survivor borneo the season that started it all episode one premiered on may 31 2000 a day that
would forever change the landscape of reality tv history the episode begins with 16 strangers
from all walks of life marooning on the southern chinese island of borneo where they are divided
into two teams pogong and tagi at tagi rudy takes command of the tribe right away being that he is
a military man which rubs some of the woman mainly kelly the wrong way richard also tries to organize
the tribe when it comes to building the shelter and he then gives his first confessional which
is arguably the most famous confessional in survivor history i'm good to go survival-wise
people-wise it'll be a little a little a little more challenging but i've got the million-dollar
check written already i mean i'm i'm the winner and it's that kind of cocky attitude that makes
people really hit your gut so that's that's the kind of thing i've really got to keep
under wraps at pogong the older man in bb also takes on the leadership role to which once again
rubs some people the wrong way he and ramona then find the tribe's waterhole jokingly agreeing to
hide it from the others while obviously there were no idols nor was this the reason why ramon and
bibi were outsiders right away this moment was ironically a foreshadowing of things that come
in survivor and how disappearing from the tribe could make you an easy target out the gate at the
moody challenge sonia stumble out the gay causes toggy to fall behind leading to pogong winning
the first ever survivor muni challenge richard says there are four targets going into tribal
but in reality the two main targets are sonya for costume to try the challenge
and rudy for his bossy attitude but at tribal sonia ends up getting voted out in a 4-3-1 vote
holding the dishonorary distinction of being the first person to ever be voted out of survivor
the tribe has spoken
it's also pretty interesting that richard was not only completely out of the loop here as he voted
for stacy but imagine how different survivor history would be if his throwaway vote would
have caused rudy to go home it's episode 2 now and stacy is really upset that rudy is
still in the game and we see two very interesting points made from stacy and rudy about one another
a would once again be a foreshadowing for the two distinct type of players in the old school
era of survivor i think after the vote at the island council rudy realized that he was just
sort of a liability to us he was sitting around barking orders and not really helping out much
we've all seen him eating extra food and doing inappropriate things in the kitchen like he's
leaving the knives out they're getting rusty and he's opening canned goods and fruit without asking
anybody i mean we don't have a lot of food here she's too uh prim like you know i mean after about
three weeks out here in this jungle she's going to learn a lesson i think we then get a moment
that makes you appreciate how far we've come in society as richard comes out as gay to the tribe
and while it does spook dirk a bit the 72 year old navy veteran and rudy doesn't care as he sees rich
as a hard worker and extremely valuable to the tribe and the two form of friendship but anyway
me and richard got to be pretty good friends not in a homosexual way that's for sure at pagong
bibi continues to work literally all day even when his tribe is begging him to stop but this
only pisses him off even further bibi is so fed up with his tribe that he suggests that they should
throw a challenge to get rid of him much through their shock and dismay and at the muni challenge
while pogong doesn't throw it they do lose their first challenge sending them to their first
tribal council and in a 6-2 vote bibi becomes the second person to be voted out of survivor borneo
maybe the tribe has spoken
it's time for you to go
episode three begins with stacy creating a girl's alliance in order to get rudy out
yeah probably not the best move ever to create an alliance with the girls who are in the minority
of the tribe but hey at least she's trying and to make matters worse sue isn't even down to
boat out rudy as she feels stacey is the weakest epigong greg and colleen grow even more close as
they find a mud volcano and they slowly start to turn into america's favorite couple we then get
to the first ever reward challenge in survivor history to which taki wins however they would
go on to lose immunity the vote is between stacy and rudy and while the show doesn't acknowledge it
shawn and dirk are the swing boats here as obviously the trio of rich rudy and sue thought
of stacey as the weakest while kelly and stacy couldn't take rudy's attitude and the first true
blindside in survivor dirk and sean side with rudy and vote out stacy in a 5-2 vote thanks
well the weather has spoken and the tribe has spoken
it's time for you to go
goodbye there's been many debates over the years on how much production influenced sean and dirk's
decision to keep rudy with stacey even going on to sue the show for their influence and her
elimination but either way rudy is still in the game now having survived two votes where
his name was on the chopping block episode 4 will turn out to be one of the most important
episodes in the show's history we start off with an update on ramona who have been sick for the
past couple episodes and while she is starting to feel better the tribe feels it might be too little
too late for her we also see greg continuing to be absolutely hilarious providing relief
for the tribe but then beckettagi while sean and dirk make themselves outcasts due to their
shenanigans and constant bible reading kelly rich rudy and sue decide to make an alliance the first
true alliance in survivor history and truly the first evolution of legit strategy and survivor
