Line #2 Main/DocumentaryEpisode


1	->''"Hey, will you guys let me know if this ever airs?"''
2	-->-- '''Michael Scott''', ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', after a camera crew follows him around for [[LongRunners 148 episodes]]
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4	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 TroubledChild, or the military commander as an ObstructiveBureaucrat 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.
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6	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 DayInTheLife and/or ClipShow. A type of ShowWithinAShow.
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8	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 [[TheRashomon wildly different]] accounts of an event or circumstance.
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10	Characters may also [[LivingADoubleLife 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 LargeHam.
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12	Alternatively, the Documentary Episode can be the format for the entire thing, as seen in ''The Office'' (both [[Series/TheOfficeUK UK]] and [[Series/TheOfficeUS US]] versions) and ''Series/PeopleLikeUs''.
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14	Compare FauxDocumentary, {{Mockumentary}}, WhoWouldWantToWatchUs, and PerspectiveFlip. Contrast: {{Documentary}}. Note that movies following the {{Mockumentary}} format don't belong here. See also LiteraryAgentHypothesis.
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16	!!Examples:
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21	* An episode in ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'' follows the Shinsengumi.
22	* The first episode of the ''Anime/TheIdolmaster'' is set up as if a camera was following the idols.
23	* Episode 5 of ''Anime/ScottPilgrimTakesOff'' is framed as a fake documentary for an in-universe film, complete with "behind-the-scenes footage" and character interviews.
24	* Episode 25 of ''VisualNovel/ToukaGettan'', which has Haruhiko and Shoko hosting a talk show and interviewing characters who knew Touka or Momoka.
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28	* ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine'' #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 Creator/KieronGillen providing them with the answers to the interview questions in-character.
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32	* ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' opens with a live broadcast from the home planet of the [[BigCreepyCrawlies 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 UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era propaganda films, which would fit nicely in with the original novel's use of the Bugs as a metaphor for Communism.
33	* The movie ''The Darwin Awards'' is (almost) entirely filmed in this format, with a college student filming a beginning to end documentary. His absolute insistence on staying out of all proceedings to maintain objectivity is a RunningGag and, in fact, the primary source of problems in the film. Needless to say, this is taken out on his camera all too often.
34	* ''Film/ManBitesDog'' - a classic film about a serial killer being followed round by a camera crew, who start to get involved in the killer's activities.
35	* Several horror films follow this format, such as ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'', or ''Film/ParanormalActivity''. The most notable may be ''Film/CannibalHolocaust''.
36	* The early Creator/BrianDePalma film ''Hi, Mom!'' has a RunningGag about a piece of experimental theater that some of the characters are involved with. When it comes time to show it, it's presented via a fictional, DeliberatelyMonochrome [[Creator/{{PBS}} public television]] cinéma vérité documentary about the piece, an immersive play called ''Be Black, Baby''. The "cast" is a group of African American actors, and the audience is all white. The audience members are painted in {{Blackface}}, then the actors paint their own faces white and subject the audience to extreme racial discrimination and abuse. A white cop, played by ''Hi, Mom!'''s protagonist Jon (Creator/RobertDeNiro), harasses the audience members even more. At the end, the audience members are interviewed, but instead of expressing any new understanding of racism or empathy for its victims, they gush about [[ComicallyMissingThePoint how amazing the play was as a theatrical experience]].
37	* ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'': The two short films featured as BonusMaterial in DVD releases of the [[Film/SawI first film]] and ''Film/SawII''. 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 FoundFootage manner.
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41	* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' did one of these for its [[MilestoneCelebration 150th episode]], narrated by none other than Creator/KelseyGrammer.
42	* ''Series/{{MASH}}'' 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.
43	** 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).
44	** The second, Season 7's "Our Finest Hour", tried to combine this with a ClipShow 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 LaughTrack). They even incorporated clips from "The Interview" itself! Really, watching the two episodes in-sequence is a phenomenal way to witness ''MAS*H'''s ongoing SeasonalRot.
45	* An episode of ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'' 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.
