History YMMV / LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple

* GameBreakingBug: Quite a few happened during the Temple Run. The most frequent involved puzzles not opening doors when solved. One particularly nasty bug happened when a contestant ''[[WhatAnIdiot closed the door behind her]]'' when moving into the Tomb of the Headless Kings; when she got taken out of the temple and her partner went in, the door had ''locked itself'' and wouldn't open. Production eventually overrode the lock and let him in, but by then it was far too late.

*** What most people don't know about this run is that he was carrying a half-pendent instead of a full pendant, which meant he was eliminated anyway. However, instead of going out the normal way by just getting captured and saying that's that, he practically jumped or ran out of the Temple set, thus giving the conclusion that he was scared right out of the Temple instead of being eliminated the normal way.

** In ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-M8Bc-Z0yg The Ivory Hunting Horn of Roland]]'' and ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7kea9mN1LE The Ruby Earring of bin-Zabib]]'', the teams make it through in under ''two'' minutes. The same easily could've happened in '[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKufwcoHZA0 The Enormous Iron Nose Ring of Babe]]'', but the kid takes a bad route back to the temple gate after retrieving the artifact and ends up taking 2:03.

* AwesomeMcCoolname/ FreezeFrameBonus: If you watch the end credits, there are two names next to each other named Donald Ham and Henry Mayo.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The Temple Run theme really made that last three minutes feel like a life-and-death struggle.

* FakeDifficulty: The Temple Guards made the game practically unwinnable for any team that didn't have two full pendants from the earlier rounds.
** Not to mention, Jester's Court. It wasn't as hard; but the problem was that the kids were not all the same size and shorter kids would have way too much trouble trying to pose.
* GoodBadBug: In ''The Mask of Shaka Zulu'', a lock between what was intended to be a dead-end room and the room with the treasure apparently failed, inadvertently opening up a much straighter, much shorter path to the Temple artifact and the fastest win in the show's history.

* LargeHam: Olmec. And loving it the whole time.
** Kiiiirrrk Foooooogg!
*** {{Keet}}: One has to wonder if the contestants wanted him to shut up.

-->"You could bring mention of how one is always given instructions as to how they might make their way through the Shrine of the Silver Monkey. These might be done in a tone that makes it seem as though whomever is listening has a choice, although if you do, it is important to make these [[ButThouMust have no second choice]]. You can also deliver these in a deep voice, with a large Olmec head made of foam. These speeches can be made in a particularly verbose manner, if there is a half-hour timeslot that you wish to fill, but it is vital that you explain every detail. Finally, you must end the speech with your CatchPhrase. The choice is yours, and yours alone."
* MomentOfAwesome: Many, but the most notable ones are where players managed to complete a Temple Run [[FlawlessVictory without losing a single pendant]]. Also, more than once the team made it out of the Temple with one second to spare.

*** The best is when the kid [[YouFailBiologyForever Fails Biology Forever]] and tries to put the head down before the torso. It happened often enough to be mentioned.
** Acknowledged on TeeNick's "The '90's are All That" block, where one of the pre-commercial bumpers is a contestant trying to put together the Silver Monkey, with the message "This might take a minute."

**** Looking at the video, the Temple Guard keeps trying to wave him back. He's either trying to keep in character and finish "kidnapping" him, or he felt guilty for scaring the kid so bad, and wanted to hug him. If you listen carefully, you can hear the kid scream, so it's probably the latter.

** In ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqZjhzeu6xg The Broken Trident of Poseidon]]'', a very lucky contestant managed to run almost directly to the artifact without encountering a ''single'' Temple Guard. However, when all the doors unlocked, she [[SomethingWeForgot dropped the artifact]] in her haste to escape the Temple. She made it back to the Chambers empty-handed and realized her mistake. However, she instead went down instead of going straight to the exit, thus those kids didn't get to go Roseland Ranch.

** Some of the hate also seems amusing when you consider that StatisticallySpeaking, the "worst" team was actually the Orange Iguanas.

