Humor roundup: Game of Thrones Paid Tribute by My Little Pony, of all things

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic has something of a strange place in pop culture. Created by Hasbro to sell toys and appeal to young girls, the producers soon found that, to their surprise, a number of older, male viewers were enjoying the show. They called themselves “bronies,” and have since secured themselves a place in the hall of internet curiosity.

I don’t know whether any of that bears on the production’s choice to parody Game of Thrones in the teaser for its upcoming sixth season, but it did. Watch above.

Is it ironic that My Little Pony, which is entering its sixth season, has released an official teaser trailer that boldly declares “Season 6 Is Coming” while aping the style of Game of Thrones even though Thrones itself, which is also entering its sixth season, has yet to release an official trailer? I don’t know, but nice parody, My Little Pony people.

In other news, HBO is still pursuing some interesting ways of promoting the upcoming DVD/Blu-ray release of the Season 5 home boxset. The latest involves an elaborate chocolate dragon’s egg, designed by chocolatier Melt, to be put on display this Saturday at Selfridges department store in London. Look, but don’t eat.

According to Event, the egg weighs 15kg, stands 55cm tall, and took 25 hours to make. It will “be on display for selfie opportunities until 4pm.” And then someone eats it? Who gets to eat it?

People who come to see the egg will also stand to win copies of the Season 5 boxsets.

Finally, Game of Thrones Tours, a company that does exactly what you’d expect, is in some hot water with activist group Northern Ireland says “NO” to Animal Cruelty, also an organization whose name tells you pretty much everything you need to know about it.

Game of Thrones Tours provides costumes to customers who want to tour those areas of Northern Ireland where the show is filmed dressed for the occasion. Some of those costumes—10%, according to the company—have real fur, and the activist group isn’t pleased. “This is a fantasy adventure series filled with magic and mystic,” it said in a statement. “These do not need to be real and therefore neither does the fur.”

Game of Thrones Tours responded with its own statement.

"Our intention is not to promote cruelty to animals, which is extremely out of fashion, but to ‘immerse’ visitors to Northern Ireland, who love Game of Thrones, in the real feelings, the textures – wool and leather and fur – of Game of Thrones"

True, this isn’t exactly humor, but it didn’t fit neatly anywhere else, so there you go.

h/t Yahoo, Belfast Telegraph