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{{quote|''"October 30, 1938, New York City: [[Orson Welles]] broadcasts ''[[The War of the Worlds (novelradio)|The War of the Worlds]]'', sending the nation into panic over a supposed alien invasion. Amazed by its success, Welles planned an ambitious follow-up: an innovative radio adaptation of [[Walt Whitman]]'s ''Leaves of Grass'', in which the famed poem is expressed in a series of fake news bulletins and incredible sound effects (the majestic "yawp" is accomplished using a glass bottle and a balloon). Listeners fall for it again: Across America, hysterical citizens run through the streets singing the body electric, and falling in love with teenage boys."''
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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]]'' fanfilm[[Fan Film]] ''[http://rhettswanson.com/Battle_of_Hogwarts__Harry_Potter_Documentary.html The Battle of Hogwarts]''{{Dead link}}, a fictional documentary, set in the present, that chronicles "the lives and stories of those who survived the fateful battle [[Harry Potter and Thethe Deathly Hallows (novel)|20 years ago]]".
* ''[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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