Destination Moon: Part 1 - S3-E9
Revealing mistake: Haddock asks Tintin if he can control the rocket's nuclear reactor and takes hold of the lever. It is apparent that he is not holding onto the lever. He is merely just miming the actions of grabbing onto the lever, when the lever is shown just below where he is holding. (00:18:40)
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
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)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 2 - S3-E6
Continuity mistake: When Tintin climbs up the cliff to rescue Snowy from the condor's nest, he is carrying a rope over his right shoulder, but from a much further away angle, the rope is suddenly placed over his left shoulder. (00:26:10)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 1 - S3-E5
Other mistake: After Tintin unties Haddock, he jumps up, taking off his poncho. He then throws the poncho into the air, but it is never seen again, nor is it ever shown falling onto the ground. (00:18:20)
Prisoners of the Sun: Part 2 - S3-E6
Audio problem: When Tintin finishes climbing up the cliff to rescue Snowy, he grunts, but his lips don't move. (00:26:25)
The Castafiore Emerald: Part 1 - S3-E7
Continuity mistake: After Haddock tells the gypsies that they can camp near Marlinspike Hall, Tintin and Haddock return to the manor. As they walk up the stairs, Haddock has his cane in his left hand, but when they walk through the door, Haddock suddenly has his cane in his right hand. (00:03:35)
The Castafiore Emerald: Part 1 - S3-E7
Revealing mistake: When Castafiore locks her jewels in the drawer, she places the key inside the lock, but the key visibly surpasses the edge of the lock. (00:10:00)
The Castafiore Emerald: Part 2 - S3-E8
Continuity mistake: When Castafiore is complaining about the stairs not being fixed, the first shot of her shows nothing on the torso section of the dress she is wearing, but when the shot is on her next, a small design has suddenly appeared on the chest area of her dress. (00:24:55)
The Castafiore Emerald: Part 2 - S3-E8
Revealing mistake: After Calculus has finished the high definition television broadcast, Tintin and Snowy are lying on the grass. When the scene starts, a bird is shown flying into frame and continues flying, but whilst it is on-screen, the bird suddenly vanishes from the frame. (00:36:30)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: Tintin is on a train, reading a newspaper saying Sanders is in a deep coma and the man next to him says there'll be more to come. When the man starts talking, he is seen with a pipe in his mouth, but in the next shot, the pipe is suddenly longer. (00:03:05)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Factual error: When Tintin and Haddock are watching the two clowns performing on stage, the clown of the left is shown stepping in a spilt puddle of water on the stage, but the water is never affected, even when he steps in it. The water just remains completely still and no water is ever shown dripping off the clown's shoe. (00:04:40)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Revealing mistake: When General Alcazar introduces his act, a stagehand appears behind Alcazar, to set down the knives for his act. The stagehand is never seen walking into and entering the frame. He just randomly appears on screen. (00:05:00)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: After General Alcazar performs his knife throwing act, Tintin says he knew General Alcazar in South Africa. At this moment, Alcazar is onstage standing on his own, but in the next shot, a stage hand has suddenly appeared onstage beside him. The knife holster has also suddenly reappeared onstage. (00:05:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: At the theatre performance, Ragdalam the Fakir is shown putting Madame Yamilah into a state of hypnosis. When Ragdalam starts telling Madame Yamilah that he is putting her into a state of hypnosis, she is facing the audience, but in the next shot, she has suddenly turned 90° to face Ragdalam. (00:05:45)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Revealing mistake: After the announcer at the theatre goes to leave the stage as Bianca Castafiore walks onstage, no animation is seen of him leaving the frame, he just randomly vanishes from the shot just as he is about to exit the frame. (00:07:15)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Revealing mistake: When the theatre announcer announces Bianca Castafiore, Castafiore is shown walking onstage to perform. There is no animation seen of Castafiore walking into the frame, she just randomly appears in the shot. (00:07:10)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Bianca Castafiore begins singing, Tintin and Haddock are shown in the booth looking astonished, but Snowy is nowhere to be found. In the next shot, Snowy has suddenly appeared beside Tintin. (00:07:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Tintin tells Thomson and Thompson that they should warn the other members of the expedition, Tintin places his left hand on his phone and pushes it to the other side of the table. In the closeup, it's now his right hand, and the telephone wire moves too. (00:10:25)
Chosen answer: It is a pill that makes alcohol taste disgusting.