HBO, Starbucks Respond to That Rogue Coffee Cup in "Game of Thrones"

If you haven’t watched the latest Game of Thrones—or are lactose intolerant—click away.

Production on each of the final Game of Thrones episodes is so intricate, so expensive, you may not even fully be able to appreciate its miniscule details until your fifth or sixth rewatch.

For instance, have you even absorbed all of the Easter eggs in its brand new opening credits yet?

Or, in the fourth and most recent episode of Season 8, "The Last of the Starks", were you among the raven-eyed viewers who spotted Podrick Payne picking up some Winterfell lasses behind Sansa?

Podrick in the background casually walking off with a beauty on each arm. What an absolute legend. #GoT pic.twitter.com/5TM7PGZIUT

— June, cursed by fussball (@mimsicality) May 6, 2019

It’s no wonder each episode is estimated to cost about $US15 million each.

Which makes it all the more puzzling that someone could casually leave a Starbucks cup in front of Daenerys Targaryen, in a key mid-shot, and none of the creators noticed it in time to CGI it out.

Well, the audience certainly noticed it.

I THOUGHT THEY WERE JOKING WHEN THEY SAID THAT THERE WAS A COFFEE CUP IN ONE OF THE SCENES IN THE NEW EPISODE SO I PLAYED IT BACK AND OH MY GOD I AM LAUGHING SO HARD

GAME OF THRONES IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST BUDGETED TV SHOWS AND THEY FORGOT TO REMOVE THE FREAKING COFFEE CUP pic.twitter.com/K1URaj6aUF

— 💜 Iris 💜 (@irisvicencio) May 6, 2019

Close up of that Coffee cup mistake in #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/FighJzudwS

— Ronnie🐼Vuki🐻 (@VRonni3) May 6, 2019

They took 2 years to shoot 6 episodes and left a Starbucks cup in a scene 💀 #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/byCjomSoah

— Dylan (@DylansRawTake) May 6, 2019

Everyone complaining about the Starbucks cup but no one noticed this in the last episode. #gameofthrones pic.twitter.com/FDUK6DQ5NT

— Don snow rightfull heir to the digital throne (@donaldjr) May 6, 2019

The whole show takes place in a Starbucks, you idiots. Read the books.

— Topher Lundell (@topherlundell) May 6, 2019

TBH we're surprised she didn't order a Dragon Drink.

— Starbucks Coffee (@Starbucks) May 6, 2019

And now the cup even has its own Twitter account.

Thanks everyone who was supported me. It’s been a tough few years, trying to get my big break. Being an actor and a coffee cup is hard, y’all #GameofThrones pic.twitter.com/oHOy8PkVZ2

— Game of Thrones Starbucks Cup (@GameStarbucks) May 6, 2019

It’s not even the first time a GOT character has been caught carrying a latte on screen.

Coffee cup from a couple seasons ago. Jaimes hand pic.twitter.com/J6ICTkOMH6

— Kyle Krajewski (@KrajewskiKyle) May 6, 2019

Producer Bernie Caulfield has apologised for the blunder on WNYC radio, joking that, "Westeros was the first place to actually, you know, have Starbucks."

HBO, meanwhile, offered the following statement: "The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. Daenerys had ordered a herbal tea."

Hate to be the barista who failed to bend the knee.

Update (08/06): So long, sweet knight coffee cup. HBO has CGI-d the stray Starbucks container out of the scene in question, Gizmodo reports. You now only have the above GIF to remember it by. We will sing its legend for eons.

Header Image: HBO