Donald Trump gags and D&G ads: how Game of Thrones took over the world

The highs and lows of the show’s rise from the small screen to the big time

Game of Thrones is finally big enough to engulf us. As the HBO blockbuster reaches its final season, it has definitively crossed over from the novelty mugs and Funko Pop! figurines of middle-class nerdery and into the full mainstream. And with that comes a cultural cachet that threatens to ruin the spider’s web-thin magic of it: tie-in promotional products, mid-song name drops, that font they use becoming a weird medieval-style joke. Here are some of the best and worst examples of our world crossing over with Westeros.

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