History Awesome / LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple

** The Orange Iguanas in "The Lucky Medallion of Atocha" and the Blue Barracudas in "The Heart-Shaped Pillow" completed solo Temple Runs despite winning just one pendant in the Temple Games.

* Any episode where players managed to complete a Temple Run [[FlawlessVictory without losing a single pendant]].
** Any episode where players encountered all three Temple Guards but still made it out with the artifact.
** Any episode in which victory is won with just a solo player. Even more so if they only have one pendant or they never have to encounter the Temple Guards at all.
* All of the four teams to make it out of the temple with exactly one second left. Tarrah of "The Milk Bucket of Freydis" stands out as the only ''Solo win'' to make it out with a single second.
* In "The Ivory Hunting Horn of Roland", "The Moccasins of Geronimo", and "The Ruby Earring of bin-Zabib", the teams make it through in under ''two'' minutes. Based on how much time was left when the treasure was reached in "The Enormous Iron Nose Ring of Babe", however, a more efficient route could've given them a time that could rival the infamous "Mask of Shaka Zulu" production error episode. At 1:50, the Temple Run for "The Ivory Hunting Horn of Roland" was just three seconds longer than that of the Mask of Shaka Zulu - and the path to the Horn included the Tomb of the Headless Kings ''and'' the Jester's Court, usually huge time sinks.[[note]] Coincidentally, the winners in both episodes were the Red Jaguars.[[/note]]

* "The Lost Hornpipe of the Pirate Captain". Both Green Monkeys were really competent and won despite having to climb the central shaft. Upon closer analysis, one can see the column on the pits side of the King's Storeroom was done as Jessica was climbing it. This meant that it was supposed to open and they won despite an production error.

* "The Very Tall Turban of Ahmed Baba". Not only does Shane of the Green Monkeys solo the entire Run (in itself no mean feat), but he does it while going through nearly ''every'' room in the Temple, avoiding getting caught by a second Temple Guard through judicious application of GenreSavvy.[[note]]Based on his path, the other two Guards were most likely in the Crypt and the Dark Forest; he outright ignores the former, knowing well enough not to take the upper path when the artifact is in an upper room, and he evades the latter by not bothering with with trees and just smashing through the wall.[[/note]] To cap it all off, he makes it out of the Temple with ''fifteen seconds'' to spare, something many contestants with much shorter routes couldn't pull off. And for bonus points, like the aforementioned Purple Parrot Tarrah, he eschews tossing the pots in the King's Storeroom to the ground in favor of smashing them between his hands with the only difference is that he walks to the pots and smashes them without a second thought.

** "The Much-Heralded Helmet of Sir Gawain" is a comeback for the solo runner, Tiffini. After giving a dumb answer in Steps of Knowledge and tanking her own temple game, she has to not only solo the run by herself with one pendant and worry about a possible production error (the lights to the Chamber of Sacred Markers flashed but the door didn't open), but she also grab the much-heralded helmet (so heralded because it was the largest and heaviest prop for the show) all the way back to the gates with 53 seconds left, struggling with it as she carries it with her through the ledges and make it out with only ten seconds to spare. The best part about it is that she encountered no Temple Guards on her run.

* Elizabeth and Jason of the Orange Iguanas use teamwork and ingenuity to get through the Temple Run in "The Levitating Dog Leash of Nostradamus". Elizabeth signals Jason where the spare half-pendant is located, and when she is caught by her second Temple Guard, Jason ''uses the dog leash'' as a lasso to grab the rope and swing his way onto the other side of the pit on his way out.

* "The Lucky Medallion of Atocha". At first, it looks like this run would be the trope's [[EpicFail exact opposite]], as Ty of the Orange Iguanas drops the team's one and only Pendant on his way into the Temple. However, his partner Jennifer grabs the dropped Pendant and ''tosses it to him through the Ledges, just in time for Ty to be caught by a Temple Guard''. Ty then proceeds to solo the rest of the run and makes it out with mere seconds to spare. It's an extremely rare instance where ''both'' players deserve credit even though only one actually went through the Temple; Jennifer's quick thinking saved their run from derailing before it even began.

