand for the show's first season. Both Summers and Marrella performed their respective duties on Double Dare, also on Nickelodeon. The show was produced in Nickelodeon Studios at Universal Studios in Florida; some early segments were produced at Universal Studios in Hollywood.
Where to Watch What Would You Do? • ? season 1
90 Episodes
- Ep 1E1
Ep 1Marc introduces A.D. and his singing dog Chester; he will only sing with A.D. This sets up the remote, where various tourists try to get Chester to sing along with them. Another remote segment has kids eating a disgusting pie provided by "actress" Joan Vandermark. In the What Would You Do? Medley, an audience member has to eat chocolate covered ants. - Ep 2E2
Ep 2The first game challenges a contestant to hold fish heads; he also goes down the Pie Slide. A remote segment has an actor asking people to watch his sleeping grandfather on a park bench, who soon starts to sleepwalk. Back in the studio, hypnotist Ken Whitener demonstrates "push-button hypnosis" on some audience members. - Ep 3E3
Ep 3Dummy Chuck Wood dares various people to pie themselves in the face. A family of three plays the Pie in the Sky game. The remote segment has various people "playing" a player piano. Audience member Pam actually plays the piano in the studio. Ventriloquist David Strassman uses three audience members as his dummies, dubbing their voices as they move their mouths. In the What Would You Do? Medley, a man walks on cartons of eggs, and a girl snorts like a pig. - Ep 6E6
Ep 6The recurring segment involves a "follow the leader" game outside the studio. Another game involves a boy guessing which of three older boys wearing monster make-up is their big brother. A remote segment has a custom arcade game talking back to its unsuspecting players. The Blues Brothers also make an appearance. - Ep 7E7
Ep 7The first game is a "chug-a-lug" contest between a husband and wife. Magician Hank Miller does some magic tricks, followed by an illusion involving an audience member and a guillotine. A challenge involves whether two contestants would pick up a tarantula. A remote segment has an actor asking tourists to help feed his pet tarantula. The last game is a limbo challenge. - Ep 8E8
Ep 8The first game is Musical Pie. Doug and Elaine do a goofy dance called the Butt Dance, which a few audience members later perform. The first remote segment has tourists pressing their faces against Plexiglas. Marc asks a teenage boy if he would shave the What Would You Do? eye logo into his hair. Another remote has an actor playing a barber giving bad haircuts. In the What Would You Do? Medley, Marc is used as a human dart board. - Ep 9E9
Ep 9Marc asks an audience member to hold two grocery bags. Dee Baker makes unusual animal noises. The first game has a father grocery shopping for certain items within thirty seconds. The remote segment, taking place at a Waffle House, has an actor pretending to be a waiter who enlists customers to help him while he's on the phone. The next studio game involves two women trying to lighten their purses of unwanted items; the lady with the heavier purse goes to the Pie Pod. Finally, Dee Baker and two audience members dub a scene, Japanese monster movie style. - Ep 10E10
Ep 10The opening segment has a challenge to kiss a Burmese Python. The Zucchini Brothers do a comedic juggling act, then challenge an audience member to hold still while they juggle between her. Another challenge involves bobbing for apples. A remote segment has Marc asking tourists if they'd wash a dog. - Ep 11E11
Ep 11A family agrees to climb down a stories-high wall. A brother and sister participate in the Pie Pendulum game. The remote segment is about having to relay messages between boyfriend and girlfriend. The What Would You Do? Medley features a table cloth pull and a boy listing all the states in alphabetical order. - Ep 12E12
Ep 12The audience votes to have Marc go down the pie slide. The remote segment involves a restaurant where people eat spaghetti and ice cream with their hands. Back in the studio, kids get revenge on their parents who cleaned their faces with spit. Another remote has various people doing duck impressions. Doo Wop the dinosaur also makes an appearance. - Ep 13E13
Ep 13Marc rides a monster truck. Next, Marc debuts the Pie in the Sky, where three wrong answers means slime dropped on the two participants. Next, it's an audience member's turn to ride the monster truck. The remote segment has an actor convincing a tourist to be the back end of a horse costume. The What Would You Do? Medley has a Pie Drill challenge: Stepping in tires filled with whip cream. - Ep 14E14
Ep 14The first game has a contestant trying to pop ten balloons with a stinger on his butt. Miss Fitness USA, Debbie Kruck, teaches three contestants how to be "Mrs. Mom". A remote segment involves tourists doing Dracula impressions. Another game has five contestants trying to hit Robin with pies while she dangles by a harness. Briefly, two audience members display hidden talents. - Ep 15E15
Ep 15A volunteer is pelted with pies while trying out the brand new Pie-Mobile. In Venice Beach, California, Marc asks tourists to taste and promote "Stan's Cola", which contains garlic powder, tabasco sauce, vinegar, and pickle. Stuntman Brady Michaels directs three audience volunteers who act out a comic slapstick scene. As usual, things conclude with the What Would You Do? Medley, where drinking Stan's Cola is one of the challenges. - Ep 16E16
Ep 16The first game is a tickle fight between husband and wife; whoever laughs first, loses. The remote segment has an actor pretending to have flatulence in a shoe store. Dancers Doug and Elaine teach some audience members how to do a Cossack dance. An audience member is put in the pie pendulum; a wrong answer puts him closer to a pie in the face. - Ep 17E17
