{"id":35640,"date":"2024-07-24T05:06:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=35640"},"modified":"2024-07-24T05:06:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T09:06:44","slug":"how-game-of-thrones-quietly-brought-monty-python-to-westeros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=35640","title":{"rendered":"How Game of Thrones Quietly Brought Monty Python to Westeros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hoverZoomLink alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/monty-python-holy-grail-french-taunt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"149\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">One of the best easter eggs in HBO&#8217;s Game of Thrones was a pretty clever reference to Monty Python in an otherwise intense Season 4 episode.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/game-of-thrones-season-4-monty-python-insult\/\">How Game of Thrones Quietly Brought Monty Python to Westeros<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>But the sequence quietly contained one of\u00a0<em>Game of Throne&#8217;s<\/em>\u00a0cleverest easter eggs because Missandei&#8217;s translation was inaccurate.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.makinggameofthrones.com\/production-diary\/2014\/5\/8\/interview-with-linguist-david-peterson\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Making Game of Thrones<\/em><\/a>, an HBO-sanctioned outlet, held interviews with members of the cast and crew &#8212; including linguist David Peterson. Peterson helped define many of the show&#8217;s languages, including Dothraki, High Valyrian and Low Valyrian. According to Peterson, when the time came to write the Meereenese rider&#8217;s insults, executive producer D.B. Weiss &#8212; the co-writer of the episode &#8212; asked Peterson to insert a Monty Python reference. As a result, the Low Valyrian insults were actually a direct translation of the French Taunter&#8217;s verbal jabs from\u00a0<em>Monty Python and the Holy Grail<\/em>.<br><br>Thanks to Weiss and Peterson, the French Taunter&#8217;s insults &#8212; including &#8220;your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberries&#8221; &#8212; made their way into\u00a0<em>Game of Thrones<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the best easter eggs in HBO&#8217;s Game of Thrones was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[206,198,2016],"class_list":["post-35640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-got","tag-joan","tag-monty-python","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35643,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35640\/revisions\/35643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}