History Fanfic / MyRidonculousRace

* TearsofJoy: Sam, May, Fabian, and Jordan all start crying after the former 2 win the Tokyo leg in addition to being at the Creator/StudioGhibli museum. Fabian cries again in the next chapter when his team wins the Galapagos leg.

* MediumAwareness: When the bottom four run for to the chill zone in India it happens in slow motion, just like in Film/TheDarjeelingLimited. During this slow mo sequence, however, [[spoiler: Jacques and Josee's penalty counts down just as it would in normal time, allowing them to place and Tom/Jen to be eliminated.]]

* NervesofSteel: Neither Crimson, Ennui, Sam or May are even a little bit terrified of the haunted house in Japan.
* NobodyTouchestheHair: May warns Jacques about this when he gets her hair dirty in India. When he inadvertently cuts it she retaliates by [[spoiler: knocking the Ice Dancers out of their chariot and allows Sam to run them over.]]

** In New Zealand, she mentions that she once had to out run the cops on a bicycle and then had to take shelter in a beaver dam.

** Minor example in Rome, where Dwayne calls the Ice Dancers "punk-ass sons of bitches"
** In London, Jordan tells both of the Ice dancers to "stick it up their Latvian CountryMatters" when they show no concern [[spoiler: for Fabian falling down the stairs leading up to the chill zone.]]

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Leo combines this with BigBrotherInstinct after Josee kicks Annie back into the snake pit in Greece. He goes so far as to compare her to Tonya Harding which she momentarily does take to heart, [[ComicallyMissingthePoint only to point out that while Harding couldn't even make it to the Olympics, she herself is at least a medalist.]]

*** Nekota gets knocked out of his clothes like Charlie Brown of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' fame
*** Dani mentions several bands like Music/{{Kiss}}, Music/{{Led Zeppelin}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}, Music/{{Poison}}, and The David Matthews Band

** In the Outback, the farmer proclaims [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender my cabbages!]]
** In New Zealand, Sam begs for something to do with ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', while Jordan begs for something related to Film/WhaleRider or Film/TheLionTheWitchandtheWardrobe, and May wants to do something related to Film/{{Avatar}}.

** The San Francisco leg is entitled [[Music/PanicAtTheDisco Panic! at the Frisco]]

** In India there are several allusions to ''Film/TheDarjeelingLimited'', May mentions not to take any excess baggage on board and in the climax [[spoiler: Tom, Devin, Jen and Dwayne]] run to the chill zone in slow mo, just like the ending scene

*** [[spoiler: Fabian]] also gets injured in a manner similar to [[Characters/TheAmazingRace17 Claire from season 17 of the Amazing Race]].

*** The mindscapes of Jordan and Fabian are based off WesternAnimation/InsideOut.

*** [[spoiler: [=MacArthur=]]] losing her passport also brings to mind [[Characters/TheAmazingRace19 Kaylani of season 19 losing hers.]]

* SnarktoSnarkCombat: Most notably between Leo and Josee on the train ride in India.

** Japan has appearances by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki, [[Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub Bisco Hatori]], [[Manga/DragonBall Akira Toriyama]], [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Ken Sugimori, Satoshi Tajiri]], [[Creator/StudioGhibli Joe Hishashi]], [[Franchise/YuGiOh Kazuki Takahashi]], [[Franchise/SailorMoon Naoko Takeuchi]], [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist Hiromu Arakawa]], [[Manga/OnePiece Eiichiro Oda]], [[Anime/CowboyBebop Shinichiro Watanabe]], and [[Manga/FairyTail Hiro Mashima]].

*** Don mentions ''Film/{{Prometheus}}''.

'''MacArthur:''' (''points to Carrie'') That’s literally what she said. WOOO!
* ThinkOfTheChildren: In Argentina, Kitty wonders if she can say the word "ass" on TV but Emma says that [[TakeThatUs this show isn't meant for children so she's got nothing to worry about.]]

* ThinkOfTheChildren: In Argentina, Kitty wonders if she can say the word "ass" on TV but Emma says that [[TakeThatUs this show isn't meant for children so she's got nothing to worry about.]]

** London has Jordan and Fabian meet Anjel similar to how Gary, Mary and Walter meet Kermit in Film/{{TheMuppets}}.

** In San Francisco, the cadets mural depicts Josee as the [[Literature/AliceinWonderland Queen of Hearts]] complete with Jacques severed head in her hand.

* SmallTaxonomyPools: The Galapagos leg mentions such iconic animals as the Marine Iguana, Galapagos Seal Lion, Frigate bird, Galapagos Penguin and all the finches in addition to lesser known species like Lava gull, Galapagos Hawk, Red Billed Tropic Bird, Galapagos mockingbird, Galapagos short eared owl, and Flightless cormorant.
** In India, several species of primates (a few which are rather obscure) appear such as Lion-tailed Macaque, Western Hoolock Gibbon, Rhesus Macaque, Pig-tailed Macaque, Golden Langur, Hanuman Langur and Nilgiri Langur.
** Rhea are used in the vaquero challenge in Argentina.

* SmallTaxonomyPools: The Galapagos leg mentions such animals as the Marine Iguana, Galapagos Hawk, Flightless cormorant, Frigate bird, Lava gull, Red Billed Tropic Bird, Galapagos Penguin, Galapagos mockingbird, Galapagos short eared owl, and all the finches.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The Galapagos leg mentions such animals as the Marine Iguana, Galapagos Hawk, Flightless cormorant, Frigate bird, Lava gull, Red Billed Tropic Bird, Galapagos Penguin, Galapagos mockingbird, Galapagos short eared owl, and all the finches.
** In India, several species of primates (a few which are rather obscure) appear such as Lion-tailed Macaque, Western Hoolock Gibbon, Rhesus Macaque, Pig-tailed Macaque, Golden Langur, Hanuman Langur and Nilgiri Langur.
** Rhea are used in the vaquero challenge in Argentina.

* FatalFlaw: June's tendency to ignore Quince winds up [[spoiler: getting them eliminated]] when, unlike Leo she neglects to drag her partner alongside herself during [[spoiler: the final sprint to the chill zone in the Galapagos]]

* FoodFight: One happens in Spain, in a challenge inspired by the real life La Tomatina festival. Another one happens on the Darjeeling Express in India.

*** Dani mentions several bands like Music/{{Kiss}}, Music/{{Led Zeppelin}}, Music/{{Aerosmith}}, Music/{{The Rolling Stones}}, Music/{{Poison}}, and The David Matthews Band

*** Sam sings a song from Theatre/ThePiratesofPenzance .

* RapunzelHair: May's hair is said to reach her calves.

** In Buenos Aires, Leo [[RuleOfThree has 3 imagine spots]] of him June recreating famous dance scenes from the films Film/Carefree, Film/TophHat and Film/DityDancing during the tango challenge.