While I know Parry from his time with Nerf Herder, with songs like "New Jersey Girl" and "Van Halen" holding special places in my heart, the slightly younger generation knows him as the man behind countless ridiculously catchy YouTube jingles, from "Do You Life Waffles?" to my personal favorite, "Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom". In the video for "The Girl at the Video Game Store", Parry is joined by AotS female host Olivia Munn as the titular girl, with a rather impressive turn at the drums by the show's male host, Kevin Pereira. I am extremely glad they didn't mix those two up, though I am sure Kevin has a very attractive midriff.

The song itself? Despite some painfully forced lines ("At Tekken she'll kick your ass?" Thanks, Yoda), Gripp's signature infectious melodies are firmly in place, and I've been humming the damn thing all day. I hate you, Parry Gripp.

Video Game Girl: Nerf Herder's Parry Gripp Music Video [G4TV.com]

The stylist, whom she impersonated with a swishy, faux-frenchy accent, kept suggesting she try outfits that were plenty evocative of the oops-I-forgot-my-panties style of glamour photography. Then he reached into his costume trunk and pulled out the deal-breaker, a black fishnet number that was a swimsuit in name only. It left zilch to anyone's imagination, least of all what was in his.

She wasn't going there. "My vagina would have looked like a Honeybaked Ham," Munn said, sitting in a makeup chair and talking to Kotaku before Thursday's taping of G4's Attack of the Show, which she co-hosts. Despite the browbeating to Take! It! All! Off!! Munn's decision not to reveal her charms remained as final at the end of her shoot as it was when she rebuffed Playboy's original request.

Munn thinks she knows now why Playboy came back to say, no prob, a clothes-on pictorial was OK. "I'm convinced the photographer and the stylist were in cahoots to get me naked," Munn said. Hey, never let it be said Playboy doesn't have its readers' number one interest foremost in mind.

"They were showing me all these things to put on and saying, ‘And you can just see everything! And it's just gorge,' and I'm thinking, 'You guys are out of your mind," Munn said. "It ended with my publicist and the stylist screaming at each other."

Becoming one of the few women ever to do a Playboy cover and pictorial without nudity has certainly bolstered Munn's profile as the hottie with Geek Goddess approachability - the gamers' Athena, if you will, thanks largely to her three years with G4. But it's led to plenty of speculation that her choice of a fully functional wardrobe was only a business decision. That now isn't the right time for her to get naked, but one day that right time will come, and we'll both know it, and when it happens it will be tender and magical.

Yeah, forget it.

"It'll never happen," Munn said. "It would never happen. I think there's nothing wrong with Playboy - there's nothing wrong with women who want to be in the magazine, if they're comfortable being naked and showing everything. But I'm looking through it like, ‘Holy shit, that's a lot of vadge.' I mean, it's filled with that stuff. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just not something I'd do."

Not only did Munn turn away trained professionals with graduate degrees in coaxing hot women out of their clothes, she showed them less than she did to Complex back in April. "My underboob's in that shoot," she said. "You can't see anything like that in what I did for Playboy. I did the same amount of nudity, for them, that I did in a bathing suit for Surf magazine."

You can get a look at what she did show for Playboy in this online pictorial. "It's not like I'm the pizza guy in some porno," Munn said. But even though she'd never go half as far as that, Playboy or what it represents isn't intimidating to her. "It's just naked pictures, and they're all of hot girls," she said, "except there's one in there with big bush, that's not really good."

Munn's knows that part of why Playboy came calling, and was cool with her not doing nudity, is she has a fan base that's highly coveted by advertisers. Gamers are easily separated from their dough, after all. But the positive response she's gotten for not taking it off tells her that her fans do care. "They're not going to say, 'Oh, titty! Oh, that's Olivia's vagina, let's go buy it!'" she said. "They're supportive, not just because it gets them off."

But she doesn't worry about being typecast for the geek demographic. To the contrary, it gets her plenty of work. She's just finished up a role in Iron Man II, and got an offer for another from producers who said they wanted someone who isn't the kind of pedestalized-hot that Megan Fox represents.

"I love this world I am in," Munn said. "If I could stay in this world forever, the nerd world, I'd be happy. I've been here for three years, and I can confidently say this is a world I feel comfortable and welcomed in."

Unpublished picture courtesy Playboy.

On tonight's ATOS, Munn revealed the cover: Her in a red bikini.

Pretty sure we've seen her in a bikini, though maybe not red and definitely not on the cover of Playboy. So this is new, right?

Munn is one of the few to appear on the cover without doing nude pictorial — a short list that includes the likes of Peter Sellers and Steve Martin.

Watch the clip below.

Olivia Munn's Playboy Cover Reveal [Attack of the Show!]

