PHILADELPHIA—"Pennsylvania Guys" may not be as cute as Katy Perry or as dapper as Snoop Dogg, whose summertime single "California Gurls" the local videographers are spoofing, but they have a hit on their hands all the same.

The five-minute video by three childhood friends juxtaposes the guys dancing and singing Pennsylvania's praises in front of backdrops from Erie to Philly.

Jason McGuigan of Shamokin, Justin Derr of Sunbury and John Duttinger of Texas—known collectively as Sloppy Secondz—sport Amish suspenders in front of a Weis supermarket, dress like Ben Franklin guzzling a lager in front of Pottsville's Yuengling brewery, and don green wigs and beads on St. Patrick's Day in Scranton.

"It started off with Facebook; we posted the videos on our walls, and it just kind of went from there," said McGuigan, 30, who works at a water testing lab but got to know many Pennsylvania quirks and landmarks during his former job as a truck driver.

The guys show some Pennsylvania love to Clyde Peeling's Reptiland in Allenwood, Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney and Denny's Beer Barrel Pub (home of the 6-pound "Ye Olde 96er" burger) in Clearfield. Even the roadside strongman outside York Barbell gets a cameo, along with Keystone State celebrities Mr. Rogers and Poison, gustatory delights Iron City Beer and Tastykakes, coal, ketchup, polka, and JoePa—longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno.

The five-minute video, which took the trio about three weeks to make, has been viewed more than 200,000 times on YouTube since it went live July 21. Not bad for guys who learned how to make videos a few months ago by watching some YouTube tutorials.

"We're all involved in the lyrics and vocals," McGuigan said. "We have an idea, find a song, find a punch line and put it all together."

They may be new to the technical aspects of their work, but the friends have been making up goofy lyrics together to hit songs since their early teens.

"I have cassette tapes of me doing this since I was 8 years old," said Derr, 31, a part-time food delivery driver. "I always wanted to be heard by doing this, so this is the greatest thing ever right now."

Duttinger came up with the idea for "Pennsylvania Guys" after the group's "I Love Shamokin" and "We're From Snyder County" became local favorites online.

"We had 40,000 (views) of 'Snyder County' within just a few days," McGuigan said. "I believe there's only about 40,000 people in the county, so apparently they all watched the video."

The trio figured the next natural step was to roll out a song that included the whole state, but McGuigan said its instant success took them all by surprise.

"We'd be laughing and saying as a joke that we were going to be famous," he said. "But we didn't know that it would get this kind of attention. It's a little crazy."