Word: outbacker
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Colby and Tina spend their full day after waving goodbye to Keith (and gloating not a little)? Jabbering on about "the land," and reminiscing about all their crazy adventures here in the Outback. Hiking a lot. Cue the James Horner flutes. Cue the sunset. Cue the bright morning, the day before the month before one of them was eventually going to win, in a studio in Los Angeles with a live audience...
...this: Everybody had waited all this time, weeks since "Survivor" finished taping in the Australian Outback, so CBS could do it live. Thursday night. May 3, 2001. In the studio, recreated in the image of the real Tribal Council cave, with everybody in the same exact clothes they wore that fateful last gathering all those cutting rooms ago. And Probst was there, and Colby (who had really hit the pantry in the interim), and Tina, because in the hour before (in Television Time, that is) the cowboy and the nurse had entered into some weird suicide pact...
...here? At 8:54 p.m. ET, (or, weeks ago in the Outback - still with us?) Colby cast his vote to cast out Keith. It was a puzzling ballot, on the face of it - Colby had, once again won immunity, and the smart play seemingly would be to get rid of the stronger player (Tina) for the final round. But then, remember this: "No matter what happens," Colby said to Tina at one point, "Keith Famie doesn't win a million bucks...
...lately, the sequel of the biggest television show, reality or otherwise, in modern TV history has taken a somewhat different turn. Maybe it's the Outback...
...Which brings us to the emotional depths this show is willing to plumb. Last week's Outback Internet Caf? was bad enough as an Apple ad and a Hallmark prize, but at least it was mercifully short. Some tears, a marriage proposal, a couple of smiley faces and it was over. This time, Colby's mama didn't just come for dinner, and smear a little mascara over how thin he'd gotten. She stayed over. She came back and hugged everybody back at the camp. Everybody back at the camp cried...