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Can you hear me now?

His death is proving to be a rebirth

in comic book sales.

Well, Gary, what Nintendo's sports game

would you like to play?

Remember a time not long ago,

when we came together to celebrate the things we all loved,

all the things we cared about?

I thought it was the best.

It was like the merging of my tech world,

and the social pop world, and the movie world.

And it was really like predicting

where we are now.

There wasn't anything else

on television like that.

Yes sir, yes man, yes sir.

Jump, Olivia!

Oh shit!

First of all,

if I were to just start apologizing for the things

that we did wrong 10 years ago,

this show would never end.

I miss doing "Attack of the Show"

on a daily basis. I, I loved it.

It was like the best time of my life.

So it's about finding a new a, a, a place that,

where a network like G4 could live.

And I think it's important and I would love to watch it,

but for me personally, I miss it.

I miss it every day.

"Attack of the Show" united all of us into one,

giant, nerdy family.

Ignorance is bliss and it made for really good TV.

My name is Chris Gore and if you were a fan of G4 TV,

or "Attack of the Show" back in the day,

you may have a vague memory of who I was.

I was the "DVDuesday" guy,

and I was there from the very beginning.

This is the story of G4 TV and "Attack of the Show"

as told by the people who work behind the scenes,

and they've got a lot of stories to tell.

Introducing G4,

the next level of network television.

I'm game!

G4 is the only network dedicated

to the world of interactive entertainment.

Let's bring out the heavy artillery.

And G4 was really one of the very last

cable channels ever launched.

It was the end of this sort of linear cable era,

before we got to streaming,

and whatever the fuck it is, we watch now.

Pong started on

April 24th. It ran for seven days, and nights.

Full 24 hours a day.

The very first show on our network

was a show called Blister about action games.

Hey, I'm Bill Sindelar,

and you are watching Blister where the action's big,

and my ego is even bigger.

Honestly, the very early iterations of shows were

well, let's think about the different types of video games.

There are action video games. Okay, that's "Blister".

There are sports video games, okay, that's "Sweat".

There was a show about multiplayer games called "Arena".

And so they were just very generic because nobody knew

how to make, at that point, content about video games.

We were figuring it out as we went.

G4 from 2002 to 2004 was growing, but it's slow.

In 2002, G4 TV and Tech TV,

were two completely different entities.

Comcast purchased Tech TV,

in order to help boost G4's viewer base, basically.

Live from the Tech TV studios in San Francisco.

It's the Screen Savers.

The first email's from Rick, he says, I'm just curious,

I read that Comcast is going to buy Tech TV. Is that true?

Yes, it is true.

The sale happened, or rather, the agreement

happened yesterday, and then we're waiting.

It takes a couple of months, maybe a month

for regulatory approval, and at that point,

we'll be merged with G4, which is their gaming channel.

And uh-

That's pretty much all we know.

That's all we know.

It was definitely tough on the people

who came from San Francisco.

But as you can see, this week's ratings are down.

So who's turn is it to be taken out back and shot?

More people left from that network than, you know,

G4 when the move happened.

Meanwhile, it was incredibly positive and happy,

in Southern California. We all thought, great.

The network's gonna get bigger.

We'll finally be able to be Nielsen rated.

You're using the finest home entertainment service

available anywhere.

For a while there, for a few months,

after the purchase, it, the whole thing was rebranded

G4 Tech TV.

Before it was then rebranded again to just G4 TV.

Oh! Whoops.

At some, point post G4 Tech TV becoming G4.

There was a need to revamp the Screen Savers.

Ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Screen Savers,

I'm Patrick-

There was an internal contest,

to think of a new name for the show.

And they had asked everybody,

and that was one of the beautiful things about that network.

Anybody can have a good idea. If they love the show,

if they love what it stands for,

then their creative output could be the thing

that is the linchpin into where the show goes next,

or what that iconic name could be.

If I recall the prize for

coming up with the new name was, uh, like an iPod Video,

maybe an iPod nano. This was, you know,

it was a different time.

I was working with Mike Shaw at the time.

I remember him kind of spit-balling all these ideas,

and then he ended up coming up with this manifesto.

And I might be remembering this wrong,

but I feel like Mike Shaw stood up and read it

with this passionate, we're not football,

we're Lord of the Rings.

And it just hit the nail on the head.

I get emotional just talking about it,

because I'm like, yes, yes, that's it.

That's who we are.

Pick up on this.

♪ Attack ♪

♪ Attack of the Show ♪

♪ Attack ♪

But there was something about "Attack of the Show",

exclamation point, that felt very much like

what we were trying to go for.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

Why'd you go?

No you were supposed to-

And what the founding fathers of the network

were trying to go for something unique, something different,

something a little meta.

Something that was going to kind of turn the mirror

back onto pop culture and kind of spit in its face,

but, but then wipe it off and give you a kiss

at the same time.

Oh yes.

Sharon.

God, I love you.

Hey man.

What's up Chris? How you doing man? God,

your hair hasn't changed at all. Dude, that's ridiculous.

Uh, look man. I really need a favor.

Oh, you're here to interview me for the doc.

Yes. I knew you'd come by.

I'm in. Let's do it.

Actually, no.

So,

what do you, well no like, we'll,

No.

Well, uh, okay, so what's up?

I could really use some songs.

Yeah, all right.

Later bro.

♪ Have you heard sir? There's gonna be a merger. ♪

♪ No, you're wrong sir. That's just absurd, sir. ♪

♪ That's the word sir. G4 is gonna submerge Tech TV. ♪

♪ It's a dream merger for nerds, sir. ♪

♪ Look, I know what you're thinking. Man, I can't stand ya. ♪

♪ Zack, you're a Jewish wannabe Lin Manuel Miranda. ♪

♪ Ha. But it happened just like they warned you. ♪

♪ The G4 TV world was formed. ♪

The first time I remember meeting Kevin Pereira.

I think he was an intern on a show that was awkwardly titled

G4 TV.com.

Kevin was my assistant, he was my PA.

I once was a PA at the network,

getting balance bars and coffee.

And then one day in the lunchroom, an executive producer

for another show called "Arena",

asked me if I had any interest in being on camera.

And I looked around and I didn't see a couch, it felt safe.

And I said, yes.

I think you're gonna be the best host ever.

Really?

You really got it kid.

Wow. Thanks Sarah. I appreciate it.

Have a good day.

Yeah, I will. You too.

All right.

All right.

Awesome. Yeah.

Yeah, it's gonna be great.

He was doing some internet radio show

that had a little bit of a following,

that might be how Scott found him.

And so I'm sitting there

and while I'm using my little Johnson baby shampoo,

some gets in my eyes and although it says no tears

on the bottle, let me tell you that stuff burns.

Okay? My eyes were red.

You have to work as a team here to survive here in "Arena".

Well, team-

There was some sort of issue with Wil Wheaton,

and the other host of "Arena."

Trying to say is that they-

Okay "Campy McCamp Camp".

You know what? Maybe I should camp you.

All right go ahead, why don't you do that camper.

I'm going to watch the pirate ship sink.

Why don't you do that.

Kevin ended up Hosting "Arena",

which was this sort of LAN party competitive gaming show.

It was just really clear that even though he was young,

even though he couldn't grow a real mustache,

he was super talented and super witty,

and it kind of didn't matter what you wrote in the script

because he was just gonna go,

I've been really sick,

I still am a little bit. So there will be phlegm,

I promise at some point in the show today.

Neat.

Perhaps it might land on you,

Neat.

Sarah, if you're lucky.

He had always wanted to be on camera and you know,

rightfully so, he's good on camera.

Bye kids.

And our director at the time said,

we can never put that kid on camera.

He was scrawny and his jawline wasn't, uh,

he looked like a little tiny kid, right?

And he just wasn't the image of male hunk-ness

that your typical host or television personality would have.

So, clearly that director has since been proven wrong,

since Kevin did get his shot on camera,

and he did great at it.

Who the hell is that d-bag?

Welcome to the "Console Pit".

