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In some TV shows they'll take an episode and have a journalist or documentary maker make a show about, well, the show. Someone will go around interviewing all the main, and a few minor, characters, and presenting them from a view likely different than our own; presenting the demure housewife as an ice queen, the brainy kid as a Troubled Child, or the military commander as an Obstructive Bureaucrat instead of the action hero. They will likely get some things wrong, or interpret them oddly. At the very least some in universe media is looking at the setting or characters of the show, and we watch their finished in universe show. The episode is structured around the idea that a fly-on-the-wall documentary crew or news crew is following the characters for a period of time. The footage is often shot with a handheld camera and is offset from the objective camera by other characteristics. Related to Day in the Life and/or Clip Show. A type of Show Within a Show. The documentary crew will usually get in the way of the action somehow, often getting into a fight with the main characters. There may be "honest interviews" with characters about an incident, with two characters giving wildly different accounts of an event or circumstance. Characters may also pretend to be nobler, better people when the camera points their way; the ones around them who know better may or may not cooperate in the illusion. Or the camera may just prove them to be a Large Ham. Alternatively, the Documentary Episode can be the format for the entire thing, as seen in The Office (both UK and US versions) and People Like Us. Compare Faux Documentary, Mockumentary, Who Would Want to Watch Us?, and Perspective Flip. Contrast: Documentary. Note that movies following the Mockumentary format don't belong here. See also Literary Agent Hypothesis. |
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The second, Season 7's "Our Finest Hour", tried to combine this with a Clip Show in an awkward way, with the sober black-and-white "interview" footage sitting cheek-by-jowl with more comedic clips from old episodes (which were in color and featured the dreaded Laugh Track). They even incorporated clips from "The Interview" itself! Really, watching the two episodes in-sequence is a phenomenal way to witness M*A*S*H's ongoing Seasonal Rot. | |
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Buffy's "Storyteller" managed to make Andrew's pre-existing inclination to fantasizing plot-relevant and use it for hilarious deconstruction of the other regulars at the same time. | |
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The From the Earth to the Moon episode dealing with the Apollo 7 flight, "We Have Cleared the Tower", follows a film crew making a documentary about the mission. Another goes between Apollo 17 and a documentary style narrative of the making of the silent film the miniseries took its name from, which in turn was based on the Jules Verne book | |
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Arrow did one of these for its 150th episode, narrated by none other than Kelsey Grammer. | |
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Bones had one with “The Movie in the Making”. The lab, its work and the characters’ home lives are touched on. Cam spends the episode annoyed by personal questions about her and Arastoo and eventually proposes to him in the end. | |
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"Ugly", from the fourth season of House, features a teenager with a major facial deformity. The film crew had been chronicling the teen's life for a while, and when he suffered a heart attack shortly before undergoing reconstructive surgery, they ended up recording the diagnostic process to add to the documentary. This impeded the process, since House's subordinates acted self-consciously, holding back educated guesses for fear of being wrong on camera. At the end, we see a glimpse of an early cut of the documentary, where all House's scenes have been creatively edited to create the illusion that he's a caring, sympathetic man. He's furious. | |
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In the Castle episode "Swan Song", a documentary-maker was filming a documentary about a band, when that band's lead singer is found dead in his trailer. The documentary shifts to being about solving the case - and the episode is that documentary. | |
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The Simpsons "Behind the Laughter", a parody of VH1's Behind the Music. Though unlike most on this page, this episode was a (fictional) behind-the-scenes documentary of the show itself rather than being about the characters. "Springfield Up", spoofs the Up documentaries. |
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The Godzilla: The Series episode "S.C.A.L.E." takes advantage of the Intrepid Reporter Audrey Timmons and her cameraman that show up every so often. Most of the action is seen through Animal's camera and the security cams around Monster Island with one shot coming from the team's robot N.I.G.E.L.- before he's shot. Ironically, Audrey decides to burn the tape of the documentary after the Animal Wrongs Group leader tells them the two aren't so different, meaning she, Nick and the audience are the only ones that see it. | |
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The Adventures in Odyssey episode "It's a Wrap!", in which the KYDS Radio team follows Whit around on a fairly normal day in Odyssey. | |
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One episode of Beavis and Butt-Head is a documentary about them and showing their anti-social behavior. | |
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The Grey's Anatomy episode "These Arms of Mine" is presented as the finished product of a film crew documenting the doctors' recovery several weeks after the season six finale's hospital shooting. | |
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The Duck Dodgers series finale: "Bonafide Hero: Captain Duck Dodgers". | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): The majority of "A Special Edition" is presented as an episode of the Show Within a Show The Whole Truth which features an exposé of the secret experiments being conducted into genetic engineering, cloning, extending longevity and reviving the dead by the US government and companies working on its behalf. About one-third of "Judgment Day" is presented as an episode of the titular Immoral Reality Show. |
