Part of a News Broadcast, usually the last segment, in which clips of stories involving footage of waterskiing budgies, squirrels adopted by mother dogs, cats rescued by firemen, firemen rescued by cats, or otherwise crowd-pleasing cute'n'sappy animals are shown to boost ratings. In the event of a lack of fuzzy critters, the Special Olympics or large litters of human babies can sometimes fill [...] [tvtropes.org]