The Castafiore Emerald

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This week on Totally Tintin, Ian and Dave are stuck at home…just like Tintin. That’s right! We’re looking at The Castafiore Emerald! A broken step, a noisy owl, a stolen emerald…er, that’ it…

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9 thoughts on “The Castafiore Emerald”

  1. It’s creepy at the 2:25:45 mark when we go deathly silent and all you hear is an ambulance. I was there and listening to this was still worried that we’d been in a terrible accident.

        1. I’m just trying to picture what a freak podcasting accident would look like. Maybe you slipped on the steps, or had something thrown at you by a trained monkey…

  2. When I was growing up, my best friend’s mother was a tall, stout opera singer with a hawkish nose. I’ve always had a soft spot for Castafiore.

    I’d love to hear you guys do an episode on the Jo, Zette and Jocko books, too, if you’ve got it in you to add another episode.

  3. This one so annoyed me when I read it as a kid, where’s the globe trotting adventure? Now I really appreciate it. Sounds like Herge was moving into autobiographical comics!You seem to have a lot of fun with this one! 🙂

  4. Guys, normally your episodes are really well researched and you pick up on some cool details like for example Haddock’s ‘Ethelreds’ reference (p. 37).
    But then you don’t seem at all familiar with English phrases as used in England. For example ‘stone’ is a weight unit (1 stone is 6,35kg). So the writers of the article in Tempo di Roma (p. 41/42) have called Bianca Castafiore fat, by saying she is 14 stone or almost 90kg.
    Also a ‘woodman’ (p. 58) is: ‘a person working in woodland, especially a forester or woodcutter’. So that word is one hundred percent legit.

    I also have a question for you. On page 43 prof Calculus is showing Irma something in the magazine and walks away very confused lookin. I don’t get it. What’s your take on it?

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