--- title: Game of Thrones Transformed as Other TV Shows by Internet description: The Internet has begun making suggestions for ways to merge the world of Game of Thrones with several other popular TV universes. canonical: https://time.com/4772130/game-of-thrones-reimagined-tv-shows-internet/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-09T14:53:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:31.629Z og:title: The Internet Is Busy Game of Thrones-ifying Other TV Shows og:description: From "The Westeros Wing" to "Whose Throne Is It Anyway?" og:url: https://time.com/4772130/game-of-thrones-reimagined-tv-shows-internet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt857530cd1dbb25fd/6988c3ce656a3f2d10bcfa79/got-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: got-1 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Busy Game of Thrones-ifying Other TV Shows twitter:description: From "The Westeros Wing" to "Whose Throne Is It Anyway?" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt857530cd1dbb25fd/6988c3ce656a3f2d10bcfa79/got-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Is Reimagining _Game of Thrones_ as Other TV Shows and It's Amazing > Sponsored content. 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After Comedy Central’s [Midnight](https://twitter.com/midnight) launched the hashtag #GameofThronesTVShows Monday night — with the game show’s contestants proposing “Laverne & Shirley & Dragons” and “Killmore Girls” — viewers took to Twitter to create their own clever mashups. There were submissions that revived cancelled classics, “[The Westeros Wing](https://twitter.com/JrMariner77/status/861778623212036096)” and “[Buffy the Kingslayer](https://twitter.com/thesideofmyface/status/861830763850993664),” brought back old sitcoms, “[Married… To Children](https://twitter.com/CollinMurr/status/861780462242598912)” and “[How I Met Your Mother Of Dragons](https://twitter.com/DaSkrambledEgg/status/861777868883451904),” and even dipped into the world of reality TV, “[Say Yes to the Red Wedding Dress](https://twitter.com/izzy68/status/861778581814464512)” and “[Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares](https://twitter.com/mynameisNegan/status/861830817366016000).” See a selection of the best ideas below. > [](https://twitter.com/scottruegg/status/861782032141000704) > [](https://twitter.com/juanpponce/status/861802916428099584) > [](https://twitter.com/ChrisDerps/status/861785077247754241) > [](https://twitter.com/deedles420/status/861784175304749056) > [](https://twitter.com/MakDPostmodern/status/861783859603451904) > [](https://twitter.com/Jason4013/status/861784599764111361) > [](https://twitter.com/kingofsorrow954/status/861822442829996036) > [](https://twitter.com/ClarkisAwesome/status/861787720930050048) > [](https://twitter.com/NarwhalForTruth/status/861789776395083776) > [](https://twitter.com/ComedyCentral/status/861778500524683269) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4772130/game-of-thrones-reimagined-tv-shows-internet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4772130/game-of-thrones-reimagined-tv-shows-internet/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Reimagining Game of Thrones as Other TV Shows and It's Amazing","datePublished":"2017-05-09T14:53:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:31.629Z","description":"From \"The Westeros Wing\" to \"Whose Throne Is It Anyway?\"","url":"https://time.com/4772130/game-of-thrones-reimagined-tv-shows-internet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","game of thrones","viral","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt857530cd1dbb25fd/6988c3ce656a3f2d10bcfa79/got-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt857530cd1dbb25fd/6988c3ce656a3f2d10bcfa79/got-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"got-1","caption":"Game of Thrones","creditText":"Helen Sloan—HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4772130/game-of-thrones-reimagined-tv-shows-internet/","name":"The Internet Is Reimagining Game of Thrones as Other TV Shows and It's Amazing"}}]}] ```