K-Pear's hair

I was working on a review of Tropic Thunder, but I since I don't want two Robert Downey Jr. love-fests in a row I've decided to hold off a few days and see what else is going on.

And really, there's only one thing worth talking about and that's what has happened to Kevin Pereira's hair. Some of you, indeed maybe a sizable chunk of you, may have no idea who Kevin Pereira is, so let me explain before we go any further. Kevin Pereira, K-Pear as he likes to be called, is the host of a show on G4 techTV called "Attack of the Show". G4 is purportedly a gaming and computer themed specialty channel headquartered in southern California. They have many on-topic shows where they review video games, shows about how to turn off cookies in your browser, or video game shows from England that are three years out of date.



Like most specialty channels that picked a topic too narrow to fill out a day's worth of programming they also have stuff that has nothing to do with tech, computers, or even drift racing. Japanese game shows, reruns of "COPS", The Man Show, and most recently a show about vomiting have all been prominently featured on the network at one time or another. G4 is the nerdier, lower rent, less sporty cousin to Spike TV.

Attack of the Show kind of straddles the void between these two extremes. On the one hand they do review consumer electronics and video games, but on the other they cover more general interest topics like movies, TV shows, and, chillingly, sex advice, in a hybridized talk/comedy/newsmagazine format. Like most of the in house shows on G4, its reach slightly outperforms its grasp in terms of production value. The set looks professional enough but all the video walls and funky robot sculptures in the world can't disguise the cable-access feeling you get from a show that can't afford an audience and has to have its crew cheer for the hosts after each commercial break. It just lacks that spanky professional sheen that it might have had if it were on, for example, Comedy Central. It feels transient, like everything could be squashed flat with a wheel loader during a commercial break and replaced with a completely different show and no one would be the wiser.


I still never miss an episode, mostly because the cheapie nature of the show allows the two hosts (the aforementioned Kevin Pereira and now also mentioned Olivia Munn) to further bizarrify their already weird chemistry. I could waste more pixels typing out what makes this pairing so what it is, but why waste the time when its oddball nature is crystallized so perfectly in this clip:

The Clip.

I've read where some people think that he's actually pissed off about what's been done to his hair at the end here. But it seems pretty obvious to me that he knows the damage has been done on the first pass after he picks up the big chunk of fauxhawk off the table. He's clearly playing it up at the end, at least to my eyes. He might have been concerned about the razor hitting one of his eyebrows like in that movie trailer that I don't care enough about to look up, but that's probably the extent of it.

Like many of my entries, I don't really know how to end this so...