“Theon found himself wondering if he should say a prayer. Will the old gods hear me if I do? They were not his gods, had never been his gods. He was ironborn, a son of Pyke, his god was the Drowned God of the islands… but Winterfell was long leagues from the sea. It had been a lifetime since any god had heard him. He did not know who he was, or what he was, why he was still alive, why he had ever been born.”
During a recent Queerty interview with Mark Saltzman, a writer for Sesame Street in the ‘80s, Saltzman said he actually based Bert and Ernie on his own relationship with Arnold Glassman, a film editor.
The Evil Lair 