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Game of Thrones Coffee Cup – The Last of the Starbucks

Game of Thrones’ final season is wrapping up with just two episodes left to go. But last week’s installment, “The Last of the Starks”,  could have been titled “The Last of the Starbucks”.  An errant, anachronistic coffee cup that looks a lot like a tall Starbuck’s cup was left on the table next to Daenerys in the post battle celebration scene. Whose was it? And how did they miss it in post production? Did the editors just think it was product placement? Like the Air Arya shoes worn by the hero as she flew through the air to take out the Night King? Just kidding. She was actually wearing Curry 2 Low ‘Chef’ shoes.

With all the money spent on practical fire effects, flying dragons, giant’s milk, and moveable white walker piles, the most talked about prop from HBO’s Game of Thrones season 8 episode 4 is a single errant disposable coffee cup. The internet is amazing. HBO initially tweeted that Daenerys ordered herbal tea and not coffee, so that wasn’t her cup. So obviously it is Jon Snow’s Giant’s Milk Latte that he’s been regularly ordering to try to grow out of the “Small but Strong” jokes from the original drinker of Giant’s Milk, Tormund Giantsbane. HBO now says that the errant cup has been deleted out of any replays of “The Last of the Starbucks”.

So that DVR recording you have is the only place the cup remains. And of course across millions of twitter, facebook and Instagram posts. The cup will live forever now. Even without Melisandre’s magic necklace. The North remembers. And so does the internet.

Perhaps HBO will pick up a Game of Thrones spinoff involving Winterfell’s most famous coffee shop, Grim Grinders.

Game of Thrones presents us with “The Last of the Starbucks”