History Main / WildlifeCommentarySpoof

** In ''Double Life'' (Season 3), she briefly does this with on Day 4 while watching Grian and [=GoodTimesWithScar=] get hunted down by Red Names and Scar trading sand for his life and his horse back under her tower-base.
** In ''Limited Life'' (Season 4), she does this again while watching a fight on the Skynet between the Clockers, the Mean Gills, and the T.I.E.S. factions in the latter half of Day 7.

* Several ''[[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner]]'' cartoons would freeze an early appearance of the roadrunner and the coyote with a ''faux'' [[BinomiumRidiculus scientific name]] and short description.

* ''WebVideo/DreamShorts'': In "GeorgeNotFound In His Natural Habitat...", the narrator (Dream) observes George going through a vibrantly-colored flower field, and also makes note of George's odd sleeping habits -- here, he's depicted as nocturnal and capable of sleeping for 14+ hours a day.

* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' did a battle between [[Series/CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]] and Creator/JacquesCousteau where during his first verse, Steve described his opponent as if he were observing a dangerous and rare creature.

* [=PearlescentMoon=] has a knack for doing Creator/DavidAttenborough impressions in the ''WebVideo/LifeSMP''; outside of her debut season of ''Last Life'', she's done one in every season she appears in.
** In ''Double Life'', she briefly does this with on Day 4 while watching Grian and [=GoodTimesWithScar=] get hunted down by Red Names and Scar trading sand for his life and his horse back under her tower-base, though minus the fake and silly scientific names.
** In ''Limited Life'', she does this again while watching a fight on the Skynet between the Clockers, the Mean Gills, and the T.I.E.S. factions in the latter half of Day 7.
--->'''Pearl:''' Arrows be flying and people are turning into porcupines. I did not realize this was an animal documentary. Yet somehow, an arrow was flung my way. Do I get to pick that up? ''(reverting to her normal voice)'' I mean, sure! Keep at them! I want more arrows! Give them to me! The more I get to shoot you off with them!

* A random encounter in VideoGame/ImprobableIsland has you fight David Attenborough after he does one of these on you, and inadvertently insults you while doing so.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' episode "Untamed Wild" was a spoof of nature shows, with Ren as the host. At the end, a creature named the Frilled Ren (all the animals were based on either Ren or Stimpy) uses its necksack to attract other nature show hosts.

This is the rare wild Wildlife Commentary Spoof, in [[Website/TVTropes its natural habitat]]. What a fantastic opportunity to [[NatureDocumentary observe its natural behavior]]! Let's follow over its shoulder, camouflaged by our {{Adventurer Outfit}}s in khaki -- they'll blend in not only against the elephant and black-rhino tusks we're poaching but also against Creator/SteveIrwin. Be careful to speak in the same volume level as golf commentary, so as not to disturb the "creature" being observed.

* '''Voice''': Often [[BriefAccentImitation the 'documentarian' will affect an accent]] of the wildlife adventurer or commentator of their choice. Popular English language examples are Creator/DavidAttenborough's soft, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjE0Kdfos4Y clipped]] UsefulNotes/{{British Accent|s}} ("Hee-re, in the Amazonian rainforest..."); the iconic AwesomeAussie Creator/SteveIrwin's easily recognizable UsefulNotes/AustralianAccent ("Crikey! She's a beauty!"); Creator/JacquesCousteau's famous French accent; and imitating the voice of Creator/MorganFreeman, due to the popularity of the ''March Of The Penguins'' documentary.
* '''Content''': The character being observed will often be given a [[BinomiumRidiculus fake "scientific name"]] in DogLatin that usually sounds like some funny or insulting description of the person. ("Here we have the ''stupidus idius'', the dumbest creature on the planet...") There may also be references to a character's "mating habits" or a "courting ritual" as a common joke, especially if this is what is [[DatePeepers prompting the spying in the first place]]. Sometimes the joke ends with a "tune in next week!" line, saying they will observe more behavior from the subject, or sometimes promising dangerous and crazy stunts with animals ("Tune in next week, where I'll crawl inside a tiger's mouth and tickle its stomach! ForScience!") or alluding to more observations of the 'animal'.

