Results: Mockumentaries-- Turning The Fun Up To An Eleven
Published on 07/23/2017
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Mockumentaries (Mock Documentaries) have been around for years, but a few years ago, Saturday Night Live alumni Fred Armisen, Bill Hader, Seth Meyers, and director Rhys Thomas developed and starred in a mockmentary series called Documentary Now! on the IFC network. Seasons 1 and 2 were critically acclaimed, and season 3 is pending right now. Have you ever seen any of these episodes?
Yes
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156 votes
No
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The individual mockumentaries are all parodies of well-known documentaries, and each one features end credits made to appear as though they are the credits for the documentary, and not for the show itself.The attention to details when filming these episodes is outstanding, even tracking down the original 1920s-era camera lenses used to film Nanook of the North (1922), one of the parody subjects. Here's a few of the episodes they undertook, and the original documentaries they parodied. Do you remember seeing any of the original documentaries?
"Sandy Passage" -- parodies Grey Gardens
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65 votes
"The Eye Doesn't Lie" -- parodies The Thin Blue Line
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84 votes
"The Bunker" -- parodies The War Room
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70 votes
"Mr. Runner Up: My Life as an Oscar Bridesmaid, Part 1 and 2" -- parodies The Kid Stays In The Piucture
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69 votes
"Globesman" -- parodies Salesman
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45 votes
"Parker Gail's Location Is Everything" -- parodies Swimming To Cambodia
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36 votes
"Kunuk Uncovered" -- parodies Nanook Revisited
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29 votes
Have not seen any of these originals
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1572 votes
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Now, no survey talking about mockumentaries could miss talking about some of the best ones ever done. And top of almost everyone's list is the brilliant This Is Spinal Tap, a mockumentary so beautifully crafted, it has been called the "master class on how to do a mockumentary" and "single handedly showed a generation of movie and music fans how it was done". Rob Reiner's film follows the out-of-touch, raucous, and fading heavy metal band Spinal Tap on what would prove to be a fateful tour, sending up both rock-and-roll and the documentaries about the scene. The movie was both over-the-top and spot-on, and more than one fan walked out of the theater believing that Spinal Tap was a real band. Have you ever seen this film?
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How many of these classic lines from the film do you remember (and may have even quoted at one time or another)?
Nigel Tufnel: (referencing the amp) What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do? Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder? Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
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We're very lucky in the band in that we have two visionaries, David and Nigel, they're like poets, like Shelley and Byron. They're two distinct types of visionaries, it's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.
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This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, 'What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?'
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It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.
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It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why.
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Nigel Tufnel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of... Marty DiBergi: What do you call this? Nigel Tufnel: Well, this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump".
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You can't really dust for vomit.
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I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything.
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Well, I'm sure I'd feel much worse if I weren't under such heavy sedation.
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Well, I don't really think that the end can be assessed as of itself as being the end because what does the end feel like? It's like saying when you try to extrapolate the end of the universe, you say, if the universe is indeed infinite, then how - what does that mean? How far is all the way, and then if it stops, what's stopping it, and what's behind what's stopping it? So, what's the end, you know, is my question to you. [Asked by a reporter if this is the end of Spinal Tap]
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Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported.
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Marty DiBergi: What would you do if you couldn't play music anymore? Mick Shrimpton: Well, as long as there's, y'know, sex and drugs, I could do without the rock & roll.
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Marty DiBergi: ... there was a Saint Hubbins? Marty DiBergi: What was he the saint of? David St. Hubbins: He was the patron saint of quality footwear.
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35 votes
David St. Hubbins: He died in a bizarre gardening accident... Nigel Tufnel: Authorities said... best leave it... unsolved.
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44 votes
Certainly, in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful.
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All of them -- can't chose
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71 votes
None of them
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1415 votes
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Here are some additional mockumentaries that prove while truth may be stranger than fiction, a mockumentary based on fiction may be funnier than truth. Have you seen any of these?
Take The Money And Run (1969)
6%
117 votes
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
10%
193 votes
Lake Mungo (2008)
2%
36 votes
Waiting for Guffman (1996)
4%
65 votes
Bob Roberts (1992)
4%
68 votes
Zelig (1983)
3%
56 votes
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978)
3%
56 votes
Death of a President (2006)
3%
60 votes
Best in Show (2000)
8%
145 votes
Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999)
6%
102 votes
A Mighty Wind (2003)
4%
81 votes
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)
1%
23 votes
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)
2%
28 votes
FUBAR (2002)
3%
49 votes
LolliLove (2004)
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9 votes
Kenny (2006)
2%
30 votes
I'm Still Here (2010)
2%
41 votes
Mascots (2016)
2%
32 votes
Fear Of A Black Hat (1993)
1%
26 votes
None of them
69%
1263 votes
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