--- title: The Game of Thrones Coffee Cup Mistake Is the Hot New Meme description: Fans have a new detail to obsess over after "The Last of the Starks" aired with a coffee cup in the Winterfell shot with Daenerys. canonical: https://time.com/5583758/game-of-thrones-coffee-cup-mistake/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-05-06T12:53:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-12T23:36:17.000Z og:title: 'Game of Thrones' Fans Can't Stop Laughing After Spotting a Starbucks Coffee Cup og:description: Here's how to find it in Sunday night's episode og:url: https://time.com/5583758/game-of-thrones-coffee-cup-mistake/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82ee1ced4eeff195/6989495816d8842692c350c6/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-4-missandei-daenerys-targaryen-varys.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-4-missandei-daenerys-targaryen-varys og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 'Game of Thrones' Fans Can't Stop Laughing After Spotting a Starbucks Coffee Cup twitter:description: Here's how to find it in Sunday night's episode twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82ee1ced4eeff195/6989495816d8842692c350c6/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-4-missandei-daenerys-targaryen-varys.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Game of Thrones_ Fans Can't Stop Laughing After They Spotted What Looks Like a Starbucks Coffee Cup by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 12, 2023 11:36 PM UTCPublished: May 6, 2019 12:53 PM UTC  Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei, Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen, and Conleth Hill as Varys. Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei, Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen, and Conleth Hill as Varys.Helen Sloan/HBO by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Updated: Dec 12, 2023 11:36 PM UTCPublished: May 6, 2019 12:53 PM UTC **Warning**: This story contains spoilers for [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/5583559/game-of-thrones-daenerys-going-mad/)_._ It looks like pumpkin spice season has finally come for Winterfell as [Melisandre](http://time.com/5579333/game-of-thrones-melisandre-arya/) never said it would. Fans found a new blink-and-you-miss-it detail to obsess over when a modern coffee cup made an unlikely appearance during [_Game of Thrones_](http://time.com/5583497/game-of-thrones-missandei-rhaegal/) on Sunday night. Suffice it to say, people took notice. _Game of Thrones_, an established show that apparently the whole world is watching, seems to have taken place quite a long time ago in a [fantasyland](http://time.com/5554587/game-of-thrones-timeline-history/). So it stands to reason that the white coffee cup with its sleeve does not belong. The java made its debut during the scene when Tormund is praising Jon Snow’s heroics, and the container appears in the shot on the table where [Daenerys](http://time.com/5583559/game-of-thrones-daenerys-going-mad/) sits. See for yourself at around the 17:50 minute mark in the fourth episode of the eighth season. HBO released a tongue-in-cheek statement later on Monday to explain the presence of what it called a “craft services coffee cup,” which is surely a rarity in Westeros. In the brief statement, HBO admitted that the cup was a “mistake,” and that someone had messed up the Mother of Dragons’ beverage order. “In response to inquires from those who saw a craft services coffee cup in Sunday night’s episode of _Game of Thrones_,” the statement reads, “HBO states, ‘The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. Daenerys had ordered an herbal tea.'” Hauke Richter, an art director for _Game of Thrones_ seasons 4-8, said in an [email to _Variety_](https://variety.com/2019/digital/news/game-of-thrones-coffee-cup-starbucks-twitter-trending-1203205879/) that the error has been “blown out of proportion \[because\] it has not happened with ‘Thrones’ so far.” So there’s no telling who left the noticeably modern artifact on the table, but it’s definitely not the goblet of wine or Tormund drinking horn we’re used to. Whether or not it was intentional is also unknown at this time. But it is funny. If anything, Daenerys seems a lot more relatable now. > [](https://twitter.com/ira/status/1125302824634445824) > [](https://twitter.com/zane/status/1125289538845327361) > [](https://twitter.com/JennaGuillaume/status/1125291475699290113) > [](https://twitter.com/vladsavov/status/1125355423995969538) > [](https://twitter.com/netw3rk/status/1125285288412995584) Some of the jokes recalled a hilarious [season 7 meme](http://time.com/4890702/game-of-thrones-memes-season-7/) poking fun at the length of Daenerys’ title. > [](https://twitter.com/TheGeneralSYD/status/1125296999174004736) > [](https://twitter.com/VRonni3/status/1125340705621037057) The Game of Thrones Coffee Cup Mistake Is the Hot New Meme ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5583758/game-of-thrones-coffee-cup-mistake/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5583758/game-of-thrones-coffee-cup-mistake/"},"headline":"Game of Thrones Fans Can't Stop Laughing After They Spotted What Looks Like a Starbucks Coffee Cup","datePublished":"2019-05-06T12:53:39.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-12T23:36:17.000Z","description":"Here's how to find it in Sunday night's episode","url":"https://time.com/5583758/game-of-thrones-coffee-cup-mistake/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","TV","onetime","clickmonsters"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82ee1ced4eeff195/6989495816d8842692c350c6/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-4-missandei-daenerys-targaryen-varys.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82ee1ced4eeff195/6989495816d8842692c350c6/game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-4-missandei-daenerys-targaryen-varys.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"game-of-thrones-season-8-episode-4-missandei-daenerys-targaryen-varys","caption":"Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei, Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen, and Conleth Hill as Varys.","creditText":"Helen Sloan/HBO","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5583758/game-of-thrones-coffee-cup-mistake/","name":"Game of Thrones Fans Can't Stop Laughing After They Spotted What Looks Like a Starbucks Coffee Cup"}}]}] ```