* "The Silver Horseshoe of Butch Cassidy" has the Orange Igauna team of Matt and Paula, or as Kirk calls them, "The Comeback Kids", obtain a victory of their own: having a big comeback at the moat, winning the third temple game and winning the tiebreaker to make it to the temple. Paula solos the entire temple with only a pendant on her, starting slow on her way to the horseshoe but then picking up speed at the last minute.
* "The Much-Heralded Helmet of Sir Gawain" was a comeback for the solo runner, the Orange Iguana Tiffini. After giving a dumb answer in Steps of Knowledge and tanking her own temple game, she has to not only solo the run by herself with one pendant and worry about a possible production error (the lights to the Chamber of Sacred Markers flashed but the door didn't open), but she also grab the much-heralded helmet (so heralded because it was the largest and heaviest prop for the show) all the way back to the gates with 53 seconds left, struggling with it as she carries it with her through the ledges and make it out with only ten seconds to spare. The best part about it is that she encountered no Temple Guards on her run.

* "The Levitating Dog Leash of Nostradamus". The girl going first, Elizabeth, signals her partner where the spare half-pendant was going to be and the boy, Jason, ''uses the dog leash'' as a lasso to grab the rope and swing his way onto the other side of the pit on his way out.

* "The Lost Hornpipe of the Pirate Captain". Both contestants were really competent and won despite having to climb the central shaft. Upon closer analysis, one can see the column on the pits side of the King's Storeroom was done as Jessica was climbing it. This meant that it was supposed to open and they won despite an production error.
* "The Secret Map of the Bandit Queen" is considered by many fans to be one of the best temple runs in the series. Front runner Miriam gets taken out by the temple guard after hesitating for 27 seconds to go into the Dark Forest because of her fear of getting caught in the room. There is only 1:17 left on the clock when her partner Zac goes in and ''blazes though the bottom in less than 30 seconds''. He has to climb up The Pharaoh's Secret Passage because the door from the Bog to the Shrine of the Silver Monkey[[note]]Where the map was located.[[/note]] wouldn't open. According to an interview he did, the slide was slick making it hard to go up. When he gets the map, he gets out of the temple in 18 seconds. He also has the record for the fastest single player run through the temple with a time of 1:08.
* "The Lucky Medallion of Atocha". At first, it looks like this run would be the trope's [[EpicFail exact opposite]], as Ty drops the team's one and only Pendant on his way into the Temple. However, his partner Jennifer grabs the dropped Pendant and ''tosses it to him through the Ledges, just in time for Ty to be caught by a Temple Guard''. Ty then proceeds to solo the rest of the run and makes it out with mere seconds to spare. It's an extremely rare instance where ''both'' players deserve credit even though only one actually went through the Temple; Jennifer's quick thinking saved their run from derailing before it even began.
* "The Very Tall Turban of Ahmed Baba". Not only does Shane solo the entire Run (in itself no mean feat), but he does it while going through nearly ''every'' room in the Temple, avoiding getting caught by a second Temple Guard through judicious application of GenreSavvy.[[note]]Based on his path, the other two Guards were most likely in the Crypt and the Dark Forest; he outright ignores the former, knowing well enough not to take the upper path when the artifact is in an upper room, and he evades the latter by not bothering with with trees and just smashing through the wall.[[/note]] To cap it all off, he makes it out of the Temple with ''fifteen seconds'' to spare, something many contestants with much shorter routes couldn't pull off. And for bonus points, like the aforementioned Purple Parrot Tarrah, he eschews tossing the pots in the King's Storeroom to the ground in favor of smashing them between his hands with the only difference is that he walks to the pots and smashes them without a second thought.
* "The Silver Horseshoe of Butch Cassidy" has the Orange Igauna team, or as Kirk calls them "The Comeback Kids", obtain a victory of their own: having a big comeback at the moat, winning the third temple game and winning the tiebreaker to make it to the temple. The girl solos the entire temple with only a pendant on her, starting slow on her way to the horseshoe but then picking up speed at the last minute.
* "The Much-Heralded Helmet of Sir Gawain" was a comeback for the solo runner, the Orange Iguana Tiffini. After giving a dumb answer in Steps of Knowledge and tanking her own temple game, she has to not only solo the run by herself with one pendant, not only did she have to worry about a possible production error (The lights to the Chamber of Sacred Markers flashed but the door didn't open), but she also had to grab the much-heralded helmet (so heralded because it was the largest and heaviest prop for the show) all the way back to the gates with 53 seconds left, struggling with it as she carries it with her through the ledges and make it out with only ten seconds to spare. The best part about it is that she encountered no Temple Guards on her run.

