A little bit of silliness definitely goes a long way but ‘silly’ and ‘Game of Thrones’ are not usually synonymous with each other. Monty Python, on the other hand, is the holy grail of silliness.

The third episode of the current season of  Game of Thrones, which is featured on the cover of Rolling Stone, contains an Easter egg of Arthurian proportions: Monty Python references. The show’s linguist, David Peterson, has revealed that the references appear in the scene where Daario Naharis faces off with the champion of Meereen and the latter shouts at Daenerys Targaryen in some foreign tongue. Although she asks what the invective means, she does not get an accurate translation. “He’s actually saying a Low Valyrian translation of the French guy’s insults in Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” Peterson told Making Game of Thrones. Series co-creator D.B. Weiss allegedly came up with the idea.

An interesting and unlikely marriage for sure – but rather pleasing for the die-hard Monty-Pythoners among us.

[Source] Rolling Stone