Ep 17The first game is a round of Marco Polo. Next, the Choice Bag challenge is to either drink a raw egg or smash an egg over your head. Marc also presents the same challenge to tourists in the remote segment. Another remote segment involves babysitting and diapering a baby pig. Dancers Elaine and Doug teach some audience members how to do a street dance. A man volunteers to have a balloon shot off his head by a bow-and-arrow. - Ep 18E18
Ep 18The opening game has a father and son trying to slip n' slide through pie cream; if they fail, the mother gets pied. The main game is Simon Says, led by Bob Brandenburg. The remote segment has kids doing impressions of their parents. In the studio, the next game has a boy trying to pop a balloon on his dad's head in thirty seconds; if he fails, pie filling falls on his head. In the What Would You Do? Medley, a Girl Scout passes up the opportunity to eat a hamburger with honey in favor of the Pie Pod. - Ep 19E19
Ep 19In the first game, a boy tries to hit a balloon on his mom's head with a Nerf gun. The remote segment asks the question: Hit yourself with a pie, or hit your partner with a pie? Next, gymnast Marek Kaszuba helps an audience member do a rope-climbing stunt on the Spanish web. Another remote segment has an actor and a tourist putting on a horse costume. - Ep 21E21
Ep 21Choreographer Doug demonstrates a tap dance with flippers that four audience members imitate later. The remote segment has an actor posing as a shoe salesman whose toupee keeps falling off. Make-up artist Lee Grimes demonstrates his work on three kids who are made up to look older; a mother has to guess which one is her son. The final challenge involves sticking your head in a fish tank while singing "Mary Had a Little Lamb". - Ep 22E22
Ep 22A family of four has to train with a drill sergeant. Magician Don Townsend performs some magic, and then has a boy stick swords in a miniature house while his mother is inside. The remote segment has a child actor pretending he lost his retainer in a garbage bin and enlisting people to help him find it. In the What Would You Do? Medley, a boy has to feed an alligator. - Ep 23E23
Ep 23Some brave audience members take the challenge of participating in a trapeze performance, assisted by professional acrobats. Some audience members participate in a pie-based silent comedy skit. A remote segment has Marc asking various tourists to help him cure his headache. The What Would You Do? Medley features Robin participating in a challenge for the first time, doing a Cow Lick: Putting molasses on her face and letting a cow lick her. - Ep 24E24
Ep 24A recurring segment has parents in a dunk booth answering questions about their kids. A remote segment features kids watching an actor in a gorilla costume, and their reactions when the gorilla cage opens. Another remote has celebrity lookalikes; this is continued in the studio when the audience votes on three volunteers who think they look like celebrities. Finally, a group of four imitates a pie dance they watched earlier. - Ep 25E25
Ep 25A girl and her dad have to wear targets on their back the whole show, with spectators throwing pies at them. Three boys show off their odd earrings to their dads; the dads themselves get earrings later. The main game is Musical Pies, a variant of Musical Chairs, where whoever is holding the pie when the music stops has to pie themselves. - Ep 26E26
Ep 26The first game requires a family to pass a piece of paper down the line using only their mouths. Hokum W. Jeebs enlists audience members to help him play "You Are My Sunshine". A man must milk a cow and then drink the milk. A remote segment has Marc ask strangers to help cure his hiccups. The medley asks contestants to eat peanut butter and anchovy sandwiches and imitate a lighthouse. - Ep 85E85
Ep 85The first game has two teams (men vs. women) competing on who can pack suitcases the quickest. The remote segment visits the Ripley's Believe it Or Not museum where one of the "exhibits" is a real person who keeps changing positions. Outside the studio, two teams compete in a capture the flag bike race. Back in the studio, Marc tries out a rolling cage to do "human bowling". In the Anything You Can Do segment, two contestants compete on paddle ball. - Ep 86E86
Ep 86A brief remote segment has an actor letting people in front of others in a line for the Back to the Future ride. The first game involves two contestants rolling eggs at two other contestants dressed as penguins and trying to fill baskets with their flippers. Another game has a father trying to find remotes in a replica of a living room. Yet another game has a group trying to fill a giant pie with filling. An actor dressed as Dudley Do Right participates with some audience members in a Dudley Do Right skit. - Ep 87E87
Ep 87Marc asks an audience member to fold a map. Phil Moore from Nick Arcade gives two contestants a crash course in stand-up comedy; they perform later. The first game has two families guessing locations on the Universal lot. The next game, Trivial Pie-Suit, where the questions are all about Nick at Nite programs. - Ep 88E88
Ep 88The first game is guessing the animal word from watermelon rinds. A remote segment involves random people reviewing What Would You Do? fragrances. Then Marc quizzes two audience members on two actors that interrupted the show. The final game is "Anything You Can Do", where a father and son compete in throwing a Frisbee through a hoop. - Ep 89E89
Ep 89The first game has sets of parents and children guessing what various phrases on a blackboard actually mean. In the remote segment, Grandma Ida reads a group of kids a story but repeatedly falls asleep. Back in the studio, a family has to guess what the father is singing while he gargles water. Sounds of Steel, a steel drum band from Busch Gardens, performs with two audience members. In the Anything You Can Do game, a father and daughter compete for best cartwheel.
