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June 13, 2011 7:58 PM   Subscribe

Really, I could compose an entire post about how we just need to give Peter Dinklage the fucking Emmy already, but instead here is, from HBO's Game of Thrones, an entire ten minutes of Lord Tryion Lannister slapping the shit out of his little shit of a nephew, Joffrey. With Led Zeppelin! Enjoy your ten minutes of Zen!

And thanks to ColdChef for pointing the way. SLYT post, FIAMO if you don't like it, but I bet you will. I mean, come on, Joffrey getting slapped by Tyrion for ten whole minutes? It's meditative. Calming. Probably cures cancer.
posted by PapaLobo (34 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Not to begrudge anybody who needed some slap therapy by proxy, but this is thin at best and you really need to not pick a fight about whether your post should exist in the text of the post itself. -- cortex



 
This is probably a narrow spectrum fetish of some sort. Not my thing really, it spoils the music, and the beauty of the two players. The players are extraordinarily lovely, the guy in back wears too much hair gel, shall we say?
posted by Oyéah at 8:05 PM on June 13, 2011


That was extremely satisfying but is easily 8 minutes too long.

am now rewatching to "slap my bitch up" for the lulz.
posted by elizardbits at 8:07 PM on June 13, 2011


Is this where I tell you guys how much I loooove Peter Dinklage? I've had a huge crush on him since the Station Agent. So friggin talented.

As you can clearly tell from the clip.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 8:09 PM on June 13, 2011 [7 favorites]


ok, prodigy version is infinitely more fulfilling.
posted by elizardbits at 8:11 PM on June 13, 2011


I like this edit; it's more compact, but still satisfying.
posted by oinopaponton at 8:13 PM on June 13, 2011 [3 favorites]


Really?

Really?

This is all it takes to entertain folks nowadays?

Because personally I'd need at least a good twenty minutes of that little shit getting slapped stupid again and again and again.
posted by FAMOUS MONSTER at 8:17 PM on June 13, 2011 [3 favorites]


That was about 9:30 too long.

Also, not a good post. I mean, seriously your challenging people to "FIAMO"? Why not just wave a banner saying "Hey, I'm not going to bother to pretend it's that a great post, but screw you anyway."
posted by oddman at 8:17 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]


Thank you, I didn't know I needed that, but it turns out that I did.
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:18 PM on June 13, 2011


Wow, this made me laugh and laugh and laugh.
posted by Catblack at 8:22 PM on June 13, 2011


Also, not a good post. I mean, seriously your challenging people to "FIAMO"? Why not just wave a banner saying "Hey, I'm not going to bother to pretend it's that a great post, but screw you anyway."

*slaps oddman silly for 10 straight minutes to the tune of "I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman," laughing maniacally the whole time*
posted by Strange Interlude at 8:22 PM on June 13, 2011 [2 favorites]


doubled youtube for your viewing pleasure. mute the left hand one first obvsly.
posted by elizardbits at 8:22 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]


What's Game of Thrones?
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:24 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]


I've had a huge crush on him since the Station Agent.

Pffff. I've had a huge crush on him since Living in Oblivion.

and now I can knock "just once, be the jerk that's all 'i liked xyz since before it was cool'" off my bucket list. huzzah! but seriously, go rent living in oblivion.
posted by palomar at 8:25 PM on June 13, 2011 [2 favorites]


Reminds me of this, which has replaced the WPIX Yule Log in my household.
posted by Kinbote at 8:26 PM on June 13, 2011 [3 favorites]


What's Game of Thrones?
posted by Brandon Blatcher at 8:24 PM on June 13 [+] [!]


It's basically what you see in the clip, but has someone parping along in back with a sackbut.
posted by Sebmojo at 8:30 PM on June 13, 2011 [2 favorites]


That was strangely satisfying.

I think I would have enjoyed that book a lot more if I'd been listening to Zep while reading. Those chapters up on the wall could have used some No Quarter.
posted by Guernsey Halleck at 8:31 PM on June 13, 2011


seriously your challenging people to "FIAMO"?
No, I was challenging people to overcome their instincts and embrace the slappage. One more failure at reading comprehension and I'll hit you again.
posted by PapaLobo at 8:34 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]


Yes, I think it was completely ridiculous that any candidate could suggest privatizing FEMA of all things. The idea is just ridiculous on it's face -- could Louisiana fund it's own recovery if the whole state was underwater literally and financially? It's a simple violation of common sense, and frankly...

Whoops! Wrong thread. Wrong country. Apologies. Get back to your... um... culture, or whatever you like to call it these days.
posted by notion at 8:36 PM on June 13, 2011


The first link will not load in my Mac/Firefox combo and the second one is 9 and a half minutes of of a 3 second clip of someone slapping someone else, repeating the 3 seconds for 9 and a half minutes.

