I don’t know if you’ve heard, but Game of Thrones is nominated for an Emmy…or 20. It’s a big deal for the show, since last year it smashed records left and right, and next year, it will premiere too late to get nominated at all. But no matter! It’s overwhelmingly favorable odds simply mean that others who are nominated might feel like a friendly takedown is in order.
Actually, if you’re the Screen Junkies, who are nominated for their own Emmy in the short form variety category (along with Gay of Thrones), you go after everyone who’s nominated in the Drama departments with a new entry in your signature Honest Trailers series. In this Emmy edition of the well-known spoof series, Downers and Dragons gets paired up with Better Not Call Him Saul Because We’re Two Seasons in and His Name Is Still Jimmy and I’m Not With Her, my personal favorite of the nicknames
The funnies keep coming. I’m not sure if everyone here is aware of the program “Foxtype.” It’s been reviewed over at Lifehacker a few times. It’s a grammar machine for anyone whose public school education was lacking here in the US. It also has politeness checker function, so that you can run that nasty email you were going to send to your boss through it and forestall getting fired.
Well, an enterprising soul at Reddit started running iconic lines from Game of Thrones through it. The results were….not always as expected.
And finally, for those who have binged out on Stranger Things and wonder what a version of Game of Thrones set in the ’80s version would look like, some very helpful fan has already gotten there first. (Like, way first—this video’s been floating around the internet for a few years now, but due to Stranger Things, it’s getting attention and reposted on YouTube again.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLB0dal7FXc
Gotta love that old HBO logo, and the old VHS roll lines.