* All of the four teams to make it out of the temple with exactly one second left.
** Tarrah of "The Milk Bucket of Freydis" (see below) deserves mention as she was the only ''Solo win'' to make it out with a single second.
* In "The Ivory Hunting Horn of Roland", "The Moccasins of Geronimo", and "The Ruby Earring of bin-Zabib", the teams make it through in under ''two'' minutes. Based on how much time was left when the treasure was reached in "The Enormous Iron Nose Ring of Babe", however, a more efficient route could've given them a time that could rival the infamous "Mask of Shaka Zulu" production error episode.
** Though it should be noted that at 1:50, the Temple Run for "The Ivory Hunting Horn of Roland" was just three seconds longer than that of the Mask of Shaka Zulu - and the path to the Horn included the Tomb of the Headless Kings ''and'' the Jester's Court, usually huge time sinks.[[note]] Coincidentally, the winners in both episodes were the Red Jaguars.[[/note]]

* Despite only winning 3 of their runs, the Purple Parrots were ''really awesome''. Each of their victories were obtained with ''less than ten seconds on the clock''.

* In the same vein as Tarrah of the Purple Parrots, we have Missy of the Blue Barracudas in "The Lucky Pillow of Annie Taylor" solo-running through the Temple with only a pendant on her. She had to use the pendant but successfully dodged the other guards to retrieve the pillow in Medusa's Lair and make it out with only twenty seconds left. Missy was also the first person to retrieve an artifact from that room in that temple and one of two ever.
** Add to that Missy being one of the shortest contestants in the show's history (she had to jump to reach the shelves in the Shrine) and having been a nervous wreck pretty much ''the entire game'' (she even had to visibly calm herself to regain her composure after informing Olmec she would be going first) and it also becomes a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.
* "Lawrence of Arabia's Headdress" deserves a special mention. Not only this was the first episode to air on Nickelodeon, but the temple run was a real nail-biter. But the Green Monkeys get the Headdress with only ''27 seconds'' left on the clock and get out with one second remaining.
* The Belly Button of Buddha may be boring but the Blue Barracudas dominated that episode. They were first in the moat and the steps of knowledge. They won two pendants in the temple games. In the temple, Jennifer was able to do the run herself. This is also one of two solo runs that was done with two whole pendants, the other one being the aformentioned Milk Bucket of Fredis.
* The Lost Hornpipe of the Pirate Captain. Both contestants were really competent and won despite having to climb the central shaft. Upon closer analysis, one can see the column on the pits side of the King's Storeroom was done as Jessica was climbing it. This meant that it was supposed to open and they won despite an production error.
* The Secret Map of the Bandit Queen is considered by many fans to be one of the best temple runs in the series. Front runner Miriam gets taken out by the temple guard after hesitating for 27 seconds to go into the Dark Forest because of her fear of getting caught in the room. There is only 1:17 left on the clock when her partner Zac goes in and ''blazes though the bottom in less than 30 seconds''. He has to climb up The Pharaoh's Secret Passage because the door from the Bog to the Shrine of the Silver Monkey [[note]] Where the map was located. [[/note]] wouldn't open. According to an interview he did, the slide was slick making it hard to go up. When he gets the map, he gets out of the temple in 18 seconds. He also has the record for the fastest single player run through the temple with a time of 1:08.
* The Lucky Medallion of Atocha. At first, it looks like this run would be the trope's [[EpicFail exact opposite]], as Ty drops the team's one and only Pendant on his way into the Temple. However, his partner Jennifer grabs the dropped Pendant and ''tosses it to him through the Ledges, just in time for Ty to be caught by a Temple Guard''. Ty then proceeds to solo the rest of the run and makes it out with mere seconds to spare. It's an extremely rare instance where ''both'' players deserve credit even though only one actually went through the Temple; Jennifer's quick thinking saved their run from derailing before it even began.
* The Very Tall Turban of Ahmed Baba deserves recognition. Not only does Shane solo the entire Run (in itself no mean feat), but he does it while going through nearly ''every'' room in the Temple, avoiding getting caught by a second Temple Guard through judicious application of GenreSavvy.[[note]]Based on his path, the other two Guards were most likely in the Crypt and the Dark Forest; he outright ignores the former, knowing well enough not to take the upper path when the artifact is in an upper room, and he evades the latter by not bothering with with trees and just smashing through the wall.[[/note]] To cap it all off, he makes it out of the Temple with ''fifteen seconds'' to spare, something many contestants with much shorter routes couldn't pull off. And for bonus points, like the aforementioned Purple Parrot Tarrah, he eschews tossing the pots in the King's Storeroom to the ground in favor of smashing them between his hands with the only difference is that he walks to the pots and smashes them without a second thought.
* The Silver Horseshoe of Butch Cassidy has the Orange Igauna team, or as Kirk calls them "The Comeback Kids" obtain a victory of their own: having a big comeback at the moat, winning the third temple game and winning the tiebreaker to make it to the temple. The girl solos the entire temple with only a pendant on her, starting slow on her way to the horseshoe but then picking up speed at the last minute.

