History Series / WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego

** In the episode "Rio Rock Wranglers", Greg accidentally overfills a measuring cup with molasses while listening to a clue included in the cookie recipe the Chief wants to make, causing molasses to get all over the desk. It turns out that a little bit of molasses got on the portfolio later on after the Jail time challenge.

** In season 1, only a ''single'' white gator and ''one'' clouded leopard got stolen. Starting the very next season, the crooks didn't just stop at one specimen when stealing animals, but instead took ''all'' of a given species. Similarly, season 1 saw only the ''paws'' of the Spinx being stolen and only Lincoln's nose being taken off Mount Rushmore. In later seasons, the respective crooks involved in those cases would have taken the whole thing.

* BigWinSirens: A standard police siren sounded every time a match was successful. Winning the bonus round resulted in the siren speeding up and various bells and horns accompanying it. Then the newspaper headline covered reads ''(Gumshoe's name) Captures Carmen!'' From Season 4 (1994) And beyond that point, The headline illustration will have Carmen behind bars.

* AcmeProducts: The sleuths worked for the Acme Detective Agency, [[ContinuityNod the agency the player of the computer games works for.]] PlayedForLaughs during the clue segments, especially when they involved guest stars. Scott Weinger was said to have come from "Acme Voice of Aladdin Net", James Avery came from "Acme [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Shredder]] Net", and Katie Couric from "Acme [[InsistentTerminology 'Don't Call Me Perky']] Net".

Much of the show's memorability can be attributed to the terrific cast: host Greg Lee, Lynne Thigpen as DaChief and "house band" Rockapella[[note]]Sean Altman, Scott Leonard, Elliott Kerman and Barry Carl[[/note]], who provided an a-cappella soundtrack (including the famous theme song, not to mention all the wacky sound effects and ad-libbed quips).

** "Now, the boys down at the ACME Photo Reconsecration Bureau have put together a few slides!"

** "Not bad!"

*** Ironically, every season after they changed to 8 markers had more than Season 1.

** A Western-themed shrimp named [[Creator/JohnWayne Prawn Wayne]]

* WritingAroundTrademarks: In "The Checkmate Checkout", the Chief mentions that Cupertino, California, is home to a famous computer company. However, because they're on public television, they cannot say the name of the company, but then takes one bite out of a [[Creator/{{Apple}} Macintosh apple]] to imitate the company's logo.

* WritingAroundTrademarks: In "The Checkmate Checkout", the Chief mentions that Cupertino, California, is home to a famous computer company. However, because they're on public television, they cannot say the name of the company, but then takes one bite out of a Macintosh apple to imitate the company's logo.

** The Season 2 finale "Gotta Get A Yeti" had an Geographic error at the end of the first round on the final clue, the Adriatic Sea was mislabeled as the Aegean Sea on the map. The final clue's answer was in fact the Aegean Sea, but it was counted as the Mediterranean Sea. Gumshoe Tahare Campbell who had lost the game due to the geographic error, was to invited back in Season 3's "The Glacier Erasure" and made it all the way to catch Carmen in Asia.

** In "Tyrannosaurus Wrecked", the third time the loot (the dinosaur sculptures in Alberta, Canada), one of the Rockapella members shouts "[[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones WIIIIILLLLLL-MAAAAAAA!]]". Unfortunately, since it sounded nothing like Fred Flintstone, it took a minute for Greg to get the joke.

* AlmostDeadGuy: Some questions would be posed by having "the Dying Informant" (played by a member of Rockapella) come in and gasp out clues as to where Carmen's henchman had taken that episode's loot.