Hilarity Roundup: White Walkers meet tourism, Michael Jackson, and shade

Humor: a balm for the soul in a world where it’s being constantly battered by war, hatred, and ice monsters that descend from the far north. (Disclaimer: I refer, of course, to White Walkers, not Canadians.)

If anyone found their spirits low after Jon Snow sailed away from the vastly grown army of the dead at the end of “Hardhome,” these images from Belfast may help. The Northern Irish city has been staging a series of Game of Thrones-themed stunts all year to drive tourism, and the latest involves making it look as though the public fountains in Belfast’s Custom House Square have been frozen solid following a “White Walker incident.”

If I see the terrifying White Walkers in a different context, they’ll stop haunting my dreams, right? Let’s hope so. For more images of the fountain stunt, head to the Belfast Telegraph.

If the fountain images don’t stop the terror, try this video mashup of the final scene from “Hardhome” and Vincent Price’s monologue from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” The editor doesn’t really do much beyond overlay the audio from the Jackson track with the final images, but it’s almost eerie how well they fit together. If only the wights actually started dancing at the end.

Next, we have the ever-dependable Jonathan Van Ness throwing shade all over “Hardhome” in the latest edition in Funny of Die’s Gay of Thrones series.

As always, I’m impressed by Van Ness’ seemingly inexhaustible supply of nicknames for the characters. Here’s the new ones.

• Qyburn: Bill Nye Westeros Science Guy
• Braavosi insurance salesman: Slender Man
• Bran: Miss Cleo/Baby Paraplegic
• Rattleshirt: Lovely Bones
• Tormund Giantsbane: Wildling Louis C.K.
• Wun Wun: Gérard Depardieu
• Wights: those Grateful Dead skeletons
• Bearded White Walker: a very scary Gandalf
• The Night’s King: White Walker Bobby Flay

Man, there were a lot this week, and I didn’t even include the nicknames he gave Septa Unella and Karsi because I couldn’t quite make them out. Did anybody understand what he said there?

Finally, the good folks at Zap2It alerted us to the fact that the other good folks at CD Projekt RED snuck a Game of Thrones-themed Easter eggs into their latest videogame, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. If players travel to Kaer Almhult in the Skellige Isles, they may come across a prison cell with one wall open to the elements, similar to the sky cells in the Eyrie. On the floor of one of these cells lies the body of a small man who looks suspiciously like Tyrion Lannister. It’s as though The Witcher takes place in an alternate reality where Tyrion never talked his way out of the Vale. Here’s a video guide.

• Published on 06/04/2015 at 2:30 PM CDT
• Last updated on 06/04/2015 at 2:30 PM CDT