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'Game Of Thrones' Coffee Cup Digitally Removed After Going Viral

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — After fans of HBO's "Game of Thrones" noticed a familiar looking beverage in Sunday night's episode, the coffee cup mistakenly left in the scene has been digitally removed, an HBO spokesperson confirmed.

During one scene, a modern take-out coffee cup can be seen sitting on top of a table in front of Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) for about 2 seconds just before the 17:40 mark.

The out-of-place cup has now been digitally edited out of the episode on HBO Now and HBO GO, an instead shows an empty stretch of the table.

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Many people said the cup resembled the familiar Starbucks logo, leading Twitter users to start the hashtag #Starkbucks, a nod to the show's House Stark.

The show's director, Hauke Richter, reported to TMZ that the cup was in-fact from a local coffee shop in Northern Ireland where many of the scenes are filmed.

HBO released a cheeky response saying Monday saying, "The latte that appeared in the episode was a mistake. Daenerys had ordered an herbal tea."

Fans took to social media to share photos of the out-of-place cup.

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