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-->''Don't look now, but I think we're being followed.''

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-->''Don't -->"Don't look now, but I think we're being followed.''"



---> '''Italian''': *rattles off a long and complicated name*
---> '''Policeman''' (''sweating bullets''): Er, just don't do it again, will you?

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---> '''Italian''': *rattles ''(rattles off a long and complicated name*
name)''
---> '''Policeman''' (''sweating bullets''): '''Policeman''': ''(sweating bullets)'' Er, just don't do it again, will you?
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* In a conversation with Calculus in ''Tintin and the Picaros'', Tintin and Haddock repeatedly end sentences with words that sound like "sister", leading Calculus to get increasingly annoyed: "''And for heaven's sake would you stop talking about my sister!''" He then storms off, returning when he remembers that he doesn't ''have'' a sister.

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* In a conversation with Calculus in ''Tintin and the Picaros'', Tintin and Haddock repeatedly end sentences with words that sound like "sister", leading Calculus to get increasingly annoyed: "''And for heaven's sake would you stop talking about my sister!''" He then storms off, returning when he thinks for a moment and remembers that he doesn't ''have'' a sister.sister, before storming off in a huff anyway.

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* From ''The Calculus Affair'': Tintin and Haddock are chasing after a kidnapped Professor Calculus. A friendly Italian driver offers his help by [[DrivesLikeCrazy driving insanely quickly and dangerously after them]]. Then a policeman pulls them over:
---> '''Policeman''': Are you insane? I'm writing you up for this! What's your name?
---> '''Italian''': *rattles off a long and complicated name*
---> '''Policeman''' (''sweating bullets''): Er, just don't do it again, will you?
---> The Italian zooms off.
---> '''Italian''': Now we catch up on the time we missed!

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** MERCY! MY JEWELS!

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** MERCY! "MERCY! MY JEWELS! JEWELS!"

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* A cat landing right on Tintin's face.



* Thompson falling down a flight of stairs after tripping over a cat, which is even done in one of the animated series, too!

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* Thompson falling down a flight of stairs after tripping over a cat, which is even done in one of the animated series, series too!






-->'''Haddock:''' Oh dear.

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-->'''Haddock:''' Oh dear.dear.
* Allan preparing to use Ernie as a HumanShield after he lights the dynamite fuse, Earnie's confused, "Ey?" really makes it.
** Once the door is blown open the smugglers are pelted by champagne corks, after the initial onslaught is over a single cork hits Ernie in the forehead and he drops to the ground like a sack of potatoes.
* A subtle one: While talking about his ancestor Haddock breathes into Tintin's face, the alcohol fumes in his breath cause Tintin to stagger around drunkenly for a few seconds afterwards.
* Haddock hallucinating and hitting his head repeatedly against a chair during Bianca's performance.
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-->''Don't look now, but I think we're being followed.''
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--> '''Pickpocket:''' I'm a kleptomaniac.
--> '''Thomson:''' What's that?
--> '''Thompson:''' Someone who's terrified of open spaces.
--> '''Thomson:''' Oh. That would explain why he keeps all his wallets in the living room.
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** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heU3cmo01fs&feature=related recently released clip]] makes this even funnier; Thompson and Thomson are trying to help Tintin decipher a clue in a newspaper and get distracted by an advertisement for a half-price sale on canes and bowler hats.

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** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heU3cmo01fs&feature=related recently released clip]] makes this even funnier; Thompson and Thomson are trying to help Tintin decipher a clue in a newspaper and get distracted by an advertisement for a half-price sale on canes and bowler hats.
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** In the same comic, Tintin and Snowy had to hitch a ride with Binaca Castafiore to the Syldavian capital, and she decided to "treat" them to her music.

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** In the same comic, Tintin and Snowy had to hitch a ride with Binaca Bianca Castafiore to the Syldavian capital, and she decided to "treat" them to her music.

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* Thomson and Thompson come to the house of a pickpocket. He thinks they've come to apprehend him, when really they've come to return his wallet. They spend most of their time there babbling amongst themselves while the pickpocket confesses to his crime, and the contrast between their conversations just...makes this scene.

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* Thomson and Thompson come to the house of a pickpocket. He thinks they've come to apprehend him, when really they've come to return his wallet. They spend most of their time there babbling amongst themselves while the pickpocket confesses to his crime, and the contrast between their conversations just... makes this scene.scene.
** Especially when they are seeing the wonderful collection of stolen wallets the robber has, and they believe they are all his, finding like six or seven of theirs... and still believing they are the pickpocket's, while the man is still confessing and they aren't paying attention.