** Think about it: you have to grab three parts around the room (large enough parts you can only take one at a time), force them into a base, and then slam the head down hard enough to set off the trigger (some players had to do this several times to get the thing to click). While you're under a rather tight time limit. And you're thirteen. And have to make the statue face the camera.

** The Shrine of the Silver Monkey, full stop. Practically ''nobody'' who entered that room could figure out how to put the damn monkey together, making you wonder if the designers ''[[MagnificentBastard deliberately]]'' made it the only room to last the entire run. The pieces were also put in different parts of the dungeon.

** In ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MwH4YwY-6w The Golden Pepperoni of Catherine de'Medici]]'', the runner managed to solve the Silver Monkey in near-record time, made it to the room with the artifact with just seconds to spare — then kept going, and down a set of stairs. She started back up, but time ran out before she could dash back across the room.

** Acknowledged on TeeNick's "The '90's are All That" block, where one of the pre-commercial bumpers is a contestant trying to put together the Silver Monkey, with the message "This is going to take a while."

** Medusa's Lair, which replaced the completely empty Heart Room. Reaching objects wasn't an issue here, but it was [[{{Understatement}} difficult]] for the players to put the snakes in the Medusa head. One of the first players to attempt it spent a ''full minute'' in the room, and because of this the number of snakes was reduced from four to two in later episodes. The room was often used as a dead end or particularly susceptible to a GameBreakingBug when the doors refused to open for a while, costing precious time.

* AwesomeMccoolName/ FreezeFrameBonus: If you watch the end credits, there are two names next to each other named Donald Ham and Henry Mayo.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Temple Guards sometimes hid in trees and grabbed you with their branches, or hid in ''armor'' that the player was supposed to press themselves against and grab you with ''that''.
* AndTheFandomRejoiced: When TeenNick announced its late night "The '90s are All That" block, they released a list of shows expected to be rotated in subsequent weeks, one of them being ''Legends.''
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The Temple Run theme really made that last three minutes feel like a life-and-death struggle.
* DemonicSpiders: Temple Guards, and how!
* FakeDifficulty: The Temple Guards made the game practically unwinnable for any team that didn't have two full pendants from the earlier rounds.
* GoodBadBug: In ''The Mask of Shaka Zulu'', a lock between what was intended to be a dead-end room and the room with the treasure apparently failed, inadvertently opening up a much straighter, much shorter path to the Temple artifact and the fastest win in the show's history.
* HilariousInHindsight: One of the prizes that ended up being won was a Philips CD-i. Consider the fact that lots of YouTube Poops end up using Philips CD-i footage.
* LargeHam: Olmec. And loving it the whole time.
** Kiiiirrrk Foooooogg!
*** {{Keet}}: One has to wonder if the contestants wanted him to shut up.
* MemeticMutation: "...Through the SHRIIIIIIINNE OF THE SIILVER MONNKEEY."