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The Weekenders were asked to be filmed by a student for her documentary. They try to act like their favourite characters from a TV show thinking it'll make them appear more interesting. Naturally it doesn't work. | |
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The Community episode "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking" has Abed making one of these. So did "Documentary Filmmaking: Redux", "Advanced Documentary Filmmaking", and "Wedding Videography". |
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Taz-Mania has at least one episode where a nature documentarian films the Tasmanian Devil family, treating them like they're normal animals. | |
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Hawaii Five-0 has an episode where an Oprah Expy, who's been doing a week of episodes set in Hawaii, gets dispensation to follow Five-0 around for a while. She unintentionally catches the Big Bad sneaking away from a crime scene because said Big Bad was disguised as a police officer and the host wanted to interview him. | |
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The Animaniacs episode "Ten Short Films about Wakko Warner". It's exactly what it says. | |
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Supernatural had "Ghostfacers," which was also an Affectionate Parody of Ghost Hunters. | |
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This plot was also used in a fifth season episode of Homicide: Life on the Street, appropriately titled "The Documentary." It had a cameo by the actual Homicide: LoTS camera crew, appearing as a production crew filming a cop show in Baltimore that the detectives run into while chasing a suspect. Brodie (a Homicide videographer) gives the cameraman verite pointers, and (mimicking real life) a petty crook surrenders to the tv cops. | |
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Starship Troopers opens with a live broadcast from the home planet of the arachnids, which culminates in the death of the entire news crew. The rest of the film is punctuated by brief, propaganda-ridden news clips that bear a suspicious resemblance to commercial breaks, and ends with what appears to be an armed forces recruitment ad. The entire movie has been interpreted as a futuristic parody of Cold War-era propaganda films, which would fit nicely in with the original novel's use of the Bugs as a metaphor for Communism. | |
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The Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? episode "The Last Inmate" has a regular Scooby-Doo case filmed into a documentary. With Morgan Freeman himself as the narrator/interviewer, no less. Justified, since he was initially trying to make a documentary on an old prison until the Monster of the Week interrupted it. | |
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Forever Knight did one with a vampire problem. One of Nick's vampire-power uses was caught on tape, and he had to get the tape before it was revealed. And the Enforcers were also out for the tape and Nick had to prevent a case of Killed to Uphold the Masquerade. | |
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Just Shoot Me!: One episode had the crew from A&E's Biography make a fake biography of Nina for the show. Another episode was a behind-the-scenes documentary on Dennis' film school project The Burning House. |
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Xena: Warrior Princess had that one where the cast were being followed around by a journalist from the 20th century and no one seems to mind. | |
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3rd Rock from the Sun had an episode in which Mary made a documentary about the Solomons, describing them as the "typical American family". When Dick covered up a slip-up by explaining that Sally was a lesbian, it soon led to the others wildly inventing embarrassing secrets about each other. Through it all, Dick vainly struggled to make them come off as "an ideal family". The episode was certainly the highlight of the otherwise lame fifth season. | |
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The My Name Is Earl episodes "Our Cops Is On!" and "Our Other Cops Is On!" As well as "Inside Probe" Part 1 and 2. |
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Home Movies: On hiatus from making movies with his friends, Brendon makes a Behind the Music-style documentary of Duane's garage band SCÄB. | |
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The Practice has an episode where a documentary crew follows the firm as they try to commute the death sentence of a client. They fail. | |
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Episode 25 of Tōka Gettan, which has Haruhiko and Shoko hosting a talk show and interviewing characters who knew Touka or Momoka. | |
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One episode of The Powerpuff Girls (1998) revolved around an young independent-film maker trying to catch the girls on film. | |
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The X-Files episode "X-Cops" used the real-life production crew of the long-running show COPS to follow Mulder and Scully around for a night. | |
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The fourth season premiere of Entourage, "Welcome to the Jungle," is shown entirely from the point of view of a documentary camera recording the making of "Medellin: The Pablo Escobar Story." | |
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Farscape: The episode "A Constellation of Doubt". Moya picks up a transmission from Earth containing a documentary about their visit to Earth earlier in the season. In it a series of talking heads provide their opinions, both positive and negative, on the various alien characters and what extraterrestrial contact means for humanity. | |
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2point4 Children has "Fame", where the Porters try to get picked for a documentary about the average family. | |
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Stargate SG-1 actually won a Hugo award for one half of the Two-Parter episode they did with this premise, where a journalist is hired to film a documentary of the Stargate program for future generations. The concept is played for both laughs (various characters don't exactly like talking about their jobs to the obnoxious reporter, while some of the Bridge Bunnies are revealed to yes, have mostly pointless jobs) and drama/suspense (someone is fatally injured, and the journalist spends much of the plot trying to figure out who it was). | |