Was Harmonix CEO Alex Rigopoulos spot on when he said that Rock Band would be "training an army of a million drummers"? Maybe. It, at the very least, helped train one, Attack of the Show's Kevin Periera. He recently applied his 89% expert-level skills on Coheed and Cambria's "Welcome Home" to some real life Coheed and Cambria. How's he do? Well, I won't spoil it.

Okay, I will. He nails it. I have no idea how much real life drum experience Mr. Pereira's had, but if it's strictly limited to Rock Band, I'm impressed. If not, at least Kev got to rub elbows with the C&C music factory. Next time some internet d-bag asks why you don't just play a real instrument, fire back that maybe, just maybe, you will. Clip via FakePlasticRock.

The Loop is a hair too short to really dig into any subject, but it does give you enough time to shoot off your mouth without digging too big a hole for yourself. This time around? Pie-in-the-sky GTA ideas based off of the nearly empty trailer. Brian Crecente

The show airs at 7 p.m. Eastern and The Loop tends to be about 15 minutes in. Tune in if you want to catch my blank stares and vapid responses, I'm told I''ve got that down. :) Brian Crecente

If you weren't glued to the television yesterday, drooling over my appearance on G4's Attack of the Show, here's your chance to salivate like a mad dog over manly discussion on console exclusivity. The Loop segment features me, EGM's Shane Bettenhausen and host Kevin Periera talking about the PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360, Final Fantasy XIII, Devil May Cry 4 and Ace Combat 6. 386 points worth of console debate!

Highlights to watch out for include me nervously flip-flopping about whether timed exclusives matter and me saying there are "10 to 20 Xboxes out there." Oops! Meant millions! I supposed Kevin's jokes and Shane's crazy-eyed, level-headed logic are worth it, but the fun part is watching me panic on live television. Now, make with the ban-worthy comments! Michael McWhertor

I don't know which is better about this satirical clip, the basic premise which has two clueless guys trying to pitch a stream of MMOs about things like auctioning, Excel and cats or the fact that one of the guys is Kevin Pereira with a porn stache. I'm gonna have to go with the porn stache.

Come on Kevin, get on board, all the cool game writers have facial hair. Do it. DO IT. DO IT! Brian Crecente

Here's piping hot and nasty video of me and Robert Summa waxing about the state of the current handheld market. See how nice I am to the PSP? Notice how bizarre my hair looks? I should wash it more than once a week.

I do believe that Sony can squeeze a little more success out of the PSP, if they take a different approach to their handheld and make a clear distinction between it and their dominant console. Does anyone agree? Can PSP and PS3 connectivity have any useful impact? Am I drinking the PSP Kool-Aid? (Answer to that last one is "no" as I have approximately three times the games for the DS.) Michael McWhertor

I, along with Destructoid's Robert Summa, will be hitting the airwaves in just a few short hours to rap about the Nintendo DS and the PSP. He'll probably go off on how great the DS is, while I sing the praises of the PlayStation Portable and further wear out my welcome. Hey, it's not easy being a Sony cheerleader, especially when I'm doing triple duty as Nintendo fanboy and Xbox slut on top of that thankless job.

I'll highlight a few things about which you can make fun: my annoying nasal intonation, my delicate lisp, my baseless reasoning for why the PSP will ultimately be a success and Robert Summa's shifty eyeballs. Go nuts! Michael McWhertor

Attack of the Show [G4]

I was invited to speak on G4's Attack of the Show yesterday to discuss the current mini-backlash the Wii is receiving from spoiled gamers. Originally, I was going to offer a contradictory opinion, one a little harsher on the Wii.

Due to technical difficulties my blogger competition on The Loop was nixed mere seconds before airtime, forcing me to go solo against lovely host and stand up guy Kevin Pereira (He hates the Wii! Get him!). Watch me radically change my position from Nintendo critic to Nintendo apologist in an instant. Oh, and do stick around for the lame jokes. Michael McWhertor

Here's how it works. Watch for me and my spectacular beard growth on The Loop, live on G4 this afternoon arounf 4:15 PM PST. Then, come back to the comments on this post, ridicule my fashion sense and haircut choice while taking me to task for being unnecessarily harsh on the Wii. Get banned. Re-up for commenting access. Wait for the impending YouTube video. Provide further sassy comments. Repeat if necessary.

And don't forget to have fun! Michael McWhertor

In the coolest move they've ever made, gaming network G4's Attack of the Show has posted a very sincere, very well-worded apology to our darling Aeropause.

G4's slight, as mentioned earlier today, was using Aeropause's instructional Dead Rising video on Attack of the Show without giving credit for the fantastic clip, which demonstrated how to attain the coveted Megaman blaster by destroying nigh unto 60,000 zombies.

The Attack of the Sorry:

What happened was awful, embarrassing and it doesn't matter why it happened, it was wrong. We're a corporation (although we have Space Invaders on the carpeting) and we take copyright law extremely seriously. We get pissed off when people show our stuff and don't give us credit; I wouldn't expect anyone out there to feel differently.

