History YMMV / TheAdventureGame

* RetroactiveRecognition: Darong, an Argond who only appeared in Series 1, was played by Moira Stuart, then best known as a continuity announcer on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 4; she is now far more well-known as a television newsreader, a career she began the year after her appearance in ''The Adventure Game''.

** Successful crossings of the Vortex grid were rare enough (of the 44 contestants who had to cross the grid in Series 2-4, just 14 avoided evaporation) that any contestant who managed it is awesome, but in a class of their own are the team from Episode 5 of Series 4, consisting of ''Fast Forward'' actress and former ''That's Life!'' presenter Joanna Monro, former ''Series/DoctorInTheHouse'' and ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'' actor and writer George Layton, and schoolteacher Val Prince, ''all three of whom'' crossed the grid successfully, the only time this happened in Series 2-4.

* WhatAnIdiot: Although many contestants proved to be frustratingly slow on the uptake when it came to solving the episode's puzzles, the exact opposite was true of ''Series/TheGoodies'' star Graeme Garden, who studied medicine at Cambridge before pursuing a light entertainment career and who sailed through almost every puzzle his team had to face. Unfortunately, this was also the series in which Lesley Judd acted as TheMole, trying to slow the teams down and make them suspect each other of treachery instead... and Garden's teammates, ''Play School'' presenter Carol Chell and British Rubik's Cube champion Nicolas Hammond, decided that Garden must be the mole ''because he was solving the puzzles too easily'' (and because he quickly realised Judd was the real mole; his teammates interpreted his suspicions as an attempt to deflect their own suspicions). With Garden sent to the far side of the Vortex grid, Chell and Hammond were completely adrift for the rest of the episode, and both got evaporated by the Vortex, forcing them to return home on foot while a quietly triumphant Garden got to take the Arg-Earth shuttle.

* LesYay:
** In series 2, Gnoard was the very affectionate partner-in-crime of Lesley Judd, who stayed behind in series 1 "because she was having so much fun on Arg".

** Successful crossings of the Vortex grid were rare enough that any contestant who managed it is awesome, but in a class of their own are the team from Episode 5 of Series 4, consisting of ''Fast Forward'' actress and former ''That's Life!'' presenter Joanna Monro, former ''Series/DoctorInTheHouse'' and ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'' actor and writer George Layton, and schoolteacher Val Prince, ''all three of whom'' crossed the grid successfully, the only time this happened in Series 2-4.

* WhatAnIdiot: Although many contestants proved to be frustratingly slow on the uptake when it came to solving the episode's puzzles, the exact opposite was true of ''Series/TheGoodies'' star Graeme Garden, who studied medicine at Cambridge before pursuing a light entertainment career and who sailed through almost every puzzle his team had to face. Unfortunately, this was also the series in which Lesley Judd acted as TheMole, trying to slow the teams down and make them suspect each other of treachery instead... and Garden's teammates, ''Play School'' presenter Carol Chell and British Rubik's Cube champion Nicolas Hammond, decided that Garden must be the mole ''because he was solving the puzzles too easily''. With Garden sent to the far side of the Vortex grid, Chell and Hammond were completely adrift for the rest of the episode, and both got evaporated by the Vortex, forcing them to return home on foot while a quietly triumphant Garden got to take the Arg-Earth shuttle.

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Successful crossings of the Vortex grid were rare enough that any contestant who managed it is awesome, but in a class of their own are the team from Episode 5 of Series 4, consisting of ''Fast Forward'' actress and former ''That's Life!'' presenter Joanna Monro, former ''Series/DoctorInTheHouse'' and ''Series/ItAintHalfHotMum'' actor and writer George Layton, and schoolteacher Val Prince, ''all three of whom'' crossed the grid successfully, the only time this happened in Series 2-4.

* WhatAnIdiot: Although many contestants proved to be frustratingly slow on the uptake when it came to solving the episode's puzzles, the exact opposite was true of ''Series/TheGoodies'' star Graeme Garden, who studied medicine at Cambridge before pursuing a light entertainment career and who sailed through almost every puzzle his team had to face. Unfortunately, this was also the series in which Lesley Judd acted as TheMole, trying to slow the teams down and make them suspect each other of treachery instead... and Garden's teammates, ''Play School'' presenter Carol Chell and British Rubik's Cube champion Nicholas Hammond, decided that Garden must be the mole ''because he was solving the puzzles too easily''. With Garden sent to the far side of the Vortex grid, Chell and Hammond were completely adrift for the rest of the episode, and both got evaporated by the Vortex, forcing them to return home on foot while a quietly triumphant Garden got to take the Arg-Earth shuttle.