Our Long National Nightmare Is Over After HBO Digitally Removed The Starbucks Cup From Sunday's Game Of Thrones Episode
Verge- HBO has quietly updated the most recent episode of Game of Thrones to digitally remove a coffee cup that accidentally made its way into a scene, setting the internet on fire with a seemingly endless stream of memes in the process. The cup — which HBO confirmed was, in fact, a mistake and not a more sinister attempt at some kind of product placement — was removed from the shot on HBO Go (and, presumably, other streaming platforms as well) sometime overnight, with little fanfare from the TV company.
Thank the old gods and the new that we can FINALLY go back to watching our show full of dragons and zombies without having something as unrealistic as a Starbucks cup appearing in frame for a second. If you told me someone in Highgarden or Casterly Rock not only invented Westerosi coffee but also created a fancy coffee chain with disposable cups and cardboard sleeves to keep customers’ hands cool, I would believe you. But there is no way the hardened people of the North would allow anybody to drink a Venti Caramel Macchiato with frothy skim milk anywhere near the castle limits of Winterfell. I could see them maybe getting their energy from some sort of caffeine loaded herbal elixir that tastes like shit or eating magical mud surrounding a Weirwood tree. But not a fancy coffee with more sugar than an Everlasting Gobstapper. Which is why I understand some of the backlash this scene has gotten. An already unpopular out-of-towner like Khaleesi drinking something that nice during their We Killed Death postgame party would have been an even bigger insult to the Northerners than her dad roasting Ned Stark’s father and brother alive in King’s Landing. I’m not saying that they would have tried to put her head on a spike or anything. But the temperature of Sansa’s glances of disapproval at Dany would have went from frosty to Night King’s Cock level of chilly. Luckily HBO righted that wrong on all its digital platforms so we can all enjoy the show the way it was supposed to be shot while everyone who has that absolutely horrid mistake on their DVR now has a collector’s item like an upside down stamp or the few Honus Wagner cards in circulation.
Anyway, now that this nightmare is over, we can resume watching this first ballot Hall of Fame show with absolutely no moments that will cause people to rightfully nitpick right after the ending credits roll.