* The Secret Map of the Bandit Queen is considered by many fans to be one of the best temple runs in the series. Front runner Miriam gets taken out by the temple guard after hesitating for 27 seconds to go into the Dark Forest because of her fear of getting caught in the room. There is only 1:17 left on the clock when her partner Zac goes in and ''blazes though the bottom in less than 30 seconds''. He has to climb up The Pharaoh's Secret Passage because the door from the Bog to the Shrine of the Silver Monkey [[note]] Where the map was located. [[/note]] wouldn't open. According to an interview he did [[http://www.angelfire.com/hiphop/thesilvermonkey/turney.htm here]] the slide was slick making it hard to go up. When he gets the map, he gets out of the temple in 18 seconds. He also has the record for the fastest single player run through the temple with a time of 1:08.

** Their first victory at "Snakeskin Boots of Billy the Kid" can only be described as 'Purple Parrot Pwnage'. They were the first to cross the moat, the first to pass the steps of knowledge, got ''both'' medals in the temple games and scored the artifact in record time. It also had an epic moment in the Jester's Court with the boy going second facing forward and ''bashes his head on one of the buttons'' instead of facing it backward (To look at the camera) like any normal person would do. At the end, he tries to swing to the other side, but his hand slips so he ends up literally crawling towards the exit through the ledges with five seconds to spare.
** In "Milk Bucket of Freydis" our runner is a [[BadassAdorable little girl named]] [[{{Determinator}} Tarrah]] who, while going through the run at a slow pace, ''solos'' the entire Temple Run without running into a Temple Guard and makes it out with only ''one second to spare'' all while going through ''three'' time-sinkers in the Jester's Court, Storeroom ''and'' the Shrine of the Silver Monkey despite her short stature. One cool moment of hers is instead of tipping the vases or raising them over her head like one usually does in the King's Storeroom, she straightens them out, brings her arm back on the first vase she finds...and then ''repeatedly punches it like she wants to punch someone in the face'' before slamming another one between her hands. On her way out, she tried to swing across the moat but ''hits the ledge and breaks the bucket during the fall'', a move that would've cost most people the win...yet she ''still'' manages to hang on and go through the ledges till the very end and ''leaps three steps'' onto the ground where her partner catches her in a flying hug. She wants to be a cop, indeed.
** The third and final victory for the Parrots was "The Metal Beard of the Egyptian Queen". The first runner, TJ, zipped through at least ''half'' of the path until reaching the Dark Forest. His partner, Randy (a girl), follows it up with style, pushing a panel to get to the room of the Secret Password, grab the item at the Shrine of the Silver Monkey and ''traverse through the other remaining rooms'' and decides to go swim through the pit and crawl through the ledges with five seconds to spare. All while TJ is screaming at the top of his lungs "GO! GO!!!!" once Randy got the beard.

** Add to that Missy being one of the shortest contestants in the show's history (she had to jump to reach the shelves in the Shrine) and having been nervous pretty much ''the entire game'' and it also becomes a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.

** Their first victory at "Snakeskin Boots of Billy the Kid" can only be described as 'Purple Parrot Pwnage'. They were the first to cross the moat, the first to pass the steps of knowledge, got ''both'' medals in the temple games and scored the artifact in record time. It also had an epic moment in the Jester's Court with the boy going second facing forward and ''bashes his head on one of the buttons'' instead of facing it backward (To look at the camera) like any normal person would do. At the end, he is literally crawling towards the exit with five seconds to spare.

* "The Levitating Dog Leash of Nostradamus". The girl going first, Elizabeth, signals her partner where the spare half-pendant was going to be and the boy, Jason, ''uses the dog leash'' as a lasso to grab the rope and swing his way onto the other side of the pit on his way out. More importantly, the team had a whole and half-pendant; the girl could've taken the pendant but she gave it up so her partner could retrieve it. As one person comments, "Logic equals victory".

