Gabby, Stripes, Starla, Darington, Zeg and Watts don't appear in this appear.
Going by production order, this is the 20th and final episode of the fifth season.
This is the last episode in production order where Stefan Seslija served as the sound effects editor and re-recording mixer at WildBrain Studios (formerly DHX Media) before moving to Bergium Audio Post as the sound designer and re-recording mixer starting with "Big Rig to the Rescue!".
This is also the last episode in production order to use the 2D WildBrain logo.
Mechanical engineering is the fifth STEM concept to be taught again in the series after coding, momentum, force and trajectory.
This is the fourteenth episode this season with no travel song.
Blaze's transformations are different and use the same techniques as how he transformed in The Super-Size Prize.
If Blaze didn't stop the cannonballs and lava, he and AJ would've been killed.
Despite the race involving the Earth, no actual worldwide countries were visited; in its place were the more generic background such as jungles, forests and deserts.
This episode marks the second most transformations in an episode by six, losing to seven in Monster Machine Christmas.
This is the third time Crusher has had a binky in his mouth.
Running Gags[]
Whenever Crusher or Pickle try to start off in a vehicle, Pickle always manages move controls that cause peculiar functions to activate. The last one ends up with something landing on Crusher before they start moving.
Allusions[]
When the camera zooms out to the Earth as Bump is finishing his introduction, the final notes to Also Sprach Zarathustra are heard.
Crusher plays a stock tune on his bugle to wake up the polar bears.
Goofs[]
When the volcanos begin to erupt and the camera zooms out, the view shakes and you can see the end of the background at the top for a few frames.
When Crusher says, "A cannonball blasting blaster fish!" the captions list "blasting" as "plastic".
In real life, you can't race around the earth in a single day.