I still don;t know any more about Game of Thrones than when I started of why Peter Dinglage (presumably the slapee) is worthy of an Emmy.

MehFilter.
posted by Poet_Lariat at 8:36 PM on June 13, 2011


What's Game of Thrones?

20 pieces of gold, same as in King's Landing.
posted by dw at 8:38 PM on June 13, 2011 [16 favorites]


Peter Dinklage laying twelve kinds of awesome shit down in Living in Oblivion.

Peter Dinklage is someone I can never get enough of.
posted by smoke at 8:48 PM on June 13, 2011 [6 favorites]


I laughed. But got desensitizing quickly.

They cast the perfect actor for Joffry, the face and demeanor that instantly offends. Hopefully the kid won't get typecast or anything.

I came to A Game of Thrones for the production quality and Sean Bean. I stayed for Peter Dinklage and Charles Dance. And Maisie Williams as Arya.
posted by porpoise at 8:49 PM on June 13, 2011 [1 favorite]


Not every post is for every user. If you don't understand why this post is wonderful and supremely satisfying, just move along.

Better yet, watch the show. The scene in question happens in episode 2 of Game of Thrones, and already at that point, the damn kid is in desperate need of a slap.
posted by explosion at 8:50 PM on June 13, 2011


What's Game of Thrones?

It's a bit like Dharma & Greg, except Dharma has grey eyebrows and eats horses' hearts and Greg is either a dwarf, a bastard, a rapist, a murderer, a pedophile, a pimp, a eunuch, a king, or some combination of the above.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 8:52 PM on June 13, 2011 [10 favorites]


First link no work for me, either.
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 8:54 PM on June 13, 2011


I would pay for A Game of Thrones a la carte. I can't. Therefore, HBO isn't getting any money from me. So, I wait. I'll gorge on the DVD / Netflix at some point.
posted by andreaazure at 8:55 PM on June 13, 2011


Peter Dinklage laying twelve kinds of awesome shit down in Living in Oblivion

crap - I don't know what Living in Oblivion is either but this Dinklage guy and Steve Busceimi appears to be 12 kinds of awesome so I'm googling the film and ahem acquiring it right now
posted by Poet_Lariat at 8:57 PM on June 13, 2011


andreaazure: "I would pay for A Game of Thrones a la carte. I can't. Therefore, HBO isn't getting any money from me. So, I wait. I'll gorge on the DVD / Netflix at some point."

You can watch online but only if you already subscribe to HBO which sort of misses the point.
posted by octothorpe at 9:01 PM on June 13, 2011


I don't know, how does it stack up against Angie Dickinson performing Steve Reich's Clapping Music on Lee Marvin's chest? Could we make them fight?

(Obligatory Angie Jordan saying "Ham" on 30 Rock for 15 minutes. Play these two videos simultaneously. I dare you.)
posted by ilana at 9:17 PM on June 13, 2011 [2 favorites]


I am afraid that after seeing what happened in Sunday's episode, my wife will settle for no less than seeing Joffrey flayed alive, then dipped in acid, then revived, etc. Having read the books I do not have the heart to tell her it will be a wait for the King's karma to come due.

First episdoe I did predict to my wife that by the end of the season she was going to be loving Jon Snow, Arya, Dany, and Tyrion. She didn't believe me. She's so emotionally vested in those four now its downright scary.

Dinklage should get an Emmy but damn, Sean Bean laid down some serious shit as well.
posted by Ber at 9:25 PM on June 13, 2011


They cast the perfect actor for Joffry, the face and demeanor that instantly offends. Hopefully the kid won't get typecast or anything.

I was just thinking about this. Sure, the kid is perfect, but when did blonde hair/blue eyes become cinematic shorthand for evil rich/high status person? Of course I get the allusions to Nazis, but it wasn't like postwar cinema of the 50s and 60s had a bunch of blond/blue eyed villans. I would guess it surfaced sometime in the 70s or 80s.

I was just wondering about that because the first time we see that kid, before he even delivers a single line of dialogue we know he' an evil little bastard.

But maybe I'm not giving enough credit to the actor. He does do a good job of carrying himself as a smarmy little aristocrat.
posted by mcmile at 9:25 PM on June 13, 2011


Oh I just remembered that this show is based on novels that I haven't read. He could be the palest, blondest character in the novels as well, but i think the point still stands.
posted by mcmile at 9:29 PM on June 13, 2011


Okay that Clapping Music clip was just awesome.
posted by PapaLobo at 9:29 PM on June 13, 2011


Game of Thrones is the HBO television series adapted from the first in George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire (SPOILERS). The first novel in the series being A Game of Thrones.
posted by Crabby Appleton at 9:43 PM on June 13, 2011


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