Game Of Thrones Season 7: 7 Winners And 6 Losers

12-11. Fans Of Dick Jokes - Winners; Eunuchs - Losers

The past season wasn't Game of Thrones' best, but it may well have been the funniest. There was a lot of humour to be found even amongst all the fire-breathing carnage and, interestingly, a lot of the year's best lines were dick jokes.

Almost every quip-happy character got in on the act, from Tormund and the Hound discussing the meaning, to the glorious sound of Bronn laughing at 'Dickon', to Jaime's "maybe it really is all c*cks in the end" line in the finale. Immature? Kinda. Hilarious? Absolutely.

On a deeper level, the dick jokes also speak to gender bias, to perceived notions of power and masculinity, to the all-important theme of family and the idea (which will likely be disproved) of Daenerys' infertility, and to the limitations of the human body, but mostly they're just really funny.

The flip-side of this, hence why they're packaged together, are the eunuchs, who are the ones on the receiving end of some of these jokes. Grey Worm starts off the season on a high note, with the romantic sex scene with Missandei a high-point, but after that he's stranded at Casterly Rock, ignored for the rest of the season, and returns to do precisely nothing in the finale. Even that's better than Varys though, who found his once all-important role massively reduced to being a target of threats and foreshadowing, and little impact of note.

Theon arguably fared the best, since the show put so much stock in his redemption arc (and made his being a eunuch into a joke/moment of empowerment), but as it stands he still lost his sister and is off to chase down his uncle, despite not knowing where he's actually headed.