The Absolute WORST Temple Runs of All Time (Legends of the Hidden Temple) 

What's your take on the Shrine of the Silver Monkey? Baffling easy or sneaky tough?

I saw the title and said "Oh no, the poor Purple Parrots"

The most frustrating part of The Lost Lion Tail of Little John is that Marie and Claude only ended up going to the temple because of a tragic mistake by the other team in the third temple game. They had to climb up three giant steps and hang up a sign, and the Silver Snakes were leading. But the sign was propped up poorly, and just as the first Silver Snake got onto the third step, it fell all the way down to the bottom, forcing them to go back down and giving the Purple Parrots the win. It was so frustrating.

Kirk Fogg: GET THE PEPPERONI GET THE PEPPERONI! And she bypasses the pepperoni then descends into the mine shaft.

Dishonorable mention goes to The Mysterious Manuscript of Mary Shelley. In that run, Blue Barracuda Larry had perhaps the worst silver monkey assembly attempt ever. The base was backwards, the torso was upside-down, and the head was sideways, and he never figured this out. He just kept trying to jam the head down until time ran out.

That Claude has to be the worst contestant ever. He infuriated me even more than the Trident girl.

The sad thing is that the first four runs were all very winnable. The first two could've been solo runs if the first runner didn't try to go straight for the artifact. The third run had a pretty favorable layout and a good half pendant placement. And the pepperoni run likely ends differently if Chris goes in second.

My thoughts on the difficulty of the monkey. Build the statue facing you, then turn the whole thing around.😅 😅😅why didn't anyone try this?

Silver Monkey looked easy as hell for the viewers as home. In person, it must have looked very very different. I'll never understand the struggle since I was never a contestant. I try to keep that in mind when watching old Legends episodes.

What?! No Henry VIII's Great Seal? How the Silver Snakes just yeeted out of the temple?

I was surprised that the run where a door accidentally re-locked behind the first player didn’t make it, though that one may be less tragic since the team was allegedly awarded the grand prize due to the technical error

Love the videos man, both the Nick Guts related and Survivor related ones

Mine are 5. The Bonnet of Dolly Madison- they did so good up until the dark forest, they still got the artifact, but it couldve been a win. 4. The Golden Pepperoni of Catherine De’Medici- they didnt do that bad until the very end and they missed the artifact. 3. The Smashed Printing Plate of Frederick Douglass- they were a terrible pairing lol they obviously hated each other and the front runner was too scared of the temple guards and his partner’s yelling was obnoxious. 2. The Broken Wing of Icarus- i just cant with this one. Was going to be a clear win but made a terrible decision that cost them the win. 1. The Broken Trident of Poseidon- i struggle with this one. She seemed to have a clear path to victory with a great strategy up until she got the artifact, it seemed like she forgot that the end goal was to get out of the temple with it.

What about the Walking Stick of Harriet Tubman.....that was an EPIC FAIL of a run due to the 2nd player not paying attention to her partners path into the temple

Great video Although a run that you might miss. The broken trident of Poseidon was a bad run. Although they didn't run into any temple guards. Might have been a good dishonorable mention. But that is more so a tragic run then the worst.

Imagine being able to assemble the monkey in great time just to run past the artifact

Return of the king!

This is a fantastic video.

You should really do a video like this on Nick Arcade. I've seen some of the worst players in the history of Nickelodeon on that game show.

Every time I see the Golden Pepperoni run, all I can think of at the end of the run is the scene from Monty Python where John Cleese says “How could you miss?!”

You are hilarious. Please make more of these or really anything you want. Fantastic creator.

Maybe not the worst but "The walking stick of Harriet Tubman" had an interesting run because its the only run to end in the crypt! The 2nd runner didnt follow her partners entry path in the ledges and they didnt have a 2nd pendant, D'OH!

I always used to wonder what the temple guard actors would do immediately after 'escorting' a kid off set through a door or whatever. Did they stay in character or immediately give high fives and/or apologize for the trauma?

Man, the pepperoni is too small to see, should've be a whole sausage link?

