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Plot hole: Two clown performers finish their act and the curtain closes. Tintin and Haddock then talk for a bit about who will be performing before the musician, but within the span of merely just a few seconds, the next act is suddenly on stage and ready to perform. No way could the clowns have left the stage and the next act have been set up within that short of a time span. (00:04:45)
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)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Tintin goes to phone the members of the expedition, he places his address book beside the phone a few inches from it, and the phone is near the centre of the table. In the next shot, the phone and the address book are suddenly nearer to the edge of the table. (00:11:15)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: When Mr. Falconer is in the taxi, driving to Tintin's apartment, the number plate is white, but when the taxi arrives at the apartment, the number plate is red. (00:11:55)
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Revealing mistake: Tintin, Haddock and Professor Calculus are driving to the last professor's house and Haddock is the one driving. All three of them get out and walk to the gate, but even though no-one else is inside the car, a pair of hands can still be seen holding the steering wheel. (00:15:50)
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Continuity mistake: When Snowy is sniffing along the floor, the detective can be seen standing along the carpet by the door, but when he asks Tintin about his dog, he is suddenly standing far away from the door. (00:20:25)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Audio problem: When Tintin goes into Tarragon's bedroom, he opens the door and a click sound can be heard, indicating he turned the door handle, but when the door opens, he is shown pushing the door open with his hand and not turning the handle. (00:20:50)
The Seven Crystal Balls: Part 1 - S3-E3
Audio problem: When Tintin, Haddock and the detective go into Tarragon's bedroom to discover him just sleeping, Tintin steps on a few broken shards of crystal. The sound effect used of the crystal shards breaking is too loud considering the shards of crystal shown were far too small to make such an audible crunching sound. (00:21:00)
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 1 - S3-E3
Character mistake: When Sanders is finishing the translation, the last sentence that he writes down is "Over the mountains and beyond the sea", but the sentence shown on the paper is "les mois et les monts"; this is French for "The months and the mountains." The real translation for "Over the mountains and beyond the sea" is "Sur les montagnes et au-delà de la mer." Even if the translation is carrying on from the previous line, a majority of the final sentence would still be incorrect in the translation. (00:02:25)
Chosen answer: It is a pill that makes alcohol taste disgusting.