We're about to get it on in "Burnout 2".

Oh nice molester stash. Yeah, that's it.

Oh, and a Canadian tuxedo.

Real classy.

I honestly don't remember

if he had the mustache when I was with him.

You said, oh look at the mustache.

Well the mustache is the best part.

He was a TV host,

who was also a production assistant on another show,

which on the one hand is like insulting,

but on the other hand is like,

that's kind of how G4 was that time.

I was just impressed as hell

that he was finding a path as a career

in this space, so efficiently and so quickly,

and just impressed by his talent.

Guy was good mustache or not.

Oh!

What?

Kevin, you do know who that is, right?

Let's let the fur fly in Unreal Tournament.

Yeah, it's, uh, it's Shia LaBeouf.

The Transformers kid.

No, it's you.

That's not-

Shut, shut up, get outta of here.

Close, close the door.

Lots of lead punishment.

It is me

So let's get to the action,

and see what happens in "SOCOM 2".

Kinda hot.

Kevin Pereira was basically the Bugs Bunny

of "Attack of the Show". He was there to disrupt everything.

You know, right before we went live,

I'd hear a three, two, one, go.

And Kevin had just shown me "Two Girls, One Cup",

and I have a horrified look on my face.

Sarah Lane came into my office and said,

"I don't think I want to do this anymore.

I'm kind of burnt out".

And I said, "Okay, give me enough time

to find someone to replace you,

and then we'll just get you out of this".

So my friend sent me a series of VHS resume tapes,

and one of them with the name Lisa Munn on it,

included a young woman who was shown doing

sideline reporting from the University of Oklahoma

football games. And as it turns out, that was Olivia Munn.

Olivia had just done a show called "Beyond the Break"

in a small role about surfer girls in Hawaii.

Other than that, she had no credits whatsoever.

I took Lisa Munn, who now Olivia Munn,

and about a dozen other candidates

and brought them in and Kevin did a 10 minute sequence

of "Attack of the Show" with each of them.

And there were many who were not right for it at all.

Whitney Cummings, as a matter of fact,

was one of the people who came in and auditioned.

Everyone loved her, she was incredible.

There was no one better than Whitney Cummings

until Olivia Munn came on set.

Hello everybody,

welcome to "Attack of the Show".

It's Monday, April 10th.

I'm Kevin Pereira and I am honored. It is a privilege,

to welcome our new co-host because it,

it says it right there on the prompter.

I had a little trouble sounding it out.

Olivia Munn, ladies and gentlemen, come on now.

Olivia brought a lot to that show.

She brought her voice, she brought her attitude,

she brought her energy.

Hello Governors.

I am Olivia Munn.

I'll be playing the part of Strawberry Field.

She was relatively unknown but was like, so pro.

Hi everybody. I'm Olivia Munn,

and I know that Kevin and Chris are hosting the show today,

so it might be missing a feminine touch.

So I thought I'd inject a little femininity into the show.

So here you go.

Vagina, vagina, vagina.

Kevin's mom's vagina, Kevin's vagina, coochie, vagina.

My vagina is a little itchy right now. Vagina.

Thanks, vagina. Bye.

She sold everything that we wrote for her.

She delivered amazingly.

No-

They smell really fresh and

musty. Okay cool!

I watched in these rehearsals

where Olivia held her own and came up with things

that were just as crazy as what they were suggesting.

She wasn't really afraid of much,

but she was afraid of snakes and I, I,

I believe there was one episode where we had her lay

on the couch and we dumped a bunch of snakes on her,

and I, I just remember being like, wow.

Munn, I'm proud of you.

That's, that took, that took some guts, come on.

Kevin, uh.

Olivia Munn.

She's really ready to do anything

to make sure this show is successful.

Drop the muffin.

Hi, I'm Wonder Woman.

Superhero,

celebrity,

and your guide to office safety.

There's something that that can be said about

when you know that someone has it, that star quality thing.

And she had great chemistry with Kevin on camera.

They were such a great team.

Yes, bigger.

Oh.

What is it? How is that gonna get attention. There we go.

Work them dollars.

I think initially, Olivia was

trying her hardest to get a sense of the

workings of the show.

Camera turning where to, you know, sort of be.

Like when she could chime in and do a bit.

How she could get a reaction from a camera.

She's like, "What are you doing? I love you so much,

why are you cheating on me? With that girl with-

Hey camera guy,

you're only encouraging this crap.

Stop with the slow push and cut to Pereira.

Thank you.

Now, just because epic- Oh man.

You know, just because Epic April is over,

it doesn't mean we still don't get unnecessarily angry

about things. Right Olivia?

Yeah. I mean she's a great actress.

That's right.

But she is a brilliant comedian,

and that's why she was able to hold her own with Kevin,

'cause she can play blue just as much as him.

Olivia, um. Even, I don't know where that's been.

I don't swallow with Kevin.

And Kevin was trying to figure out, you know,

what can I get away with.

Dudes just want to have sex with them.

Really terribly.

Ah.

Oh my God!

And it was amazing because

it would just be a fun game for them to see,

what troll-y joke can I just slip in here?

There's your special edition right there, Chris Gore.

I just, I just realized the forum trap

of the animated gif of this.

He's you know, naturally so gifted

at just going, and going, and going.

There's a release.

Come here buddy! Who's my buddy? Who's my-

Sony 3.1.

Oh shit!

Oh God, that felt so good.

Kevin, are you okay?

Fantastic.

That had to hurt. Kevin, you hit your head.

Do you know if, when you bleed internally.

I had heard about Kevin a little bit

from Jim Downs and from Scott Rubin.

You know, like, oh there's this kid that we're bringing in

now that is a little on the green side,

but he's got a lot of passion. He obviously knows his shit.

A storm is coming.

Oh, just stop doing that.

There was something so exciting

about watching the onscreen talent evolve on camera.

Oh my God.

Yeah. Yeah.

Watching someone who truly had, you know,

very little experience in the, in that field,

and being on camera like that and being the voice

of a network, because Kevin was us.

These are terrible.

These are like, these are the worst things ever.

ATM breaking, monkey washes cat.

We didn't come up with these, some set designer did.

"OMGROFLOL!" has now become an inside joke for our show.

It's one of the worst things ever.

And then Gadget Pron. Reviews of latest gadgets

and latest and greatest tech. Really?

Okay. They're watching the show. They get it.

Kevin, he had all of this stuff,

but it was also kind of, you know,

subversive 4Chan dark comedy, you know, kind of stuff,

which was great. It was always really good for big laughs.

You have an increased risk of becoming bipolar.

Guess what, Munn? Didn't need a DNA test to tell me that.

Psycho!

And she'd come up with something

even better.

Can't detect sweat, smell very well.

And that's fair because if you're around him,

as you boys are, he smells like poop.

He's also more susceptible to getting AIDs.

Wrap that little thing up.

What? Oh come on!

Wrap it up!

I think the Cholula incident

tells you everything you need to know

about that relationship.

Our Lady of Cholula.

Mmhmm.

Oh my gosh!

Oh Cholula!

Woo!

Let's get to it.

You know, in rehearsals we thought

it was literally gonna go like two shots,

and that Olivia will give up.

Woo!

Well Kevin kept pushing it.

He said, "Well I'm gonna do another one,

because I wanna make her do another one.

Three! Three! Three! Three!

And then she did another one,

and I think it ended up being eleven.

Ah!

The two of them spent the night

on the toilet.

I've been doing broadcast for over 25 years.

I've been in a lot of places,

and seen a lot of co-hosts and stuff.

And I don't recall a time where there was

an instant chemistry like with Olivia and Kevin.

Do you want me to hit you? Because I will hit you.

I'll hit you live on TV, with your parents watching.

