daily knowledge: after the release of portal 2, valve held a contest to see who could create the best music video for the song written by the national for use in the game, exile vilify
ultimately, two videos were given the number one prize.
one of them was an animated retelling of the lab rat comic:
while the other was a video featuring a really sad sock puppet. it had nothing to do with valve or portal but both they and the band felt it captured the feeling of the song perfectly:
the judges at valve had an exceedingly hard time trying to figure out which video should get the number 1 spot, so they turned to the national to decide. they chose the sock puppet as their favorite but didn't want to leave the second place winner in the dust, so the lab rat retelling got the number 1.00000000001 spot.