Someone mashed up Game of Thrones with Tiger King and it’s legitimately impressive
By Dan Selcke
Game of Thrones ended last year, meaning viewers could no longer watch powerful houses battle for dominance in a dog-eat-dog world where mercy is for the weak. Happily, Netflix came along with a replacement pretty quickly: Tiger King, a show about the stranger-than-fiction world of big cat enthusiasts in the United States, featuring polygamy, hitmen, amputated limbs, and wild animals that are as likely to kill you as let you pet them.
They’re basically the same show. Youtuber Jed Segovia must have thought so, too, because they redid the iconic Game of Thrones intro with the names and places from Tiger King, and I love it:
The details on this thing are great. Including the Grady County Jail, where Joseph Maldonado-Passage, aka Joe Exotic, aka the Tiger King, is currently incarcerated for hiring someone to kill his rival Carole Baskin (and for breaking laws respecting the protection of endangered species), as the last location on the map? Brilliant! The way the little cat head representing Carole Baskin is wearing a crown of flowers? Wonderful! Everything about this is great.
Kudos, Jed Segovia! Long may you reign.
We’ve got a couple of other Game of Thrones-related funnies to amuse your palette this afternoon. Ever wonder how Sean Bean (Ned Stark) might react if he watched himself get beheaded on the show?
"[Spoilers] This still hurts, especially for Sean Bean from gameofthrones"
Probably not quite like that, but funny is funny.
And finally, with professional sports on hold due to the coronavirus, sports commentators are a little at a loss over what to cover. Ex-footballer and Sky Sports analyst Chris Kamara has found a workaround: just commentate on Game of Thrones:
Call out the Loot Train Attack next!
Next. People from The Tiger King as Game of Thrones characters—A reasoned analysis. dark
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