46	* ''Series/{{ER}}'' took this approach for their LiveEpisode with the effect of having a built-in LampshadeHanging should anything go wrong.
47	* This plot was also used in a fifth season episode of ''Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet'', 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.
48	* ''Series/SavedByTheBell'' episode "{{Rockumentary}}," chronicling the band Zack Attack.
49	* ''Series/EvenStevens'' did a ''Behind the Music''-style documentary, and a faux DVD "Making of" featurette for a film the characters were making.
50	* ''Series/BabylonFive'':
51	** "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS02E15AndNowForAWord And Now for a Word]]" used this format to provide hints about the political situation back on Earth.
52	** "[[Recap/BabylonFiveS04E08TheIllusionOfTruth 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 [[TwistingTheWords 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.)
53	* ''Series/TheWestWing'' episode "Access" went so far as to add a fake PBS-style dedication sequence, thanking fictional trusts "And viewers like you", for their sponsorship.
54	* The ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'' 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.
55	* ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS07E12XCops X-Cops]]" used the real-life production crew of the long-running show ''Series/{{Cops}}'' to follow Mulder and Scully around for a night.
56	* An episode of ''Series/YesDear'' was filmed as if the cast were on the TLC reality show.
57	* An episode of ''Series/ThirdWatch'' 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.
58	* ''Series/StargateSG1'' actually won a Hugo award for one half of the [[MultiPartEpisode 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 BridgeBunnies 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).
59	* The ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode, "I Like to Watch." It even engaged in a little self-mockery:
60	-->'''Documentary cameraman''': Do you watch our show? It's got lots of forensics."\
61	'''Grissom''': There are too many shows about forensics.
62	** In the same episode, Hodges {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d 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.)
63	* "Ugly", from the fourth season of ''Series/{{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 [[DrJerk House's scenes]] have been [[TwistingTheWords creatively edited]] to create the illusion that he's a caring, sympathetic man. [[ComplimentBackfire He's furious.]]
64	* ''Series/JustShootMe'':
65	** One episode had the crew from [=A&E's=] ''Biography'' make a fake biography of Nina for the show.
66	** Another episode was a behind-the-scenes documentary on Dennis' film school project ''The Burning House''.
67	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' had "Ghostfacers," which was also an AffectionateParody of ''Series/GhostHunters''.
68	* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' 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 [[EmbarrassingCoverUp 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 [[SeasonalRot fifth season]].
69	* One episode of the German series ''Pro7 Märchenstunde'' (''Pro7 Fairy Tail Hour'') was done as The Documentary. Unfortunately, it was also an extremely unfunny Literature/{{Discworld}}[=-=]ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} - Ripoff-Thingy.
70	* The ''Series/GoodEats'' 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.
71	* The ''Series/MyNameIsEarl'' episodes "Our Cops Is On!" and "Our Other Cops Is On!"
72	** As well as "Inside Probe" Part 1 and 2.
73	* The ''{{Series/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 SerialKiller, with a FramingDevice of the characters watching it -- but Monk begins to realize while watching the show that he might have made a mistake. [[spoiler:Sure enough, the host of the show turns out to be the real killer of the last victim.]]
74	* ''Series/{{Buffy\|the Vampire Slayer}}'''s "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS7E16Storyteller 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.
75	* The fourth season premiere of ''Series/{{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."
76	* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' had that one where the cast were being followed around by a journalist from the 20th century and no one seems to mind.
77	* The ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "[[Recap/CommunityS2E16IntermediateDocumentaryFilmmaking Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking]]" has Abed making one of these.
78	** So did "[[Recap/CommunityS3E08DocumentaryFilmmakingRedux Documentary Filmmaking: Redux]]", "[[Recap/CommunityS4E06AdvancedDocumentaryFilmmaking Advanced Documentary Filmmaking]]", and "[[Recap/CommunityS6E12WeddingVideography Wedding Videography]]".
79	* Bits and pieces of the ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}'' episode "Man on the Street".