because the more people you know that are going to vote for somebody else you might as well go with
that you might as well you know keep yourself safe and you know keep it in the majority the tribes
then compete in another reward challenge one of the more underrated challenges survivors ever done
in my opinion the distressed signal challenge tagi would win their second straight reward challenge
and this time follow that up with an immunity win sending pagong back to tribal council
despite ramona being the obvious boot here the vote ends up being a 4-2-1 split with jervis
and ramona voting for colleen and greg voting for jenna but in the end ramona's season-long
illness finally caught up to her as she became the fourth person to be voted out of survivor borneo
the tribe has spoken
dirk and sean continued to make themselves outcasts as they fished to no avail instead of
actually helping the tribe putting them on the chopping block on tagi fogong ends up winning
their first reward challenge in large part thanks to joel's spirit abilities and back at their camp
greg and colleen continue to flirt with each other and it appears they now have a full-on showmance
at the immediate challenge the tribes continue to alternate in victories as it's now pogong's
turn to win safety sending talking to tribal council we're still between dirk and sean
in the end the tribe chooses to keep sean as dirk had lost a considerable amount of weight
thus probably making him seem very weak sending him home in a 4-1-1 vote drive has spoken
it's time for you to go hi bye
it's the penultimate episode before the merge and both tribes wonder what this merger will be like
while rudy had obviously voted with the alliance at the last vote and for that matter had been on
sue and richard's side all game it wasn't until now that he officially pledged his allegiance to
the alliance knowing that the four had to stay together if they were to enter the merge down
in the numbers at pagong joel was super confident about the incoming merge being that pogong had the
numbers but this cocky attitude rubbed some other players the wrong way jarvis then for some reason
caused the girls dumber than a bunch of cows at the reward challenge pogo wins food and chocolate
by default as richard brings back a duplicate knife instead of a can opener after the challenge
joel throws out the idea of an alliance come to merge but this completely backfires on him
as not only do the girls think this is mean-spirited but he comes across
as bossy at a must-win immunity challenge for tagi they just edge out pogong in a close race
completing the cycle of alternating the muni wins and this meant we would go into the merge with the
numbers even but before the merge bagong had to come to a decision on who not to take with them
and despite jervis jerusalem calling the girls dumb and costing them a couple challenges in the
pre-merge joel's voted out in a 4-2 vote due to him wanting to stay begone strong come the merge
tribe has spoken
joel definitely was ahead of his time here and it would have been very interesting to see
how the merger would have played out had the tribe actually listened to his advice the merge episode
begins with jenna and sean meeting on a neutral site where they enjoyed food and their first bit
of comfort in nearly three weeks they also were given the task on what to name the merge tribe
and which tribes beach they would live on they ultimately choose the name ratana
and the two tribes officially emerge on taki's beach with the feast everyone is happy to meet
each other and celebrate the accomplishment of making the first ever merge we then get
the first ever individual challenge in survivor and greg would go on to win the first individual
immunity nobody really knows who to vote for as again pogong aren't really playing the game or
voting strategically and on tagi shawn's strategy is the vote alphabetically no i'm not kidding i'm
going boney for colleen today i love her she's cute adorable and nice to look at and fun to
have around but she's the first in a long list of alphabetical order at tribal everyone on pogong
votes for somebody different but in a four one one one one one one vote gretchen is blindsided
as the talkie poor put all their votes on her giving her the majority in this wild vote
tribe has spoken
episode 8 starts with rudy explaining that it was his idea to target gretchen for being the
strongest of the bagong members and this would begin the trend in survivor of targeting the big
time threats at the merge due to losing their leader pogong starts to feel vulnerable it's
almost like it probably wasn't the best idea to not vote as an alliance the nine players then
compete in their first individual reward challenge but are first greeted by their loved ones through
tv well everyone except jenna that is as survivor never received a tape from her family ouch
greg would then go on to win a second straight individual challenge and would get to see the full
video tape from his sister and he also got to send a tape back to her however jenna was so frustrated
at the situation that she proceeded to continue on with the bow and arrow challenge as opposed
to celebrating with greg and the others after the challenge richard and greg started to form a tight
bond and this would obviously play a huge factor for rich down the road at the immunity challenge
jervis finally takes down greg to win his first individual immunity in his survival career
bulgang wants to target jenna for her behavior at the challenge but considering greg was proving
himself to be a challenge beast combined with the fact that he was next up alphabetically voting for
greg would guarantee that the talking poor would have the numbers and that tribal council sean
the talky four and jenna vote out greg in a 6-3 vote making him the first member of the jury greg
greg the tribe has spoken
