I’m sure everyone is actually working very hard to make these episodes, but they really do come off as dolts. 

I’ve heard that making a big deal of saying goodbye to your dog every time you leave the house can worsen their separation anxiety, maybe Jon is just practicing good dog psychology.

Technically, they’re condensing two novels that don’t exist along with pieces of two novels that do exist but were kind of sprawling to the point of being unworkable.

I haven’t been watching these behind the scenes vignettes, but I respect the degree to which D&D appear to be mailing it in. 

He truly thinks the entire plane should be made out of the black box.

When it comes to David Roth writing about Donald Trump, you sincerely do love to see it, and you’re hearing about it more and more.

Yeah, Sam Goody was definitely in the $20 range for most CDs in the late 90s/early 2000s. I think the price on them eventually dropped at big retailers like Best Buy or Target to something in the $12-$15 range, but it was still pricey. I did a lot of shopping at used record/CD stores in that era.

There are like six lords left in Westeros now, it kind of seems like a buyer’s market when it comes to castles.

I almost respect the NFL for resisting the trend of staffing their front offices with “data expert” Ivy League grads that’s become so popular in basketball and baseball. They’re sticking to their officious, steakheaded roots and I applaud them for it.

Yeah, the Targaryens are/were essentially pretenders in exile like the Stuarts or something. I’m gonna start calling Jon Snow the Bonnie Prince Jonny. I guess the Lannisters are the ruling dynasty, so some cousin of Cersei would probably be next in line now? They never really explained how we got her on the throne…

I’m upset we didn’t get Quentyn Martell’s oafish bumbling across Essos.

He’s 100% Bam Margera. They even kind of dress the same.

I went to a Blue Jackets game a few years ago during my one and only visit to the state of Ohio and the cannon is ear-splittingly loud. They did serve relatively inexpensive Labatt Blue at the arena, so it all kind of evened out.

Funny you mention that - in book lore there’s a theory that the maesters had a hand in killing off the dragons in an attempt to rid the world of magic. I don’t think it was ever established in the show, but the birth of Dany’s dragons is thought to “reawaken” magic in the world - hence Melisandre’s ability to birth…

It kind of feels like that came from a different, better show.

Nor does it make Arya a “Mary Sue” or whatever those MRA dorks call it.

Right. No silly voices or faces. Hell, even Chris Farley is relatively subdued. Part of why it’s so funny is that both those guys play it fairly straight-faced.

Scmhitt’s Gay is the funniest thing SNL has ever done.

95% of Sox fans look like Foghat roadies. It’s just a scientific fact.

All these images of Trump waddling around the White House, hosting these weird old man burger parties and whatnot feel very Lynchian. Like, not quite something out of a nightmare, but a dream that’s surreal enough to make you feel uneasy when you wake up.