* MomentOfAwesome: Many, but the most notable ones are where players managed to complete a Temple Run [[FlawlessVictory without losing a single pendant]]. Also, more than once the team made it out of the Temple with one second to spare.
* ParanoiaFuel: Those nightmarish Temple Guards could be hiding virtually ''anywhere'' in the temple. More than one kid screamed in terror during the show's run.
** In one episode, a boy got so terrified by a Guard that he illegally ran out of the Temple, causing him to forfeit. It didn't matter, as he only had a half-Pendant.
* TheScrappy: Ask any fan who the worst team was, and most would say the Purple Parrots. Aside from having the worst name, they competed in the Temple far less then the other five teams and won the least amount of Temple Runs.
** The network didn't seem to care for them, either. While there were a (small) few exceptions, most of the shorter, non-athletic players were Parrots while the taller, more graceful contestants were on the other teams.
** Despite the hate (or maybe because of it), the Purple Parrots [[EnsembleDarkhorse have a modest following.]]
* ThatOnePuzzle: It's amazing how difficult that Silver Monkey was. Apparently, assembling the Silver Monkey from three parts scattered around one tiny room is really, really hard.
** Think about it: you have to grab three parts around the room (large enough parts you can only take one at a time), force them into a base, and then slam the head down hard enough to set off the trigger (some players had to do this several times to get the thing to click). While you're under a rather tight time limit. And you're thirteen. And have to make the statue face the camera.
*** Even worse when the kid drops part of the Monkey. They lose time while some stagehand-er, ''temple spirit'' picks it up and tries to throw it back at them.
*** The best is when the kid [[YouFailBiologyForever Fails Biology Forever]] and tries to put the head down before the torso. It happened often enough to be mentioned.
** There's a Facebook group called [[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204884140&ref=search&sid=746242139.4153679361..1 "I HATE When Kids Suck at Putting Together the Shrine of the Silver Monkey"]].
* [[ThatOneLevel That One Room]]: It seems like the producers built the Temple and tested it with adults, as a lot of things were out of reach for kids.
** The Shrine of the Silver Monkey, full stop. Practically ''nobody'' who entered that room could figure out how to put the damn monkey together, making you wonder if the designers ''[[MagnificentBastard deliberately]]'' made it the only room to last the entire run. The pieces were also put in different parts of the dungeon.
** In Season 3, the Jester's Court could also qualify, since some kids just couldn't contort their bodies in the way required to hit all the buttons they needed at once. It also didn't help for short kids, too.
** The Room of the Secret Password. In theory, it's simple: open cupboard, pick up tablet, read password. However, what made it bad was that 1) The cupboards were overhead of most kids and 2) the contestants had to wear mouth guards in the temple, so it killed time either way (either waste time taking the mouth guard out and in again, or waste time by repeating yourself when they couldn't hear you the first time).
** Medusa's Lair, which replaced the completely empty Heart Room. Reaching objects wasn't an issue here, but it was [[{{Understatement}} difficult]] for the players to put the snakes in the Medusa head. One of the first players to attempt it spent a ''full minute'' in the room, and because of this the number of snakes was reduced from four to two in later episodes. The room was often used as a dead end or particularly susceptible to a GameBreakingBug when the doors refused to open for a while, costing precious time.
** The Tomb of the Headless Kings was probably Season 3's answer to Medusa's Lair. The objective was as hard as it sounds, with the players having to pull on ropes to open ceiling compartments filled with bones, then search through the fallen bones in the dark and find the missing skull to place on one of the two kings' necks. It seemed like almost everyone had to go through every rope before the last trapdoor released the skull, and plenty of players stalled by pulling on the same rope over and over.
* WhatAnIdiot: Some choice offerings of idiocy happened in Olmec's Temple.
** In ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWpZO5SXSKY Henry VIII's Great Seal]]'', one kid got so wigged out by a temple guard jumping out at him that he jumped out of the Temple set entirely, disqualifying himself in the process.
*** What most people don't know about this run is that he was carrying a half-pendent instead of a full pendant, which meant he was eliminated anyway. However, instead of going out the normal way by just getting captured and saying that's that, he practically jumped or ran out of the Temple set, thus giving the conclusion that he was scared right out of the Temple instead of being eliminated the normal way.
**** Looking at the video, the Temple Guard keeps trying to wave him back. He's either trying to keep in character and finish "kidnapping" him, or he felt guilty for scaring the kid so bad, and wanted to hug him. If you listen carefully, you can hear the kid scream, so it's probably the latter.
** In ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MwH4YwY-6w The Golden Pepperoni of Catherine de'Medici]]'', the runner managed to solve the Silver Monkey in near-record time, made it to the room with the artifact with just seconds to spare — then kept going, and down a set of stairs. She started back up, but time ran out before she could dash back across the room.
** In ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqZjhzeu6xg The Broken Trident of Poseidon]]'', a very lucky contestant managed to run almost directly to the artifact without encountering a ''single'' Temple Guard. However, when all the doors unlocked, she [[SomethingWeForgot dropped the artifact]] in her haste to escape the Temple. She made it back to the Chambers empty-handed and realized her mistake. However, she instead went down instead of going straight to the exit, thus those kids didn't get to go Roseland Ranch. If ever there was a MissedMomentOfAwesome on this show, this would be it.
** In ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbmv36hSxLk The Walking Stick of Harriet Tubman]]'', the first contestant went down into the Ledges instead of the Crypt. When the first one was eliminated, the second one went to the Crypt instead of following the partner's path since they only had one and a half pendants. Guess what happened? That's right, the Temple Guard from the Crypt ended up finishing the Temple Run. Just going "[[FlatWhat what]]" isn't good enough for this.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ZUOJApfL0 All these people.]]
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** Despite the hate (or maybe because of it), the Purple Parrots have a modest following.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment / HilariousInHindsight: One of the prizes that ended up being won was a Philips CD-i. Consider the fact that lots of YouTube Poops end up using Philips CD-i footage.