** In "Milk Bucket of Freydis" our runner is a [[BadassAdorable little girl named]] [[{{Determinator}} Tarrah]] who, while going through the run at a slow pace, ''solos'' the entire Temple Run with only ''one second to spare'' (and the last victory obtained with just one second left), going through three time-sinkers in the Jester's Court, Storeroom ''and'' the Shrine of the Silver Monkey despite her short stature. One cool moment of hers is instead of tipping the vases or raising them over her head like one usually does in the King's Storeroom, she straightens them out, brings her arm back on the first vase she finds...and then ''repeatedly punches it like she wants to punch someone in the face'' before slamming the other two between her hands. On her way out, she tried to swing across the moat but ''hits the ledge and breaks the bucket during the fall'', a move that would've cost most people the win yet she ''still'' manages to hang on and go through the ledges till the very end and ''leaps three steps'' onto the ground where her partner catches her in a flying hug. She wants to be a cop, indeed.

* The Belly Button of Buddha may be boring but the Blue Barracudas dominated that episode. They were first in the moat and the steps of knowledge. They won two pendants in the temple games. In the temple, Jennifer was able to do the run herself. This is also one of two solo runs that was done with two whole pendants.

* The Secret Map of the Bandit Queen is considered by many fans to be one of the best temple runs in the series. Front runner Miriam gets taken out by the temple guard after hesitating for 27 seconds to go into the Dark Forest because of her fear of getting caught in the room. There is only 1:17 left on the clock when her partner Zac goes in and blazes though the bottom in less than 30 seconds. He has to climb up The Pharaoh's Secret Passage because the door from the Bog to the Shrine of the Silver Monkey [[note]] Where the map was located. [[/note]] wouldn't open. According to an interview he did [[http://www.angelfire.com/hiphop/thesilvermonkey/turney.htm here]] the slide was slick making it hard to go up. When he gets the map, he gets out of the temple in 18 seconds. He also has the record for the fastest single player run through the temple with a time of 1:08.

* The Very Tall Turban of Ahmed Baba deserves recognition. Not only does Shane solo the entire Run (in itself no mean feat), but he does it while going through nearly ''every'' room in the Temple, avoiding getting caught by a second Temple Guard through judicious application of GenreSavvy.[[note]]Based on his path, the other two Guards were most likely in the Crypt and the Dark Forest; he outright ignores the former, knowing well enough not to take the upper path when the artifact is in an upper room, and he evades the latter by not bothering with with trees and just smashing through the wall.[[/note]] To cap it all off, he makes it out of the Temple with ''fifteen seconds'' to spare, something many contestants with much shorter routes couldn't pull off. And for bonus points, like the aforementioned Purple Parrot Tarrah, he eschews tossing the pots in the King's Storeroom to the ground in favor of smashing them between his hands.

** Any episode in which victory is won with just a solo player. Even more so if they only have one pendant on them.

* "The Much-Heralded Helmet of Sir Gawain" was a comeback for the solo runner, the Orange Igauna Tiffni. After giving a dumb answer in Steps of Knowledge and tanking her own temple game, she has to not only solo the run by herself with one pendant, not only did she have to worry about a possible production error (The lights to the Chamber of Sacred Markers flashed but the door didn't open), but she also had to grab the much-heralded helmet (so heralded because it was the largest and heaviest prop for the show) all the way back to the gates with 53 seconds to spare, struggling with it as she carries it with her through the ledges and make it out with only ten seconds to spare.

** Any episode in which victory is won with just a solo player.

* In the same vein as Tarrah of the Purple Parrots, we have Missy of the Blue Barracudas in "The Lucky Pillow of Annie Taylor" solo-running through the Temple with only a pendant on her. She had to use the pendant but successfully dodged the other guards to retrieve the pillow in Medusa's Lair. Missy was also the first person to retrieve an artifact from that room in that temple and one of two ever.

** The third and final victory for the Parrots was "The Metal Beard of the Egyptian Queen". The first runner, TJ, zipped through at least ''half'' of the path until reaching the Dark Forest. His partner, Randy (a girl), follows it up with style, pushing a panel to get to the room of the Secret Password, grab the item and ''traverse through the other remaining rooms'' with five seconds to spare.

