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The cheating husband.

You are the host of the TV show and you have to introduce the wife first before you talk with the husband. Ask questions to the wife why she is on the show and how bad her husband is.

You are the wife and your husband goes out every night to meet other women and when you say to him that you're unhappy, he gets angry. He treats you so badly but you don't care about what he does to you; you still love him and won't divorce him.

You are the brother/sister to the wife and you've brought her onto this TV show to convince her that she should divorce him. You hate the husband so much that you will fight with him and say to him that he is the worst husband there is and she doesn't deserve him.

You are the husband and you are arrogant and rude to people; you love yourself so much that you think you're too good for one woman so you need to date many. You believe that a man can date many women and your wife should be loyal, that you can be abusive to her to keep her quiet.

My son/daughter is a drug addict.

You are the host of the TV show and you have to introduce the parents of the son/daughter who is a drug addict. You will ask questions to the parents about how he/she became an addict and when did they first realize this.

You are the mother and like any other mother, you are heartbroken and you don't know why he/she is doing this to himself/herself. You blame yourself for not being a good mother and wish you could solve this problem.

You are the father and you are angry and disappointed with your child; she/he doesn't appreciate anything you have done as parents. You don't blame yourself as you think you and your wife are good parents. You wish you have never had any children at all.

You are the son/daughter and you love taking drugs; everybody does it and you just want to fit into the crowd as you don't think it is that bad. You have to steal things in order to buy drugs and you have been in trouble with the police quite a few times.

I am in love with my boss.

You are the host of the TV show and you have to introduce the employees of a company as one is in love with the boss and the other one disapproves of this. Ask her why she is in love with the boss, how long she has had feelings for him and why the friend disapproves of this.

You are the employee who is strongly in love with boss and you have brought him onto this show because you want to tell him about your feelings for him. You love him because he is rich and you want to be married to a richer man so you don't want to work anymore.

You are the workmate and you don't like the idea of her being in love with the boss; he is so much older than she is and he is not very attractive as he is very old. It is only because he has money that she wants to date him and there is no other reason for her to love him.

You are the boss, you're 90 years old and you are very rich you have to get around in a wheel chair because you're too frail to stand up. You're very happy to have such a young girl to be in love with you that you will propose to her on the show and will give her half of your fortune.

My best friend is having an affair with my wife/husband.

You are the host of the TV show and you have to introduce the teacher whose wife/husband has fallen in love with his/her best friend. Ask the other students why they have fallen in love with each other and why they don't care about the teacher's feelings.

You are the teacher's wife or husband and you have left him/her for a very close friend who you both have known all of your life. You were unsatisfied with him/her and found that you have more things in common with his/her best friend.

You are the teacher's best friend and you have for a very long time been secretly in love with his/her wife/husband. The teacher was never a good husband/wife to him/her and you've decided to tell his/her wife/husband your feelings.

This has made you very mad and upset, why have they done this to you and you will wish them to hell. Don't they care about your feelings and don't they understand how hurtful this is to you? So you will refuse any apology and hate them even more for bringing you onto this show

I used to be a man/woman but now I have changed my sex.

You are the host of the show and you have to introduce the other students who are the teacher's parents who don't know that their son/daughter have changed his/her sex. Ask the teacher why he/she has done this to him/herself and ask the parents how does this make them feel.

You are the mother and you are shocked to see your daughter/son now as a different sex but this is your child and you will still love him/her. It is sad for you to see this but you will do your best to try to understand his/her reason for changing sex.

You are the father and this is in your eyes a shameful thing and you refuse to look at your child anymore. You believe this is against your traditions and you are afraid of what other people will think.

You are the son/daughter who has changed sex because you never liked being what you used to be. You want your parents to understand and forgive you as you try to get their acceptance by telling them on this show. If you are female then act as a man and vice versa or if you are female act as if you use to be a man but now are a female.

I want to divorce my parents.

You are the host of the show and you have to introduce the teacher why he/she wants to divorce his/her parents. Ask questions to the parents and how does this make feel.

You are the father and you're very rich; you actually hate these type of TV shows and you're embarrassed to be a guest. You don't want to buy any more things for your son/daughter because it is time he/she started to learn to earn her/his own money.

You are the mother and you are a very cold woman; if your child divorces you then he/she will not get any money and will never be welcomed back into the family. You will deny any knowledge ever having a child as he/she will have to learn how hard life really is.

You are the son/daughter who is so spoilt that you actually want to divorce your parents; the reason is because they won't buy you the brand new car that you want. All of your life you have been given everything that you have always wanted and now your parents are refusing so you want to divorce them and get half of their money.

I have joined a religion which worships the devil.

You are the host of the show and you have to introduce the second student to explain why he/she is concerned for the teacher. Get them to describe what happens at a church for the devil, what type of things do they do and how did they joined it in the first place.

You are an old friend of the teacher and it has sadden you to see him/her join a religion which devotes to the devil. He/she used to be a kind person but now is cruel and kills animals just for fun. You want to see the teacher come back to his/her real life and stop dating the other student who helped joined the teacher into the religion.

You are a member of the devil-worshipping religion and believe the teacher and you are happier to belong to this. You enjoy killing animals to show the devil how much you love him and want to become just like him. When you and the teacher will get married, it will be in a church of the devil with the evil priest who will marry you together.

You have decided to join a religion that worships the devil because you think God is too weak and is not powerful as the devil. Every Saturday nigh,t you and your friends get together kill a cat for a sacrifice and prey to the devil.

We're not your real parents because we came from outer space.

You are the host of the show and you have to introduce the teacher and he/she will explain why his/her parents are on this show. Ask questions to the parents such as who do they think they are and where they come from.

You are the mother and you believe that you are from another planet, you came down to Earth a long time ago and killed the teacher's original parents. You are on a mission to study human beings and to try to understand them by being an ordinary family.

You are the father and you believe that you are a powerful leader back on another planet far away from Earth. You are curious about Earth and so you have been here to see what it is like here. Though, you are not happy with so many things here so when you will go back you will destroy Earth.

Your parents are actually crazy people who believe they are from outer space; for all of your life you have to put up with you parents being crazy and you want them to get help.

Siamese twins (twins whose bodies are joined together) who hate each other.

You are the host of the show and you have to introduce

You are the girl/boyfriend of the first twin and you, too, hate the teacher and you want them to be separated because the teacher has so many bad habits. You are in love with the first twin and you want to find a doctor to do the operation and take the risk of one of them dying.

You are the twin of the teacher and you're joined together; you hate the teacher because of his/her bad habits such as they way he/she makes bad smells. You want to have the operation to separate from each other despite the fact one of you could die.

You are the other twin and you hate his/her bad habits such as his/her rudeness to other people. You want to do the operation to be separated just as long the other twin pays for all of it.

I want to be frozen so I can live in the future.

You are the host of the show and you have to introduce the teacher who wants to die, be frozen for a hundred years and then come back to life. You have to ask questions why he/she wants to do this because everybody he/she knows will be dead by then.

You are the wife/husband and you think this is so stupid; being frozen over a long period of time has not been done before as no one has ever came back to life from doing this. You don't understand why he/she wants to leave you and why they don't want to live in this time.

You are the doctor who has been paid a lot of money by so many people to be frozen and to wake up in the future. A lot of people are doing this and you say that there is nothing wrong with this and it is perfectly safe.

You want to live in the future because you believe that life will be better; no more diseases, no more crime and there will be no more suffering. Despite the fact that you have a family now and if you'll be frozen and wake up into the future they will be gone. You just hate living in this century so much because of the state the world is in and want to come back when it will get better.