We all thought Game of Thrones fans were would never let up about the lighting during the ‘Battle at Winterfell’ – that was until the coffee cup was introduced in “The Last of the Starks,” the fourth episode (and third-to-last) of the eighth and final season. During a party scene in the better lit episode, fans noticed a prop that didn’t appear to fit in with quasi-medieval realm – a lone Starbucks cup.
Despite the hard work and attention to detail the production designers and their crew put into each episode, it seems someone didn’t have their coffee that day and left the unapproved prop laying in front of Emilia Clarke. After a flood of memes and critiques by the fans HBO responded with a written statement. However, viewers were relentless so they took some digital steps.
During the last episode of Game of Thrones, a coffee cup left on set was spotted and it has turned into an episodic saga of its own
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The cup was left in front of actress Emilia Clarke and fans went nuts, so HBO responded with a written statement:
“The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. Daenerys had ordered an herbal tea.” However, executive producer Bernadette Caulfield took a more apologetic tone and said she was shocked. “I can’t believe it,” she told WYNC. “Our on-set prop people and decorators are so on it one thousand percent. I just honestly can’t, I’m like, is that really? Because nowadays you can’t believe what you see because people can put things into a photo that really doesn’t exist. But I guess maybe it was there, I’m not sure. But, yeah. We’re sorry!”
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Following the caffeine mishap, the company was swift to act and edited the cup out
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By Tuesday morning, the streaming version of the episode, available on HBO Now and HBO Go, had been removed
A rep for HBO confirmed to Variety that the coffee cup was deleted and that any future airings of the episode, “The Last of the Starks,” would be the updated cupless version.
Here’s how people responded:
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Share on Facebookit was not that serious to me...I would have never notice since the episode was truly amazing
They could always claim the whole season was a dream sequence and never happened like in Dallas years ago !
Could you please start doing several articles of other TV shows also, like 3 new articles of each Walking Dead Episode? (Just Kidding. I just think that it is stupid to have several articles of each new television show episodes here. This is not Buzzfeed.)
Walking dead still on? should be renamed the watching dead.
Load More Replies...You mean this is real? Ok, never watched GoT, not my thing. When I first heard of this, I thought it was fake - you know - we were being pranked. But hey, maybe we still are?
We need this kind of action on ALL plastic cups (and things) if we're going to save the planet! 59868649_1...d65e0f.jpg
too much advertising for an unpopular brand in europe, which is flooding the cities. what about alternative coffe shop brands?
I feel like I'm the only one that would be the last to nitpick this type of error ... with all of the explicit content and all the other attentions to detail, the last thing they need to be concerned with is an errant coffee cup or George Bush' head on a spike, for that matter ... apparently, the fans are more forgiving than the showrunners ...
For the record, I know I'm not the only one and that I'm not a unicorn, unlike the many unicorns that have claimed to not see a single episode of "Game of Thrones" ... it's just my two cents ... if you don't like it, pay me no mind ...
Load More Replies...Don't give a s**t about got but this is fairly amusing. Also maybe a conspiracy as HBO does not want to reveal that Starbucks is a sponsor
it was not that serious to me...I would have never notice since the episode was truly amazing
They could always claim the whole season was a dream sequence and never happened like in Dallas years ago !
Could you please start doing several articles of other TV shows also, like 3 new articles of each Walking Dead Episode? (Just Kidding. I just think that it is stupid to have several articles of each new television show episodes here. This is not Buzzfeed.)
Walking dead still on? should be renamed the watching dead.
Load More Replies...You mean this is real? Ok, never watched GoT, not my thing. When I first heard of this, I thought it was fake - you know - we were being pranked. But hey, maybe we still are?
We need this kind of action on ALL plastic cups (and things) if we're going to save the planet! 59868649_1...d65e0f.jpg
too much advertising for an unpopular brand in europe, which is flooding the cities. what about alternative coffe shop brands?
I feel like I'm the only one that would be the last to nitpick this type of error ... with all of the explicit content and all the other attentions to detail, the last thing they need to be concerned with is an errant coffee cup or George Bush' head on a spike, for that matter ... apparently, the fans are more forgiving than the showrunners ...
For the record, I know I'm not the only one and that I'm not a unicorn, unlike the many unicorns that have claimed to not see a single episode of "Game of Thrones" ... it's just my two cents ... if you don't like it, pay me no mind ...
Load More Replies...Don't give a s**t about got but this is fairly amusing. Also maybe a conspiracy as HBO does not want to reveal that Starbucks is a sponsor
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