GAME OF ZONKS - A WHOLE LOTTA WHO LATTE

May 6, 2019

From CNN:
What's this? Oh, just a coffee cup. A coffee cup on a table in the great hall of Winterfell in the fictional, very coffee-less realm of Westeros.

Sharp-eyed viewers noticed the anachronism during Sunday night's episode of "Game of Thrones," and, well, it's going to be a long time before anyone lets this mistake go.

Each Season 8 episode reportedly cost $15 million to make, so the fact that a grande mocha from Starbucks or whatever passed so many eyes and so many levels of experts and edits is very hilarious. That coffee cup is Arya Stark levels of sneaky.

Twitter is convinced it's a Starbucks cup, but it really could be from anywhere.

O'Bservation - Personally, I think it came from the craft services table.

There is nothing new about anachronistic items finding their way into ancient time periods of Toobworld.  But in most of those other cases, they were placed there deliberately as a joke point of reference in TV commercials.  These blipverts include


Pepsi


FedEx


Capital One


Bud Light


M&Ms
(The Dirty Dealer meant no harm.)


Winston Cigarettes
(Although granted, that was in the Tooniverse.  Anything goes over there!)

It’s been the Toobworld Central position that these were all caused by one of the oldest ‘frienemies” of the Time Lord known as the Doctor – the Meddling Monk.  After two run-ins with the First Incarnation of the Doctor when he was trying to make grand scale alterations to the timeline of the Earth, the Monk must have decided to make small, subtle changes that would pass unnoticed at first until it was too late to revert back to the original timeline.  And he chose to introduce modern day innovations into those simpler times.

In this particular case, the Monk has mixed things up a bit – he – put that cup of coffee into the feast hall of Winterfell, one of the kingdoms in the North.  But as far as Toobworld Central is concerned, the contnent of Westeros is to be found on the planet of Mondas, Earth’s twin world from the stories of ‘Doctor Who’.

How it changed the timeline of Mondas, I know not.  Its original timeline was bad enough!  But maybe the discovery of the addictive qualities of the cocoa bean accelerated the desire of the inevitable Cybermen to reach Earth sooner.

Luckily the Doctor was there to go back in Time to “put right what once went wrong.”

By the way, that had to have happened – HBO has announced that the offending coffee cup has already been digitally erased from the episode. What does that mean within the reality of the show?

Time travel!

My thanks to Lucas Garrett, one of my Facebook crossover buddies for that meme.

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