What brings a smile to your face while playing Spore?

a error message saying:

Flying to the farthest star I can reach.

Discovering a planet with unusual coloring or formations.

Simply turning on the game and seeing the spore screen come up when I'm in a bad or sad mood and need to escape to another universe.

Successfully terraforming a planet.

If I'm in a bad mood, slaughtering other tribes.

My grown daughters being jealous that I have spore and they don't. LOL Moms are supposed to play things like Monopoly ya know...hee hee

picking up a stick in creature stage and watching my creature whack himself in the head with it.

The mating call in the Cell stage makes me chuckle.

Forming allies in Creature stage is especially fun when you go about impressing babies.

Even funnier, having a posse of babies of other species follow you around.

The transition cutscenes, obviously.

Learning that an uplifted civ has progressed to Space stage, I'm sitting nearby and the moment I click on their system to greet them, they go from

to

. I'm immediately thinking "Yes! It's not a Spode follower!"

Watching the progression of opinion of me go from

to

through the act of terraforming one world from T0 to T3.

Successfully deleting SecuRom from my system.

And blowing up Grox planets. That's always good.

Seeing one of my creatures as an epic

Watching the babies in Tribal run around and fall down

Meeting one of my own creations in creature stage

The wave goodbye when my nest is migrating

My creature throwing up when it eats the wrong food...(okay I know sick but I can't help it, it makes me laugh)

Some of the creatures I meet in the game

When another tribe brings you a gift and they dance around throwing flowers

Just sitting down and turnning on the game makes me smile

An epic falling over dead.

feasting on the epics corpse

Hearing a terrifying roar in the creature stage, and turning around to see an epic version of a decent vampire chasing me

(that thing would not leave me alone until i reached the tribal stage)

trying to kill an epic on my home planet just after reaching the pace phase and almost dying

"You really snarfed up an enzerm!" never fails to entertain me.

Hmm... I love seeing some of my creatures as epics. An epic Glafingo of mine in the creature stage scared the carp out of me. xD

Also, Sporish. The best language in the Milky Way Galaxy. X3

- The civ vehicles' voices are probably my favorite part. "Squablub!" "Mack-dee-derb!"

- Jumping off a mountain, then flying across the planet with my level 5 wings.

- That guy who throws flower petals whenever I deliver a gift to another tribe.

- Capturing cities in the civ stage.

- Terraforming planets.

- Meeting new empires, especially those who follow the Tablets (or whatever) of Prosperity.

- Planning galactic conquest strategies.

- Finding out that an empire is willing to pay 20,000 spucks for each of my 30 units of yellow spice.

- Messing with the Grox. Those little guys are so cute.

- What I found at the center of the galaxy. I have to admit, I was expecting Will Wright...