** Their first victory at "Snakeskin Boots of Billy the Kid" can only be described as 'Purple Parrot Pwnage'. They were the first to cross the moat, the first to pass the steps of knowledge, got ''both'' medals in the temple games and scored the artifact in record time. It also had an epic moment in the Jester's Court with the boy going second facing forward and ''bashes his head on one of the buttons'' instead of facing it backward (To look at the camera) like any normal person would do. He is literally crawling towards the exit with five seconds to spare.
** In "Milk Bucket of Freydis" our runner is a [[BadassAdorable little girl named]] [[{{Determinator}} Tarrah]] who, while going through the run at a slow pace, ''solos'' the entire Temple Run with only ''one second to spare'' (and the last victory obtained with just one second left). One cool moment of hers is instead of tipping the vases or raising them over her head like one usually does in the King's Storeroom, she straightens them out, brings her arm back on the first vase she finds...and then ''repeatedly punches it like she wants to punch someone in the face'' before slamming the other two between her hands. Not only that but on her way out, she tried to swing across the moat but ''hits the ledge and breaks the bucket during the fall'', a move that would've cost most people the win yet she ''still'' manages to hang on and go through the ledges till the very end and ''leaps three steps'' onto the ground where her partner catches her in a flying hug. She wants to be a cop, indeed.

** The Cannonball of Galileo had a ''very'' close moment when the consteant ''drops the cannonball'' on the way out, but has the reflexes to catch it before it goes out..

** Their first victory at "Snakeskin Boots of Billy the Kid" can only be described as 'Purple Parrot Pwnage'. They were the first to cross the moat, the first to pass the steps of knowledge, got ''both'' medals in the temple games and scored the artifact in record time. It also had an epic moment in the Jester's Court with the boy going first facing forward and ''bashes his head on one of the buttons'' instead of facing it backward (To look at the camera) like any normal person would do.
** In "Milk Bucket of Freydis" our runner is a [[BadassAdorable little girl named]] [[{{Determinator}} Tarrah]] who, while going through the run at a slow pace, ''solos'' the entire Temple Run with only ''one second to spare''. One cool moment of hers is instead of tipping the vases or raising them over her head like one usually does in the King's Storeroom, she straightens them out, brings her arm back on the first vase she finds...and then ''repeatedly punches it like she wants to punch someone in the face'' before slamming the other two between her hands. Not only that but on her way out, she tried to swing across the moat but ''hits the ledge and breaks the bucket during the fall'', a move that would've cost most people the win yet she ''still'' manages to hang on and go through the ledges till the very end and ''leaps three steps'' onto the ground where her partner catches her in a flying hug. She wants to be a cop, indeed.

** The Cannonball of Galileo had a ''very'' close moment when the consteant ''drops the cannonball'' on the way out, but has the reflexes to catch it before it goes out.
** The Milk Bucket of Freydis has the solo runner just barely making it after she tried to swing across the moat but ''hits the ledge and breaks the bucket during the fall''.

** In "Milk Bucket of Freydis" our runner is a [[BadassAdorable little girl named Tarrah]] who, while going through the run at a slow pace, ''solos'' the entire Temple Run with only ''one second to spare''. One cool moment of hers is instead of tipping the vases or raising them over her head like one usually does in the King's Storeroom, she straightens them out, brings her arm back on the first vase she finds...and then ''repeatedly punches it like she wants to punch someone in the face'' before slamming the other two between her hands. She wants to be a cop, indeed. When she makes it to the end, she ''leaps three steps'' onto the ground where her partner catches her in a flying hug. What an ending.

* "The Levitating Dog Leash of Nostradamus". The girl going first, Elizabeth, signals her partner where the spare half-pendant was going to be and the boy, Jason, ''uses the dog leash'' as a lasso to grab the rope and swing his way onto the other side of the pit on his way out. More importantly, the team had a whole and half-pendant; the girl could've taken the pendant but she gave it up so her partner could retrieve it.
* Despite only winning 3 of their runs, the Purple Parrots were ''really awesome''. Tipping vases got you down? How about you ''punch and smash them with your bare hands'' to get your hands on a milk bucket.
** Their first victory at "Snakeskin Boots of Billy the Kid" can only be described as 'Purple Parrot Pwnage'. They were the first to cross the moat, the first to pass the steps of knowledge, got ''both'' medals in the temple games and scored the artifact in record time. It also had an epic moment in the Jester's Court; the boy faces forward and ''bashes his head on one of the buttons'' instead of facing it like any normal person would do.
** In "Milk Bucket of Freydis" our runner is a [[BadassAdorable little girl named Tarrah]] who, while going through the run at a slow pace, ''solos'' the entire Temple Run with only ''one second to spare''. One cool moment of hers is instead of tipping the vases or raising them over her head like one usually does in the King's Storeroom, she straightens them out, brings her arm back...and then ''punches and slams them between her hands''. She wants to be a cop, indeed. When she makes it to the end, she ''leaps three steps'' onto the ground where her partner catches her in a flying hug. What an ending.

