Cows in downtown San Diego? Must be a TV show promotion - Comic-Con Report

I haven't been to San Diego in several decades but, like many cities, there are certain things you expect to see. Tall buildings, traffic jams (especially during Comic-Con), crowds of people, citizens and tourists alike, milling about on the sidewalks and in the restaurants that surround the city. But a herd of cows? Well, on the U.S.S. Midway museum, perhaps, but not in the middle of downtown.

Yet, here were a herd of cattle in a paid parking lot on 5th Avenue, right in the heart of the Gaslamp District. Was it a throwback to pioneer days? Did a cowboy and his herd get lost? Was it a protest by PETA? No, silly, it was a television show promotion. Which one it was is revealed after the jump.

It's from the new FOX series Fringe, which premieres this fall. According to Keith McDuffee, who covered the Fringe panel, the cows are a running joke in the series. Something to do with them being used for experiments. I'm sure nothing too dangerous, though, as the show revolves around the brewing storm of unexplained supernatural phenomenon exploding around the planet. I guess we just have to wait and see.

Then again, maybe they didn't exist. When I asked the FOX representatives at the promotion what the deal with the cows was, they denied that there were any cows at all. Maybe it was my imagination, or lack of food from spending all of my time standing in line at Comic-Con.