History Series / WhatWouldYouDoNickelodeon

* IncestSubtext: In a season 2 episode themed around country music, Marc picked a mother and son from the audience to sing a song about the mother needing her pie, with lyrics such as: "I'll supply the crust and you supply the filling." Some of the audience members did in fact appear shocked, although it likely went over many other viewers' heads. The song ended with the son pieing his mother, followed by the mother reprising the last line of the song as a duet with Marc.

* OnceAnEpisode: Someone goes to the Pie Pod.

** Whenever Marc asks the audience how many pies they want the contestant to get hit with in the Pie Pod, the answer is ''always'' four.

* BeforeAndAfterPictures: Marc shows a before and after picture of make-up artist Lee Grimes making an older person look younger; [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments the younger photo is Marc himself.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** A regular occurrence, most notably on the country western episode when they had a mother and son sing a DoubleEntendre filled song about wanting her pie. Even ignoring the fact that pie is a common slang term for female genitalia, several of the lines scream DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything, like when she asked him to provide filling for her crust, or when the song ended with the son giving his mom a face full of white cream. The producers were clearly aware of the IncestSubtext involved, as demonstrated by an [[LampshadeHanging audience reaction shot]]. Nevertheless, the double entendre seemed to go right over the head of the mother and especially her young son, who sang the tune without any visible sign of discomfort; the mother had a surprisingly good voice, and even after she'd been pied by her son, she reprised the last line of the song as a duet with Marc,
** Other examples are the result of the same FromTheMouthsOfBabes formula used by ''Series/KidsSayTheDarndestThings''. For example, when a little boy was asked what his mother said that he does not like, he responded that she says his dad is a real sex machine.
** Marc himself would occasionally sneak a few in since it was an unscripted show, such as asking a man if he had ever been this turned on in his life during an electrical demonstration, or saying that he had a joke that he wanted to say but it would take them off the air after he discovered that two teenagers he had randomly selected from the audience to [[KissingCousins kiss were cousins]], and the boy said [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale the girl would sock him]] (which Marc misheard).

** In another "memory game" episode, one boy was stumped with an answer so his father whispered it to him. Marc made the boy pie his father as punishment.

* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: Used almost verbatim as the title of a Season Two feature. It usually involved a kid attempting to perform a stunt such as playing harmonica with their nose and challenging their parent to do the same. If the parent failed, the kid got to pie the parent; if the kid failed and/or the parent succeeded, the parent got to pie the kid.

* EatThat: Some of the dares during the ''What Would You Do?'' Medley including eating bizarre food combinations such as a Twinkie with gravy, a hamburger with honey, ice cream with ketchup, "Stan's Cola", etc. Most of these are like Fear Factor later on.

''What Would You Do?'' was a children's game show hosted by Marc Summers that aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}. The premise was similar to ''Series/CandidCamera'', as Marc would tape people in unusual situations and ask the audience (set around Universal Studios Florida, the network's original home in the 90s), "[[TitleDrop What would you do?]]" before the outcome was shown. Other aspects of the show involved members of the StudioAudience and Marc getting messy from some sort of contraptions, most of which involved [[PieInTheFace pies]].

%% * CarriedByTheHost: Do you think of this show and not think Marc Summers?
%% * CoveredInGunge: Self-explanatory.
%% * LosingHorns: Type B, heard on a couple of occasions when someone failed to complete a challenge of some sort.
%% * LovelyAssistant: Robin in the first season, children and later a monkey in the second.

%% * AudienceParticipation
%% * ButtMonkey: Marc.
%% * CandidCameraPrank: Some of the things they did out of the studio with people would loosely fall under this category.

** In yet another season 2 memory game, a man had to memorize the contents of a grocery shopping list, then grab all of the items on the list and put them into his prop shopping cart within the time limit. Success would send his daughter to the Pie Wash, failure would send him to the Pie Wash. Among the items on the list was a broom. At the end, he had gotten everything on the list BUT the broom, then proceeded to lie that he did have the broom. And he actually got away with it at first, as his daughter did get sent to the Pie Wash. It wasn't until after the next commercial break that the producers realized he cheated, at which point his daughter got the option of taking a token for the Wall of Stuff or pieng him in retaliation. Not surprisingly, she chose the pie.

%% * PointAndLaughShow

%% * SpecialGuest: David Cassidy, The Amazing Kreskin.

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* CarriedByTheHost: Do you think of this show and not think Marc Summers?
* CoveredInGunge: Self-explanatory.
* LosingHorns: Type B, heard on a couple of occasions when someone failed to complete a challenge of some sort.
* LovelyAssistant: Robin in the first season, children and later a monkey in the second.

* AudienceParticipation
* ButtMonkey: Marc.
* CandidCameraPrank: Some of the things they did out of the studio with people would loosely fall under this category.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A regular occurrence, most notably on the country western episode when they had a mother and son sing a DoubleEntendre filled song about wanting her pie. Even ignoring the fact that pie is a common slang term for female genitalia, several of the lines scream DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything, like when she asked him to provide filling for her crust, or when the song ended with the son giving his mom a face full of white cream. The producers were clearly aware of the IncestSubtext involved, as demonstrated by an [[LampshadeHanging audience reaction shot]]. Nevertheless, the double entendre seemed to go right over the head of the mother and especially her young son, who sang the tune without any visible sign of discomfort; the mother had a surprisingly good voice, and even after she'd been pied by her son, she reprised the last line of the song as a duet with Marc,

* PointAndLaughShow
* PrecisionFStrike: According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, Marc actually swore on the show once (it was bleeped). As a result, he was sent to the Pie Pod.

* SpecialGuest: David Cassidy, The Amazing Kreskin.

** In one of the "memory game" contests in the second season, one girl's father ducked not once, but ''twice'', when his daughter tried to pie him. Eventually not only was his daughter finally able to land a direct hit, but the father was also sent to the Pie Pod ''in addition'' as punishment for cheating.

* OhCrap: The look on some people's face when they get chosen out of the audience.

* CheatersNeverProsper: In one of the "memory game" contests in the second season, one girl's father ducked not once, but ''twice'', when his daughter tried to pie him. Eventually not only was his daughter finally able to land a direct hit, but the father was also sent to the Pie Pod ''in addition'' as punishment for cheating.