That would not be nice, because maybe some of that

cornstarch would come out of your hair and get-

♪ Kevin and Olivia, it was all about you. ♪

♪ But guess what? There were some other hosts too, ♪

♪ like Sarah Lane and Brendan back in the day, see. ♪

♪ Will O'Neal, "The Feed" with Layla Kayleigh ♪

♪ and Kevin Rose. ♪

♪ He kind of made it big. Founded Digg, got paid. ♪

♪ Way better gig. ♪

♪ I figure you recall my days on the show, ♪

♪ with Blair Butler and Kristin Holt, ♪

♪ and Chris Hardwick and so many, many more. ♪

♪ Oh and sometimes they use that guy named Chris Gore. ♪

Sometimes.

When they brought Chris Gore into the fold

as part of "Attack of the Show", to me as a huge fan

of transgressive cinema and punk rock film,

that to me was a vote of confidence.

Time to recline the La-Z-Boy. It's "DVDuesday".

Welcome back our film expert, Chris Gore.

Thank you.

Thank you folks.

I loved doing "DVDuesday" and the "Rapid Fire",

"Longest Yard". Best football movie ever.

You've got "Slap Shot". Best hockey-

This was the segment where Chris

had to review a stack of DVDs in about like,

I think it was 30 seconds or a minute.

And he would give like a quick review of a movie and then

toss the DVD cover and move on to the next one.

And it was always fun to watch him fumble through it,

and do as many as he could.

Sometimes he was able to go through the stacks.

Sometimes he, he wasn't, but always fun to watch.

And then from there the wheels were off the bus.

You can get another light bulb, right?

Eh.

Yeah. No big deal. Check it out.

Whoa. That's cool.

And it's on fire.

It's actually on fire now, which is, well blog it.

Any wacky idea, we could see if it sticks.

Yeah, I noticed the, the arrow looks

reversed here for some reason.

Well, it is.

And that can cause tire damage, right?

You know, this small server is gonna go

past these little muscles and rest for a small period

of time up here in the lower part of the colon.

How come I don't hear the theme from

"2001: A Space Odyssey?"

Oh man.

Oh, what is going on?

That doesn't feel right.

What is going on right now?

And we're we're as far as we need to be today.

That's perfect.

Well that's it?

We're in.

We're in. Oh God.

The reason this is cool is that you can see it for yourself.

Head on over to you, your ass got served,

and you will be viewing a webpage that is literally

being served up from inside of our participant.

Be part of history. It's being made right now,

and it's disturbing to say the least.

Kevin and Olivia jumping into the pie.

I think that's probably one of the seminal moments.

The world has been waiting for a

half-Chinese, half-American girl, from the Midwest,

diving into a giant chocolate film cre-, filled cream pie.

My friends, this is America at its finest.

Drink it up.

And they made this giant pie,

I guess it was a world record and they were trying for that.

We had bought out every can of pudding

in the LA area, and it was just this huge project

in the studio.

Three, two, one!

Jump Olivia!

When Olivia first jumped in the pie,

they had a little pad at the bottom,

so she didn't hurt herself,

but she missed the pad, or jumped past the pad,

and her knees hit the concrete floor.

She was just doubled over in pain.

Luckily she hid it, but it was pretty hurt.

Unbeknownst to me, Kevin decided,

so that she wouldn't feel super uncomfortable,

we had a French made costume underneath his tuxedo,

and he jumped in.

He kind of went in more diving style.

He, he landed more on, on his butt.

This is what America can accomplish. Huh?

I still can't hear outta my right ear.

What? What happened?

There's pudding in it.

Should I blow it to the other side?

Yes, clear out.

Oh, oh, oh!

Apparently the pudding got into everything,

and so they had to get everything cleaned out,

and then it took two days with a septic truck

to actually empty that whole thing out.

I thought your knee popped out.

I thought we were going the ambulance again.

Even Andy was like, "I could hear that. That was bad".

By then, the studio stunk really bad

because all this pudding. It had just gone horribly wrong.

Well thanks Internet for making this a,

this a possibility. You know, I don't know if I'd say

it was a dream of mine, but it was someone's dream,

and look what happened, huh?

These were the kinds of things

that just happened on a regular basis.

We would read through these skits, and they were super funny

and we would carry them out live on TV.

And then, one of these two would just do something

that would bring an extra panache to whatever it was

we were doing.

♪ Attack of the Show. Attack. ♪

National Major League Gaming championships.

Then it turns out McHammer isn't dead, or so he says. And-

Kevin picked up on it right away

and Olivia was like, what?

Hey McHammer don't hurt him.

Did I say something wrong?

Yeah. No, no. I mean, no, you're fine.

Jeff Bridges kicks it-

He finally pointed it out to her.

Was is McHammer?

It's MC Hammer!

It's her reaction to it,

and the embarrassment of it. Boy is it spectacular.

Is that Ronald McDonald

with parachute pants from the eighties?

And then the forums would just light up,

and then become something bigger than it is.

Thanks McHammer!

Someone had the idea to do the "McHammer" thing

and hire Kel to play McHammer.

It's McHammer Time. McHammer,

Too legit,

too legit to quit baby!

Yeah!

See?

We have to get him into studio sometime.

We need to, so we can

teach you how to dance.

Oh no, you don't have to wait for McHammer.

McHammer's here!

My, my, my, my name's McHammer.

Oh my, I like shakes and fries.

Don't you,

wanna eat my double McNugget, baby move your feet.

Oh!

And that just all spawned from a,

a live natural moment.

That's part of the, the magic of that show.

Quite thrust-y.

He's breaking in down like a Big Mac

for the camera ladies and gentlemen.

One week, I told executive producer

Gavin Purcell that I couldn't do "DVDuesday".

I had to go to Comic-Con and Gavin asked me,

"Comic-Con, what's that? A convention for comedians?"

And I said, no, it's San Diego Comic-Con

is the biggest pop culture convention in the world.

So that week right after DVDuesday,

I jumped in my car and drove to San Diego.

Hey man, I gotta pee.

Well you should have thought about that

before we left Chris.

Listen, we're halfway to Comic-Con.

Just hold it. You can pee when we get there.

You'll be fine. Everybody's fine.

Avengers assemble bitch, yeah!

What does that, what does does that mean?

Avengers assemble.

All right. I don't know what that means and,

Avengers assemble.

Yeah, that's, that's great.

You don't need to raise this roof up.

I know, but I'm like hulking out. It's our nerd cry.

But don't Hulk out in the car.

Just don't hit the roof.

Okay.

Don't test me!

All right, all right.

Hey Blair, you think I can read one of your comics?

You have like 20 boxes back here.

Actually those are my "Film Threat" magazines.

Then, where the are my comics?

Don't worry, I put 'em on the roof.

What?

No. Blair? No. No.

In the car, in the car. You're fine.

My comics!

Your comics are fine. Everybody's fine.

Anybody want to hear some humorous,

country rock twang?

No. No. Zach, no.

Zach! There will be no humorous, country rock twang

while I'm driving. Zach, thank you though.

You know what? Don't test me on this.

Go Host arena. Okay, pal?

Excuse me sir.

Do you have any Grey Poupon?

Any who, I'm just gonna,

take my sweet invisible jet, and fight Cheetah,

rape Steve Trevor, probably in that order.

So,

just see you "dork-o"s later.

Uh, hey guys. I don't have to pee anymore.

Dude, Gore!

Are you kidding me?

Obviously you don't have to anymore either.

Avengers assemble, bitch.

Don't touch the roof!

E3 and Comic-Con to me were, you know,

the linchpins to G4.

Nobody was really that familiar with Comic-Con

back in those days,

but when we actually made it to our first Comic-Con

in San Diego, that was, that was a pretty amazing time.

And I really feel those are the shows that cemented G4

as a up and coming cool channel.

We're about to enter every comic book geeks fantasy

right now.

This is Comic-Con!

They had never allowed a television network

to put a stage in and broadcast an entire television show

live from inside the convention.

And I convinced them to let us do it.

And they didn't realize the flood gates

that they were opening.

No other TV show has ever broadcasted live

from this monster event.

So be prepared to witness history in the making.

Guinness is here.

Guinness is here.

They are watching.

They put us right inside the main entrance

on a stage that was only one foot off the floor.

Thousands of fans refused to move, blocking the entrance,

because they wanted to watch "Attack of the Show" live.