Like I said before, we take our role as citizens on the information superhighway very seriously. However, unlike a lot of people out there in the universe of the worldwide web, we aren't afraid to fess up to our mistakes and say we're sorry.

And so on. But they don't stop there! Not only do they fill a page with gracious explanation and apology, they go above and beyond and actually compose a little I'm Sorry song to Aeropause, complete with acoustic guitar and stylish hat.

Let this be a lesson to all tubedwellers: eating humble pie earns you a high score. As a bonus lesson, let it be known that a slick little grandpa hat and some nice glasses can dress up your jeans n' teeshirt geek uniform something fierce. Eliza "I wish I had a grandpa hat. And a song." Gauger

This post goes without a photo because our uploader is broken.

Attack of the Show apologizes as great length [G4]

What a collection of jackasses. Jack Thompson rants; Adam Sessler, coked out of his mind, issues blustery straw man retorts and screams at the top of his lungs. Mark Friedler says that the real source of all society's evil is this dang hip-hop music that kids today are listening to, yet at least remains calm and collected.

A lot of other sites are saying that Thompson was destroyed by Sessler and Friedler. I couldn't disagree more, unless you de facto think that people who agree with you argue well. This sort of interview, if viewed by a neutral party, would come across looking like a win for Thompson. Sessler's behavior is frankly an embarrassment; Friedler remains cool, but he doesn't escalate the argument to the larger issues.

Here are some of them: Do Jack Thompson's much referenced "irrefutable" psychological and scientific studies hold up? Why does Thompson discount psychological studies that contradict his claim? Exactly how are violent games more disruptive psychologically to children than violent movies, books or television shows? Why should we take Thompson's arguments seriously when every new form of media — from novels to rock and roll, from jazz to games — has always had a figure like Thompson, quickly forgotten by history, claiming the corruption of America's youth and pointing to scientific studies of the time to back their claim? Yet, in all of these cases, the world has become richer, not poorer, for the corruption. What sort of precedent would outlawing violent games set in regards to our First Amendment rights? And isn't the logical conclusion of outlawing one form of artistic expression total censorship of all forms?

Exactly what is it going to take for someone to put Jack Thompson up against an articulate, level-headed gamer? Not that I'm looking for the job: I'd probably just call him a cunt. Florian Eckhardt

For your viewing displeasure: Jack Thompson on Attack of the Show. Three guys talking about a game they haven't seen: classic! Brian Crecente

Jack Thompson, everyone's video game bully, is going to be on Attack of the Show tonight to froth about how evil a game is he's never seen. Jack will be on in the first 15 minutes so either avoid the beginning or tune in then depending on your preferences and blood pressure. In unrelated news, yesterday Thompson emailed my editors at the Rocky Mountain News to accuse me of "censoring" my article on Bully because I didn't include him.

Apparently, a story doesn't exist unless Jack is part of it. Brian Crecente

Comcast's G4, a cable network aimed at young men, has hired Howard SternHoward Stern's longtime girlfriend, actress Beth Ostrosky, to host irreverent countdown series "Filter" and recruited Fox Sports correspondent Olivia Munn to co-host pop culture news show "Attack of the Show."

Hires are part of the channel's evolution away from videogames into broader-based fare for guys.

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In addition, both "Filter" and "Attack of the Show" will be relaunched in June with a scaled-back focus on technology. Heavier emphasis will be on attitude, humor and a broader range of male-oriented topics.

Now they just need to add some wrestling and host their own crappy video game awards show.

Cabler G4 invites new hosts [Variety]

It seems like I've become obsessed with clothes today.

While writing about the BadSweaterGuy I remembered that awhile back I met a guy at a Denver bar who ran a site that tracks the clothes Attack of the Show's Sarah Lane wears. He said he started it as sort of a joke, but it caught on and got a bit of a stalker following. So the guy automated a system that takes screen captures from Lane's desk cam and then once a day he goes through them, picks one and posts it along with a single sentence.

The site is just a string of pictures that typically show off whatever top and facial expression Lane was wearing at the second of capture. I've gotta say, Lane's a good sport for putting up with it. It's kinda creepy.

What Sarah Wore [WSW]

From the creators of the world s largest and smallest NES controllers comes a truly must have for any hardcore Duck Hunt fan.

The Duck Hunt Sniper Rifle can blast the eyes out of an animated duck from across a football field if you have a long enough cord.

Attack of the Show has both a video and step-by-step guide for creating your own scoped light rifle for the NES. All you ll need are three NES guns, an Airsoft Super 9 rifle, some pipe, chips, resistors, circuit board, switches and a desire to be gunned down by a handlful of humorless Metro SWAT guys responding to calls of a man with a sniper rifle laughing manically at his television in a third floor apartment.

Project: Duck Hunt Sniper Rifle [AOTS]

How much did Crecente's E3 Xbox 360 faceplate raise for victims of Katrina?