- The second Temple Game had one of the fastest completions, with Brett winning the game in six seconds.
- This is the first episode where a team of Blue Barracudas outright win all three of the Temple Games while the opposing team is unable to score.
- This is the only episode where a team of Blue Barracudas attempted to retrieve an artifact placed in The Shrine of the Silver Monkey, although they came very close in The Missing Eye of David and The Broken Sword of Heaven of Susano'o.
- This was the only time the runner on the left chooses to go first rather than the one on the right.
- Tabitha and Brett were the first contestants to complete the objectives of The Crypt and The Viper's Nest respectively.
- This episode marks the first time that a contestant was caught by a temple spirit without a Pendant of Life.
- Tabitha is the first female contestant to be removed by a Temple Guard in the Golden Doors Room.
- Kirk nearly mispronounced Medusa's Lair in this episode and almost mistook it for the Throne Room when he said Brett was in the Observatory "Down into the Throne... (gibberish) Medusa's Lair".
- Brett is the first of two contestants to enter all of the rooms in Olmec's Temple. The second is Randy from The Metal Beard of the Egyptian Queen.
- Coincidentally, both would take nearly identical paths to their respective artifact and escape routes.
- This is the third episode with the Temple Run music going again and the last six notes left out. The first two were Galileo's Cannonball and Wild Bill Hickok and the Dead Man's Hand.
- This is the second of two episodes where a team does a shutout against their opponents in the Temple Games and was able to win the Grand Prize. The first was Lawrence of Arabia's Headdress.
- This is the third of four episodes in which a book was an artifact. The first two were The Lost Logbooks of Magellan and The Codebook of Mata Hari, and the fourth is The Mystical Spellbook of the Imperial Wizard.
- Catherine Mangan (the female member of the Green Monkeys) did an interview on a podcast about her time on the show.
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