The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: Just after Alcazar does his knife trick, the shot cuts to Tintin where he says "General Alcazar, I knew him in South America." As he says this, he turns his head around to Captain Haddock. In the next shot, his head is now directly facing Alcazar.
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Other mistake: When Sanders finishes the translation, he puts a full stop at the end of the sentence, but there's no sign of the full stop on the paper.
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When Tintin says "The curse of Rascar Capac has come true", the detective has black hair and a black moustache, but in the next shot, his hair and moustache are now a much more reddish-brown colour. (00:25:10)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When Professor Calculus walks up to Tarragon's room, he is asking "Is Hercule in?", standing with in the doorway. In the next shot, he is suddenly standing entirely outside of the room and the detective is in the doorway instead. (00:27:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Factual error: When Tintin begins climbing the tree to see if the intruder is hiding, he jumps up and grabs one of the tree branches. The branch is practically unaffected by the Tintin's added weight. There is no sound heard when the branch is grabbed hold of, nor are there any vibrations made to the branch when Tintin grabs it. (00:28:55)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: Tintin, Haddock and Snowy are searching for the intruder and the intruder is pointing a gun at them from inside a shed. From the inside shot, Tintin is walking past a tree with a small branch hanging from the side of it. When Tintin is shot at, he is suddenly standing right beside the tree. (00:30:00)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Factual error: When the intruder fires at Tintin, the shot misses him, but instead hits a tree branch. The tree branch is blown off, but the tree that the branch was hanging from has no visible damage. If the bullet had hit the branch and it flew off, there would still be a stump visible from where the branch had snapped off. If the bullet hit the tree and this caused the branch to fly away, there would be a visible bullet mark on the tree. Regardless, there is no way the tree would not have any visible damage done towards it. (00:30:00)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Factual error: The shed that the intruder fires at Tintin and Haddock from has a lock shown on the interior side of the door, but no lock shown from the exterior side of the door. (00:30:15)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Revealing mistake: When Tintin and Haddock break into the shed, they look out of a window to find the intruders getting away. When they look out of the window, Tintin's arm passes through a wooden bar shown near the bottom section of the window. (00:30:20)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Revealing mistake: When the detective is phoning the police about the black sedan, a man sitting at a desk is writing the details. He is writing on four lines of paper, but after writing the first three lines, he is just writing over the third line for a second time and the fourth line of writing suddenly appears on the paper. (00:30:35)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When the police officer is asking one of the cars if they saw a black Sedan on the road, the driver has a cigarette in his mouth. As the car drives away, the cigarette has vanished. (00:31:10)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When the police officers are telling Haddock that they have lost track of the intruders, Tintin inspects a tree with a scratch mark. In the first shot, he is inspecting the scratch mark with one finger, but in the next shot, he is suddenly using his entire hand. (00:31:55)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Character mistake: Tintin mentions that they passed a beige car on their way to the road block with four people inside. First, they did not pass this car. The car stopped at the road block, and after they were asked about the black sedan, they drove away. Tintin, Haddock and the detective then arrived at the road block in their car, coming in from a different lane. Second, the car that was stopped at the road block only had three people inside, not four. (00:32:20)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 2 - S3-E4
Continuity mistake: When Haddock kicks the hat laid on top of a brick, the brick is right next to a railway track, but when Haddock yells out "Hooligans" to the kids and picks up the brick, the brick is much further away. (00:39:50)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 1 - S3-E5
Plot hole: When Tintin is on the boat, he is totally dry. Tintin however had just been in water, so he should be wet. (00:05:40)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 1 - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: On the ship, when the man walks onto the deck, he is standing a few inches away from the lining on the floor. After the cat meows, he turns to leave, and he is suddenly standing directly on the lining on the floor. (00:06:15)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 1 - S3-E5
Other mistake: After the man on the ship tells Tintin that Calculus' punishment is death, he yells for Alonzo, and Tintin then punches him. When the man is punched, it is apparent that Tintin's fist never even enters the frame. There appears to be a flash effect indicating that he had been punched, but Tintin's fist is never shown hitting him. (00:07:05)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 1 - S3-E5
Revealing mistake: When Tintin is swimming back to the boat after escaping the ship, Haddock is quickly rowing back and forth to reach him in time. As Haddock rows, the bars used to place the oars through can be seen moving back and forth, along with the movements of the oars, even though the bars are supposed to remain still during the oar movements. There are also frames from this shot where the bars vanish from the frame entirely as Haddock rows. (00:07:25)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 1 - S3-E5
Audio problem: After Tintin tells Haddock that they might be able to catch up to the kidnappers by train, Thomson and Thompson are shown walking and breathing heavily, due to exhaustion, but their lips don't move. (00:10:30)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 1 - S3-E5
Continuity mistake: After Snowy tears off the back of the thug's trousers, the two thugs run away. Snowy is shown standing with three oranges behind him, but in the next shot, the three oranges are now on his left and another orange has appeared on his right. (00:14:20)
Chosen answer: It is a pill that makes alcohol taste disgusting.