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Outrageous Acts of Psych

Season 1
Unsuspecting people on the street, in offices, at colleges, in restaurants and at public places everywhere unwittingly take part in hidden-camera stunts that look like practical jokes, but are really social science experiments.
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Very Important Sheeple

    May 1, 2015
    22min
    13+
    The experts at Outrageous Acts of Psych take on the science of fight or flight responses, experiment with how much people will pay for VIP status and play around with the boundaries surrounding personal space.
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  2. S1 E2 - Masters of Deception

    May 1, 2015
    22min
    TV-PG
    A door to nowhere confuses park visitors, a bloody ghost apparently photobombs an innocent man and a blind barber struggles to convince clients he can cut their hair.
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  3. S1 E3 - Dirty Minds

    May 8, 2015
    22min
    TV-PG
    The experts at Outrageous Acts of Psych discuss what happens as their unwitting subjects walk on water, transport soda through thin air and are forced to hear a couple's intimate conversation about sausages.
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  4. S1 E4 - Liars and Lovers

    May 15, 2015
    22min
    TV-PG
    Ridiculousness reigns when a marriage proposal goes down the drain, strangers sit on strangers and voodoo dolls get really creepy.
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  5. S1 E5 - Naughty by Nature

    May 22, 2015
    22min
    TV-PG
    Outrageous Acts of Psych explores the hilarious psychology behind strangers lying to save a man's marriage, a taste test gone terribly wrong and an unbelievable VIP laundromat experience.
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  6. S1 E6 - Space Invaders

    June 12, 2015
    22min
    TV-PG
    A stunt driver wears a disguise to take a driver's test, a stranger gets way too close for comfort and a movie trailer voice-over guy narrates people's lives as they walk down the street.
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  7. S1 E7 - Public Displays of Rejection

    June 19, 2015
    22min
    TV-PG
    Unsuspecting mall shoppers must walk a red-carpet with a runway host to get to the food court, photo-seekers deal with an attack from a life-sized teddy bear and air travelers navigate a couple bucking social norms.
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  8. S1 E8 - When Snowmen Attack

    July 3, 2015
    22min
    TV-PG
    Strangers rush to help as a baby floats away with balloons, a car alarm gets personal and some pedestrians get a major surprise as they walk by an innocent-looking snowman.
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  9. S1 E9 - Flash Mob Freak-Out

    July 10, 2015
    22min
    TV-PG
    A frozen flash mob disrupts foot traffic at Grand Central Station, subjects react to marriage proposals from complete strangers and consider attacking a man who has been popping children's balloons.
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  10. S1 E10 - Emotional Support Goat

    July 17, 2015
    22min
    TV-PG
    A crosswalk signal gets bossy, a weatherman does this thing in an elevator and the notion of emotional support animals is pushed to its absolute limit.
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Producers

Suzanne AliKara KurczKatelyn LieberSalvador Rios Jr.Jason SklarWill VanoPhilip Day

Cast

Tim Dadabo

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Science
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