Sammy the Shoplifting Seagull was my favorite viral video of the year, but that changed when Kotaku posted about this today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n72Co7FkO4E

I'm generally not a big fan of cosplay, but those costumes are fantastic and the performance even more so. Way better than any of the EBA contest entries from earlier this year.

That was fraggin' awesome.  Somehow, I just knew they were going to do "SSAY," even before I watched the video.  Great moves, great choreography..... I kept waiting for a giant spinner to suddenly appear on stage. ;)

Too bad they didn't have Aoi or Anna, though.  And they really needed to train a live kitty cat to play Neko.

Sparkling Wiggles

Shoes! (you HAVE to watch it all the way through)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wCF3ywukQYA

Runner up:

Chocolate Rain  (yes, funny as it may sound, that's Tay's real voice...he also plays the keyboards, which are pretty damn funky, and if you listen to the lyrics, they're actually a powerful and poignant commentary on racism)

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA

He was even invited to play the song live on the Jimmy Kimmel show within a few months of posting this video on YouTube (check out the reactions of the people in the audience...they're like WTF?!?!) ahahaha:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ak_3tau58

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=0SgRGSk_wlc

His screams echo far into the night...

This one gets funnier every time I see it. I wish I knew why.

Edit: Forgot to post the link. God, I'm an idiot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGuw09cHHz4

My vote goes to the Phoenix Wright Boot to the Head vid.

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

There isn't a single video on youtube I've watched more than this one, and I love it everytime.
Best damn sprite adaptation I've ever seen.
The one with the Japanese subtitles was handled extremely well too.

I think your videos "of the year" belong in 2006. You're a little behind the times, friend. These are all good, but I was watching Shoes and Chocolate Rain this time last year.

YouTube videos for THIS year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQVieHqQtnc -- okay, David Blaine Street Magic started last year, but part 2 was great, and part 3 is on its way. I love this thing.

WHAT THE EFF!!??

Also good are ... welll ... pretty much everything Andy Samberg did this year. Observe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glsaPdAY … re=related -- DEAR SISTER (mocking the 2nd season finale of the OC, over-using an amazing song by Imogen Heap to the point where it gets absurd)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-4hREK3yt4 -- ROY RULES! (Andy Samberg creeps out his brother-in-law. Best lines: "succulent rub downs" ... "in my dreams he's dressed like a pirate and my dong is his peg-leg")

http://video.aol.com/partner/hulu/satur … pnMxWx4RT8 -- this one is SO popular that NBC has worked their asses off keeping it OFF of YouTube (I'll you'll find are crappy parodies of the original). So here it is: Andy Punches people right before they eat. It's repetitive. It's genius.

EDIT -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs&feature=user -- a lot of CollegeHumor vids are lame, but the "Minesweeper the Movie" trailer is excellent. If you play MineSweeper as often as once a week, or more, you'll totally relate.

That's all I got. for now.

I saw this one awhile back on Attack of the Show.  It's just so random!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txWu2yWp2bM

I'm still laughing from that. I love the sound she makes!

Wait a second...you mean this ISN'T 2006?  Oh man...Where am I?  Who am I?!?  Why do I smell like sagebrush? 

Shoes the Full Version...  Added:  05 February 2007
"Chocolate Rain" Original Song by Tay Zonday... Added:  22 April 2007

How??

Because those posts weren't when they originally hit the scene. Here's "Shoes" minus the skit (but the skit existed, I promise you)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HjIljJd-o0 -- Added: May 05, 2006

As for Chocolate Rain ... yeah it was on YouTube as of April 2007, but I'm almost sure I'd heard the song before the YouTube post. Either way I may have been wrong about Chocolate Rain.

On another note:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x2W12A8Qow

CHERRY CHOCOLATE RAIN. Tay Zonday becomes *ridiculous* and sells his song to Dr. Pepper. This is amazing.

As for my personal fave, gonna have to go with the "Nora: Practice Makes Purr-fect" set. Burn them ivories, cool kat!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ860P4iTaM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0zgQAp7EYw

My favorie is the Guyz Nite Die Hard music video.  Sure, it wasn't originally made in 2007, but the 4th verse was added in 2007, so whatever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY

Oh god, a friend of mine just showed these to me. They win SO hard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRuNxHqwazs -- POWERTHIRST

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3qncy5Qfk -- POWERTHIRST 2 Re-Domination!

There are only a few things in life that can make me laugh so uncontrollably hard that I *hurt* and demand the humor stop so I can catch my breath.

That "thing" came in 1:18 - 1:28 in Powerthirst 2. It's SO ridiculous!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrPW6HN0bBk There's Zeta Gundam punch scenes set to Street Fighter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IUyqenD7kU Same video set to Smash Brothers.

Laughed my ass off :P:P

Hell yeah! Powerthirst is hilarious!
A youtube classic...it'll be around in years, so you can show it to your 400 BABIES!

King of the Juice!!  Classic!

That's one of the funniest things I've seen in a loooooooooong time.  Definitely the winner for 2007.  I thought part two was even funnier than the first one.  "MANANA...FIZZBITCH...and GUN!" "You'll feel like a fighter jet made out of BICEPS!"  "When God gives you lemons....FIND A NEW GOD!"

God help me. Does it make me an awful person if I laughed really hard at this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U765K8vnS8

This does not get old. Ever.

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

OMGGGGG. And this one! I just laughed so hard I almost puked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ZcbmhBPxo

Watch the woman's face on the left when someone says "Stop". Then... well, you know.

This reminds me of Will Ferrell's "Dissing Your Dog" sketch on SNL years back. The difference is his putdowns are a little more sophisticated yet at the same time more cruel. I can't find a video of it but here is a video of someone re-enacting part of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKkKM_dOE30

I think I seen that. I just liked the cat guy better because he was so intense. 'JUMP, YOU f---ing BITCH", or "I WILL END YOU!". I was laughing almost all the way through.

I believe I may have you all beat. 

Ladies and Gentlemen:  The Best Cat Jump Evah!

I swear I must have watched this about 10 times when I first saw it and, to this day, it still cracks me up.  It was added '06, so forgive me if anyone's seen it, but it was just introduced to me.