PARIS – It was like little Diet Coke fireworks and the crowd – clapping, giggling, ahh’ing – loved it.

“It’s a dream come true because we’ve only been watching them on YouTube and TV but they’re homespun,” said Leland Faulkner of Auburn, a box of Mentos he’d won at the chamber-sponsored event tucked under one arm. “It’s great to see our own people doing this in our own backyard.”

When Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz told the crowd of about 100 on Thursday night that they were performing their Internet-famous stunt with Diet Coke and Mentos for the first time in New England in front of an audience everyone hooted.

“Two nights ago, we did a performance on Wall Street. Being here is way more fun,” Grobe said.

The wet works capped an Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours event at Celebration Barn, an arts space where the pair met seven years ago taking a clowning and eccentric performing workshop.

Both Grobe and Voltz sit on its board now.

They set up on the sloping lawn, 103 bottles of Diet Coke and 618 Mentos at the ready.

Chris Mitchell of Auburn was there early with his dog, Jake, to see how it was done.

“It’s not as complicated as I kind of expected. They have a neat color-coding system I’ve been paying attention to,” he said.

After the two-minute performance, when the last soda popped and the duo were dripping wet, “I thought it was amazing,” Mitchell said. “Seeing it up close was definitely better than just watching a video of it.”

“I thought they would jump out of the way. No, they pretty much take a bath it in,” said Kristin Stowell of Paris. “It was a lot higher, a lot messier than I thought.”

Grobe and Voltz said it’s been a year of fine-tuning. They started out drilling holes in the “shoulders” of the soda bottles to get the different fountain effects. They’ve refined the process now so each bottle is fitted with a nozzle with holes.

Diet Coke will spurt 25 feet in the air through a cap with a quarter-inch hole; it’ll spurt 15 feet through a half-inch.

Set-up time has been whittled from three days to four and a half hours.

“It’s a huge improvement” over the original method, Grobe said. “If it were easy, everyone would do it.”

The pair, who perform under the name Eepybird.com, posted the original clip on the Internet last June 3. “Late Show with David Letterman” called three days letter; that kicked off a whirlwind year.

Coca-Cola has come to Buckfield three times to talk with the guys. German television came here once to film them, and Grobe and Voltz have traveled America and four other countries performing.

As for the future, they have the daytime Emmy awards next week. They’re talking to TV. They’re talking to Coke. And they’re experimenting with toilet paper.