10 TV Shows That Accidentally Filmed Things You Weren't Supposed To See

9. The Impossible Starbucks Coffee Cup (Game Of Thrones)

Game Of Thrones Starbucks coffee cup
HBO

The quality of the writing may have dived off a cliff during the final season of Game Of Thrones, but at least the on-set staff were there to make sure everything went perfectly during filming, eh?

Well, scratch that, because one of the most talked-about moments of the season was a massive blunder in the fourth episode, The Last Of The Starks. Here, a Starbucks coffee cup was accidentally left on a table in front of Emilia Clarke's Daenerys Targaryen, and is very clearly visible in the corner of the shot.

Obviously, this completely breaks the illusion that Game Of Thrones is set in a fantasy land of dragons and magic, where overpriced hot beverages are something the citizens don't have to deal with. In fact, the mistake caused such an uproar, that HBO edited it out of the episode shortly after it aired, although the internet has obviously preserved the original version of the scene.

Maybe Daenerys went crazy because she didn't have her morning coffee?

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