A Twitter Milestone! A Nerd Rave! Kazoos! G4’s Kevin Pereria and Olivia Munn Were the King and Queen of Comic-Con

What the heck were the Comic-Con organizers thinking?

 

Kevin Pereria and Olivia Munn, the co-hosts of G4’s Attack of the Show, who rule over fan boys and girls like few other people on television and telecast their show live from the Comic-Con floor every year, found themselves stuck in a relatively small room that seated about 325 people for their Con panel on Friday. Smart Con-goers sat through a previous panel in the room for Nickelodeon’s The Fairly Odd-parents just to have a seat for the AOTS hour, so only a couple dozen of the more than 1500 people waiting in line for it got in. The others were turned away, and they weren’t happy about it. No access to Kevin and Olivia? I thought there would be a riot but, as always, the Con attendees proved to be a mellow bunch, even when they are grievously disappointed.

 

The unfortunate hundreds missed a wild session. Attendees were given kazoos and asked to play the AOTStheme song when Kevin and Olivia, contributor and comic book aficionado Blair Butler and producers Joshua Brentano and Vinny Rutherford entered the room – this in addition to a standing ovation.

 

“Olivia, have my baby!” cried one desperate audience member.

 

“Kevin, lick my back!” cried an even more desperate person.

 

“Comic-Con is all about the fans!” Olivia declared to an ear-splitting response. “Things live and die here!” Her obvious love of all things Con explained her cheerful acceptance of some of the ruder remarks from the audience and her eagerness to autograph the recent Playboy that featured her on its cover. (The Playboy cover was plastered all over an ice-cream truck that parked on various Gaslamp District streets during the Con. The top of the truck displayed a sign that read “Olivia Munn is Hot!” Ice cream was dispersed to her overheated fans.)

 

“There are seven million people in line outside,” Pereria told the crowd. “We want to make each and every one of them insanely jealous by tweeting how bad ass this panel is!” It would be, panel members raved, the largest mass tweet ever. Tweeters in the room were given a special code to include in their tweets to prove they were actually there. The top three tweets, Kevin promised, would be shared with the room at the end of the session and the crowd would vote for their favorite.

 

Sure enough, after a raucous 45 minutes or so, the top three tweets were revealed on a big screen:

 

“Hey, who are these people? I thought I was in line for The Big Bang Theory.”

 

“OMG, they’re playing naked grease tag while kazooing to the final countdown.”

 

“I think it just cured my cancer. Never mind … it’s still there.”

 

The winner was the tasteless cancer tweet. The winner received a framed autographed poster featuring his two heroes.

 

The session concluded with what Kevin described as a nerd rave (likely the first on these in the history of the Con). As the lights dimmed, the people in the room went nuts, dancing, playing the AOTS theme on their kazoos and waving glo-sticks that had been handed out at the start.