Michael Richards' astonishing n-word rant in a comedy club is still generating rampant discussion in blogworld, as is footage of a UCLA student (an Iranian-American, some posts suggested, who would not show his ID) being tazered by campus police.
The performance art-esque SmashMyPS3.com guys queued for a brand-spanking new PlayStation 3 games console, and then destroyed it with a sledgehammer in front of disbelieving geeks in the queue. Some of those had queued for more than 18 hours and really weren't impressed.
Bush gets an obligatory appearance as the subject of a beatbox mash-up: "w-w-weapons of war", and Cheney makes a star turn on the decks in the background. (Rumsfeld doesn't feature, but we'll assume he was delegated to roadie status.)
There's plenty of animation in here too. A ripped-off and rather old Seth McFarlane sketch from Family Guy topped the list after a revival of interest on MySpace; 'Where's the money' is kind of Snoopy meets Reservoir Dogs.
Interestingly that clip only scored two places higher than Kiwi, an animation put together by New York student Dony Permedi for his masters degree in computer arts. The latter has knocked up 3.35m views on YouTube and 164,000 on MySpace.
The Guardian's viral video chart produced by Unruly Media's Viral Video Chart:
1 Where's my money Family Guy clip: Stewie wonders where his money is
2 Smash My PS3 PlayStation 3 + fanboys + sledgehammer
3 Kiwi Donny Permedi's animation from his masters degree at New York's School of Visual Arts
4 That Thong Song Strangely beguiling purple hippo dancing to the Thong Song
5 UCLA Police Taser Student in Powell UCLA student Mostafa Tabatabainejad is tasered by police after refusing to provide ID
6 UCLA Student Tasered by Police in Library UCLA tasering again
7 Chow Chow Chow chow puppies lick camera = girls squeal
8 Seinfeld's Kramer (Michael Richards) Racist Tirade Michael Richards loses the plot at Laugh in LA
9 Amazing Rap Impersonations Aries Spears from MadTV impersonates LL Cool J, DMX, Snoop & Jay-Z
10 Amateur - Lasse Gjertsen Human beatbox x 10
11 George Bush beatbox Does what it says on the tin
12 White and Nerdy Weird Al Yankovic's video from the album Straight Outta Lynwood
13 Free Hugs Campaign Free love for the YouTube era
14 Iranian American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD With Tazer GUN More tazering
15 Iraqi Kid Runs For Water KIds chase US soldiers in truck, soldiers taunt kids with water
16 UCLA Student Tasered by UCLA Police for not showing ID Yet more tazering
17 Akon ft. Snoop Dogg - I Wanna Love You (Explicit) MorrisVideos Explicit music video, Snoop style
18 Cute Kitty Drinking Kitten drinks out of a baby bottle
19 Kiwi More kiwi action
20 Kramer's racist tirade Michael Richards undoes his career, again
Source: Viral Video Chart.
The chart sometimes shows the same clip more than once when different people post it on different sites. Compiled from data gathered from 00.01 on Thursday 16 November 2006 to 00.00 on Wednesday 22 November 2006. The Weekly Viral Video Chart is currently based on a count of the embedded videos and links on approximately two million blogs.
