If There’s One Thing All the Denizens of Middle-Earth Can Agree On, It’s Air Safety
I was all set to make fun of this Hobbit-inspired safety video for New Zealand Air (made with help from Weta!), but it’s somehow so simultaneously corny and brilliant and insane and bizarre that I just want to stand back and applaud. Except the part where Peter Jackson shows up, because that’s totally unrealistic. Like that man has seen the coach section of an airplane since 2001.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.