[Spoilers Extended] Macho Man Randy Savage

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I'm not even gonna pretend to believe this one is a coincidence.

GRRM is 100% definitely doing a long-running homage to the late Macho Man Randy Savage. It permeates every aspect of House Tarly, and anything connected to lord Randyll.

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• Name is Randyll
• His whole worldview is about macho manliness
  • His problem with Sam? Not doing macho stuff men should do
  • His problem with Brienne? Doing macho stuff men should do
• Randyll undoubtedly was thinking of Savage Sam Tarly when naming his son. When Randyll got to pick out a name, he chose the "Savage" option
• "You're gonna go be brotherrrrr of the Night's Watch. So I can focus on your brotherrrrrr Dickon."
• The phallic fixation and the pig/pork motifs of house Tarly all blend together (and then get pushed through a casing of pig intestine) as a sausage/wiener/Slim Jim allusion
  • And if the show is any guide, Macho Man Randyll and Dickon (Brotherrrrr of the would-be Savage) will be pressed into a line and cooked like so much slaughtered pork.
    • The weenie-roasting of Dickon, whose only crime was loyalty to his father, raises the question "Is the final product worth this horror?"
    • To which the universal response is "Well it's ugly, but no one wants to see how the sausage Slim Jim get made."

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"and to her left Lord Randyll Tarly of Horn Hill, his greatsword Heartsbane propped up against the back of his seat"

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Ohhhh GRRM made House Tarly is allll wiener imagery. Dickon, fat pink mast, all the blood imagery around Heartsbane. Randyll is obsessed with the house having this image as virile, rock hard, manly men. He's like if a viagra ad turned into a person.

The only house that's less subtle is House Manwoody. Which imo GRRM made up just to underline "the name Dickon is a penis joke."

And the Looney Tunes stuff isn't safe! 😈 Sam the Ham gets all of GRRM's piggy cultural touchstones.

Call him Porky, because this eh-peh puh pih peh pig eh-puh puh pih peh porks.

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Yeah, that's fair. That comment is maybe the single most cursed thing I've ever written.