This is the third time Crusher wakes up an animal to stop Blaze, the first being bighorns in The Team Truck Challenge, the second being polar bears in The Polar Derby.
All three times, Blaze is unaware that Crusher was the one who sent the animal.
This is the only episode where “Let’s Blaze!” is said at the very end.
This is the only episode where speed is associated with a unit, in this case, kilometers per hour.
Running Gags[]
As Crusher goes for the Blazing Speed engine, Pickle shows up with his own homemade alternatives in an attempt to deter him. Crusher usually brushes them off, especially when the homemade engines end up covering him in food or other materials. These usually happen just before Blaze's horn is sounded.
Pickle's homemade engines include:
The Macaroni & Cheese engine.
The Pepperoni Pizza engine.
The Toothpaste engine.
Allusions[]
The title may be a reference to the racing video game franchise Need for Speed. It was also a 2014 film.
Goofs[]
Blaze’s spoiler is up when his engine shorts out, but in the scene before the spoiler was down.
When Blaze ejects the Blazing Speed engine, his spoiler folds down as the compartment closes, but when Crusher steals it the spoiler is up. After the engine lands on the mountain, the spoiler is down again.
When AJ and Gabby see the wind blowing, part of Gabby’s left eye becomes uncolored for a moment.
Blaze cannot move or drive without the Blazing Speed engine; however, he can be seen lurching back and forth a little when he greets Darington, and he is able to lift his tires to throw the coconuts at the mud copters and reach out for one of the rotors. He also jumps over the water just before transforming into a sailboat.
Even though Blaze lost the ability to drive without his engine, he somehow didn't move around by "walking" with his tires, as shown in Runaway Rocket when he sneaks past a grizzly bear.
When Blaze becomes a sailboat and the wind gives him propulsion, the sail is to the right of him so the wind pushes, but after Crusher sends the crocodile and for the rest of the scene, the sail is behind him.
Blaze states that Crusher doesn't know how Blazing Speed works, despite the fact that Crusher has used Blazing Speed before in The Wishing Wheel and Catch That Cake!. However, it is possible that this episode could take place before those two.
