Television is filled with truly wondrous shows right now. Whether you get them through your cable channels or a streaming service, there is just a lot of great TV to watch every week. Sunday nights in particular have seen the rise of two shows to the top of the pop culture mountain: ‘Game of Thrones’ on HBO and ‘Rick & Morty’ on Adult Swim. The debate pot about which Sunday show is tops was stirred in a big way, by Adult Swim themselves this past weekend.  

Both shows have their die hard fan-bases. ‘GoT’ just wrapped up their 7th seasons with a big cliffhanger and continue to get only bigger audiences talking about what will happen next in the fantasy drama series. ‘R&M’ is currently a few episodes into it’s 3rd season with the show getting rave reviews from fans and critics. Insert the serious shade casted in one of Adult Swim’s clever on-air ‘bumpers’ this past Sunday. Bumpers are the plain text humor on the screen that merges in between the shows in the offbeat late night lineup on Cartoon Network. These help AS stand out with a different sense of how to present their shows. It also helps AS make jokes about topical things or simply promote their offbeat web exclusive content. This week they used a bumper to take a shot at the writing changes in the most recent season of ‘Game of Thrones’. Here is a screenshot.

The team behind ‘Rick & Morty’ was quick to distance themselves from the shade bomb and state their support for the dragon royal rumble. Yes, this is may be a crack at the focus on flashy action sequences in the just-wrapped Season 7 and several un-paid off sub-story lines.

We had nothing to do with that game of thrones bumper after last night's ep. We hadn't seen it, that was all @adultswim. We ❤️Thrones.

— Rick (((and Morty))) (@RickandMorty) August 28, 2017

Stop writing think pieces about it, you maniacs. We are pro Ice and Fire.

— Rick (((and Morty))) (@RickandMorty) August 28, 2017

Justin Roiland, one of the creators, producers, and voices of ‘R&M’ even chimed in with his peaceful bow to the Throne.

Just FYI, we had nothing to do with the GOT adult swim bumper from last night. Didn't even notice it.

— Justin Roiland (@JustinRoiland) August 28, 2017

No matter what this was quite the shot that has people talking. Where you do stand when you have pick between your favorite shows?

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