Was watching The Simpsons, this intro was brilliant. It in their lounge room... pans out goes into space and ends up back in their lounge room... great.
That same episode had a piece which showed Homer every day for years...
I was looking for its inspiration, these are two I found... The second one is more interesting.
Another cool Simpsons video sequence I watched tonight was the equivalent of the Evolution of Man, The Evolution of Homer: