Game of Thrones Cut Off George Bush's Head

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Everyone who knows the show remembers the severed heads from the Season 1 finale of Game of Thrones, "Fire and Blood." We'll avoid spoilers here, but suffice to say it was yet another reason to totally freaking hate little Joffrey.

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But now an Easter egg from the show is making the rounds that reveals former President George W. Bush is one of the decapitated heads in the scene. Or, rather, a prop of his noggin is. Check it:

According to the DVD commentary, showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss explained the head's presence thusly:

"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 heads we had lying around."

I guess they just had Bush heads… lying around? O.K. then.

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Update: Showrunners Benioff and Weiss have now apologized for the use of the Bush prop, while maintaining that they intended no disrespect or political commentary with its disembodied inclusion.

"We use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc." Benioff and Weiss said, according to The Wrap. "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."

HBO also issued an apology:

"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."

So there you have it, guys. Your Game of Thrones DVDs just became collector's items.

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