Topeka made a media splash earlier this week when it officially changed its name to “Google, Kansas” in a bid to become a test city for Google’s experimental fiber-optic broadband network.

Other small, broadband-hungry cities around the country have answered the call, too, including Greensboro, North Carolina, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, to name a few. And whether Google intended it to or not, this has definitely become a competition.

Piggybacking off of all the publicity Topeka earned, Duluth, Minnesota, has just released a would-be viral video that pokes fun at the Kansas capital for changing its name to court Google.

In the video, after the real Duluth mayor explains that this is just a friendly joke, a fake mayor decrees that all firstborn males must change their name to “Google Fiber” and all firstborn females to “Googlette Fiber.” Then the mayor comes back on and explains again that it was a joke — as well he should, for Kansans are not to be trifled with.

What do you think? Funny or lame? Are you surprised by the nationwide movement on behalf of smaller communities to get Google fiber?