If you haven't seen the original documentaries…
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Documentary Now!
StephieVee — 9 years ago(April 05, 2016 09:23 PM)
Then you won't understand, nor enjoy this series. I was belly laughing a few minutes into episode one. "You got floor in my Lima beans!" I completely forgot about the HBO movie with Drew Barrymore until I saw this.
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pacco_fanti — 9 years ago(September 11, 2016 10:00 PM)
Last year i watched Sandy Passage, i loved, found it very funny. Ive only got to see Grey Gardens, last week, and i was mesmerized, and now i love the parody even more, but you don't have to necessarily know the originals ones to enjoy it.
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freddie73 — 9 years ago(October 03, 2016 07:07 PM)
So true! They only one that was really funny for me was the "Grey Gardens" spoof because I have watched that doc before. I wounder what they are spoofing with the one about the globe salesmen. I would like to watch the doc before it is on.
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holchie — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 10:21 AM)
I'd like to know what the original idea was for the globe salesmen, also. I did like the whole black and white and the clothing, cars and general style of that era, though. It was perfect. (I'm old, I was there.)
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Sluggr-3 — 9 years ago(October 06, 2016 02:16 PM)
It might have been that "Door to Door" movie with William H Macy. Seemed to have had elements of Glengary Glen Ross and Tinmen in it.
I didn't have an LOL moment in this one until the Rothsteins.
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TheXmanCometh — 9 years ago(October 07, 2016 09:34 AM)
They are spoofing the 1968 Maysles' documentary Salesman:
http://www.imdb.com/board/10064921/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
You definitely want to check out the original documentary as I found it highly entertaining and a great time capsule. -
Ehrgeiz — 9 years ago(October 07, 2016 04:40 PM)
I don't watch many documentaries, but there are only a few real spoofs, am I right?
I know about Green gardens, then the one which spoofed "Nanook the escimo" and the recent one they tell here about its a spoof o a movie called salesman. But othern than that? I just had the feeling the other ones were not based on real movies, but each on a special type of documentaries. -
TheXmanCometh — 9 years ago(October 13, 2016 07:53 AM)
Some episodes are based very heavily on the original, but some others are only inspired by the original documentary.
This post maps out season 1:
http://www.imdb.com/board/14677934/board/nest/247483467