It was so successful that the next year they allowed us

to build a two-story stage so that our hosts

could actually be above Comic-Con,

and we still clogged up all the aisles.

Yes. You look great, you look great.

I'm, I'm glad you decided to join me.

What do you mean join you? What do you?

You're supposed to dress up with me.

Can you tell who I am? Hmm.

No.

Green Lantern. What?

There's my ring.

Done.

What?

Green Lantern! Yeah.

No, no, no, no.

The challenges at those spaces

were size limitations, number one.

They work really hard,

work really hard.

The sheer amount of crowd,

and it wasn't even as crowded back then, as it is now.

Like, I'd see the pictures

from the guys who went and it was, it was insane.

Like you, you couldn't go on your lunch break more than

to the bathroom, because it was such an insane asylum.

So it was hard to get over to the stage,

get prepped.

You're working in the trailers,

then you gotta come out to the production trucks.

I could've gave you a chair.

Then you gotta run

all the way to the stage within five minutes,

because your next segment's coming up.

Day one was insane, man.

Genji] Doing those shows helped both Comic-Con,

and G4 get to bigger heights.

Ten years, twelve years later, it's just massive.

And I think those shows had a lot to do with it,

and it's exposing it to, you know,

an audience that maybe wasn't quite sure.

Maybe they just didn't know a whole lot about

what was going on out there.

They were, those were some of the best times.

Before then, Comic-Con was probably

only covered by a San Diego local news person

standing outside the convention center saying,

"Oh, this is crazy. There's a lot of people here."

Versus actually doing coverage,

which I think also kind of coincided with

television networks and, and, and movie studios

realizing, hey, if there are people here,

we should have a presence here to help build our movie.

Now when they hold that convention,

so many of the people who attend are people from Hollywood,

from the movies, from television,

from all forms of the media.

They're looking for the next great idea,

that might be in comic books.

Huh?

You're at Comic-Con?

Yes, I am.

You wanna say that loud with excitement?

I'm at Comic-Con!

Behold.

Today, the console war reaches new heights

and only one network brings it to you live.

When I arrived at G4,

they had only aired the press events from E3.

So I said, let's take these press events,

and put our hosts in front of them.

Geez. Hey everybody welcome to E3 '06 Live.

Let's do post shows where we talk to people

about what they just saw. Let's take what is coverage,

and make it content. And within two years,

we've turned it into 25 hours of live television.

Microsoft knows the console

is up against some stiff competition

in the form of the PlayStation 3, but they're counting

on the success of Xbox Live and a few key exclusives

to really save the day.

We'd go down there,

and shoot this mega, mega content.

is in the house!

We would capture it for three, four days,

and a stream of live packages right into, uh,

the live show and the countdown ticker

for when we'd be dropping information.

We're gonna break news here.

Sessler, and Morgan. They were,

they were so into the games.

I'm so excited!

They would always ask great questions,

that would lead to a little nugget of information

about the game that they would possibly try to leak to us

before anybody else. And that was like their specialty.

What's inside it? We didn't hear much

in the way of the specs. I think, I think, Bill Gates

actually kind of rattled 'em off very quickly

We've got secrets, you'll see some stuff at retail.

It's a monster inside, man.

There's a monster inside, I mean,

are there, are there any numbers?

ATI is doing this really, really great

custom graphics card for us, with 10 megabytes

of embedded DRAM, that's gonna let programmers

just do amazing things with graphics.

All right. It's an exciting and a stressful time.

There's no question, if anyone could handle it.

It is J. Allard.

It was a surreal broadcasting space

where it came together and we were making this television

where kids were tapped into this event.

And it's something that I've grown up with

my entire video game life.

And so it was really cool to watch,

and be a part of to make that.

And it's one of the most

satisfying things we did at G4

is we became the home for E3.

No one covered that convention the way we did,

and it was a communal experience,

and we owned that convention. I'm very proud of that.

Technology, the fastest moving force

in the galaxy, engineered by the smartest minds

on the planet.

The CES stuff in Vegas.

I remember going out, doing karaoke,

having beers with everybody, and then hoping everybody

made it to the set at 7:00 AM for the call time.

It was always an adventure.

♪ I'm up my gear and I'm heading to the desert. ♪

♪ Got some microchips and beer, ♪

♪ and nothing rhymes with desert. ♪

♪ Quadruple graphics cards for my DSLRs. ♪

♪ I don't care that there's no apples. ♪

♪ They got robot guitars. ♪

We would go to GDC,

the Game Developer's Conference,

where we would go to San Francisco, and we would watch devs

make a video game in 24 hours, and then also check out

what other video game developers were putting out

at the time. And it was really exciting to be

in the space to see which game's coming out next.

If you're a gamer, that kind of thing is very special

to be involved with, to be able to see that thing firsthand.

The Tokyo Game Show is finally here, folks

and what a show it is. Over 600 titles out on that floor.

Three next generation consoles, all battling it out.

Jockeying for the number one position.

We started going to Tokyo for Tokyo Game Show.

And we were there for 17 days and it was absolutely

fucking nuts.

Welcome to Tokyo,

the coolest city on the planet.

6,000 miles away, and two steps ahead.

All the stuff that we filmed in Tokyo,

we would stay in Shinjuku. And me, and Kevin, and Sessler,

a bunch of the producers, were told very, very strictly.

Do not go to sleep when you get to the hotel.

Oh, hope that is.

So all of us go out to karaoke

until four or five o'clock in the morning and then pass out.

Kevin.

We would do stuff like that.

Everybody was fearless.

I mean we would go out, and we would eat anything.

We would go anywhere, and like it was so fun.

Oh my god. It's all bone.

The delicate taste is very pleasing to my palate.

And then we had fourteen to sixteen hour days.

We had a lot to cover. We had to do live hits.

We were doing packages.

One of my favorite packages that we ever did that I still,

it was one of my favorite memories of just being on a shoot.

How long have I been awake?

So many questions.

No wonder I can't sleep, and I can't shake the feeling,

that I'm being followed.

Brian Keller came up with this gag,

that was supposed to look like a kaiju

from a Godzilla movie.

We had him built by a costume designer in LA,

and it's this gigantic purple googly eye squid.

And we brought him to Japan, in a big refrigerator box.

Hey, you're awake.

Oh my God. No, no, don't eat me, don't eat me

No, no,

Mr. Kevin Pereira. I'm your friend.

Please calm down. You passed out.

So one morning the producer was

in this squid costume, and it was like five o'clock

in the morning, these dumb-ass fucking Americans,

are running around this huge fish market

that is just packed with people.

And Kevin is narrating it the whole time.

But it was like the Kevin and Squid show,

and they're like doing this bromance all over

the streets of Tokyo.

Let's get some food. Yeah.

Oh!

It was fantastic.

There were people who had knives,

that were coming up against us, like,

while we were running through. It was crazy.

You never knew what you were gonna get next.

You're a funny squid.

No man, you, you're the man dude, you.

No, you.

You.

You, you're the man.

The stage that I'm on right now,

you'll notice it's pushed forward.

This is like sort of an interview spot,

but we can actually scoot it back right beneath this plasma.

And then normally this is the home base area for the show.

So our sets really modular.

Um, we. It happens to be the size of a Payless shoebox.

It's a very, very small studio.

But, through positioning of monitors,

and using wide angle lenses, we really make it look like

it's a "Seacrestian" sized dressing room,

here on the old set. And then again over here,

more crazy plasmas. There's, uh, me and Candace down there

and we can can pipe individual images to this.

B-roll clips from a movie, or from a video game,

or from whatever if a guest is coming on to talk about it.

And, uh, that's a light.

And these are cameras, these are what steal our soul.

In like 2004,

2005 maybe, all of a sudden, we were all getting recognized.

All of a sudden, people were asking take for our pictures.

All of a sudden, we needed a security guard

to follow us around. Because when one person asks

for your picture, then everyone around thinks it's okay,

and next thing you know you got 50 people asking

for your picture. Those were some pretty milestone moments.