** In ''Double Life SMP'', she briefly does this with on Day 4 while watching Grian and [=GoodTimesWithScar=] get hunted down by Red Names and Scar trading sand for his life and his horse back under her tower-base, though minus the fake and silly scientific names.

* In ''Double Life SMP'', she briefly does this with on Day 4 while watching Grian and [=GoodTimesWithScar=] get hunted down by Red Names and Scar trading sand for his life and his horse back under her tower-base, though minus the fake and silly scientific names.

A DeadHorseTrope variation would have an elderly man commenting, "While Jim is wrestling the giant alligator [or some other deadly place we've just left Jim], I'd like to take a moment to talk to you about life insurance." This was based on the ''Series/MutualOfOmahasWildKingdom'' series, popular in the 1960s and 1970s. (Marlin Perkins got too old to go out into the field and began doing commentary - and commercial breaks - from the studio, hence the comedy.)

* One of the bonuses in the ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' DVD is a movie spoof that has Sarge doing this to Grif (framed as a hunting show, naturally).

* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's review of ''Film/Jungle2Jungle''.
* Let's Player LetsPlay/{{Critikal}} has done something similar to this, making a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txr29cKLZg8 few]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrhDlX6ncXY spoofs]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKmmthDROyo using]] commentary over videos of animals, usually speaking for the animal and talking about how they will take over the world, escape their human captors, asking humans for sex of sexual acts, or something else funny.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXZ-ijNAFVM Cassetteboy vs]] Creator/DavidAttenborough, in which we observe the courtship rituals of the British male.
* The ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' [=YouTube=] channel posted a short video called ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag0W3m39q10 Blue Hedgehog Documentary: Hunter & Prey]]''. It portrays Sonic attacking Eggman as "hunting prey".

* ''WebVideo/{{Smosh}}'' had two videos made of this trope, namely ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M06sWmoEk_A TEENS IN THE WILD!]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTVgw1DTSXs GIRLFRIENDS IN THE WILD]]'' where Ian would play "wildlife expert" George Zazz and adopt a hilariously forced Australian accent ([[OohMeAccentsSlipping that would drop from time to time]]) while he observed people (including his own son and girlfriend) and giving each one he'd look at a supposed scientific name.
* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'' did a battle between [[Series/CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]] and Creator/JacquesCousteau where during his first verse, Steve described his opponent as if he were observing a dangerous and rare creature.
* The ''WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals'' video, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2kXhevOwkg If Mario Games Had Nature Documentaries]]", in which the narrator is repeatedly interrupted by Mario killing whatever she was filming.
-->"Here we see the Koopa Trooper in its natural habitat. The floating bricks are ideal for avoiding predators. This is a red variety, which explains why it is walking back and forth with no- Oh. A predator has gotten it after all. Moving on."\\
"Here we see a Goomba. It is mating season for the Goombas, as you can tell from the- Oh dear. They shan't be mating this season I suppose now, will they?"\\
"Under the sea we find a school of Cheep-cheep, who- Oh come on! He is underwater! How is he throwing fireballs?!"
* Andrew Struthers' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc "Spiders On Drugs"]], in which we observe the effects of (illegal) drugs on spiders.
* The Internet Oracle: [[https://internetoracle.org/digest.cgi?N=899#899-10 Question 899.10]] asks if cows look at trains. The Oracle's reply is in the form of a documentary presented by Marlin Perkins, sponsored by Mutual of Omaha.

* ''[[LetsPlay/LifeSMP Double Life SMP]]'': Pearl briefly does this with a Creator/DavidAttenborough impression on Day 4 while watching Grian and Scar get hunted down by Red Names and Scar trading sand for his life and his horse back under her tower-base, though minus the fake and silly scientific names.

* In Gregory Maguire's novel Literature/{{Wicked}}, Elphaba gives running commentary on Boq's clumsy flirtation with Galinda as if they were wildlife.

* ''WesternAnimation/SeaLab2021'' did the Jacques Cousteau version, though he was just called "that French guy."

* The French-sounding narrator on ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' does this, especially in the first episode.

* ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'': Done twice in "[[Recap/TucaAndBertieS1E03TheDeliGuy The Deli Guy]]", both times with a human character doing NaughtyBirdwatching on [[BirdPeople Bertie and Speckle]].

'''Jamie Hyneman:''' Is he doing his Creator/DavidAttenborough thing again?