Such a better time in life!!🤘🏼 Thanks for uploading!

Now I’m really rattled that they remembered to get the other half of the pendant in majority of the runs. No wonder Season 1 of The Lost Temple Guards was limited to just 79 episodes.

lol the Siskel and Ebert remix and the 8 bit Mike Jack music 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

I remember watching the Pepperoni run as a kid. Man that was bad. Definitely not as bad as the Cricket Cage run though (and that is coming from a Silver Snakes fan). I'll bet that the rage induced by those 2 episodes caused some kids to say their first curse words.

To this day I'm scared there are temple guards hiding in the dark corners of my house.

It wasn’t necessarily a failed run because the team actually won the grand prize, but one of my favorite episodes was when this girl ran out of the temple and just as she was able to cross the finish line she trips on a camera cord or something that production just draped a brown cloth over 😂😂😂 every time I see that episode I die laughing

There's this kid who got the artifact with one minute left to exit. He was extremely slow and didn't make it out. To be fair he was one of the tallest kids who was on the show.

damn this year went by fast, feels like it was only like two weeks or something

"Grown man in a ball-pit alert".

In the revival, Dee Bradley Baker (as Olmec) finally got to call the Silver Monkey what we all wanted to but couldn’t because we’d be grounded for a week: “that damned statue.” Also, to be fair, they had to assemble it with the pieces pointing towards the camera (away from them), much like how from the perspective of contestants on Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego, they had to find the correct locations with the map upside down from their perspective so it appeared right side up on camera.

Love the balloon shop reference

I'm a Green Monkeys fan so this one pains me to suggest...but Pecos Bill's Lost Lariat. Frontrunner was solid, second runner was kinda slow but made it to the lariat and then Kirk low key costs them the win by suggesting a different path. Another one, this time from the Red Jaguars, is the Treasure of Anne Bonny. Two average players, second runner makes it to the treasure chest with more than enough time, but the combination of a bulky artifact and a poor escape route made for a loss. What makes it even bigger a shame is had the team escaped the Temple then it would have made Layout IX a perfect 4/4 by the teams. Now THAT'S a tragedy.

The five worst Temple Runs in Legends of the Hidden Temple’s original run are actually the following. Fifth worst: The Keys to the Alhambra Fourth worst: The Snow Cone of Mount Kilimanjaro Third worst: Blackbeard’s Treasure Map Second worst: The Bifocal Monocle of One-Eyed Jack Absolute worst of all: The Golden Cricket Cage of Khan Also, here are the best original run Temple Runs: Sixth best: The Lucky Medallion of Atocha Fifth best: John Sutter and the Map to the Lost Gold Mine Fourth best: The Mussel Shell Armor of Apanuugpak Third best: The Lost Hornpipe of the Pirate Captain Second best: Lawrence of Arabia’s Headdress The GOAT, hands down the best of all: The Heart-Shaped Pillow of Annie Taylor

Even when I watched this as a kid I thought the Temple Guards were BS. There is literally nothing you can do about it. You walk into a room oh temple guard you lose! It was so cheap. It was basically a guarantee for the show to make the kids lose if they didn't want to give out those prizes.

The Purple Parrots in the Golden Pepperoni run was an all time epic fail classic😂😂😂😂😂😂