Look at how far we've come, and at the time, you know,

we were the only ones who knew what that felt like.

This is the AOTS panel, and it's very crowded.

I, I don't

Are we going in soon?

Extremely crowded.

Somebody threw panties at Kevin.

Yeah. That was your wife.

I love my wife.

I love her too.

Not in that way. It's purely physical.

And so here we were in this crazy weird position

where we were being hounded for pictures and autographs,

and so I think that bonded us all, because it,

it would be hard for anyone not in that position to relate

to what that feels like.

We'd be on the show floor,

and I'd be walked along with either Kevin, or Olivia.

We didn't have a lot of security for them because

it was still sort of a growing thing and we'd get stopped.

We couldn't go five feet without people wanting

to take pictures and eventually it would get so tight.

You would just have to push through people,

and ignore people and try not to be jerks about it.

Olivia, you're awesome.

Thank you.

Kev. You're cool too, as well.

You're cool too. What a compliment!

You hear that? That's a compliment.

Hey, you're alright as well.

Hey, sometimes I like watching you.

I, I think one time was Olivia wearing slave Leia

at one of the Comic-Cons. Fans were losing their minds

trying to get pictures with her,

and we would just have to like cover her up,

and get her out of the venue.

I am the Leia.

In the end. There can be only one.

I am the last!

You even killed the younglings.

Yeah, well they should have ducked.

Olivia!

They need you back on set.

What?

And they need you in regular clothes.

Oh, huh.

And I think the police are looking for you.

Oh, haha.

Sorry.

Okay.

At one point, "Attack of the Show" was mentioned

in Rolling Stone. It was mainly this, it was like,

"Attack of the Show" is the fun, cool, hip,

technology gaming show on G4 network.

We know we've never heard of it either, in parenthesis,

and it says, it's worth it, to watch

the stunning Olivia Munn lead you through your daily grind

of video games, tech movies, and celebrity interviews.

The dudes on the show are mostly forgettable.

Then I was like fuck you!

You know?

We knew that "Attack of the Show" had become

a pop culture hit when "Big Bang Theory"

put "Attack of the Show" and G4 Magnets,

on their refrigerator.

John Favreau everybody!

Yeah, when you got here, I had to parade you around

to the different sections.

I know. It's, I got, it's just grown so much

since last time we did this.

Yeah. It's unbelievable. You-

This all really started here, for us.

It did.

We came off the panel, and you were the one who said,

"Hey, it went over like gang busters".

I didn't know.

Yeah.

You know how, how much the word had spread,

and now here we are two years later with "Iron Man 2".

And thanks to you and thanks to "Attack of the Show"

for being there for us and covering it

for the last few years and really starting the grassroots

support for it that brought us mainstream

into all the success we had.

Well thank, thank you so much John.

We love you. We love Iron Man.

That's what I think G4 did best

about these events that mainstream media

didn't really realize.

Just seeing other celebrities walking by and realizing,

hey, it's G4. Hey, it's a "Attack of the Show"!

In our world, in this, in this world of pop culture,

we had placed our mark as like,

we are the ones who know how to cover this. Come watch us.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Let's welcome one of our own to the stage. Mr. John Favreau.

Hey.

One year, the opening shot for Comic-Con Live,

is Jon Favreau climbing up the stairs,

reaching out to the fans and announcing the beginning

of our Comic-Con coverage live and inviting

all of the fans there to come and see a premier screening

of Cowboys and Aliens because we were the audience

he was trying to reach and he loved hanging out with us.

I hope he knows what he just did.

Wow, that was awesome.

That was amazing.

♪ Well, Jon Favreau's one of my heroes, ♪

♪ I used to love when he'd come on. ♪

♪ Too bad "Cowboys and Aliens" straight bombed. ♪

♪ Will his career ever get back on track? ♪

♪ I highly doubt it can. ♪

Oh shit, he directed Iron Man?

Nevermind.

The fact that James Cameron

made "Attack of the Show" his stop,

to talk on the eve of the premier of Avatar,

says so much about what we became.

No other show I think would have, you know,

James Cameron come in, and take a, a folding chair,

and smash a mannequin called "Drunkle Ted".

And I've always wanted to, all right.

After you sir.

Here we go.

You know, it's just the fact that,

A - it's James Cameron, you know,

here's one of the top directors in his field,

and he's on our show, and he's taking a metal chair

to a dummy.

James freaking Cameron, everybody!

Can I keep the chair? I'm keeping the chair

You keep that. That is yours.

He was always very open to doing bits like that,

or on his entrance I remember he came smashing through

a wall of cardboard boxes.

Remember me? You owe me an autograph.

Uh oh, uh oh.

One of the best things that I ever wrote

for the show was

a recurring bit called Jeremy's Dragon Corner,

where Jeremy Hache, who was one of the producers

on the show, dressed up in this like medieval garb.

And just talked about how cool dragons were.

So I saw that movie Avatar, it was pretty cool.

Except for the part where all the avatars had to jump onto

the backs of space dragons and like have sex with them,

with their hair or whatever.

I maintain that sex with dragons is one of God's special

mysteries. And if it happens, the dragon you,

not the other way around.

Not cool avatars.

Not cool.

And then we had James Cameron come on and we said,

Hey, would you mind filming this rebuttal to Jeremy,

in "Jeremy's Dragon Corner"?

And he was like, yes, I will totally do this.

Because James Cameron loved being on "Attack of the Show",

and was down for anything that we made him do.

He did it all straight faced.

He did it all totally seriously. And it's chef's kiss.

Jeremy, you have no idea what the

you're talking about.

I spent eight years researching space dragon sex,

and that's exactly how it would happen.

I'm James Cameron. Goodnight.

Can we take a second to dispel some rumors?

I was not Boba Fetish.

That wasn't me.

I actually did get to keep the costume,

but it wasn't me.

Those aren't the pants you're looking for.

I have felt him my master.

We mentioned earlier that there will be some

new set pieces, but there's a crazy new thing going on here.

It looks, it looks like internets are happening here.

It's our new Twitter wall.

It's a Twitter wall.

"Attack of the Show"'s. Twitter wall was,

if not the first, one of the first examples

of integrating social media into television.

You'll see our Twitter wall,

which we reference often throughout the show.

We like to keep things interactive and get realtime feedback

from the fans, answer their questions,

let them ask questions of our guests or make witty comments.

So throughout the show, this thing scrolls

with realtime comments from our audience.

Our TV finalists come from

a variety of programs that use Twitter

to connect with their viewers.

We actually won two Shorty awards back to back

in two years time for best use of Twitter on television.

Oh my God, it's, it's a tie.

It's a tie. It's a tie.

Congratulations "Attack of the Show"

and "Sesame Street".

The Shorty Awards being as they called themselves,

the Academy Awards of the internet.

But we had already been doing stuff with the Twitter wall

for a couple of years before the Shorty awards even existed.

I mean, we had to be

white-listed with Twitter because of how much data

we were pulling from Twitter to get, you know, the feed

of the "Attack of the Show" fans giving their reactions

in real time.

I think that's kind of rude.

Whoa, hey, where did that come from?

@Megan_Lustofin says uh,

can Alison and Danny do a "Community" rap?

Having audience feedback, audience reaction,

is what gave this show its energy.

Here we go, here we go.

Oh, oh, what is up?

I'm chilling at AOTS with Danny Pudi,

Oh!

Shaking out booty in the sister studio.

Phil Collins, like Emmy Robins,

that girl I went to high school with. Just kidding.

That was a lie. What?

Whoa!

The Twitter wall was all about the fans.

Some people would come in, you know, as they could,

others would show up every so often.

And then there was the dedicated core viewer army,

who if they didn't show up, you kind of worried about them.

What's up "Attack of the Show"?

Hey "Attack of the Show".

What's up "Attack of the Show". This is Danny Cubas-

They were really the drivers.

They were the taste makers, they were the influencers

of "Attack of the Show" before influencer was even a thing.

