David Attenborough/YMMV
- Crowning Music of Awesome: His Life of Birds series of documentaries (the theme music and the birdsong).
- The Life of Mammals theme isn't half bad either.
- Heartwarming Moments: The BBC fare-welled him by creating a sheet full of fictitious programs crediting him and distributing it.
- High Octane Nightmare Fuel: This sequence from Planet Earth
- Memetic Mutation:
- "Hee-ah, in the Amazon Rainforest..."
- The infamous scene of the baby seal walking along a beach; only to be eaten by a breaching killer whale. The scene was entirely unintentional and possibly one of the greatest shots from any documentary ever produced.
- The Lyre Bird. There's a reason it has over 9 million hits as of 2012, and counting.