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Man Bites Dog - a classic film about a serial killer being followed round by a camera crew, who start to get involved in the killer's activities. | |
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The Steven Universe episode "Rising Tides/Crashing Skies" is an in-universe documentary by Ronaldo Fryman, depicting the Crystal Gems' links to the weirdness in town. | |
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An episode in Gintama follows the Shinsengumi. | |
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While the Crow Cillers episode "Fanfic of Horror II" is mainly A Day in the Limelight for recurring TV personality and Final Bloodmaster Alpha in the show's usual style, it frequently cuts to the main cast being interviewed about "Goblin's Crusade: Yellow Rose," an adventure cartoon on which she voiced the villain. | |
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Shades of this were there in the previous game, Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, since the Narrator of the game was a Tagalong Reporter recounting the battles of the Wardog Squadron. | |
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The 30 Rock episode "Queen of Jordan" is this, combined with Reality TV spoof (mainly of The Real Housewives) and Big Ego, Hidden Depths. It's supposedly an episode of the reality TV show which Angie Jordan (Tracy's wife) was given in a previous episode. Jack gets portrayed as an accident-prone man after tripping once and his attempt to fix this results in him being portrayed as an accident-prone gay man. Jenna starts fights with everyone to try to get on camera, but Pete finds a way to turn this on her. And Liz is apparently so unimportant in Angie's world that her byline reads "Liz, Another Person". It was followed be a sequel episode, "Queen of Jordan 2: Mystery of the Phantom Pooper". |
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Saved by the Bell episode "Rockumentary," chronicling the band Zack Attack. | |
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M*A*S*H did this a couple of times, and tried to make the episodes seem like they were archival footage, including black and white film and people sending heartfelt messages home to their loved ones via the camera. The first of these, the Season 4 finale "The Interview," was largely improvised by the actors in-character, and is widely regarded as one of the finest episodes of the series (despite the rather inexplicable nonappearance of the Margaret Houlihan character). The second, Season 7's "Our Finest Hour", tried to combine this with a Clip Show in an awkward way, with the sober black-and-white "interview" footage sitting cheek-by-jowl with more comedic clips from old episodes (which were in color and featured the dreaded Laugh Track). They even incorporated clips from "The Interview" itself! Really, watching the two episodes in-sequence is a phenomenal way to witness M*A*S*H's ongoing Seasonal Rot. |
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The Monk episode "Mr. Monk's 100th Case" was done in the style of a newsmagazine TV show reporting about Adrian Monk's life and career, focusing on his investigation of a Serial Killer, with a Framing Device of the characters watching it — but Monk begins to realize while watching the show that he might have made a mistake. Sure enough, the host of the show turns out to be the real killer of the last victim. | |
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The Brittas Empire: The episode "Exposed" has someone come to the leisure centre to do an investigative documentary on the place. Hilarity ensues when a plague breaks out at the same time. | |
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An episode of Recess featured a child psychologist filming the kids, who later found out her film advised banning recess. The main characters reorganized the film to promote recess instead. | |
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Bits and pieces of the Dollhouse episode "Man on the Street". | |
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The Boondocks: "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman" is presented as a documentary by Werner Herzog (guest starring as himself), who interviews various residents of Woodcrest for their opinions on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. "Freedom Ride or Die" involves a documentary as a framing device, where Robert Freeman and other individuals who were involved in the Freedom Rides of 1961 are interviewed about their experiences, which leads to black-and-white flashbacks. |
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The first episode of the The Idolmaster is set up as if a camera was following the idols. | |
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Futurama: The Nature Documentary spoof "Naturama", featuring animal versions of all the characters. | |
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The West Wing episode "Access" went so far as to add a fake PBS-style dedication sequence, thanking fictional trusts "And viewers like you", for their sponsorship. | |
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The Good Eats episode "Behind The Bird" used this: the concept is that a documentary crew was filming behind-the-scenes of the first Thanksgiving episode, only to be snowed in post-episode and the documentary host having to help Alton keep the surly teamsters from revolting. | |
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In the Leverage episode "The Office Job", the Leverage team's attempts to find out what sort of shady business a small greeting card company is really up to, is complicated by a crazy filmmaker (who appears to be an Expy of Werner Herzog) shooting a documentary about the office at the same time. The episode is, of course, filmed as a documentary in the style of The Office. (Possibly the same documentary that was being filmed in the episode itself.) | |
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The episode "Krusty Krab Training Video" of SpongeBob SquarePants was presented as an informational video for a new employee at the Krusty Krab restaurant. | |
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The Wicked + The Divine #23 is an in-universe magazine with interview features on some of the major characters. The features were actually written by real-life cultural and political columnists who were fans of the comic, with Kieron Gillen providing them with the answers to the interview questions in-character. | |