My bottom five worst runs, with my explanations why: 5. The Keys to the Alhambra (Red Jaguars) - Steve was okay, and got to within one room (artifact in the Dungeon) in the first thirty seconds, believe it or not, but a Temple Guard took him out in The Room of the Ancient Kings. Lisa gets to where he is, but naturally, the wall won't break down, so she goes backwards all the way to the Cave of Sighs! They only had one pendant, so how they didn't get caught by a third Guard is incredible. 4. Snow Cone of Mount Kilimanjaro (Silver Snakes) - I look at the obscurity of the legend itself as a contributing factor, and so the story was too obscure, and the artifact was kind of pointless; to be fair, they tried to take the best route possible, but the frontrunner spent too much time completing the objective in both the Headless Kings and Jester's Court (and remember, there's never a Guard in there). The strangest part was at the end - the second player tried to go up from the Dark Forest to the Shrine, which would have put her one room away, but the room was locked, so there was nowhere to go. You could see some rustling during the credits from the third guard in the Quicksand Bog, so the run would have had a triple capture if they had taken that route, because they only had 1.5 pendants. They only entered five rooms, and yet, it doesn't feel like an incredibly sloppy run, just too slow and confusing. 3. Blackbeard's Treasure Map (Red Jaguars) - The very first episode ever produced was a total disaster. With two pendants, the Red Jaguars should have had a great chance. But after a dead end in the Wheel Room, the first player totally panicked and was slow to open the door. She went across the Troubled Bridge, but didn't try to go down to the Throne Room. Another artifact in the Dungeon, so the bottom level might have been their safest bet. It's one of only two solo runs that end with the player running out of time. 2. The Golden Cricket Cage of Khan (Silver Snakes) - you might be surprised to see this as only #2, and you don't need me to tell you what's wrong with it. But, for me, there was one run that was worse than this, because it's the only one where I was actively rooting for the team to lose (and being a Red Jaguars fan, it's even more painful). And that run is... 1. The Smashed Printing Plate of Frederick Douglass (Red Jaguars) - On the surface, it's not one big thing that really puts this up here, but a bunch of little things that added up into one unpleasant run to watch. What puts this up there for me is that the Red Jaguars might have cheated during the third Temple Game; it was the "sinking steps" game, and Dana did try to skip the first step at least once during the run. She may have done it a second time, but we'll never know because the camera cut away right before they made their successful run. This gave them two pendants to the Purple Parrots' zero, so they were supposed to be at full strength. The run itself was going to force them to go up and around, because the artifact was in the Tomb of the Headless Kings, so of course the bottom door in the Pit was never going to open. During the run, Jason really messed up several times. His swing from the Pit wasn't strong enough, so he had to climb the wall up to Sacred Markers. Next, he gets into Ancient Warriors and is making decent time, but he tries to game the Temple by only trying two sets of armor; he had a feeling that the first guard was in the last suit. He went backward to try to find an alternate route, but there wasn't one, so he had to give up his pendant to open up the door. He didn't take the Shrine-Forest passage (which did open) and went the long way, and actually didn't even complete the objective in Secret Password, but the door opened anyway. Once he got to the Dark Forest, he tried to game the Temple again by not reaching into the tree, but he was taken out with only 30 seconds left. While he was doing this, Dana was screaming at him the whole time to keep going. When she finally goes in, she's determined, but likely not going to get very far in 30 seconds. But she does something I've never seen - she dives too far down in the Ledges, gets stuck on the bottom level, and she takes the lower crawl tube instead of the upper one. As a result, she can't even get out of the Pit before time ran out. So, one player (or both) likely cheated, they tried to manipulate the run by avoiding the guards at all costs, and couldn't pull their weight at the end. You might have to watch the run carefully for yourself to see what I mean, but I just feel like this run violated the spirit of the show, which is the only time I can ever say that.

thanks for giving us what we want

Claude was High af! 😂😂

Do you remember Wild and Crazy Kids? I can't be the only one who'd like a video...

Geez never realized the Temple Guards swan camped the Temple entrance...I remember there was ALWAYS a guard in the Living Forest...that room creeped me out...and I only WATCHED the show!!!

to be honest, a lot of us can relate to these kids. i'd probably nope out of the temple at the mere thought of there being a guard behind me. i never liked when games makes getting spotted by a guard hauls you out.

Hard or not, the Shrine of the silver monkey was one of my favorite rooms. I was always bummed when they put the treasure there or we didn't go into the shrine. I never watched any of the episodes where people had too much trouble. 😅😅😅

I have a vague memory as a kid of seeing a temple run where the kid spent what felt like the majority of the time in the Pit/Quarry room. I was expecting to see it here but now I’m wondering if I just imagined it. Maybe it was that last run since the bit of that girl on the ropes at the end seems familiar but I’m doubtful.

