Flights get delayed all the time on the show. But wasn't it Rob and Amber's season where the plane actually backed up to the gate so that the team that eventually won could get on? If I recall, they didn't show the team actually working the situation to a successful result. It left the impression that CBS flashed some cash and explained that their finale would be a dud otherwise.

Short history of Rob and Amber:

Rob (aka Boston Rob) was on Survivor 4. He acted like a jerk and seemed like an idiot. But it quickly became apparent that he was completely in control of the first half of the game. Unfortunately for him, they pulled a tribe switch which left him in the minority and he got booted (but not before he let some people know about some planned backstabbings that completely changed the game).

Flash forward to Survivor 8, All Stars. Rob came back. He hooked up with Amber (from Survivor 2) early on. The two of them went on to the final two and Amber won. They were all over each other during the show, and Rob ended up proposing live right before Amber was announced as the winner.

They were so popular that they were invited as contestants on Amazing Race 7 where they came in 2nd. People seem to either love 'em or hate 'em.

I hated Rob on his first Survivor stint, but now I do like them because they are balls-out competitors. I see a lot of "Happy Haunt" in them. :) Being confident is a large part of winning, and they kick a lot of ass.

I swear, Amber is even hotter now than she was before.

On seeing the first episode I said to GD that we are never, ever doing this show, because our MA style (ie: fighting with each other) wouldn't play well at all on TV. :D Also, we'd probably get divorced...

The Amazing Race is the only reality show I've ever applied to, and at the time I'd never seen it.

I watched most of the second half of last season.

I haven't watched in many years, but it's the only one of these type of shows that I thought was any good at all. I quit mostly because I didn't want to deal with following a serial story that I'd get hooked into.


I happen to know an AR contestant (Josh) from Season 4(??) ... he didn't make it very far ... but, interestingly, I was at his wedding last night.

Yeah, I remember him! I especially remember the Fast Forward they had to do, which was trying to make their way through a crowded dance floor, holding a tray of filled champagne glasses!

How cool it is that you actually know a former contestant!

I can't say I know a former contestant. However, the docket entry to one of my court appointed federal appeals reflected the fact that one of the testifying FBI agents would be Brady, the FBI guy who climbed the greased pole at, I believe, Vanuatu, the season of the conspiracy of lazy fat guys when Chris won. The district court apparently held sealed hearings involving CBS, undisclosed results and unaired episodes to determine what the likely effect of Brady's appearing before the jury at the upcoming trial would be. Sadly, the client's family ponied up a bunch of money for private counsel to lose his case for him instead of me, so I never got to read the transcript.

Ooooh! He was HOT! I was pissed when he got voted off.

By the way, those were Land Rovers they were driving, right? What a great advertisement. "Our truck made it through Ecuadorean back-country...on only 3 wheels!"

I'm watching- and I love Rob and Amber. :)