When the couple behind @carmancollectibles reached Christopher Mintz-Plasse’s table at Tampa Bay Comic Con, the first thing they did was tell him where they had met before. “Orlando Mega Con last year,” one of them says in the clip, posted to TikTok on September 5, 2026. Mintz-Plasse, seated behind a long white table lined with rows of colored markers and pink and yellow sticky notes, with a purple banner bearing his name hanging behind him, says he remembers it “kind of. A little bit.”

He has a good excuse. He calls that MegaCon “an overwhelming experience,” says it ran Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday with a huge number of fans, and adds, “It was my most lucrative, which is awesome.” That, he says, is “a big reason why you do these things.” He apologizes for not remembering them, and they wave it off: “No worries. A lot of people.”

The couple had come back with something to ask him. Last year they filmed their meeting with him, and they tell him that clip spread so far that it now comes up near the top when people search his name on TikTok or Instagram. The moment behind it was a joke he made at the table: he asked whether they were siblings or married, they answered “married,” and he cheered loudly (in words we will not print here). “I just had to see if you ever saw that video,” one of them says. He had not. “I did not know,” he answers, and then says he is glad it took off and glad he came across well.

They also explain why they felt comfortable filming him a second time. They had asked his permission at the first meeting, they say, so they figured he would be fine with it again, and he agrees.

Then it is back to the signing. “What color would you like?” he asks, marker in hand over a photo laid on the table. They go with pink: “I thought the pink was cool, man, if you want to stick with that.” The frames show him leaning over the print with the pink sticky notes scattered beside it.

While he signs, he asks who else they have met that weekend. He is only their second, they tell him; they met John Cena “literally five seconds ago” and had just arrived. Cena’s line was long, they say, but they had VIP, “so we just kind of walked right in.” When a new movie comes up, Mintz-Plasse says he has not seen it yet but has heard a lot about it. The couple calls it fantastic: “You have a smile on the whole time.”

Their last question is about movie comedy: where is it going, now that studios are not making movies like Superbad anymore? Mintz-Plasse says friends of his just put out a raunchy, hard R comedy, that another friend is developing a new comedy, and that he thinks the genre is “coming back around.” The clip closes with thanks on both sides and his parting line, “Enjoy the convention, man.”

The caption runs through his roles: McLovin from Superbad, Fishlegs from How to Train Your Dragon, Augie from Role Models and Scoonie from Neighbors among them. “Got to meet the legend in person again,” it reads. “What a cool dude!”

According to the City of Tampa’s official visitor guide, the 2026 Tampa Bay Comic Convention ran from Friday, September 4 through Sunday, September 6 at the Tampa Convention Center, with Celebrity Row autographs on the third floor. The same guide says celebrity autographs and professional photo ops are sold separately by the event organizers, and that VIP passholders were let onto the vendor floor 45 minutes ahead of everyone else on Friday and Saturday.

Going Back to a Celebrity Table for a Second Meeting

Have the first meeting ready to show. Mintz-Plasse says he met so many fans over four days in Orlando that he could not place this couple, and they got his attention by describing one exact moment and where it happened. Keep the original clip or photo open on your phone so the guest can see it in seconds.

Decide your ink before you reach the front. He asked which color they wanted, and his table held dozens of markers. Pick a color that will stand out on your item, and if you want your second autograph to match the first, bring the first one or a photo of it so you can say so.

Ask before you film, every time. This couple asked at the first meeting and mentioned it again at the second. Professional photo ops are sold separately at conventions like this one, so check the event’s own rules on personal recording before you start.

Read what a VIP pass actually includes. At Tampa the early vendor floor entry is set out in the City of Tampa guide, but the guide does not say whether VIP covers the lines at individual celebrity tables, so check the organizers’ own site before you pay for an upgrade expecting to skip a long line.

Keep a record with the signed piece. Write the event name, city and date on a note stored with the item, and save your video of the signing in the same folder. A clip of the guest signing your exact piece, at a named convention on a known date, is the kind of proof you will want if the item is ever sold or passed on.