I, yeah, I think that one of the biggest things

that was a, a marvel for G4,

is that it created a sense of community within this

small kind of marginalized community already,

that people didn't really look at as cool or as hip.

And they made these people hip and cool.

In the eighties. Nerds were nerds.

You could not effectively admit to a lot of people

that you collected comic books,

that you played Dungeons and Dragons,

that you played video games.

You know today,

we're talking about the importance of inclusion.

And G4, and "Attack of the Show",

for that particular generation, was the first spark

of inclusion on a mass scale.

That showed people, oh, there are people like me,

out there who like what I like,

and it's okay.

I feel like that type of show

really opened the door for people to kind of peek in,

and see, oh, this isn't so bad.

G4 is to TV as the MCU is to movies.

The show helped elevate nerd culture by saying,

you know what, not only are we going

to cater to everything that you love,

but we're gonna do it in such a cool, expansive way

that we're gonna draw new people in. We're gonna show people

that the thing you love isn't lame and for losers,

it's for everybody.

You don't have to play Super Mario.

We're gonna show you why other people do play.

You could bring Star Trek fan, and Star Wars fans

and they could sit down and have a meal together.

Lewis and Gilbert did not fight for our nerd rights

for us to not get along with each other.

That's the problem with nerd-dom, and geek-dom, and fandom,

in this day and age. It's practically, you know,

civil war levels of us versus them when it comes

to an opinion seemingly in any fandom.

It's sad to see, because ten years ago you didn't see that.

That's where we really lucked out,

is that we got the ability to create essentially

our own crazy YouTube videos. We gotta do it together.

A lot of times some of the opinions that you read

are not always nice. As we know the internet is full of

sad people sometimes and I feel like "Attack of the Show"

fans are never in that. So thank you fans.

I would like to thank those G4 TV viewers.

The ones who showed up every single day

for "Attack of the Show".

They were not paid audience members like you see

with a lot of live studio audience shows from Hollywood.

They were there of their own accord.

They showed up because they had a voice.

When it went out the air, it was like saddest day,

one of the saddest days of my life.

This week, Chris Gore went

to the Asian underground and came back hurt.

Aw.

It's true.

Well, let's just say that while-

No reaction?

Well here's the thing. It's Chris Gore first.

Secondly, while he was covering some ass kicking films,

he may have kicked his own ass.

You go back and watch the the segments,

you'll know that Chris had to do an intro to the piece.

And then what he would usually do is,

talk for a couple seconds, say where we are,

and what we are doing, and then kick off the segment.

So this one particular one, he decided to do

a walk and talk plus a high kick.

This edition of Asian Underground,

prepare to have wisdom knocked into your brain

with a high kick.

With a high kick.

Ow, oh.

Ow, ow, ow, ow, my, my jeans.

The whole story, including the guy

that worked there, just could not stop laughing.

And I believe that that clip is probably more memorable

than the entire segment we did.

I, I think one of the hardest jobs on the show was

for standards and practices.

Our guy Keith had two buttons. One was,

to bleep out anything that was said on audio that, you know,

any swear words, stuff, he, he'd hit the bleep button.

The other button he had, was blur the screen, if he,

if there was something visual that wasn't appropriate.

And I had never seen that button used before,

like ever before in my entire television career.

But Michael Costa was doing an interview with Eric Andre.

Eric stood up and dropped his pants.

Here are these new boxers I got. Look at these boxers.

Eric

And you would think it would stop right there.

Julie gave me a card request-

But then he proceeded to pull down the boxers

as well and he kind of tucked his junk in between his legs.

It's okay you can do whatever you want, it's G4.

And you know, everyone was just in shock and awe.

In the control room, we could see it in our monitors.

But in the return feed, the feed that you would see at home,

the whole feed was just blurred.

And that was the first time in history that I've seen that.

And I am kind of proud that I was there for that moment.

"Don't Trust the B- in Apartment 23".

Are you guys rounding up because I took my penis

and my fake vagina out.

Now over to Candace!

Not all of those things that happened on the show

would be acceptable by today's more conservative standards.

Pedo Bear was a regular gag on the show.

That would not happen now.

Or to have the gag between Candace and Sarah.

You know where every time Candace would say, "I'm so sure",

Sarah would grab her and put her into her chest.

Oh my gosh guys, "I'm so sure".

The infamous fat-suit gag, which started off

really clever, just ended up being like patently offensive.

To the point, one of the,

was one of our production management was gonna walk.

That's right, 20 gallons of cottage cheese

in your very old souvenir wheelbarrow.

Hey Kevin, Kevin.

Joy in a wheelbarrow!

Hey, go diving, go diving for cupcakes.

That was a massive ordeal.

It ended up being bad spirit,

but they got away with it.

Sure you can have a sexy female heroine,

but you can't have her wear what Sara Jean Underwood wore

as "Bustice".

What the hell is happening?

Some of the fuel rods won't go back into the cooling tank.

Fear not citizens, Bustice is on the case.

♪ Yeah, so fine. ♪

There's just no way you could have

someone use a stripper pole to disarm a nuclear bomb.

It's not healthy.

I mean, even the, the hacking a pig

in half with a sword.

"Wiffle Bat Fight Club".

Let's fight.

And we also had the, uh,

we were shooting producers with, you know, BB guns.

Hache, you feel that?

I mean, just anything that was abusive

towards the writers or producers.

You, you can't do that anymore.

I did a lot of on camera drinking back then.

Basically they're like, you're gonna try a beer

from every single booth, and then you're gonna do

a blood alcohol test.

Okay.

2.7.

You should be dead.

I masturbate a lot, and I've never really had real sex.

I was just curious. Am I still a virgin?

No, you're a whore.

Masturbating does not mean that you're no longer a virgin,

by any means.

It's okay to ask the question.

There are no stupid questions. But-

I'm just kidding. It was a smart question.

No, no, no, no. Don't listen to her.

I could get away with every single thing I did.

I think Olivia could get away with it.

But even when you were talking about,

oh, when we covered the porn awards,

and we were told to treat it in a clinical way.

I guarantee you it would've been all female crew,

all female talent. Because men are not

safe today, from saying the wrong thing around a woman.

That was horrifying. Just like, all right,

we're talking with Cassidy Ray.

She's nominated tonight for "Double Anal",

and "Best Penetration Scene" Cassidy, how do you feel?

And what a, what an honor, huh?

"We are just excited to be here, um,

at the AVNs".

and then they'd see a friend across the room,

and they'd go, "lick my tits! Whoo!

Yeah bitch, you're such a slut!

Alexis Texas is a slut!

I've been reading comic books for like 25 years,

I don't think I've ever seen "Butt Woman"

I am sure that we did stuff

that would not fly today. I am sure of it.

And I can guarantee you that none of it was done

with bad intent.

You know, as with anything, context is key.

But we were like family,

and you, you put your guard down around family,

you're a little more open around family,

and you're definitely more blue around family.

Where people will look at a broadcast

that we did back then today, and think, ooh,

it was always in the spirit of fun.

"Murder Master Class"

is a fun, easy-to-use, audio lecture series

that will get you out of the amateur league

and into the pros. Guarantee it.

Maybe it's good that we don't do

that stuff anymore. There is a backlash to that, like

correctness culture, which I think is kind of unfounded.

Most of that is done in a way that's good with good intents,

but you also have this flip side of people who kind of think

that they can say anything and if you're being offensive,

but you're acknowledging that you're being offensive,

that that makes it okay.

And I've never really thought that that flies, you know,

I think a lot of things are are for the better.

I mean obviously, we have to be aware and and conscious

of people's feelings and things of that nature.

But we were probably offending people left and right

everyday.

Excuse me.

Go for Power Girl.

Power Girl. You've got to help us.

I got my submarine lodged in the ice up here

in the Bering Strait.

You've got good speakers on those things.

How'd you get stuck, captain?

I mean, could you do anything in any, at any time

ten years in the future? I mean, I don't know.

I mean, I'm down with being kind and empathetic

to all people. However, I think the woke culture

has gone too far and I'm a progressive California liberal.

