'Game of Thrones': Leslie Jones' best observations and reactions from Season 8 premiere
We've missed "Game of Jones" almost as much as "Game of Thrones." Now both are back and our lives are complete again.
The "Saturday Night Live" comic and Seth Meyers finally reunited to watch the Season 8 premiere during Thursday's episode of "Late Night."
Meyers was almost forced to make a tough choice between airing a "Closer Look" segment on the release of the complete Mueller report or the fan-favorite "Game of Jones." Instead, he asked NBC for extra time.
"I simply will not stand for the Mueller report bumping Leslie Jones or vice versa, so we decided to make room for both," the "Late Night" host said in a press release on Monday announcing the episode would run 90 minutes.
We've rounded up a few of her funniest observations and reactions to Episode 1, "Winterfell."
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"You better never trust me with a dragon. It shoot fire and fly? That means I'm gonna do drive-bys every week, son."
– Jones responding to Meyers' statement about how he couldn't quite trust her with the magical beasts even though there's no one he'd rather see with one, after watching Jon Snow (Kit Harington) ride a dragon for the first time.
"That is your nephew! That is your auntie!"
- Jones, expressing what was in all our heads when Jon and Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) made out in front of her dragons. And we're pretty sure it's what Drogon was saying with that look he gave Jon, too.
"Ask a dragon what they eat. They're gonna say, 'RAWR! Whatever I want. Bring me some Popeyes!" '
– Jones offers insight into Drogon and Rhaegel's food cravings.
"Bran is like a peeping Tom. Bran just show up!"
– On the youngest surviving Stark's (Isaac Wright Hempstead) habit of just showing up behind you despite being in a wheelchair with no one to push him and then saying creepy things. She also suspected that he probably hangs out with the face in the heart tree in the Godswood, or as Meyers likes to call it, the "Treeping Tom." (As the actor told Jimmy Kimmel, his weirdly unnerving stares are more a product of his vision being awful without glasses than his character's whole Three-Eyed-Raven deal.)
"This is what happens: The good man walks out, the piece of (expletive) stays... You know, the older I get, I'm starting to get where I would date that dude."
– Jones offering her theory on why Queen Cersei (Lena Headey) slept with crude pirate Euron Greyjoy (Pilou Asbaek) instead of the more honorable Captain Strickland (Marc Rissman) from the Golden Company, her hired mercenaries. (Or maybe it's because Strickland didn't bring her any of those elephants she wanted?)
"You ain't puttin' (expletive) in my belly except for some ribs."
– On what she'd say to Euron Greyjoy if he tried using his sexy talk on her.
"Headbutts hurt for real. I've headbutted a couple of people. I've been in situations where my hands (weren't) free."
– On Yara Greyjoy's (Gemma Whelan) reunion with brother "Theon" (Alfie Allen), who rescued her from their evil uncle Euron. But he kind of had it coming since he didn't fight for her when she was taken in the first place.
"Bran, that's not how you introduced yourself to people!"
– On Brandon Stark interrupting Daenerys' "Welcome to Winterfell" gathering to say they don't have time for pleasantries. "And Sansa says, 'He weird, but he all right, though.' "
"We got someone who wants to welcome you. Look to your right... You pushed me out the window!"
– On Bran being the first person Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) saw when he arrived at Winterfell to help fight the army of the dead, years after he tried to kill him for catching him having sex with his twin sister Cersei, who was then married to the king.
"Blasphemy! Anyone who said that start unfollowing me because you obviously don't watch 'GoT' and you don't know this is a transition episode."
– Jones on why she has no patience for viewers who found the season opener boring
The only thing this installment of "Game of Jones" was missing was an ambush from a 'GoT' cast member.
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This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: 'Game of Thrones': Leslie Jones' best observations and reactions from Season 8 premiere
