LOS ANGELES—“Game of Thrones” fans got a taste of the modern world when eagle-eyed viewers spotted a takeout coffee cup on the table during a celebration in which the actors drank from goblets and horns.
The characters Daenerys and Jon did not react to the out of place cup in Sunday’s episode.
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Many viewers complained the show should have caught the gaffe, which turned into an enduring meme on Monday.
HBO poked fun at the oversight: “The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. Daenerys had ordered an herbal tea.”
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Even the show’s executive producer, Bernie Caulfield, expressed disbelief that the cup made it on screen.
“Our onset prop people and decorators are so on it, 1,000%,” she said in an interview with Alison Stewart on WNYC’s “All of it.”
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“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,” she said. “We’re sorry!”
She also joked that Westeros was the first place to actually have a Starbucks: “It’s a little known fact.”
The last “Game of Thrones” episode airs May 19.