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----*Haddock accidentally firing a bazooka backwards into Bagghar's dam. He's quite rattled, while Tintin didn't even notice.
--> '''Tintin:''' Did you hit anything?
-->'''Haddock:''' Oh dear.

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* As an informant is shot right in front of Tintin's building :
--> '''Tintin:''' Miss Pinson ! Call the police, someone has been shot at our door !
--> '''Miss Pinson:''' Again ?

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* As an informant is shot right in front of Tintin's building :
building:
--> '''Tintin:''' Miss Pinson ! Pinson! Call the police, someone has been shot at our door !
door!
--> '''Miss Pinson:''' Again ?Again?


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* One subtle moment in Bagghar. A local hotel owner finds that his building has been [[ItMakesSenseInContext pushed down to the harbour by a tank]]. His reaction is to happily add another star to the sign.
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** Then he comes to his senses and tries to put it out...by pouring whisky on it.


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* Thomson and Thompson come to the house of a pickpocket. He thinks they've come to apprehend him, when really they've come to return his wallet. They spend most of their time there babbling amongst themselves while the pickpocket confesses to his crime, and the contrast between their conversations just...makes this scene.
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* As an informant is shot right in front of Tintin's building :
--> '''Tintin:''' Miss Pinson ! Call the police, someone has been shot at our door !
--> '''Miss Pinson:''' Again ?
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!!!From the {{Animated Adaptation}}s
* In Nelvana's version of ''The Land of Black Gold'', after Abdullah tricks Dr. Müller into crashing his car into the sand, he points a (toy) gun at Dr. Müller, as the car smolders in the background, and demands...[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome ice cream]].

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!!!From the {{Animated Adaptation}}s
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* In Nelvana's version AnimatedAdaptation of ''The Land of Black Gold'', after Abdullah tricks Dr. Müller into crashing his car into the sand, he points a (toy) gun at Dr. Müller, as the car smolders in the background, and demands...[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome ice cream]].

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* In Nelvana's AnimatedAdaptation of ''The Land of Black Gold'', after Abdullah tricks Dr. Müller into crashing his car into the sand, he points a (toy) gun at Dr. Müller, as the car smolders in the background, and demands...[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome ice cream]].


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!!!From the {{Animated Adaptation}}s
* In Nelvana's version of ''The Land of Black Gold'', after Abdullah tricks Dr. Müller into crashing his car into the sand, he points a (toy) gun at Dr. Müller, as the car smolders in the background, and demands...[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome ice cream]].
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** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heU3cmo01fs&feature=related recently released clip]] makes this even funnier; Thompson and Thomson are trying to help Tintin decipher a clue in a newspaper and get distracted by an advertisement for a half-price sale on canes and bowler hats.
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--> '''Tintin:''' [[OhCrap What are you doing?]]
--> '''Haddock:''' I lit a wee fire.
--> The fire in question is a large, blazing pile of wood taking up a third of the boat.
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* The TruthSerum-induced EvilerThanThou bit in ''Flight 714''.

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* The TruthSerum-induced EvilerThanThou bit in ''Flight 714''. It was also even funnier in the animated adaptation where after Haddock tapes their mouth shut, he says "''I'M'' the baddest." Tintin then says that this will make an interesting story.
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* Thompson falling down a flight of stairs after tripping over a cat.

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* Thompson falling down a flight of stairs after tripping over a cat.cat, which is even done in one of the animated series, too!
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* The Sticking Plaster RunningGag in ''The Calculus affair''.
* ''The Castafiore Emerald'' has ''so'' many in the form of Running Gags and Brick jokes.
** The step never being fixed until the end...wherin it is destroyed again.
*** The mason shown as being lazy.
** "Helloooo! I can hear you!"
** MERCY! MY JEWELS!
** "No, sorry this is not Cutts the Butcher".
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* Captain Haddock lighting a fire in a boat he and Tintin are stranded in. Made better by the fact that he doesn't seem to see anything wrong with this.
* Thompson falling down a flight of stairs after tripping over a cat.
--> '''Thomson:''' Thompson? Where are you?
--> '''Thompson:''' Well, I'm already downstairs! Do try and keep up.
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* The bit from ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' where Thompson and Thomson try to help with navigating. After reading the coordinates they give him, Captain Haddock tells them to remove their hats. The reason? "According to these coordinates, gentlemen, we're currently standing inside Westminster Abbey!" They do.

