Gabby, Stripes, Starla, Darington, Zeg and Pickle don't appear in this episode.
This is the first episode that Pickle is absent.
This is the first time Nolan North voices someone other than Blaze; in this case, one of the trucks that Crusher passes after the Crab Warehouse scene.
Part of the Heroes of Axle City DVD.
The mud mountain from Gasquatch! reappears as the final obstacle Crusher is approaching.
The game Mud Mountain Rescue is based on this episode.
Blaze and AJ's attempts to use tensile strength to stop the rocket skis and save Crusher were:
A jump rope (failed)
A garden hose (failed)
Grammy's knitted rope (succeeded)
When Blaze says "Go for it, AJ!" and AJ swings out of the crab warehouse, right when Blaze finishes talking you can see his eyes get bigger. This is a common feature in anime series.
Gasquatch and the Truck Rangers make an appearances during the STEM song, after Gasquatch! and Truck Rangers.
Crusher's Grammy is the first relative of a main character introduced on the show.
This is the only episode to date where Crusher appears without Pickle.
This is not actually the first time the term "Monster Machine" is said by Crusher. It actually first started in The Driving Force.
Crusher crashing into things with the rocket skis.
Allusions[]
The plot is very similar to that of the short "Meet Dusty" from the DisneyToon film Planes:
Crusher gives himself something that makes him go extremely faster, launching off out the race but can't stop until the ending. In the story, Chug accidentally puts the wrong fuel in Dusty. But before Chug can warn him, Dusty spontaneously launches off into the air.
The trucks eating a piece of spaghetti from either end until it breaks mimics the famous "spaghetti kiss" scene from Lady and the Tramp.
Bump's line "Crusher has left the building!" is similar to the announcer's line "Elvis has left the building!" at Elvis Presley concerts.
Goofs[]
When Blaze says "Knit like the wind!", his mouth doesn't move.
For some strange reason, Blaze and Crusher either didn't get to finish the race, nor only finish it offscreen. Though it’s possible that they forfeited due to leaving in the middle of it or the race has ended already.
In the travel song, the captions listed “Sing it loud!” as “Sing along!”