I think when it comes to comedy,

you should have carte blanche.

Pillow fight!

In my opinion, it's sad that a lot of the stuff

that we were doing back then would never happen now.

Because you know, we have to dilute everything,

and there's just such more hypersensitivity,

and who's gonna be offended, and some of that stuff

that happened back in the days, I mean, that was just

comedy gold.

But there's something so innately good about it,

that you can't deny that you wanna watch it.

You have to have that kind of mentality

that it's just humor. They were good at that.

And so how do you criticize somebody who's saying, no,

this is exactly what we are. They're not apologizing for it.

Right? Ughh, off!

It doesn't make it right all the time,

but it's just something about when you accept what you're

putting out there and back it, that people just go, ah,

it's that's what they do. You know? That's who they are.

Because at the end of the day,

"Attack of the Show" was, it was interested in things.

It never took itself seriously.

It made fun of itself before it made fun of you.

If it did make fun of you, it was always done

in a friendly manner. And at the end of the day,

we're all nerds on the internet.

And I'm, I'm a sexy Washington Monument.

It's ironic because I'm wearing a bikini,

but this is historic landmark is shaped like a giant penis-

Okay, all right, all right. We're good.

We're good, we're good.

♪ Let's judge booth babes at Comic-Con. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

♪ Make gay jokes with a fat suit on. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

♪ MySpace girl of the week. Nuh, uh. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

♪ Making fun of someone for being a geek. ♪

♪ I said, you can't do that no more. ♪

♪ No more "Bustice", boob jokes, or being unaware. ♪

♪ Don't even talk about the Pedo Bear. ♪

♪ Man. We did it once, but now no more. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

Kevin Pereira, him and Olivia together

were what most people remember about "Attack of the Show".

She would always get kind of stuck doing

the crazy field shit. I remember her remarking being like,

this is what I gotta do to be in Hollywood. You know?

And then of course, she leaves.

Olivia leaving first was,

it was a big hit for the show because it changed the outlook

and, and the make-up of the show by quite a bit.

She was getting called up to the big leagues,

I would say. And you know, getting offers

on movies and stuff.

I think the Network was giving her a hard time about that.

So she took a stand in, in certain ways and,

and she did what was best for her, and for her career.

Olivia knew she wanted to be a star,

and she was very good at getting noticed.

She was good at what she did.

And you know, she ended up a freaking movie star.

Rock on.

We all wanted to be very supportive of her

leaving to fully pursue her acting career.

It's like we could have done that. Somebody was saying,

if you're gonna be a serious actress now you've gotta

get away from the girl who jumped in the pot.

She's done some great stuff.

"Office Christmas Party" is awesome.

There's so many people that we worked with,

that are in that movie.

I also think that she knew what

that show was for her. You know, it was the showcase for her

that got her where she is today for, for any of the talent

that was on that show. They were able to be themselves,

and, and show their own personalities,

and show what they're capable of. And it's basically,

you know, a 10 year audition tape for all those guys.

I do remember a lot of the viewers

being very bummed on Olivia's last days.

And it was, a lot of the show's not gonna be the same

without you. It just won't be the same.

♪ Over the years, many TV stars ♪

♪ have left hit shows to try to make it far. ♪

♪ But for every Travolta or Hanks back in the day, ♪

♪ there's five Mischa Bartons and nine Lisa Bonets. ♪

♪ So Olivia, yeah, good luck. Go kill it. ♪

♪ Who the hell you think you are girl? Bruce Willis. ♪

♪ Your AOTS roll. Who's gonna fill it? ♪

♪ But I credit you Olivia. Damn, you freaking did it. ♪

I remember that summer,

for the next couple months we were on a rotating basis.

Just, you know, live screen-testing other co-hosts,

and putting 'em through the ringer.

Listen, Bailey, when you get to work,

I only ask two things.

One, be limber.

And two, be ready to kick some ass.

It doesn't make any sense. Kevin, where are we?

It's a new year, new co-host.

New studio.

Watch your corners, protect your neck. Try not to get bit.

What?

Let's go bitches!

Sorry! Ugh!

And so when it was announced

within the network that they were gonna go with Candace,

they wanted to do a whole week of building her up,

kind of giving her a nerd bootcamp.

So excited.

We ready?

I'm ready.

It eventually ended with us

bringing her out on a parapet to the set.

And then that was sort of like the big announcement.

Big hurrah.

I'm so proud and excited to introduce the new co-host

of "Attack of the Show". Please welcome!

Candace Bailey.

Yeah!

Dynamic of the show changed a little

because you just, it's like anything, a sports team

or anything, when you bring in a new person,

you gotta figure each other out.

I mean it was just time for things to change

as they always do.

Oh right.

Those poor people.

It's tragic.

Totes tragic.

With Olivia leaving, we always felt that

like the co-host, as long as there was chemistry,

hosts could change out and the show would go on.

But we said if Kevin was to leave,

that would be the end of the show.

And then Kevin announced that he was leaving.

Uh, the kitty cat has been

let out of the burlap sack, everybody.

The press release went out today.

I am in fact leaving "Attack of the Show", and G4,

at the end of this month.

Boo!

Aww, boo!

Boo.

That's, that's one possible reaction. Thank you Candace.

To me, Kevin was the show,

but he saw the writing on the wall, as well. And I think

he wanted to get out like a lot of people do when they're

at the top of their game, rather than being forced out

at a time. You know, he got to choose when

and how he was gonna leave. And although it was sad,

you know, it was his decision and the show

definitely changed after that 'cause I, I think he felt that

it wasn't the same, but the, the magic was gone at that time

for him, and he wasn't feeling like, you know,

it was the show that it used to be.

Well I respect him a lot for, you know,

being able to walk away from that.

When he announced that he was leaving,

it was shocking, but also not at all surprising.

I hate to be overdramatic, but it was like, when,

on his final day, or the day after his final day,

it was like losing a relative.

Like you turn around and you still expect them to be there,

but they're not.

It was like you ripped out the soul of the show,

and after that nothing would ever be the same.

♪ Have you seen the forums? ♪

♪ It can't Be true, are you aware-a? ♪

♪ They say "Attack of the Show" is losing Pereira. ♪

♪ He's the voice of the channel, the best we have ever seen. ♪

♪ He's been on the show since he was fifteen. ♪

♪ Or fourteen. I think he was in junior high. ♪

♪ At fifteen, he hosted Arena then became that guy. ♪

♪ Man, such a talent and I wish him good luck. ♪

♪ Who's gonna host now though, man? ♪

♪ Oh, fuck. ♪

Four, three-

If you look at how "Attack" changed

all of the late night shows. All of a sudden now,

they were all having a game and they were all having stunts.

And you look at what happened with Hardwick.

With "Talking Dead".

He did that with "Heroes" and some of the other shows on G4,

long before AMC. With everybody going out,

and doing their thing and taking over. I was really proud,

yeah, to see that.

Two years prior to the ending of G4,

we were all at E3, and an article had gone out about how

the UFC was interested in purchasing G4 but then that deal

didn't go through. And that was like a shock to everyone,

because nobody knew that the network

was actually up for sale.

After that, it was kind of on the radar that hey,

the higher-ups at this company are looking to ditch G4.

To me that was the beginning of the end.

Both of the network, and "Attack of the Show",

and frankly the dream.

There's a great saying.

There's three sides to every story.

There's yours, there's mine and there's the cold hard truth.

Many people may have a different memory of exactly

what happened and what the truth is for how it ended.

But to paraphrase Hamilton,

I was in the room where it happened. I saw it all.

There was no conspiracy against G4.

It was a simple business decision.

Comcast had just bought NBCUniversal.

All of the cable networks from both companies

got combined together into one big group.

And the person that was put in charge of that group,

didn't like G4.

And I know there was a story where,

the production was up on the floor near the elevators,

where they sat. And the woman who was running everything

had come in with the Kardashians, and she was embarrassed

at having to walk through the G4 section,

because of all the toys, and the "Squiddy" costume,

and all the nerd stuff.

