History Series / WhatWouldYouDo

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlFAd4YdQks A scary straight versions happens]]. When the man is abusing the woman, people were quick to step in and stop him. When the woman abused the man, it took hours of filming and over 150 people passed by (''including a police officer'') before someone stepped in and called the cops. Several people when asked why they failed to intervene said they assumed that the man must have done something to deserve it, and freely admitted that had the positions been reversed they would have intervened. One woman was actually cheering on the abuser and saw her as a "role model."

* TheUnfairSex: This trope is made clear when WWYD {{Gender Flip}}s a scenario.
** For example, the show once staged a domestic spat in a park.
*** When the man was one the aggressing one, several people called the police. The man just had to yell at the woman to elicit response.
*** This very example is used to prop up deconstructions of DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale. The man just had to yell at the woman to elicit response. After the GenderFlip, however, most passersby chuckled and assumed he had it coming. The woman ended up ''beating the man over the head with a newspaper'', and even ''then'' the only people who did anything were a group of female joggers, who gave the woman a warning and secretly hung back to see if she followed. When she started hitting him again, they called the cops. Disturbingly, another woman called the abusive actress a [[DoubleStandard "role model" for women.]] And one of the men who ignored it was an off-duty cop.

* HasTwoMommies: One segment had a patron at a restaurant react negatively to a gay couple eating there with their children. It was later repeated on the [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas]] roadtrip episode, with the waiter throwing them out, which is legal in Texas.

* BrattyHalfPint: The focus of one scenario. The producers set up shop in a diner, gave the child actors Nerf guns (among other things), and told the kids to go nuts.

* AdultFear: Quite a few of the scenarios. For example:
** Date-rape
** Racial profiling
** Drunk drivers

* DeconstructedTrope: Sometimes WWYD will cite a popular movie or TV show's use of a certain situation, then will go on to show [[RealityEnsues how said situation would be in the real world]].

* HollywoodAtheist: One controversial scenario involved one yelling at a family for praying in a public restaurant. Most of the marks in the scenario proceeded to point out that while they were entitled to their beliefs, [[RealityEnsues so was the family in the restaurant and their attempts to berate them for disrupting their meal was far more disruptive than the family praying]].

* RealityEnsues: As noted at DeconstructedTrope, above, many scenarios are taken from popular movies or TV shows, including some common tropes to show how they would play out in real life.

* ComingOutStory: This is a scenario that WWYD explores quite often, since it's a hot-button issue in the USA, and WWYD typically uses it whenever they visit other cities. They also mix it up a bit: usually they play it with a child coming out to a parent, but they've also done it with a parent coming out to a child, a wife/fiancée/girlfriend coming out to her husband/fiancé/boyfriend, or vice versa. Usually it's played with the recepient of the WordOfGay freaking out, in order to elicit reactions from people.

** Fully averted in one scenario where someone witnessed the spiking but said nothing. When the actress started to feign feeling ill, and the actor playing the guy wanted to take her to his home, TheMark got up and left (only telling another patron the guy was "cheating" before leaving). When the camera crew caught up to the mark, he refused to speak to them.

** The show had one episode in which they took a bunch of previous scenarios and watched how they played out in the [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas area]] to see if they would turn out differently from in the North. Yes, a few [[TheMark mark]] reactions had conservative and faith-based bents, and nearly all reactions followed the "be good to others" {{Aesop}} that WWYD enjoys showcasing. The show noted that more Texans spoke out against the waitress berating gay parents than people did in the North. One guy even invoked and paraphrased Jesus to the waitress, telling her, "Don't judge."

* TheMark: Most often, it's just some random passersby rather than anyone specific. Although on some occasions they center a scenario on one specific person or group.

-->'''TheMark:''' I can't tell you what to do, but I wouldn't do it...

* ArmouredClosetGay: A variation was done combined with YourCheatingHeart. The segment in question had an actor and actress, portraying a husband and his pregnant wife, going into a crowded restaurant when the wife excuses herself to go to the restroom. Soon, a third actor, portraying the husband's lover comes in and convinces him to tell his wife that he's "going back to the office," when she comes out of the bathroom.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: The marks who ''do'' get involved often deliver scorching verbal beatdowns.

* EvilAlbino: Mentioned by Quiñones in the introduction to a segment dealing with two guys bullying an albino man. Albinos in ''Film/TheDaVinciCode'' and ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' were cited as examples.

* RacistGrandma: In one scenario, a white man rejects his daughter's black boyfriend. An elderly woman speaks out in his favor. She even uses the term "colored."