Viral Friday Sesame Street:Smell Like A Monster

Written by Eelke Mol on October 15th, 2010 | 5 comments

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.

This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Sesame Street: Smell Like A Monster. Grover tells you how to smell nice using a video that most of us have seen before! The runner up spot is for Banksy Simpsons Intro. Banksy has been asked to create the intro for The Simpsons. And he did. The Mp3 Experiment Seven completes this week’s top 3. Improv Everywhere should probably change their name to ‘Viral Success Everywhere’, they never let us down!

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1. Sesame Street: Smell Like A Monster

I don’t know if this video will make kids watch more Sesame Street. It might make their parents watch it! In this short video Grover steps into the shoes of Isaiah Mustafa to blow you away with some smart techniques also used in the Old Spice videos. Sesame Street has been doing very well on YouTube with their parodies of various pop classics and now they have turned to advertising too. If you want to know more about Grover (and who doesn’t?) you can visit his Facebook page. This video was uploaded last week and already has 4.260.013 views on YouTube.

2. Banksy Simpsons Intro

It’s funny how the regular world can meet up with the artistic world. In this video The Simpsons meet up with the street artist Banksy.
The producers of The Simpsons saw the success of the Banksy movie “Exit Through The Gift Shop” and decided to ask the graffiti artist to work on their opening scene. And the result is magnificent, we see that shady and dark side of The Simpsons and the people who work on the drawings. The video is very successful online, in 3 days it already generated over 850.000 views. This number was even higher but the original has been removed by 20th Century Fox.

3. The Mp3 Experiment Seven

Improv Everywhere’s “Mp3 Experiment Seven” took place in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, with the participation of over 3,000 people that downloaded an MP3 file and pressed play simultaneously in retail stores. From slow dance to be frozen and high five strangers in the street, the masses converged on Bryant Park where a “mummy dance party” was waiting for them. Created by Charlie Todd and Tyler Walker, the video has until now 504.062 views. Next week a bonus video will be released with more footage from the project.

4. Will It Blend?: Old Spice

Anyone who is into virals and online videos knows the online videos from Old Spice and Will It Blend. In this video you get them both in one! Although at first sight it looks like they want to get down and dirty together, in the end Tom Dickson and Isaiah Mustafa‘s lookalike don’t seem to get along so well. Perhaps the creative concept can be repeated with nearly 250,000 views on Youtube in 3 days time.

5. E4: Flashmobbed

E4.com is the British version of geenstijl.nl. This video is actually a parody of the T-mobile viral from 2009 which was very successful. The E4 video also shows a dancing group of people at a public location and that attracts many spectators. Then some people decide to mess up the whole event by putting on different, louder music and showing rowdy behavior towards the dancing group of people, turning the entire thing into chaos. The video might not have a big number of views like the rest of the top 5, the idea of a wake-up call to all those flashmob videos that they should move on to something else isn’t so bad.

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