"Take him! You did this!" Cersei (Lena Headey) screamed at her brother Lord Tyrion (Peter Dinklage) as her son, King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) puked his guts out all over the screen on Game of Thrones last week. 800 YouTubers posted their utter shock (and delight) to Joffrey's demise in last week's Purple Wedding. But WHO killed the king?

The Agonizing Death Of King Joffrey (Finally!) YouTube Explodes

No reaction could have had more shock than Joffrey's mother Queen Cersei, who cradled her dead son's head and ordered her brother Tyrion arrested. While locked up, Tyrion tried to figure out who set him up.

"[Cersei] is the only one I'm absolutely sure had nothing to do with this murder, which makes it unique as King's Landing murders go," Tyrion quipped.

Meanwhile, Tywin Lannister (Charles Dance), the patriarch of the Lannisters, talked glibly over his dead grandson, who lay on a coffin with rocks over his eyes. He was already plotting how to sculpt the next heir into a "good king" - Joffrey's younger brother Tommen Barratheon (Callum Wharry) - all while Cersei's heart broke.

Queen Cersei Extremely Devastated Over Family

"Your brother was not a wise king, your brother was not a good king ... if he had been, perhaps he'd still be alive," Tywin said.

To add insult to grief, Cersei had a sexually violent confrontation with her brother/lover/father of Joffrey, Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) - who raped her over her son's dead coffin and called her a "hateful" woman.

The newly bereaved Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer), who was betrothed to King Joffrey before his wedding-murder, lamted that all her husbands die. Is she cursed? Her mother, Lady Olenna (Dianna Rigg) clucked:

"You may not have enjoyed watching him die, but you enjoyed it more than you would've enjoyed being married to him, I can promise you that."

Meanwhile, Lady Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) was spirited away to a ship with Littlefinger (Aidan Gillen), who then shot the drunkard that brought her there instead of paying him. "Money buys a man's silence for a time, a bolt in the heart buys it forever." It is revealed that Littlefinger orchestrated the crime of killing the king. The finger points back at him!

Now, for all the joy that King Joffrey's death caused on the blogosphere, it nonetheless underwhelmed some viewers and even showrunner. D.B. Weiss with it's quickness. In Monday's The Atlantic, Weiss referred to the poisoning as "anti-climatic." He says, "the standard move would be to give you a sense of release, a sense of happiness ... the idea somehow the moral calculus of the world has been made right." For all the evil King Joffrey inflicted on others, many viewers wanted him to suffer...much, much more.

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