I watched the run of the Silver snakes and a Temple guard showed up in the ledges like WHOAH never seen that before

You should do a heartbreaking temple run video

I actually worked as a temple guard in 3 episodes of season 2. The producer s would position us in the places that almost guaranteed capturing a contestant I'm less than 30 seconds. Most contestants lost. The few that won were chosen in advance by the producers

There is never a time where the forest didn't spring a guard on you.

The Shrine of the Silver Monkey is the easiest thing to assemble. Also mind U, virtually almost every episode during the temple games, the statue is displayed completed. 🤦🏽‍♂️

You missed the Broken Trident of Poseidon, the girl got the artifact without a single Temple Guard encounter and then she DROPPED THE ARTIFACT. She took ages to get it back then went down the stairs to Jester's Court (i think) for some reason. Kirk gave up on her before the run even ended. Still, good video

It's driving me nuts. What's the song you used to introduce each run?

Three piece puzzle harder to figure out than my ex. At least that monkey saw some action. Homegirl never even attempted to enter my shrine of the sad, sad silver monkey. 🙈

I wish someone had stock footage of when the kid threw up in the pit. I would think someone found a way to put it out there 😂

Love that Claude 😂

Also the Secret Battle Plan of Nathan Hale is also a face palmer lol

The monkey is the hardest thing to solve of all time ever.

Trying to build a super torch 😂😂😂

I loved this show

This is the most painful thing!

Would drive me nuts when they couldn’t put the damn monkey together… it’s got three parts! How do you mess that up?

Its so sad that they stop this show.... because im pretty sure this gameshow can out rank the other game shows of today...

The funny thing is most of the temple run losses on the show would’ve been wins had second runner gone first

30 YEARS?!? 😢😢😢

I was born in 99 but if i was the right age at the right time when this show came out, i would totally train to win

The sad bland death with the "new" Hidden Temple was just... so.... bah

Claude had to be there off a make a wish thing

Your telling me. I seen them. Sheesh!

I think that this show could be good if they made an actual live experience that people can experience

surprised you didn't include the Useless Map episode from season 3

The prize was like 10 backpacks hahaha

You're missing horrible Silver Snakes temple run in The Broken Trident of Poseidon xD

Tia was basically the Legends equivalent of Nadine

The silver monkey is easy but the time limit makes it hard

THE SHRIIIIIIINNNNEE OF THE SILLLLLVERR MONKEYYY.. yeah that puzzle would get me too but my god half these kids are slow af.. u got 3 minutes and u waste 2 Bsing trying to figure out the puzzles

Siskel and Ebert theme!

Dude your missing the one where when the male got up to a fast start, then the female took control and kept going backwards 😭

Before I begin watching, gonna guess 'Elizabeth I's Golden Ship' is on here EDIT: Guess not. Though Cricket Cage is a noteworthy fail

What l don’t get is why these kids will be one room away (when it’s open and everything) and literally do a circle around it

Beware the mysterious Mayan Temple Guards

my wife left me for a 2007 honda ccord

Why is this purple parrot chris falling to his knees?

Should put The Broken Trident of Poseidon my goodness 🤨😕🙁😲😫🤬

"Game shows from 30 years ago" Okay that was unnecessary damn.

Red jaguars for the win

Why the host look like rob dyrdek? 😂

Purple KeK....🤭

Are you planning on coming back any time soon? I have a small yt channel, around your sub number with less hits but similar numbers, so I know youtube's grind sucks and it's a confusing mess that never feels as rewarding as you think it should. But you make good shit and I got into it, I want to see more, I want to see where you take things.

i am subscribed is that a bad thing?????

Legends are watching in 2024

You should have seen the auditions that were never recorded.... One kid almost water boarded themselves in like a foot of water when their foot got caugth on a rope net and they fliped upside down on the tire structure with her torso also caugth.... I signed and NDA I'm not gonna keep this comment up too long just so you know

What happened to this channel??

It's 3 freaking pieces of foam. It's not hard.