80	* The ''Series/ThirtyRock'' episode "Queen of Jordan" is this, combined with RealityTV spoof (mainly of ''The Real Housewives'') and BigEgoHiddenDepths. 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 [[AttentionWhore 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".
81	** It was followed be a sequel episode, "Queen of Jordan 2: Mystery of the Phantom Pooper".
82	* ''Series/ThePractice'' has an episode where a documentary crew follows the firm as they try to commute the death sentence of a client. [[spoiler:They fail.]]
83	* The ''Series/FromTheEarthToTheMoon'' 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 ''[[Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon Jules Verne book]]''
84	* The ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' 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.
85	* The ''Series/{{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 MonsterOfTheWeek being pursued by the Sanctuary team.
86	* A two part episode of ''Hope And Faith'' was filmed as if the cast were members of the reality show ''Trading Spouses''.
87	* In the ''Series/{{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 Creator/WernerHerzog) 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.)
88	* ''Series/ForeverKnight'' 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 KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade.
89	* In the ''Series/{{Castle\|2009}}'' 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.
90	* ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' 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.
91	* ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' 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 BigBad sneaking away from a crime scene because said Big Bad was disguised as a police officer and the host wanted to interview him.
92	* ''Series/{{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.
93	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'':
94	** The majority of "A Special Edition" is presented as an episode of the ShowWithinAShow ''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.
95	** About one-third of "Judgment Day" is presented as an episode of the titular ImmoralRealityShow.
96	* The series finale of ''Series/SiliconValley'' uses a framing device of a documentary set ten years in the future explaining what happened to the characters.
97	* ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'': The episode "[[Recap/TheBrittasEmpireS7E7Exposed 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.
98	* ''{{Series/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.
99	* ''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'' has "Fame", where the Porters try to get picked for a documentary about the average family.
100	* ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' 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 ([[AnimatedActors even the bad guys in full costume]]), [[BreakingTheFourthWall 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.
101	* ''Series/DropTheDeadDonkey'': In "George's Daughter", a documentary crew visits Globelink. However, things are complicated by the arrival of George's daughter [[TeensAreMonsters 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.
102	* ''Series/TheFactsOfLife'' episode "The Interview Show" has the four girls and Mrs. Garrett being interviewed for a show about life at Eastland and how they came about attending there and their own lives. While it was indeed an out of the ordinary episode (in spite of it being a season finale), it can be seen as a retroactive BreatherEpisode for tthe following season's premiere where [[spoiler: [[WhamEpisode Edna's Edibles burned down over the summer and was turned into the Over Our Heads gift shop,]] which would remain for the rest of the series.]]
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106	* The ''Radio/AdventuresInOdyssey'' 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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110	* The FramingStory of the ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'' single-player campaign is about an Osean journalist investigating the war ten years later. As such, it features frequent shots of (de-)classified documents and makeshift interviews, which range from orderly talks with respected professors, through visiting a wanted war criminal's hideout, to a session with a footsoldier in a ruined house in the middle of a war zone.
111	** Shades of this were there in the previous game, ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'', since the {{Narrator}} of the game was a TagalongReporter recounting the battles of the Wardog Squadron.
112	* ''[[VideoGame/RType 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.
113	* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen began as a DLC pack]] for ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'', "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 [[AnimatedActors in-character commentary]] from the President and their homies.
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117	* While the ''Webcomic/CrowCillers'' episode "Fanfic of Horror II" is mainly ADayInTheLimelight for recurring TV personality and Final Bloodmaster Alpha in the show's usual style, it frequently cuts to the main cast being interviewed about [[ShowWithinAShow "Goblin's Crusade: Yellow Rose,"]] an adventure cartoon on which she voiced the villain.
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121	* The ''Creator/CountJackula'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm1lGLebX6A review]] of ''WesternAnimation/RudolphsShinyNewYear'' is framed as a documentary of Jackula himself fresh after his literal War on Christmas back in 2016, narrated, interviewed and directed by arthouse director Creator/WernerHerzog.
