It’s been one week since Robert E. Kelly’s BBC interview via Skype was interrupted by his young children — an awkward goof that almost immediately became a viral moment. And as with almost all viral moments, it took only a few days for Kelly’s moment to spawn numerous imitators hoping to capitalize on the momentum of the original.

Current knockoffs include a little Star Wars droid interrupting an interview with Darth Vader, friends and families attempting their own personal takes on the clip, and, of course, The Daily Show’s political riff on it, which subs in Sean Spicer, Donald Trump, Ben Carson, and Kellyanne Conway for Kelly and his family.

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