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December 11, 2008

The Best Viral Videos Of 2008: A Retrospective

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If you were able to make it to the Gummy Awards on Monday night, then you saw our tribute to the best viral videos of the year. Now, this is comprehensive but in no way complete, because that would be exhausting. So there were plenty of great videos out there that didn't make it into this montage. But even without Drunk History or the Zach Galafianakis Absolut Vodka Ads, without Baby Preacher, Lil' Bill O'Reilly, or the kids rapping about the election to T.I.'s "Whatever You Like," and probably a dozen other honorable mentions, I feel confident that you will still find this to be a captivating, thorough, and most of all HEARTBREAKING tribute to this year in internet.

Top that, 2009. Top THAT!

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That was great. Thanks for the trip to LOLtown this morning. Preesh.

Posted by: pizzalean at 12/11/08 10:58 AM | Reply
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ00laVt62c
Top that!

Posted by: lesmore at 12/11/08 11:01 AM | Reply
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Gabe

Correct.

Posted by: Gabe profile link in reply to lesmore's comment at 12/11/08 11:15 AM | Reply
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Darren87

I just wanted to make sure I'm not the only one who immediately thinks of that movie when I hear the words "top that." Also, is Teen Witch is the gayest (I mean that lovingly) movie of all time?

Posted by: Darren87 profile link in reply to lesmore's comment at 12/11/08 12:35 PM | Reply
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haha totally agree about the "top that" question

Posted by: victoria in reply to Darren87's comment at 12/12/08 10:02 PM | Reply
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CarolineA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qHlYp9TpB0

Posted by: CarolineA profile link in reply to lesmore's comment at 12/11/08 9:31 PM | Reply
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look at how funky he is!

Posted by: fairherald in reply to lesmore's comment at 12/13/08 10:23 PM | Reply
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Great! Best compilation of 2008. I will put it in my Best compilation compilation video!

Posted by: Don at 12/11/08 11:15 AM | Reply
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Vagina panties FTW.

Posted by: Dave profile link at 12/11/08 11:32 AM | Reply
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THIS IS CRAZY HOW YOU GOING TO MAKE A MONTAGE OF THE BEST OF 2008 AND NOT PUT ME IN IT I'M SO MAD I AM POUNDING THIS KEYBOARD WITH MY FINGERS AS I TYPE. EVERYONE KNOWS KANYE THE BEST IN THE GAME NO MATTER WHAT GAME IT IS AND IT'S JUST FRUSTRATING TO WORK SO HARD AS AN ARTIST TO TRY AND CHANGE THE WORLD AND YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN YOUR FANS HEARTS BUT SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS JUST DISGUSTING. JESSICA ALBA IS AN AMERICAN ACTRESS. MODERN SOFAS.

Posted by: Kanye West at 12/11/08 1:10 PM | Reply
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i've never seen the one with the mechanical band, link anybody?

Posted by: catfish at 12/11/08 2:57 PM | Reply
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Godsauce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur8AwQHusZw

The best part is the part with the ventriloquist's dummy.

Posted by: Godsauce profile link in reply to catfish's comment at 12/12/08 10:12 AM | Reply
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Let's leave the sofas out of this.

Posted by: Wes at 12/11/08 3:11 PM | Reply
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Can someone please link me to the video of the dude give a tour of his fridge? Why oh why was I not aware of this sooner?

Posted by: Colby profile link at 12/11/08 7:22 PM | Reply
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Snacks on Snacks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBRL7D0wcXM

Posted by: Larry profile link at 12/11/08 9:09 PM | Reply
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CarolineA

I'm super glad Baby Wee Wee 2 was on here, since...I was the one who discovered it

Posted by: CarolineA profile link at 12/11/08 9:18 PM | Reply
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Funtastik

I took an emotional dive from Christian the Lion nuzzling everyone to Bill O'Reilly being a penis clown.

Posted by: Funtastik profile link at 12/11/08 9:46 PM | Reply
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Did you see all the Videos of the Year on Webcastr.com? Lots of good ones there. Take a look:

http://vote-it.webcastr.com/

Posted by: Jerry at 12/11/08 10:12 PM | Reply
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Who is the guy in the bathing suit dancing? Does anyone have a link? I haven't seen this one before...

Posted by: Charlie at 12/11/08 11:32 PM | Reply
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haha ..cool!

Posted by: blogova at 12/12/08 12:37 PM | Reply
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ZZZZZZZZZZAP!

I liked this one a lot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SH9iEn8Jfk

Posted by: Max at 12/12/08 4:24 PM | Reply
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I loved this video!

Posted by: the adult world at 12/13/08 12:42 AM | Reply
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I LOVE the big girls dancing yo single ladies. So happy to see this in the mashup of the the years best. I can't believe she can do the splits when I can hardly touch my toes.

Posted by: Colin at 12/13/08 4:33 AM | Reply
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where is the full video of the cute kid singing right at the start?

Posted by: vekstrom at 12/13/08 5:32 AM | Reply
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that sucked. you queers aren't funny.

Posted by: panda at 12/14/08 8:58 AM | Reply
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Pug vs cat was pretty good.

Posted by: Retarded Comedian at 12/16/08 8:47 PM | Reply
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gr8 video..!
i want that song w/ the muppets goin crazy n stuff.. badly : n Bill has always amused me

Posted by: DrunkPerson profile link at 12/21/08 5:06 PM | Reply
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That fat kid isn't singing. He is just lip synching the cuppycakes song which is probably older than he is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Z6pWhM6TA

Posted by: Kurt C at 12/26/08 4:43 PM | Reply
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somebody link me up with the second one, its fire.

Posted by: Brian at 01/07/09 2:56 PM | Reply
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ITS A TARP1!!!1!ONE

Posted by: pumpkin at 01/10/09 7:58 PM | Reply
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great one, sure thing this year will have to make an effort to get down to it.

will bookmark to review in 10 years from now... then it will be plain pathetic... hahaha

Posted by: Recetas de. Cocina at 01/17/09 10:59 PM | Reply
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Great choices. Their were a couple we didn't have and need to look into. Arguably you could have used about 70% of the stuff from our viral catalog.

http://aboutviral.com/viral-catalogue/

Posted by: Stuart at 04/01/09 10:47 AM | Reply
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hahahahahahahahah -Tom Cruise

Posted by: Matt at 04/21/09 11:57 AM | Reply
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OHhhh mannn

pleassse put up a reference list :)

Posted by: Chris at 04/24/09 10:38 AM | Reply
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jennybean

record scratch!

Posted by: jennybean profile link at 05/09/09 9:38 PM | Reply
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