With a crazed Fuchs on their tails, Archer and crew discover the idol... But it's not what they expect.
- Artifact of Doom: The idol turns out to be one giant chunk of uranium, which naturally kills any moron who tries to take it. This is actually why the Nazis want it, since such an amount of pure uranium would be a huge boost to their nuclear weapons program.
- As You Know: In response to Noah's confusion about references to The Hobbit, Charlotte makes a specific point of explaining to him (and the audience) that the original novel was published "one year ago, in 1937".
- Bait-and-Switch: All the references to The Hobbit seem to hint the next season will be a fantasy land. Instead, it's sci-fi.
- Death by Adaptation: Unlike Dreamland, Archer dies in his battle against and along with Cyril (Fuchs).
- Here We Go Again!: Archer sacrifices himself to stop Fuchs from obtaining the idol. And wakes up... on a spaceship.
- In a Single Bound: Archer is able to do a physically-impossible flying leap that not only blocks Fuchs, who was also doing a flying leap in his Mini-Mecha, but actually knocks him back. Granted, this is a dream.
- It Amused Me: The cannibals' racism for white people gets even more deranged when they intentionally allow (white) people to get to the uranium-made idol to die from radiation.
- Lampshade Hanging: Noah openly wonders how the natives managed to carve that much deadly uranium into an idol.
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: Noah has never heard of The Hobbit, because the book was published a year before the episode takes place and he's been on the island for four years. The other characters continually needle him about not getting their references to it.
- Riddle for the Ages:
- How did Ray's partner leave without opening the locked entrance door?
- How did Fuchs even get into the tomb without making too much noise opening the door, which would have also lit up the dark passage?
- How exactly did somebody last long enough to carve an idol out of uranium?
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Ray allegedly runs off to go get help to get Archer and Pam back to the floor, but he really just runs away before the volcano can erupt.
- Shout-Out: The whole scene at the end with the spaceship and the crew coming out of their sleeping pods is a shot for shot remake of the opening scene from Alien.
- Sickly Green Glow: The idol emits an ominous green glow once the final seal is unlocked, just to drive home the nature of the "curse."
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Clearly distraught, Ray's partner suddenly disappears after the group is trapped inside the tomb. What's incredible is that there was no indication he opened the locked door to leave.
- Taking You with Me: Archer lets go of Pam's foot so that he can save her while he sacrifices himself with Fuchs to fall into the lava.
- Temple of Doom: The temple of the volcano god, which is an architectural and technological achievement far beyond what the natives ought to have been able to construct. Funnily enough, the idol it guards doesn't even have magical properties—unless you consider "emitting deadly radiation" to be an equivalent of magic.
