--- title: James Corden: Game of Thrones, Stranger Things Musicals description: James Corden and his guests took on Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and Stranger Things during an "Inappropriate Musicals" segment. canonical: https://time.com/4502631/james-corden-game-of-thrones-breaking-bad-stranger-things-musical/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-21T15:04:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:36:47.989Z og:title: James Corden Did Game of Thrones and Stranger Things, the Musical og:description: With the help of Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Alan Cumming og:url: https://time.com/4502631/james-corden-game-of-thrones-breaking-bad-stranger-things-musical/ 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: James Corden Did Game of Thrones and Stranger Things, the Musical twitter:description: With the help of Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Alan Cumming twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # James Corden Made _Game of Thrones_, _Breaking Bad_ and _Stranger Things_ Into Inappropriate Musicals > Sponsored content. 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Luckily, [James Corden](http://time.com/4261606/james-corden-carpool-karaoke-special/) put an end to that on Tuesday night’s episode of _The Late Late Show_, enlisting the help of Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Alan Cumming to work a much-needed song into Ned Stark’s beheading scene. The trio also took on _Breaking Bad_ and _Stranger Things_ during the “Inappropriate Musicals” segment, with Cumming performing a jazzy tune as Walter White while Corden took the lead as the Demogorgon to belt out an ’80s rock ballad. “I want to rock your body all around,” Corden sang. “I want to take you pretty mama to the Upside Down.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4502631/james-corden-game-of-thrones-breaking-bad-stranger-things-musical/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4502631/james-corden-game-of-thrones-breaking-bad-stranger-things-musical/"},"headline":"James Corden Made Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and Stranger Things Into Inappropriate Musicals","datePublished":"2016-09-21T15:04:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:36:47.989Z","description":"\"I want to take you pretty mama to the Upside Down\"","url":"https://time.com/4502631/james-corden-game-of-thrones-breaking-bad-stranger-things-musical/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","breaking bad","TV","The Late Late Show","james corden","The Late Late Show with James Corden","Stranger Things"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4502631/james-corden-game-of-thrones-breaking-bad-stranger-things-musical/","name":"James Corden Made Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad and Stranger Things Into Inappropriate Musicals"}}]}] ```