And so she first had them all moved away from the elevator,

and out of sight. And then you could see that

they weren't gonna develop and support for G4.

They wanted it gone and out of the way.

Within a month, the president, my boss,

was gone, as they clearly planned to wind down G4,

and replace it with Esquire network.

G4 went away.

Esquire network was launched.

We knew there were gonna be changes, right?

And the idea was to make G4,

a Bravo-style network for men, right?

Upscale, urban, to some degree hipster. I, listen,

I'm not a fan of it, it wasn't for me, but I understood

the business case for it, right? There is a good

business case for trying to make the G4 audience

more valuable to advertisers and to the cable affiliates.

Esquire network did not last very long.

They just moved on. It was a business decision, that sadly

was based on,

us losing our champions.

When you don't have a champion at the highest levels

of the corporate culture. The numbers were there,

the profit was there, the growth was there,

the champion was no longer there.

Meeting Wilshire Boulevard 2013.

♪ Damn, gaming. I want a channel man-splaining, ♪

♪ about man-scaping, and hands-shaking. ♪

♪ I'm campaigning for men, smart and funny. ♪

♪ Screw gaming, that'll never make any money. ♪

♪ I want guys in suits, with beards and suits, ♪

♪ and cooking shows with beards but cute, ♪

♪ and suits and beards and fashion of sorts. ♪

♪ Metrosexual stuff, not gaming ports. ♪

♪ So sorry G4 you're at of here. ♪

♪ The Esquire network? Haha, great idea. ♪

My observation was always that they did not

provide the support. What they were trying to do,

was surround it with "Cops" and "Cheaters", and shows that

didn't have anything to do with it. And then when

they finally did have the money, they did "Hurl!",

I mean stuff that didn't fit our audience at all.

And I would just turn and look at them in the control room

and say, our audience is people like me,

who is wearing cargo shorts and a t-shirt,

and doesn't really care about fashion, or fine liquors,

or any of this stuff. And it just didn't make any sense.

So I think they just got further, and further away from like

who our audience was.

Unfortunately a network that is allowed

to go off, and be wild and creative because it was,

in a sense, a start- up, ultimately couldn't survive

in a mega conglomerate where it's all about brands,

and bottom lines and spreadsheets.

Somebody from G4 put up a meme,

"well played Mayans well played".

We, uh, always had our conspiracy theories.

The script read-throughs at "X-Play",

we were always in this room at NBCUniversal.

They had a dry erase board on three different walls,

and it was for each network that they were running in there.

G4 had its own wall.

E! Entertainment had its own wall.

Style network had its own wall.

So they would list the programming that was coming up

for the next three months. I would point that out to Jerry.

It's like, oh we're okay because look, you know,

they are still listing shows on, on the whiteboard

for the next three months. And then one day,

all of a sudden, there was nothing for months ahead

to come on G4. And I said, Jerry, we're done.

It was getting to the point,

we couldn't do anything about it.

Just, it's making me kind of sick.

So it was a little relief, when they called everybody in

the all hands meeting.

They brought every employee of G4

into this big conference room and they had security there

as well. And when they made the general call

for this meeting, everyone knew what the announcement

was gonna be, and all the G4 employees came in

and it was like a party. It was like, it was already

like a big wrap party.

People coming in, high-fiving and stuff.

I think it wasn't the reaction that the executives

thought was gonna happen it.

It actually was a fun atmosphere

with all of us together.

And I think there was a lot of relief.

We just kind of went in there and did what we,

the only thing we could do, and we just kind of celebrated.

And that was a funny standout moment to me.

Because I'm sure those executives were pretty shocked.

Like why are these people so happy?

I hate to sound like a cliche,

but it's like a family. All of these people that you see

for ten hours, some twelve hours a day, sometimes longer.

They're, you see them more than your own family.

A lot of friendships that I curated for ten years were,

instantly gone.

To lose all that overnight in the blink of a eye.

It's a lot of loss.

It definitely felt like the end of an era,

that wasn't gonna ever happen again.

Thank you all! We love you.

We love you! We love you!

Goodnight, everybody!

Current day creators have a lot to

nod their heads at, to the original G4 people,

because we kind of set that stage and opened that gateway

for number one. Anyone can do this.

All you need is a camera and a good idea.

That to me is a huge plus.

And number two.

Don't be afraid to fly your geek flag, and, uh, and go niche

with your interests because there's other people out there

like you.

We had magic. We didn't have a lot of money,

but we had magic. We had passion, we had creative freedom.

We had an environment where people respected each other,

bounced ideas off each other, challenged each other,

to come up with the best possible content.

Everyone behind the scenes and in front of the camera at G4,

created content without feeling manufactured at all.

It felt natural. G4 reached an audience that no one else

knew how to get. And it's only after that is gone,

when you say to yourself, oh, when they told me

how good we had it, I wish I'd realized it more.

Whatever happened with the show?

Well, uh, you know, G4 is coming back.

That'll be funny.

No. It is coming back.

Like today, it relaunches. Um, do we need lawyers?

There's one big announcement that gamers

have been asking for, because we've been stringing them

along for freaking ever.

The launch of G4.

That's right. November 16th, 2021.

There we said it. It's happening.

♪ Oh my god, there's a new G4TV. ♪

♪ Kevin is back too, oh woe is me. ♪

♪ The relaunch is upon us. The future is here. ♪

Um.

I think we can be proud of the time we spent

making "Attack of the Show". For years, being a nerd

wasn't cool. Now geek culture is the mainstream.

Fans are the ones covering movies, comics, video games,

and more. And the only qualification is an ability

to be honest and authentic when it comes to your passion.

YouTubers and streamers, they took over and now the world

hosts its own show. Even if it is a world without

"Attack of the Show".

,

Goodnight, everybody!

Mwah!

♪ Well let's judge booth babes at Comic-Con. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

♪ Making gay jokes with a fat suit on. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

♪ MySpace girl of the week. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

♪ Making fun of someone for being a geek. ♪

♪ I said, you can't do that no more. ♪

♪ No more "Bustice", boob jokes, or being unaware. ♪

♪ Don't even talk about the Pedo Bear. ♪

♪ We did it once, but that was before. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

No sir.

♪ Maxim bikini shoots and high diving. ♪

♪ Can't do that no more. ♪

♪ Talk Eiffel Tower and end high fiving. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

♪ Using motor boating as a verb. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

♪ Going on camera smoking herb. ♪

♪ You can't do that. Yes you can. ♪

Yes you can. Like way more, huh?

♪ Hey, put a server up your ass. What nerve! ♪

♪ Saying now your has been served. ♪

♪ We did it once, but now no more. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

What else?

♪ Shooting producers with BB guns? ♪

♪ Can't do that no more. ♪

♪ Kevin spiked a baby doll just for fun. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

♪ Licking next -gen consoles? ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

♪ Watch a new "Attack of the Show". ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

♪ No more "Bustice", boob jokes, or being unaware. ♪

♪ Don't even talk about that Pedo Bear. ♪

♪ We did it once, but that was before. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. No you can't do that no more. ♪

♪ Said, we did it once, but that was before. ♪

♪ You can't do that no more. ♪

All right. Stop, stop.

I've seen enough.

Olivia outfit's gotta be a lot skimpier.

And Kevin, go lift some weights. Will you fella? Oh boy.

'Nuff said.

Excelsior!

Welcome back. Film expert, Chris Gore.

What is up first, Chris?

Well, sorry to say, this is

the last edition of "DVDuesday" I'm ever going to do.

I mean, does anyone even buy DVDs anymore?

Actually, you know what?

I buy DVDs and we're reviewing today the movie

that you actually just saw, "Attack of the Doc".

Now hopefully you bought this legally.

You didn't download it from one of those sites. I mean,

look, would you steal a car?

No, absolutely not.

But I'm gonna admit I'm a little biased,

because I made the movie.

Now, could I have done a better job?

Absolutely. I could have done a much better job.

But for what it is, I think "Attack of the Doc" is a buy.

Bye!