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An Online Synopsis Spoils a Game of Thrones Character

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At the end of the Game of Thrones season 4 episode "Oathkeeper," an undead White Walker carries off a human child and brings it to its boss, who touches the baby's cheek and transforms it into a snow zombie.

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Pictured: a horny old guy turning a child.

That scene actually caused quite a bit of stir in the Game of Th-sorry, A Song of Ice and Fire fandom, because it doesn't appear anywhere in the books. Of course many things in the show aren't found in the books, like Podrick's magical cock, but this scene is different as it answers a lot of important questions about the White Walkers. For example, it tells us that the creatures used to be humans. But where this gets into spoiler territory involves what was probably a simple screw-up on the part of some HBO employee.

Some Reddit users caught an HBO synopsis (that was later deleted) that identified the horned White Walker as "the Night's King." Even if you haven't read the books, you may still know who that is if you've watch the season 2 DVD extra titled "The Night's Watch History." The extra tells of a legend about the 13th commander of the Night's Watch, the guys tasked with killing White Walkers, who failed spectacularly at his job by falling in love with a female Walker, losing his soul in the process, going crazy, and declaring himself ... "Night's King." That's right, the boss of the White Walkers used to be a "crow," which technically makes him Jon Snow's "brother."

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*Cue soap opera music*

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Futurama's Background Characters Reveal the Truth About Fry and Leela

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The basic plot of Futurama centers around a lovable idiot named Fry accidentally stumbling into a cryogenic tube and waking up in the year 3000 A.D. where he gets a job, goes on adventures, and makes adults cry over a goddamned cartoon. However, during the episode "The Why of Fry," it's revealed that Fry's "accident" was actually engineered by Nibbler, the series' pet mascot who turns out to be a powerful alien overlord.

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*Awe-verlord.

In fiction, this sort of thing is called a "retcon" ("retroactive continuity") and it's what happens when writers get drunk, miss deadlines, and make up a bullshit story on the spot that alters established facts within their fictional universe. That's obviously what happened with Futurama. We mean, if you rewatch the pilot episode, it's clear that Nibbler wasn't anywhere near Fry during his fall into the freezer.

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That had to be a hell of a party horn to have that kind of recoil.

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A Tiny Sign Proves That the Friends Crew Were a Bunch of Selfish Pricks

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Friends was a simple but wildly successful series about a group of likeable 20/30-somethings dealing with love, employment, and life. Well, maybe not exactly "employment" because, by our rough estimate, the cast spent 99 percent of their fictional days at the Central Perk coffee shop -- sitting around a big table and the now-iconic couch and armchairs -- without ever losing their jobs.

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For our younger readers: "Jobs" are things that people in the '90s used to have.

But now that we mention it, those were some really awesome seats. How did the gang always manage to score that tasty piece of cafe real-estate? Because, as Tanya Ghahremani from Bustle first pointed out, they had the seats on permanent reserve as if they were Clapton at the Hard Rock. In many episodes, you can just about make out the teeny-weeny "Reserved" sign sitting on the table.

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Warner Bros. Television
They had to keep it inconspicuous to not anger the commoners.

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Two Seconds of Footage Hint That Firefly's Inara Was Terminally Ill

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Fans of Firefly might not need to be told who Inara Serra is (but they desperately need to be told to move on, for Christ's sake.) For everyone else, though, here's a crash course in the character: Imagine if Princess Leia became a prostitute.

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"So, my Tuesday wank fantasy, then?"

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Four Episode Titles Give Away the Ending of Breaking Bad's Second Season

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During the season 2 finale of Breaking Bad, two airplanes collided over Albuquerque to the ecstatic delight of the show's fans. See, up until that point, everyone thought that the season will conclude with Walter White's meth lab exploding, which would have been good for society but bad for the show (especially if it meant Walter had to go back to teaching high school chemistry). That's what the show seemed to be hinting at, what with four episodes starting off with flash-forwards showing billowing black smoke and people in hazmat suits around the White home.

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Sony Pictures Television
Sony Pictures Television
Are we sure this isn't just some misplaced b-roll from E.T.?

Some, in fact, would speculate that the plane crash bit was just a cheap cop-out the writers came up with at the last moment, when they decided it would be too hard to write their way out of a middle-aged cancer victim getting engulfed in a chemical explosion's fireball. But not if you paid attention to the titles of the flash-forward episodes ... and did a little code-breaking.

First, you have the episode "Seven Thirty-Seven," which in context was how many thousands of dollars Walter claimed he needed in order to provide for his family after he was gone. The next episode is called "Down," which references the characters' struggles, like Walter's deteriorating marriage and Jesse's homelessness. Then, we have the episode "Over" when things start to slightly look up for Walter. Finally, there's the episode "ABQ," but we weren't able to crack the meaning of that title.

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Maybe we'll never know.

So the titles make sense in the context of their episodes, but put them together and you get:

Seven Thirty-Seven Down Over ABQ

If you're still not seeing it, the number is a reference to a Boeing 737, one of the two airliners that crash over Albuquerque. (ABQ! We just got it!) So the second season finale of Breaking Bad was actually telegraphed quite obviously through four episode titles, just as you would expect from a brilliant show that cleverly foreshadowed its series finale with one fucking song.

Ed and Aaron would like to thank Amanda Mannen for the Friends entry.

For more amazing easter eggs, check out 7 Insane Easter Eggs Hidden in Movies and TV Shows and 6 Insane Easter Eggs Buried in Famous TV Shows.

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