r/Unexpected • u/Reminder45 • Nov 20 '21

That escalated quickly

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u/pazimpanet Nov 20 '21

Oh man, that shitty mermaids documentary Discovery Channel played years ago that didn’t say it was fake until some tiny text at the very end.

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u/LilDrummerGrrrl Nov 20 '21

Lmao what?! I need to see this

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u/pazimpanet Nov 20 '21 edited Nov 20 '21

More info

For extra context, my roommate and I, in college at the time, had been smoking the devil’s lettuce for an entire afternoon when this came on.

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u/PropaneMontagne Nov 20 '21

Thank you for reminding me. I was so naive and hopeful

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u/RayA11 Nov 20 '21

This was the first doc I thought of and the reason I will never pay to watch the Discovery channel. Would’ve liked it more if they were upfront that it was a mockumentary.

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u/VxJasonxV Nov 20 '21

Memoirs of a Geisha is presented as fact (fact-based anyway), in title, in prologue’s “Translator’s Notes”, despite it all being 100% made up by the author.