We get to keep The Hob­bit. Yay! Every­one has opin­ions on the mat­ter, because every­one knows someone who’s worked on LOTR (my mum made some of the mugs in the “it comes in pints?” scene in the last movie).

We’re stoked for the people who work in our film industry, but less impressed about the “oh hey, sure, we can totally change our laws for you, Warner Broth­ers” appear­ance of it all. As the poor cold journ­al­ist wait­ing out­side the PM’s house for a ver­dict today tweeted “now to get a com­pany to come here and con­vince the PM to pay men and women the same for the same work, or work of equal value.”

But any­ways, the point of this post is that a really spe­cial round of applause must go to TV3’s sched­uler, who screened the Radio­act­ive Man epis­ode of The Simpsons today. Sample dia­logue:

Assist­ant: All right, we have $30 mil­lion to spend.
Quimby: We’ll blow up our dams, des­troy forests, any­thing! If
there’s a spe­cies of anim­al that’s caus­ing prob­lems nos­ing
around your cam­era, we’ll have it wiped out!
Dir­ect­or: Look! We just want to make movies, not kill things.
Wig­gum: [winks] Riight, we under­stand, heh.
– Say no more, “Radio­act­ive Man”