* ThatOnePuzzle: It's amazing how difficult that Silver Monkey was. Apparently, assembling the Silver Monkey from three parts scattered around one tiny room is [[WallBanger really, really hard]].

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Once again, Temple Guards.
** They sometimes hid in trees and grabbed you with their branches!
*** They also sometimes hid in ''armor'' that the player was supposed to press themselves against and grab you with ''that''.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Many, but the most notable ones are where players managed to complete a Temple Run [[FlawlessVictory without losing a single pendant]].
** There was actually more than one episode where the team made it out of the Temple with one second to spare.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The Temple Run theme really made that last three minutes feel like a life-and-death struggle.
* FakeDifficulty: The temple guards made the game practically unwinnable for any team that didn't have two full pendants from the earlier rounds.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment / HilariousInHindsight: One of the prizes that ended up being won was a Philips CD-i. Consider the fact that lots of YouTube Poops end up using Philips CD-i footage.
* LargeHam: Olmec. And loving it the whole time.
** Also, Kiiiirrrk Foooooogg!
*** {{Keet}}: One has to wonder if the contestants wanted him to shut up.
* MemeticMutation: "...Through the SHRIIIIIIINNE OF THE SIILVER MONNKEEY."

* ParanoiaFuel: Those nightmarish Temple Guards could be hiding virtually ''anywhere'' in the temple. More than one kid screamed in terror during the show's run.
** In one episode, a boy got so terrified by a guard that he illegally ran out of the temple, causing him to forfeit. It didn't matter as he only had a half-Pendant.
* TheScrappy: Ask any fan who the worst team was, and most would say the Purple Parrots. Aside from having the worst name, they competed in the temple far less then the other five teams, and won the least amount of Temple Runs.
** In fact, the network didn't seem to care for them. While there are a few exceptions (a small few), most of the shorter, non-atheletic players were Parrots, while the taller, more graceful contestants were on the other teams.
** Despite the hate (or maybe because of it), the Purple Parrots have a modest following.
* ThatOnePuzzle: It's amazing how difficult that Silver Monkey was. Apparently, assembling the Silver Monkey from three parts scattered around one tiny room is [[WallBanger really, really hard]].
** Think about it: you have to grab three parts around the room (large enough parts you can only take one at a time), force them into a base, and then slam the head down hard enough to set off the trigger (some players had to do this several times to get the thing to click). While you're under a rather tight time limit. And you're thirteen. And have to make the statue face the camera.
*** Even worse when the kid drops part of the Monkey. They lose time while some [[strike:stagehand]] ''temple spirit'' picks it up and tries to throw it back at them.
*** The best is when the kid [[YouFailBiologyForever Fails Biology Forever]] and tries to put the head down before the torso. It happened often enough to be mentioned.
** There's a Facebook group called [[http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204884140&ref=search&sid=746242139.4153679361..1 "I HATE When Kids Suck at Putting Together the Shrine of the Silver Monkey"]].
* [[ThatOneLevel That One Room]]: It seems like the producers of the show built the temple and tested it with adults, as a lot of things were out of reach for kids.
