History WebVideo / JetLagTheGame

** Ben and Adam's excited chant of "Dunes, dunes, dunes!" in season four while they were driving to see the Indiana Dunes National Park is called back to in the beginning of season five when they and Sam all make the same chant while driving to the Te Paki Sand Dunes. Hilariously, Toby fails to get the reference despite being a big fan of Jet Lag[[note]]It should be noted that it's possible this season was recorded before season 4 was released and as such Sam is making a reference to something that, at the time, no audience member had seen yet[[/note]].

** Both teams attempt to run a drunk mile, but Ben & Adam win by one minute. This lets them board a direct flight from Seattle to Denver... which then gets stuck on the tarmac for two hours, letting Sam & Michelle (who are in Salt Lake City) complete challenges, including one that lets a team steal a ticket from their opponents' hand.
** Sam & Michelle steal a ticket that lets them fly to a neighboring state, planning to fly to Denver... but then the flight is sold out, and there are no other flights that arrive before the rest period, so they are forced to rent a car and drive to Colorado instead.

* TheTalk: A challenge in Season 8 requires a team member to explain "the birds and the bees" to a bird or a bee. Cue [[spoiler]]an inebriated Michelle[[/spoiler]] giving an Awkward PG-rated one to a bird in a Petco.

* Season 3 (September 2022): ''Tag EUR It'': Starting from Charleville-Mézières, France, Sam, Adam, and Ben take turns as runners and chasers. The runner must try to reach their destination as the runner (Zermatt, Swizerland for Sam, Jersey, UK for Adam, and Borkum, Germany for Ben), or bar that, be in their territory at the conclusion of three days, completing challenges to earn money for transportation.

* Season 8 (December 2023): ''Arctic Escape''. Sam and Michelle ("Challenge Accepted") race Ben and Adam from the northernmost point in the continental United States (Utqiagvik, Alaska) to the southernmost point in the continental United States (Key West, Florida). Along the way, they can do challenges to acquire tickets that let them take trains, planes, and automobiles.

*** These seasons, as well as season 4, also used exact dollar amounts for purchasing travel and accommodation, with season 1 having a fixed amount and season 2 allowing them to earn more, incetivising finding cheaper but less convenient means of travel and needing to keep hotels in mind. This appears to phasing out and replaced with the more abstract coins in later seasons, with accommodation not factoring into the budget and expenditure based on travel time or distance instead of the exact cost of travel, to incentivise more pure strategy.[[note]] It's possible that Sam and Joseph losing season 2 by missing a cheap flight and instead failing to get a more expensive flight was considered anti-climatic[[/note]]

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: So far, Toby is the only female contestant. [[spoiler:She's also the only undefeated player of Jet Lag after winning the New Zealand season with Sam, and after Scotty failed to win Season 6 with Sam.]]

** In New Zealand, Sam & Toby's original plan is to skip Queenstown, but they are two coins short of being able to. Luckily, Queenstown took a lot less time to complete than they expected, allowing them to skip Invercargill instead and win the game.
** A meta example for the New Zealand season, as explained in ''The Layover''. For unclear reasons, Sam's visa required him to leave the country by a certain date, meaning that they had to move the season up by a week. This meant that they got the one week of good weather in a summer that was otherwise very rainy and stormy.

* Season 8 (TBD): Format unknown. Will take place in the United States with Michelle Khare as a guest.

* TheAllegedCar: For the "make a go-kart" challenge in season two, Ben and Adam make a comically rickety contraption -- basically just a board with wheels and a bucket attached. It falls apart the first time Ben tries riding on it. For added fun, this all [[VideoGame/MarioKart takes place in Italy.]]
* AntiClimax: Season 2. [[spoiler:Sam and Joseph's plan hinges on completing a bungee jump challenge in Singapore to get them onward travel to Japan. This fails when Ben and Adam complete that challenge before they can, and while the latter team safely secure their onward travel to Australia, Sam and Joseph are essentially stranded in Singapore with too expensive flights, too many unsuitable challenges, and not enough time to reach the finish line. The end of the video doesn't even cut to them after their plan of gambling their way to enough money for a flight to the US fizzles out.]]

** The Mud Tower in Season 6 could be considered this. It does nothing except force any opponents in its radius to only walk sideways. [[spoiler:Ben and Adam]] use it at the end of the third round to mess with [[spoiler:Scotty]] since they're stuck where they are and about to be tagged anyway.

* LifesavingMisfortune: A meta example for the New Zealand season, as explained in ''The Layover''. For unclear reasons, Sam's visa required him to leave the country by a certain date, meaning that they had to move the season up by a week. This meant that they got the one week of good weather in a summer that was otherwise very rainy and stormy.

* NotWhereTheyThough: In ''The Layover'' for Japan E4, Ben says that he accidentally got on a women-only train car, and didn't notice until 20 minutes later when an English-speaking woman told him (politely).

*** These seasons, as well as season 4, also used exact dollar amounts for purchasing travel and accommodation, with season 1 having a fixed amount and season 2 allowing them to earn more, incetivising finding cheaper but less convenient means of travel and needing to keep hotels in mind. This appears to phasing out and replaced with the more abstract coins in later seasons, with accommodation not factoring into the budget and expenditure based on travel time instead of the exact cost of travel, to incentivise more pure strategy.[[note]] It's possible that Sam and Joseph losing season 2 by missing a cheap flight and instead failing to get a more expensive flight was considered anti-climatic[[/note]]

* JokeItem: One of the curse cards in Season 5 is to force the other team to have to listen to Music/TomLehrer's "The Elements Song" on repeat until they reach their next challenge, which does nothing to actually hamper the other team, but which is very annoying. [[spoiler: Ben and Adam]] force [[spoiler: Sam and Toby]] to do it from Kaikoura to Christchurch, a roughly ''two hour and twenty minute'' trip.