"It's, like, you know, I think in Persian rugs, it's tradition that you make a little mistake when making the rug because only God can do anything perfect," Benioff said.
"That's why I put the coffee cup there," Weiss added.
"Conscious, concerted statement of our imperfection."
Jokes aside, they finally admitted it was just a massive stuff-up.
"We were concentrating so much on Daenerys and Jon Snow that we just didn't see this coffee cup right in the middle," Benioff continued.
"So, at first I couldn't believe it, and then it was embarrassment. 'How did we not see this coffee cup in the middle of the shot?' And then, eventually, it was just kind of funny. This one is just a mistake, and it's kind of funny to us now."
Just 48 hours after the episode aired, the cup was removed from the final scene.
We'd say too little too late, but if they didn't leave the cup there we wouldn't have been blessed with these glorious memes. Even Starbucks' official page weighed in.
How great is the internet.