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The CSI episode, "I Like to Watch." It even engaged in a little self-mockery: In the same episode, Hodges lampshaded a common criticism of the series by mentioning the film crew could record a six-hour procedure and then edit it down to thirty seconds. (Cue thirty second procedural montage.) |
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An episode of Yes, Dear was filmed as if the cast were on the TLC reality show. | |
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Several horror films follow this format, such as The Blair Witch Project, or Paranormal Activity. The most notable may be Cannibal Holocaust. | |
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The Battlestar Galactica episode "Final Cut" told a story from the perspective of the regular camera as well as a documentary camera from a reporter on board the ship. | |
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ER took this approach for their Live Episode with the effect of having a built-in Lampshade Hanging should anything go wrong. | |
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Power Rangers RPM has a really bizarre example of this with the episode "And... Action!", which is ostensibly an out-of-universe behind-the-scenes feature on how the show is made, the filming of stunts, and some amusing bloopers... except everyone remains in-character (even the bad guys in full costume), casually addressing the audience despite never acknowledging the fourth wall whatsoever anywhere else. Don't try to think too hard about the process explaining how they do their special effects when Ziggy Grover (not his actor, Milo Cawthorne) can still teleport. | |
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R-Type Final 2's plot is framed as an in-universe attempt by the Space Corps to chronicle the long-standing war and document newly recovered data, ostensibly for further research on anti-Bydo weapon systems. It's also revealed through said datafiles, however, how the Bydo are finally defeated, once and for all. | |
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The series finale of Silicon Valley uses a framing device of a documentary set ten years in the future explaining what happened to the characters. | |
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South Park episodes "Crippled Summer" and "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining", which are respectively parodies of Intervention and I Shouldn't Be Alive. The latter episode even had a dramatic reenactment (filmed in live action) for the third act of the episode. | |
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The Mike, Lu & Og episode "Alfred, Lord of the Jungle" is about a nature filmmaker shooting a documentary on the island. | |
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Even Stevens did a Behind the Music-style documentary, and a faux DVD "Making of" featurette for a film the characters were making. | |
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Drop the Dead Donkey: In "George's Daughter", a documentary crew visits Globelink. However, things are complicated by the arrival of George's daughter Deborah, who is perfectly willing to say in front of the film crew that Gus had a mental breakdown. By the end, none is pleased with the final result, with the only good thing that they can agree it does is making Sally look like a prat. However, whilst viewing the footage, they find that Damien gave Deborah £50 to set fire to George's desk, at which point an enraged George asks Deborah to destroy Damien's car. | |
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An episode of Third Watch had a camera crew following "Doc" Parker as he won "Paramedic of the Year"; however Doc made a mistake which was caught on the tape. | |
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Episode 5 of Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is framed as a fake documentary for an in-universe film, complete with "behind-the-scenes footage" and character interviews. | |
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Saints Row IV began as a DLC pack for Saints Row: The Third, "Enter the Dominatrix". Volition eventually released a DLC pack for SRIV showing a "director's cut" of "Enter the Dominatrix", with a few story-line missions from the original version and a lot of in-character commentary from the President and their homies. | |
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The Sanctuary episode "Instinct" is filmed from the perspective of an ambitious weather girl and her cameraman, who've snuck into a warehouse to get the scoop on a mysterious animal attack which turns out to be the Monster of the Week being pursued by the Sanctuary team. | |
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The Tick episode "Heroes" features a COPS- style Day in the Life documentary where the interviewer gets kidnapped, and needs to be rescued. And there's a discussion on the benefits of spandex. | |
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Babylon 5: "And Now for a Word" used this format to provide hints about the political situation back on Earth. "The Illusion of Truth" showed the filming of the "documentary" in the first half of the episode. The second half of the episode consisted mostly of the outrageously falsified edit that was broadcast. (In the period between the two episodes, the president of Earth's government had launched a coup and assumed dictatorial powers.) |
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Hill Street Blues had a local TV news crew filming at the station early in Season 1, although we only get to see a short segment from their point of view. It serves mainly to set up the story arc about Captain Furillo being considered for promotion to Divisional Commander. | |
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Saw: The two short films featured as Bonus Material in DVD releases of the first film and Saw II. It's an unique example in that the short films follow up the events of their respecive films, rather than taking place during them. The Scott Tibbs Documentary is also filmed in a Found Footage manner. | |
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The "Blackfoot and Slim" episode of Dexter's Laboratory is like a nature documentary. | |
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An episode of WKRP in Cincinnati was portrayed as an episode of the fictional show "Real Familes" featuring Herb Tarlek. The humour of the episode came from the lengths Herb went to to appear as "a hard worker, a loyal husband, and an all-around fine person". The producers caught on almost immediately. | |
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