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Viral Video Chart: Star Wars v Gotye, Google Nexus 7, Aaron Sorkin

Two internet memes collide in a galaxy far far away this week, as Star Wars and Gotye are crammed into one spoof . If that sounds crude, it actually works surprisingly well, with some pointed swipes at the Star Wars prequels and a George Lucas-alike who sings about "all the times I screwed fans over". Just don't expect this to be released on Blu-ray any time soon. It's been a big week for tech, and Google gets makes the chart with a video introducing its Nexus 7 tablet . Also getting in on the act is Microsoft, whose Surface launch seems to have been less well received – just look at the comments on the clip of the tablet stalling during a demo. Finally, there's some animal action this week from a cat taking its owner for a walk , but perhaps the standout clip is a clever cut-up of Aaron Sorkin's most memorable lines . Featuring dialogue from The West Wing, The Social Network, Studio 60 and others, it shows that some of the writer-producer's work is so good he just can't help repeating himself. Guardian Viral Video Chart. Compiled by Unruly Media and chopped around by Dugald. 1 'The Star Wars That I Used To Know' - Gotye 'Somebody That I Used To Know' Parody The farce is strong in this one 2 Monty Python football Archaic clip makes a return for Euro 2012 – "Karl Marx is warming up" 3 Perhaps one of the best anti-smoking ads ever created Kids spark adults' consciences in this Thai anti-smoking ad 4 Janken (rock-paper-scissors) Robot with 100% winning rate Beware the rise of the machines 5 Introducing Nexus 7 Some great features – and the price is right 6 Starry Night - Vincent van Dominogh Flippin' masterpiece 7 Surface presentation FAIL More use as a chopping board? 8 Sorkinisms - A Supercut Imagine the effort it took to put this together 9 Wedding Party Falls into Lake A set-up – or does it wet your appetite for more? 10 How to walk your human Eight out of 10 cats prefer to walk their owner Source: Viral Video Chart . Compiled from data gathered at 0900 on 29 June 2012. The Viral Video Chart is currently based on a count of the embedded videos and links on approximately 2m blogs, as well as Facebook and Twitter.

Source: The Guardian ↗

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