The Adventures of Tintin
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The Broken Ear: Part 2 - S2-E3

Continuity mistake: When Tintin wins the game of chess, General Alcazar begins bellowing and ends up knocking all the chess pieces over. The shot after he says "A little joke" shows all the pieces suddenly upright. Tintin then moves another chess piece and all the chess pieces are lying down on the table again. (00:29:20)

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The Broken Ear: Part 1 - S2-E2

Other mistake: The villains lower a rope with a noose in it. They place it over a man's beard they believe to be Tintin. The noose is not tight yet, but it suddenly is when they pull on the man's beard, with no way for them to tighten it. (00:17:45)

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The Shooting Star - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: After the Peary financier says "The Aurora will not reach the meteorite", the scene cuts back to the Aurora sailing through a storm. In this shot, the name "Aurora" is visible on the side of the side. Yet by the end of this scene, and the camera is in front of the boat, the name "Aurora" isn't visible on the front of the ship. (00:10:35 - 00:11:55)

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The Shooting Star - S2-E1

Continuity mistake: The way the lamp in the observatory is bent changes between the shots where Professor Fossil says "Order 10 pounds of jelly beans" and the shot where he sings "We're going to the Arctic". (00:07:55 - 00:08:25)

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The Calculus Affair: Part 2 - S1-E13

Continuity mistake: When Tintin and Haddock walk through a corridor with two drunk men, Tintin opens a door. The key hole on the door is blue. For a few frames, the key hole becomes brown, then back to blue again. As he closes the door, the key hole is once again brown for a couple of frames. (00:34:50)

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King Ottokar's Sceptre: Part 2 - S2-E5

Question: When Tintin and the King discover King Ottokar's scepter had been stolen, both Hector and the guards are shown to have been knocked out. Later, Tintin points out that Hector had stolen the scepter by placing it in a camera, put it next to the window and shot it out of the window using the camera. If that's how Hector managed to get the scepter out of the building, then what was it that caused Hector and the guards to get knocked out? (00:33:10 - 00:35:50)

Chosen answer: If Hector was seriously intent on removing King Ottokar's scepter from the glass cage holding it and launching it through the window with the camera, then Hector would have been forced to knock out the two guards so they would not have interfered with Hector's plan as soon as he removed the scepter from the glass. As for Hector, himself, was explained when Tintin was explaining how Hector stole the scepter. Tintin placed a twig inside the camera and it launched out of the camera. Hector would have placed the scepter inside of the camera, and would have been knocked unconscious due to the spring effect created when the scepter had been launched.

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