Awesome Videos

Videogum’s compilation of the best viral videos of 2011. There’s 80 of them crammed in here, from the Dark Side baby to Chuck Testa. Watch the 2010 compilation and decide which year was funnier.

Hannah Hart dips into the egg nog (and rum) to fix us all a delicious gingerbread house. If we were gingerbread men, we’re thinking we wouldn’t want her to architect our homestead.

The first feline nanny we saw was really patient and tolerant, but Stewie the cat takes a more active role – he uses his mystical cat powers on a crying baby to put the young one to sleep.

The music video for Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), a song about wanting to escape from the stale urban landscape and the stagnant cycle of life within it. Interactive version here.

This mesmerizing ad for BBC One plays clips of beautiful wildlife and breathtaking scenes of nature while naturalist David Attenborough narrates the lyrics to What a Wonderful World.

Anna and Arkadiusz Szafraniec, the Glass Duo made Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies all the more dreamy with this impressive glass harp rendition.

Never had one lesson: 59-year-old Brenda Hewlett celebrated her personal holiday on ice by making a 114′ puck shot during halftime at her local hockey team’s game to win a brand new 2012 Ford F-150.

We’ve seen some impressive Xmas light displays over the years, but this installation takes the cake, with 56,100 LEDs, controlled bye a custom-built computer. It’s like Vegas, only in the suburbs.

I am Stealth Cat. I am invisible. You cannot see me. You cannot – okay you can see me. Never mind, I shall now make my escape and vanish right before your eyes. Now you see me, now you don-

The EpicMealTime guys fix a very special Xmas tree, with enough bacon to clog every artery this side of the North Pole. We’re surprised they found branches thick enough to hold cheeseburgers.

This kid has a loose tooth and it’s time for it to go. But he’s not gonna let Dad yank it for him. Nope. He’s tied it up to a Nerf Big Bow, and lets it do the work. Not recommended for impacted molars.

It’s Fruit Ninja gone universal and existential in the music video for Pelican, the single from British indie rockers The Maccabees’ upcoming second album Given to the Wild. Making-of video here.

Who do you think is going to win this fight? The experienced man with the sharpened blade, or the young Ninja woman with the rope? Of course, a gun would be even more effective.

It’s incredible enough that this daring pilot lands his Chinook CH-47 copter right in the middle of the sea without crashing, but you must stick around all the way to the end to see why he did it.

You guys couldn’t get enough of Marquese Scott’s bad-ass dance moves, so here he is once more, dubsteppin’ in the most unlikely location, China’s Great Wall. It’s all too short, and all too awesome.

While we thought the graphics in Battlefield 3 were pretty impressive, they can never approach the detail of this level, shot with actual humans and realistic locations.

The offbeat director created this low-budget “sweded” version of Scorsese’s classic Taxi Driver, played prior to the French premiere of Scorsese’s slightly more family-friendly Hugo.

You’ll have one of those “ho-ly crap” moments about 20 seconds into this clip, as a driver literally has a near-death experience on an icy road in Russia, and manages to emerge unscathed.

Face forward, eyes open, dolly in. You know exactly what we’re talking about. The master filmmaker pulls at our heartstrings, conveying wonder and intense emotion with one simple visual device.

Here’s how the Germans do flash mobs. A woman in a train starts laughing at something in her smartphone, setting off a manic chain of cackling that surely made new passengers feel creeped out.

Here’s another cinematic retrospective for 2011 by YouTuber genrocks, whose trademark unified approach made 230 of the year’s films blend into one glorious, fantasy-sci-fi-dance epic.

Mixing their martial arts skills with Obi-Wan quality lightsaber moves, Team2X and YouTuber GakAttack give us two great tastes that taste great together. Be sure to stay for the ending.

Like the musical ones we enjoy, architect/designer Luis Urculo created his own Covers, a clever short film in which iconic monuments in architecture are reinvented as models with everyday objects.