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125	* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'':
126	** "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman" is presented as a documentary by Creator/WernerHerzog ({{guest star}}ring {{as himself}}), who interviews various residents of Woodcrest for their opinions on UsefulNotes/BarackObama's 2008 presidential campaign.
127	** "Freedom Ride or Die" involves a documentary as a {{framing device}}, where Robert Freeman and other individuals who were involved in the [[UsefulNotes/CivilRightsMovement Freedom Rides of 1961]] are interviewed about their experiences, which leads to [[MonochromePast black-and-white flashbacks]].
128	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episodes "[[Recap/SouthParkS14E7CrippledSummer Crippled Summer]]" and "[[Recap/SouthParkS16E6IShouldHaveNeverGoneZiplining I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining]]", which are respectively parodies of ''Series/{{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.
129	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
130	** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E22BehindTheLaughter 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''.
131	** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS18E13SpringfieldUp Springfield Up]]", spoofs the ''Series/{{Up}}'' documentaries.
132	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' revolved around an young independent-film maker trying to catch the girls on film.
133	-->'''Brian Larsen:''' I realize now that it's not about what makes the girls tick, it's about the fact that [[SoOnceAgainTheDayIsSaved once again the day is saved, thanks to the Powerpuff Girls]]! Woo!
134	* The episode "Krusty Krab Training Video" of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' was presented as an informational video for a new employee at the Krusty Krab restaurant.
135	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{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.
136	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' episode "Heroes" features a ''Series/{{Cops}}''- style DayInTheLife documentary where the interviewer gets kidnapped, and needs to be rescued. And there's a discussion on the benefits of spandex.
137	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode "Ten Short Films about Wakko Warner". [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's exactly what it says.]]
138	* The "Blackfoot and Slim" episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' is like a nature documentary.
139	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead ''is a documentary about them and showing their anti-social behavior.
140	* The ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' episode "S.C.A.L.E." takes advantage of the IntrepidReporter 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.- [[TheyKilledKennyAgain before he's shot]]. [[spoiler: Ironically, Audrey decides to burn the tape of the documentary after the AnimalWrongsGroup leader tells them [[NotSoDifferentRemark the two aren't so different]], meaning she, Nick and the audience are the only ones that see it.]]
141	* The ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' series finale: "Bonafide Hero: Captain Duck Dodgers".
142	* ''WesternAnimation/HomeMovies'': On hiatus from making movies with his friends, Brendon makes a ''Behind the Music''-style documentary of Duane's garage band SCÄB.
143	* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'': The NatureDocumentary spoof "[[Recap/FuturamaS7E13Naturama Naturama]]", featuring animal versions of all the characters.
144	* ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' 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.
145	* The ''WesternAnimation/MikeLuAndOg'' episode "Alfred, Lord of the Jungle" is about a nature filmmaker shooting a documentary on the island.
146	* ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' has at least one episode where a nature documentarian films the Tasmanian Devil family, treating them like they're normal animals.
147	* The ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Rising Tides/Crashing Skies" is an in-universe documentary by Ronaldo Fryman, depicting the Crystal Gems' links to the weirdness in town.
148	* The WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy episode "Untamed World" has Ren hosting a nature show while viewing animals from The Galapagos Islands, all of which resemble Ren and Stimpy.
149	* The ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndGuessWho'' episode "The Last Inmate" has a regular ''Scooby-Doo'' case filmed into a documentary. With Creator/MorganFreeman [[AsHimself himself]] as the narrator/interviewer, no less. Justified, since he was initially trying to make a documentary on an old prison until the MonsterOfTheWeek interrupted it.
150	* ''WesternAnimation/KampKoral'' has "[[Recap/KampKoralS1E24EyeOfTheHotdogPatrickTakesTheCake Eye of the Hotdog]]", which doubles as ADayInTheLimelight for Craig Mammalton. The episode takes the form of a sports documentary narrated by Perch Perkins, called ''The Kamp Koral Narrow World of Camp Sports''. Various characters appear in interstitials to describe the events, and there are even a few transitions and visual effects befitting a documentary.
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