Viral Video Film School: Finance

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Brett Erlich explores the wide world of financial magazine Web site videos.Three things you’ll learn? Finance people like to laugh for no reason, have bad hair and make videos “for the rich people, by the rich people.”

What, What in the B – – –

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The Season 12 opener of “South Park” puts an end to some of the Web’s favorite viral videos, including the “Numa Numa” kid. The boys decide to make some cash off of Butters doing an arm-waving dance to the ridiculously infectious song, “What, What in the B – – -.”

BBC Flying Penguins

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This hoax video, made to promote the BBC’s iPlayer, stars Monty Python’s Terry Jones walking among ice floes, exclaiming that penguins can. . .fly! Turns out not everyone got the joke, as several UK newspapers reported on the penguins’ “previously unsuspected piece of adaptation.”