** Shrine of the Silver Monkey, full stop. Practically ''nobody'' who entered that room could figure out how to put that damn monkey together, making you wonder if the designers ''[[MagnificentBastard deliberately]]'' made it the only room to survive all three seasons. The pieces were also put in different parts of the dungeon.
** In season 3, the Jester's Court could also qualify, since some kids just couldn't contort their bodies in the way required to hit all the buttons they needed at once. It also didn't help for short kids, too.
** Not to mention the Room of the Secret Password. In theory, it's simple: open cupboard, pick up tablet, read password. However, what made it bad was that 1) The cupboards were overhead of most kids, and 2) The contestants had to wear mouth guards in the temple, so it killed time either way (either waste time taking the mouth guard out and in again, or waste time by repeating yourself when they couldn't hear you the first time.)
** And then there was Medusa's Lair, which replaced the completely empty Heart Room. Reaching objects wasn't an issue here, but it was [[{{Understatement}} difficult]] for the players to put the snakes in the Medusa head. One of the first players to attempt it spent a ''full minute'' in the room, and because of this, the number of snakes was reduced from four to two in later episodes. Not to mention the room was often used as a dead end or particularly susceptible to a GameBreakingBug when the doors refused to open for a while, costing precious time.
** The Tomb of the Headless Kings was probably the last season's answer to Medusa's Lair. The objective was as hard as it sounds, with the players having to pull on ropes to open ceiling compartments filled with bones, then search through the fallen bones in the dark and find the missing skull to place on one of the two kings' necks. It seemed like almost everyone had to go through every rope before the last trapdoor released the skull, and plenty of players stalled by pulling on the same rope over and over.
* WhatAnIdiot: Some choice offerings of idiocy happened in Olmec's Temple.
** In ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWpZO5SXSKY Henry VIII's Great Seal]]'', one kid got so wigged out by a temple guard jumping out at him that he jumped out of the temple set entirely, disqualifying himself in the process.
*** What most people don't know about this run is that he was carrying a half-pendent instead of a full pendant, which would've meant that he was eliminated anyway. However, instead of going out the normal way by just getting captured and saying that's that, he practically jumped or ran out of the temple set, thus giving the conclusion that he was scared right out of the temple instead of being eliminated the normal way.
**** Looking at the video, the temple guard keeps trying to wave him back. He's either trying to keep in character and finish "kidnapping" him, or he felt guilty for scaring the kid so bad, and wanted to hug him. If you listen carefully, you can hear the kid scream, so it's likely it's option number two.
** In ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MwH4YwY-6w The Golden Pepperoni of Catherine de'Medici]]'', the runner managed to solve the Silver Monkey in near record time, made it to the room with the artifact with just seconds to spare -- then kept going, and down a set of stairs. She started back up, but time ran out before she could dash back across the room.
** In ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqZjhzeu6xg The Broken Trident of Poseidon]]'', a very lucky contestant managed to run almost directly to the artifact without encountering a ''single'' temple guard. However, when all the doors unlocked, she [[SomethingWeForgot dropped the artifact]] in her haste to escape the temple. She made it back to the Chambers, empty-handed, and realized her mistake. However, she instead went down instead of going straight to the exit, thus those kids didn't get to go Roseland Ranch. If ever there was a MissedMomentOfAwesome on this show, this would be it.
** In ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbmv36hSxLk The Walking Stick of Harriet Tubman]]'', the first contestant went down into the Ledges instead of the Crypt. When the first one was eliminated, the second one went to the Crypt instead of following the partner's path since they only had one and a half pendants. Guess what happened? That's right, the Temple Guard from the Crypt ended up finishing the temple run. Just going [[FlatWhat 'what']] isn't good enough for this.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ZUOJApfL0 All these people.]]

* NightmareFuel: Once again, Temple Guards.
** They sometimes hid in trees and grabbed you with their branches!
*** They also sometimes hid in ''armor'' that the player was supposed to press themselves against and grab you with ''that''.