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{{trope}}
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A fictional drama that poses as a documentary. When not an outright comedy (such as ''[[This Is Spinal Tap]]''), the [[Mockumentary]] almost always involves some kind of disaster (even the BBC's recent one about a space voyage involved a crew member dying). Fake news reports done by real life newsreaders are common, along with interviews with 'experts', real or fictional. A Mockumentary will often provoke controversy.
The BBC did a lot of Mockumentaries in the late 2000s (to the point of two or three a month). One BBC newsreader commented he did news reports for these programmes about twice a month.
Due to the miracle of computer-generated animation, the [[Discovery Channel]] has also taken to making mockumentaries about wildlife that no longer exists, such as dinosaurs, or has never existed, such as dragons, in the "filmed in their natural habitat" format.
See also: the [[Documentary Episode]], a [[Framing Device]] or [[Plots|plot]] used for certain episodes on a drama or comedy series. Meanwhile, the [[Faux Documentary]] is what a Mockumentary becomes when it often discards the constraints of a supposed documentary crew. Also see [[Left It In]], when people in the documentary directly request (to the camera) that something be cut or edited out, a request that is denied, since you, the viewer, still get to see it. [[Fictional Document]] is a more generic case that isn't used to tell the whole story.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - The first episode.
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* [[Big Bang Comics]] published a two issue ''History of Big Bang Comics'', which detailed the fictional history of the comic book publisher whose [[Golden Age]] and [[Silver Age]] stories they were supposedly reprinting.
== [[Fan
* Played with in ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'', where Misato watches a [[Show Within a Show]] ''Instructional Lessons For the Youth of Today and Stuff'', which hilariously depicts the Hedgehog's Dilemma.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9do_Hr3NaWY This Campus Movie Fest best comedy winner] uses the Mockumentary approach, detailing the careers of a fictional comedy duo from the early twentieth century—the ''first'' comedic film duo, as it happens. The doc is presented without irony, but the content of it is [[Rule of Funny|so absurd]] and it turns [[Inherently Funny Words]] [[Up to Eleven|up so high]] that you can't help but laugh.
* The "Trope Of The Week" series ''[[Echo Chamber]]'' is a [[Show Within a Show]] - the characters are creating a vlog for [[TV Tropes]], and ''[[Echo Chamber]]'' details the process the characters go through in order to make that vlog happen. {{spoiler|It doesn't.}}
* The amazing ''[[Harry Potter]]''
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj8UOdFs5Go&context=C3de6871ADOEgsToPDskKNlqODDsL4mW0GosRCicuu Hearts of Dorkness]'', which has a [[Web Original]] page in progress, is a mockumentary akin to ''[[Tropic Thunder]]''{{'}}s ''Rain of Madness'', a satire of ''Hearts of Darkness'', in this case being a teenager-produced shoestring-budget short that chronicles four geeks and their catastrophic efforts to create a 200 million dollar Skyrim film. .on a budget of their pocket change.
== Western Animation ==
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