Urlies 2011: The Best Viral Videos Of The Year

Every December Urlesque celebrates the best web culture trends of the year with awards called the Urlies. This year, along with our partners at HuffPost Comedy, we decided that instead of choosing the winners in each category on our own, we would do things a little differently.

We're going to let you, our readers, choose who wins the Urlies for Best Meme, Best Viral Video, Best Single-Topic Blog and Best Cute Thing for 2011. It's an unprecedented amount of power, but we have faith that we're leaving the task in good hands.

Today we're rolling out our nominees in the Best Viral Video category, which includes all of the bizarre music videos, weird web culture moments and ridiculous news stories you couldn't help but quote and forward to your friends until your brain hurt.

The competition is fierce in this category, so be sure to rate the videos and let us know if we missed anything in the comments!

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[Yeah I did]

04:26 PM on 12/27/2011

Maybe that taxidermist has some stuffed cats for the cat girl

[stig martin]

08:41 AM on 12/25/2011

nice!

[Halsey]

12:44 PM on 12/15/2011

The eHarmony girl is so clever. That's no Villanova MBA..she's acting and do a fine job of it! She is too funny..rainbows? You go girl. I think you fooled a LOT of people!

[Halsey]

12:34 PM on 12/15/2011

The litte brunette that raps/sings..um..what is her prettier blonde sister doing..eye candy, perpetuating the dumb blonde stereotype. Obviously the girl (brunette) is smart to remember all those fast lines; just think if that effort had gone into, say..math or science. (sorry..just tired of little girls doing grown up songs). Taxidermy ad was kind of funny..man, the guy on the phone has such YELLOW eyes!..needs a liver panel for sure.

[poozybear]

06:33 PM on 12/13/2011

If they're going to put Perry's ad on the list, they should also include Cain's cigarette smoking man spot. Equally creepy, if not more so.

[Jenny M Derfler]

05:11 PM on 12/13/2011

The eHarmony Cat Lady was pretty hilarious! This lady is pretty nuts!! But she could work for ASPCA or any other organization that cares deeply about animals, like PETA!! She should go down to the Philippines and protest them eating cats if she loves them so much instead of sitting in front of a camera crying like a basketcase. Maybe this video is appropriate for the PETA or the ASPCA website but it's definitely not appropriate for a dating site! People might think she's crazy! (That "I love to run" was pretty random!)

Also, where was she when my cat died back in October? I really needed her to sympathize w/ me.

[fetchmasters]

04:01 PM on 12/13/2011

That was pretty funny. I'm surprised he didn't feature any household pets. :)

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[Jonathan Daniel Harris]

02:32 PM on 12/13/2011

Great list! The only thing that sticks out to me that I don't see here is "Asians in the Library."

[Sam Seed 007]

12:35 PM on 12/13/2011

I remember being particularly tickled by "Glove, Actually" (an exceptionally well-edited supercut of cinema slaps). That gets my vote: http://vimeo.com/18941536

[akrazyrunner]

10:07 AM on 12/13/2011

There were two that come to my mind for video of the year that are not here

Governor Brian Schweitzer branding useless Republican bills
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQNtyW15tI8
(there is a shorter version out there somewhere, but the full version is so good)

and the soldier calling his Dad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVAgz6iyK6A

[twinkwatson]

12:22 PM on 12/13/2011

Personally I thought this one should have gone viral:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ3CS2u_gtc

[Beer is the way of gawd]

09:52 AM on 12/13/2011

What about the girl who hears for the first time? Great video!

[Joscasta]

11:05 AM on 12/13/2011

To anyone that has dealt with anyone with any form of hearing loss.. that video was fake.

[Beer is the way of gawd]

02:36 PM on 12/16/2011

How rich are you Joscasta? I'd bet any amount of money its a real video. Are you an audiologist or just a very bad cynic. 1) I know the company 2) I met the doctor that performed the surgery. Do you know that the implant in the video deals with an anatomical mechanism not micorphones? If you knew what you responded to, you'd feel like the hugest dummy ever.

[bruce metzger]

09:38 AM on 12/13/2011

this one's not bad for the collection

British Warship's Christmas Video a Smash Hit
The crew of a British warship have created a viral smash hit by miming to the words of Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You." http://www.newslook.com/videos/379915-british-warship-s-christmas-video-a-smash-hit?autoplay=true

[Lady Saera]

04:51 PM on 12/14/2011

That was great, I just viewed the video, thanks for posting that!:)

[FalstaffsMind]

09:15 AM on 12/13/2011

The human race is doomed.

[iskra]

09:32 AM on 12/13/2011

Honey badger don't give a chit! ;)