That strange border where performance and documentary collide is a very funny place. It’s also very demanding on performers, who have to somehow maintain their fictional personas even as they are prodded into awkward and difficult situations by talk show hosts, interviewers and the like. The interlocutors in mental_floss’s listicle of 5 Real Interviews with Fictional Characters, however, tend to play along nicely. Except maybe Barbara Walters, in this weird interview with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Stick around until the end, it’s worth it. Also click through the jump for another fictional entity appearing on real TV.

Spinal Tap on Jonathan Ross, part 1

Spinal Tap on Jonathan Ross, part2

Spinal Tap on Arsenio Hall