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lumberjack_jeff

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8. Without having watched this show...
Mon Sep 24, 2012, 11:58 PM
Sep 2012

... but having watched many bastardizations of "candid camera" before it, they usually have a formulaic construct:
complicit actor A) does something questionable
complicit actor B) is in a position in which it would reasonably be expected that he/she would stop it or is otherwise in a position of authority
Subject C) is the only one who doesn't know the scam.

A does something outrageous. C would reasonably expect that B would intervene. C watches incredulously while B allows A to do whatever ridicuous thing the script says.

C is then ridiculed for not usurping B's moral or legal authority to stop A's actions.

My bandwidth (personal and technical) doesn't allow a half hour to dedicate to your request. Can you summarize?

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