To promote the release of Game of Thones' fourth season on something called blinkbox, Sue and Phillip Lauer dressed their three pugs up as various characters from show and filmed them. The resulting short movie—The Pugs of Westeros—is much, much better than the HBO series that inspired it.

Queen Elizabeth II examines the Iron Throne Tuesday during a tour of the Game of Thrones set in Belfast. Image via Sky News.

Game of Thrones has been criticized for its varied, seemingly random collection of British accents, but the lack of consistency across the different regions of Westeros and Essos just makes it easier for impressionist Steve Love to imitate a dozen characters from Season 4.

"Gay of Thrones," Funny or Die's Game of Thrones recap series starring a gay hairstylist with encyclopedic pop culture knowledge, scored the mother of all cameo appearances this week: George R.R. Martin, who plays himself playing the grandfather from The Princess Bride.

Game of Thrones' meticulously-crafted mechanical version of Westeros makes for one of the most recognizable title sequences on TV, but geek icon Wil Wheaton thought it could do a better job introducing the show's huge cast.

One of the most heartwrenching scenes in the season 4 finale of Game of Thrones was between Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen and two of her dragons. No one expected to well up over CGI creatures during an episode where very bad things happened to several major characters, but here we are. All the moment was missing was the Sarah McLachlan soundtrack from those SPCA ads.

George R.R. Martin, the man who ripped out your heart in his Song of Ice and Fire series and then made you eat the pieces on HBO's Game of Thrones, just went on casually enjoying his life while more of his characters died over the weekend.

Capital news for nerds of varied persuasions: An ambitious band has transformed the meandering, incomprehensible, jazz-like plot of Game of Thrones into actual (kicky) jazz.

Not every scene from George R.R. Martin's immense A Song of Ice and Fire series can be filmed for Game of Thrones. Something has to be cut, even if it's something Martin himself really likes.

A very excited young man evidently didn't expect to see a pair of naked breasts on HBO's Game of Thrones, a show based on George R.R. Martin's novel series A Song of Tits and Swords.

Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson is purely villainous as The Mountain, Game of Thrones' skull-crushing id, but he's a much gentler giant offscreen. When he's not dominating international strongman competitions, the 6'9" Björnsson finds time to dress up as the Hulk to terrify and delight little kids.

Sunday night's Game of Thrones battle between Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane and Oberyn "Red Viper" Martell was startling not so much for its outcome as for its sheer brutality. Showrunners Benioff and Weiss pushed even HBO's visual boundaries with the scene, but could it have been even more powerful?

Before he was the third actor to play Ser Gregor Clegane—"The Mountain That Rides"—on Game of Thrones, Hafþór "Thor" Júlíus Björnsson was already making heads explode with his performances in strongman competitions.

Spoiler Alert: If you haven't seen Sunday's Game of Thrones, don't watch this. These people are seeing a major plot twist for the first time, and so will you.

After the brutal final scene of last night's Game of Thrones, it's nice to see that the actors who play Oberyn Martell and the Mountain get along in real life.

Walder Frey is the one Game of Thrones character who might be more hatable than Joffrey, but the actor who plays him is a good sport with a lovely sense of humor. David Bradley posed with a fan at last year's London Film and Comic Con holding this very topical instruction manual.

"His father was gonna hook him up, but he couldn't shut his ass up, so now he's gonna have to fight this big-ass gigantic motherfucker," and other Game of Thrones truths and impressions from Snoop Dogg and Seth Rogen.

Faced with an interview with the only person on Earth who hasn't seen Game of Thrones, Peter Dinklage has just 45 seconds to recap the show so far. His answer is succinct, poetic, and totally accurate.

Incest is pretty integral to the plot of Game of Thrones, but the brother-sister relations have always been fictional—a fact that's apparently a big disappointment for the producers of the show.

George R.R. Martin, the man the world is counting on to bring Game of Thrones to a satisfying conclusion where Tyrion and Daenerys rule Westeros side-by-side (with Ser Pounce the cat as Hand), still writes on a DOS machine with Wordstar 4.0 (released in 1985!).