I have watched every episode of Game Of Thrones and never noticed this.
In a scene in which sneery teen King Joffrey is proudly showing his captive wife-to-be Sansa Stark a row of traitors’ heads on spikes, even eagle-eyed viewers may not have seen that one of those craniums belonged to former President George W. Bush.
In the DVD commentary for the first season, show creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss revealed, “People may not have noticed this but back up … the last head on the left is George Bush … George Bush’s head appears in a couple of beheading scenes.”
The creative pair have since issued an apology, explaining how the Bush head ended up in the show. “We use a lot of prosthetic body parts on the show: heads, arms, etc. We can’t afford to have these all made from scratch, especially in scenes where we need a lot of them, so we rent them in bulk. After the scene was already shot, someone pointed out that one of the heads looked like George W. Bush. We meant no disrespect to the former President and apologize if anything we said or did suggested otherwise.”