** The best part of all of these victories? ''All of them had less than ten seconds to go''.

** In "Milk Bucket of Freydis" our runner is a Purple Parrot [[BadassAdorable little girl named Tarrah]] who, while going through the run at a slowe pace, ''solos'' the entire Temple Run with only ''one second to spare''. One cool moment of hers is instead of tipping the vases or raising them over her head like one usually does in the King's Storeroom, she straightens them out...and then ''punches and slams them between her hands''. She wants to be a cop, indeed. When she makes it to the end, she ''leaps three steps'' onto the ground where her partner catches her. What an ending.

* In the same vein as Tarrah of the Purple Parrots, we have Missy of the Blue Barracudas in "The Lucky Pillow of Annie Taylor" solo-running through the Temple with only a pendant on her. She had to use the pendant but successfully dodged the other guards to retrieve the pillow. Missy was also the first person to retrieve an artifact from that room in that temple and one of two ever.

* The Very Tall Turban of Ahmed Baba deserves recognition. Not only does Shane solo the entire Run (in itself no mean feat), but he does it while going through nearly ''every'' room in the Temple, avoiding getting caught by a second Temple Guard through judicious application of GenreSavvy.[[note]]Based on his path, the other two Guards were most likely in the Crypt and the Dark Forest; he outright ignores the former, knowing well enough not to take the upper path when the artifact is in an upper room, and he evades the latter by not bothering with with trees and just smashing through the wall.[[/note]] To cap it all off, he makes it out of the Temple with ''fifteen seconds'' to spare, something many contestants with much shorter routes couldn't pull off. And for bonus points, like the aforementioned Tarrah, he eschews tossing the pots in the King's Storeroom to the ground in favor of smashing them between his hands.

** In "Milk Bucket of Freydis" our runner is a Purple Parrot [[BadassAdorable little girl named Tarrah]] who ''solos'' the entire Temple Run with ''one second to spare''. One cool moment of hers is instead of tipping the vases or raising them over her head in the King's Storeroom, she ''punches and slams them between her hands''. She wants to be a cop, indeed.

* "The Levitating Dog Leash of Nostradamus". The girl going first, Elizabeth, signals her partner where the spare half-pendant was going to be and the boy, John, ''uses the dog leash'' as a lasso to grab the rope and swing his way onto the other side of the pit on his way out. More importantly, the team had a whole and half-pendant; the girl could've taken the pendant but she gave it up so her partner could retrieve it.

* "The Levitating Dog Leash of Nostradamus". The girl going first signals her partner where the spare half-pendant was going to be and the boy ''uses the dog leash'' as a lasso to grab the rope and swing his way onto the other side of the pit on his way out. More importantly, the team had a whole and half-pendant; the girl could've taken the pendant but she gave it up so her partner could retrieve it.

* In The Ivory Hunting Horn of Roland", "The Moccasins of Geronimo", and "The Ruby Earring of bin-Zabib", the teams make it through in under ''two'' minutes. Based on how much time was left when the treasure was reached in "The Enormous Iron Nose Ring of Babe", however, a more efficient route could've given them a time that could rival the infamous "Mask of Shaka Zulu" production error episode.

** Add to that Missy being one of the shortest contestants in the show's history (she had to jump to reach the shelves in the Shrine) and having been nervous pretty much ''the entire game'' and it also becomes a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

* "The Levitating Dog Leash of Nostradamus". The girl going first signals her partner where the spare half-pendant was going to be and the boy ''uses the dog leash'' as a lasso to grab the rope and swing his way onto the other side. More importantly, the team had a whole and half-pendant; the girl could've taken the pendant but she gave it up so her partner could retrieve it.

* "Lawrence of Arabia's Headdress" deserves a special mention. Not only was this the first episode to air on Nickelodeon, but the temple run was a real nail-biter. But the Green Monkeys get the Headdress with only ''27 seconds'' left on the clock and get out with one second remaining.