Heartwarming / Big Fat Quiz of the Year

• Setting the tone for years to come, David Walliams and Rob Brydon's absolute elation when they become the first ever team to nail the "Say What You See" question in the 2004 edition.
• One year had the guest star as Lola the cat, who was infamously thrown into a bin. When they played the clip, Jimmy Carr asked her owner to "shield Lola's eyes", and the comedians all reacted with shock at the clip, with Alan Carr saying in horror, "Why would you do that?"
• On the 2012 90's quiz, Jack Whitehall's unabashed look of joy when he realizes that the secret identity of the mystery guests were as two of the Teletubbies.
  • What he says next is less heartwarming
  Jack: I always wondered what you guys would look like when I opened you up...
  Jimmy: You couldn't sound more like a creepy serial killer if you tried.
  • and then
  Jack: You won't know this, but I was the baby that was the sun.
  John Simmit (Dipsy): ...it was a girl
  Nikky Smedley (Laa-Laa): Jessica
  Jack: Jessica, I know, yes... She lives with me now...
• During the 2009 edition of the show, Rob Brydon and Claudia Winkleman are set up as teammates, and decide to pretend that they're a newlywed couple. Later, after originally appearing reluctant to do his "Small Man in Trapped in a Box" routine, Rob immediately relents to it after Claudia (literally) prods him in a gentle fashion. Afterward, Claudia is pretty much beaming with pride.
  Claudia: That's who I married.
• During the Quiz of the Noughties (00's), Jimmy Carr gently jokes around with the Davies-Carr children (of "Charlie bit my finger" internet fame).
• When Richard Ayoade and Greg Davies get an answer technically wrong in BFQ 2015, all of the other panelists jump to their defense.
  • They then decide to get one question intentionally wrong in the following round, so that the final score was fair.
• In a minor way: At the end of 2013's Quiz of the 90s, a gunge tank is brought out for the losers to pay their forfeit. However, Jonathan Ross immediately jumps to the losing team's defence. He argues that because no one informed them of the gunge tank beforehand the losers didn't deserve to pay the forfeit, and that Jimmy should instead. He manages to get the losers off the hook this way.
• Everyone being incredibly excited at Pikachu in the Quiz of the decade 2020, including Joe Lycett giving it a hug.
  • Charles Dance gets to read a rare positive review for once.
  "At first you're thinking, there's no way that much water could fit in there; then you realise you've been watching a film about a magic aquatic creature for X amount of hours, so it must be doing something right. And it is. And it does. 5 stars."^note It's The Shape of Water.
• In the 2022 show, when English footballer and Euro winner Millie Bright walks on to ask a question, the whole panel stands to applaud... led by Maisie Adam, who absolutely melts with fannish joy and can barely speak.
  Maisie: You're amazin' ... oh, gone weird, sorry. You're... god, you're brilliant.
  Jimmy: Why don't you come up -
  Maisie: I don't think I'm allowed within ten feet.

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