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* The bit from ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' where Thompson and Thomson try to help with navigating. After reading the coordinates they give him, Captain Haddock tells them to remove their hats. hats and pray. They do, and enquire why. The reason? "According to these coordinates, gentlemen, we're we are currently standing inside Westminster Abbey!" They do.Abbey!"
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** The Thompsons' crowning moment has to be their OutdatedOutfit appearance in ''The Blue Lotus''.

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* In Nelvana's AnimatedAdaptation of ''The Land of Black Gold'', after Abdullah gets Dr. Müller's car to crash, he points a (toy) gun at Dr. Müller, as the car smolders in the background, and demands...[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome ice cream]].

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* In Nelvana's AnimatedAdaptation of ''The Land of Black Gold'', after Abdullah gets tricks Dr. Müller's Müller into crashing his car to crash, into the sand, he points a (toy) gun at Dr. Müller, as the car smolders in the background, and demands...[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome ice cream]].cream]].
* Snowy tried to steal a dinosaur bone from a museum in ''King Ottokar's Sceptre''.
** In the same comic, Tintin and Snowy had to hitch a ride with Binaca Castafiore to the Syldavian capital, and she decided to "treat" them to her music.
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* In Nelvana's AnimatedAdaptation of ''The Land of Black Gold'', after Abdullah gets Dr. Müller's car to crash, he points a (toy) gun at Dr. Müller, as the car smolders in the background, and demands...[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome ice cream]].
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* In a conversation with Calculus in ''Tintin and the Picaros'', Tintin and Haddock repeatedly end sentences with words that sound like "sister", leading Calculus to get increasingly annoyed: "''And for heaven's sake would you stop talking about my sister!''" He then storms off, returning when he remembers that he doesn't ''have'' a sister."

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* In a conversation with Calculus in ''Tintin and the Picaros'', Tintin and Haddock repeatedly end sentences with words that sound like "sister", leading Calculus to get increasingly annoyed: "''And for heaven's sake would you stop talking about my sister!''" He then storms off, returning when he remembers that he doesn't ''have'' a sister."
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* The bit from ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' where Thompson and Thomson try to help with navigating. After reading the coordinates they give him, Captain Haddock takes his hat off and says a short, silent prayer. The reason? "According to these coordinates, gentlemen, we're currently standing inside Westminster Abbey!"

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* The bit from ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' where Thompson and Thomson try to help with navigating. After reading the coordinates they give him, Captain Haddock takes his hat off and says a short, silent prayer. tells them to remove their hats. The reason? "According to these coordinates, gentlemen, we're currently standing inside Westminster Abbey!"Abbey!" They do.




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* In a conversation with Calculus in ''Tintin and the Picaros'', Tintin and Haddock repeatedly end sentences with words that sound like "sister", leading Calculus to get increasingly annoyed: "''And for heaven's sake would you stop talking about my sister!''" He then storms off, returning when he remembers that he doesn't ''have'' a sister."
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** The time he ''doesn't'' lose his temper, and is faced with a reporter from the newspaper that had leaked their treasure hunting intentions. Instead of chewing the man out, he asks that he interview his secretary: Professor Calculus.
** When Calculus is discovered aboard the ship, leading to the WhosOnFirst exchange culminating in "Separate pieces? My whiskey is in separate pieces?"

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* Whenever Captain Haddock loses his temper. See UnusualEuphemism below.

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* The bit from ''Red Rackham's Treasure'' where Thompson and Thomson try to help with navigating. After reading the coordinates they give him, Captain Haddock takes his hat off and says a short, silent prayer. The reason? "According to these coordinates, gentlemen, we're currently standing inside Westminster Abbey!"
* Whenever Captain Haddock loses his temper. See UnusualEuphemism below.




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* Pick a moment involving Professor Calculus. Any moment.
-->'''Haddock''': But we ''are'' in Jakarta!\\
'''Calculus''': Really? I could have sworn we were in Jakarta...
* The bit in ''Destination Moon'' after Captain Haddock refers to Calculus as a "goat":
-->'''Calculus''': ''(while crashing a jeep through a guard outpost)'' MAKE WAY FOR THE GOAT!!

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