--- title: 2016 Emmys Honest Trailer: Game of Thrones, House of Cards description: Screen Junkies' Honest Trailers may be up for a 2016 Emmy, but that's not stoping them from poking fun at the year's other nominees. canonical: https://time.com/4445289/2016-emmys-honest-trailer-game-of-thrones-house-of-cards/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-09T18:38:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:16.877Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: The Honest Trailer for the Emmys Takes Down The Nominees og:description: Plus House of Cards and Modern Family og:url: https://time.com/4445289/2016-emmys-honest-trailer-game-of-thrones-house-of-cards/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Honest Trailer for the Emmys Takes Down The Nominees twitter:description: Plus House of Cards and Modern Family twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The 2016 Emmy Awards Honest Trailer Takes Down _Game of Thrones_ and _Veep_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 9, 2016 6:38 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 9, 2016 6:38 PM UTC [Screen Junkies](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOpcACMWblDls9Z6GERVi1A) may be up for a [2016 Emmy](http://time.com/4405991/emmy-nominations-2016/) in the Outstanding Short Form Variety Series category, but that’s not stopping them from poking fun at the year’s other nominees. The YouTube channel released an [Honest Trailer](http://time.com/4413409/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justic-honest-trailer/) Tuesday aimed at the 14 shows nominated for an award in the Outstanding Drama and Outstanding Comedy categories, including the newly nicknamed “Downers and Dragons” ([_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/4443628/game-of-thrones-concert-tour-ramin-djawadi/)), “Better Not Call Him Saul Because We’re Two Seasons in and His Name Is Still Jimmy” (_Better Call Saul_) and “I’m Not With Her” (_Veep_). “In a world where every network spends millions to get the attention of Emmy voters, the only way we knew how to build hype for our own nomination was to make fun of the TV shows the voters work on,” the voiceover begins. Watch the full trailer below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4445289/2016-emmys-honest-trailer-game-of-thrones-house-of-cards/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4445289/2016-emmys-honest-trailer-game-of-thrones-house-of-cards/"},"headline":"The 2016 Emmy Awards Honest Trailer Takes Down Game of Thrones and Veep","datePublished":"2016-08-09T18:38:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:16.877Z","description":"From Game of Thrones to Modern Family","url":"https://time.com/4445289/2016-emmys-honest-trailer-game-of-thrones-house-of-cards/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","TV","emmys"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4445289/2016-emmys-honest-trailer-game-of-thrones-house-of-cards/","name":"The 2016 Emmy Awards Honest Trailer Takes Down Game of Thrones and Veep"}}]}] ```