Funny / Planet Earth

• PE II's "Mountains" has two: grizzly bears scratching their rear ends against trees and rocks to dislodge itchy shedding fur, and South American flamingos trying to walk on a thinly ice-covered montane lake without slipping or punching through with their stick-thin legs.
• "Islands" has the male sloth in the beginning that swims over and climb up to a female sloth due to hearing some mating calls… only to find out that the female already has a baby.
• In the "Making Of" for PE II, the team in India discovering that every animal they'd suspected of trashing their camera-traps is, in fact, trashing their camera traps.
• The tiny lava lizards trampling all over the large marina iguanas to eat flies. The expression on the marina iguanas seems to be resignation to having these little lizards sitting on their face, waiting for and lunging at flies.
• In the “Cities” episode of II, a bowerbird that made its home on a golf course in Townsville, Australia manages to find the perfect ornament for its bower; a scarlet heart. He steals it from another bowerbird and uses it as the final piece in a courtship display he puts on for a female bowerbird he’s attracted the attention of. It’s the sort of melodramatic romance you would expect to find in a cheesy movie or TV show, with just one little twist. The new bowerbird isn’t a female, it’s a young male that hasn’t grown its distinctive pink crest, who then proceeds to make off with the first bowerbird’s stolen prize. Yes, you read that right. We just watched David Attenborough narrate a goddamn bird getting catfished on the BBC's most hyped nature program for 2016! What really makes the scene is how the original bowerbird runs around screeching his head off in a rage after he realizes what’s just happened to him.
  • The buildup to the punch line of this segment is plenty humorous on its own, particularly when the "female" first appears and the male bowerbird begins trying to court "her" by showing off various pieces of his collection, such as a bright pink plastic fork, all the while narrated in Sir David's distinctive tones.
    Attenborough: A fork, perhaps, madame?