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George W. Bush’s decapitated head appeared on Game of Thrones

There's one hell of a dragon egg hidden in Game of Thrones season one. Turns out one of the many heads on a spike decorating King's Landing belonged to ex-president George Bush.

If you keep your eyes peeled when King Joffrey takes Sansa Stark to gaze upon the spiked head of her dead father around 12 minutes in, you'll notice that one of the heads looks slightly familiar. Show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss explained in their DVD commentary (from Season 1, episode 10) that the decapitated head is actually George Bush. This was discovered by redditor SidIncognito.

"The last head on the left is George Bush. George Bush's head appears in a couple of beheading scenes. It's not a choice, it's not a political statement. We just had to use whatever head we had around."

We included the video for you to get a better look along with this close-up shot. Yep, that's him. Yikes. What do you think he did to piss off King Joffrey?

Update: We received a statement from HBO:

We were deeply dismayed to see this and find it unacceptable, disrespectful and in very bad taste. We made this clear to the executive producers of the series who apologized immediately for this inadvertent careless mistake. We are sorry this happened and will have it removed from any future DVD production.

And the producers, David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, also issued a statement:

What happened was this: we use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc. We can't afford to have these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them, so we rent them in bulk. After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush.

In the DVD commentary, we mentioned this, though we should not have. We meant no disrespect to the former President and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise.
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I expect a show with an HBO budget to use real heads.

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He's Mr. Clean-Up! He's from Mars. He doesn't believe, evidently, that Mars Needs Women.

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JackofDiamonds wrote:
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He's Mr. Clean-Up! He's from Mars. He doesn't believe, evidently, that Mars Needs Women.
I wish I had a son so I could name him Ihor. Awesome.

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TabascoElvis wrote:
JackofDiamonds wrote:
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He's Mr. Clean-Up! He's from Mars. He doesn't believe, evidently, that Mars Needs Women.
I wish I had a son so I could name him Ihor. Awesome.
I just don't see anyone hiring Ihor as an escort. Except if they wanted a Danny Bonaduce look-alike.

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I'm not totally sure what's going on here, but it's pretty hilarious.

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