we start off episode 9 with a montage of richard catching fish something he's been
doing all season and it becomes clear to everyone that they can't vote him out due to him being such
a great provider the reward challenge is a rope obstacle course and colleen just speaks out kelly
to win barbecue and letters from home she also got to choose one other person to come with her
and after not hearing from her family at the last challenge it was an easy decision for colleen to
choose jenna rich's 39th birthday arises on the island and he celebrates his birthday by
going naked the entire day when i go home my wife asked me about who was with you i'll say a queer
that ran around bare ass half at a time for one thing at the square trap immediately challenge
72 year old rudy won immunity after acting inappropriate all day pogong's target headed into
tribal was rich sean explains that he hasn't been a part of any alliances since the merge tends to
use the alphabet strategy as the most fair way to vote people off even telling jenna before tribal
that she's next up alphabetically the talk before once again take advantage of this as voting with
sean not only guarantees them the numbers for this vote but the numbers the rest of the way
tribal council comes and it's an interesting one as as expected the pagoda members vote for rich
and all but one tacky member votes for jenna and that person is kelly voting for sean instead as
she didn't want to vote for jenna after forming a close bond with her but despite her throwaway vote
jenna's four votes is still enough and goes to the jury on a 4-3-1 vote tribe has spoken
it's time for me to come goodbye
rudy rich and sue all feel betrayed by kelly for not voting with the alliance and ponder
whether or not to replace her with sean the final seven competed for pizza in a phone call home in
a three-part balance challenge to which jarvis won he shared his pizza with everyone and called
his girlfriend to see how his daughter was doing however rudy didn't take too kindly to
jervis's life choices i don't agree with babies out of wedlock that kind of garbage you know
they need a family they need somebody beating them in the head rudy bosch ladies and
gentlemen the king of bluntness at the immediate challenge the players compete in a fire making
challenge to which richard easily wins in a bow between colleen and jarvis the tagging members
feel that jarvis is the much bigger threat of the two and vote him out in a 5-2 vote
tribe has spoken
with colleen being the last pogong member standing kelly plays buddy buddy with her
and whether intentional or not the rest of tagi takes this as her trying to lock in jury votes
and thus the alliance is no more as kelly is now the new target over colleen at the reward
challenge sean wins the trivia challenge about borneo earning him a night on a yacht
to where he was surprised to be greeted by his father sean then chooses rich to come on board
with him and his father to enjoy a feast leaving kelly even more frustrated with the people in her
alliance it's the final stix immunity challenge now and whether kelly knows it or not she's going
home unless she wins immunity as this is made clear by the other players during the challenge
kelly on the other hand has no idea that she's leaving this evening
it comes down to colleen and kelly with the loser being the one to go home and in the
end kelly wins her first immunity challenge much to the annoyance of her former alliance
so with having no other choice colleen is now the only target for tagi and is voted
out in a 4-2 vote officially completing the first pogonian in survivor telling the child bespoke
it's the penultimate episode before the finale and it's time for taki to officially start turning on
each other again they pretty much already had turned on kelly but now there was nowhere else
to hide as a tagging member would for sure be going home for the first time since episode
five kelly and sue get into a fight after kelly once again didn't vote otaki at the last tribal
and even though richard tries to smooth things over he knew this was to his advantage the final
five reward challenge required the players to cover themselves in mud and scrape off as
much as possible into a bucket and with a total of 15.9 pounds kelly won the challenge and her
reward was getting to spend time with jeff and she got to watch the first five minutes of the
season with him i mean it's something i guess kelly then attempts to make amends with sue
and even though sue accepts kelly's apology she admits she can't take kelly too far for
being such a threat at the final five immunity challenge kelly guarantees her safety once again
winning her second straight immunity and third straight individual challenge this
immunity was the classic survivor witch project which gave us this iconic performance from rudy
what is the one event that has overshadowed the departure to most of the survivors from
tribal council i don't know become lost in the jungle should you do you find your way home
i don't know with kelly being immune and rich sue and rudy voted together since day
one sean's fate was all but sealed and the creator of the infamous alphabet strategy
became the fifth member of the jury the tribe has spoken the jungle is spoken
goodbye it is now the finale and the alliance of four created in episode four has made it all the
way to the final four and with over 50 million people watching the first soul survivor will
be crowned we start off the episode with kelly once again saying she was vulnerable with the
other three members confirming she was right and as had been the case for the previous two
mini challenges if kelly didn't win immunity she would be the one going home but at the
immunity challenge kelly once again clutched up to secure her third straight must win immunity
guaranteeing herself a spot in the final three the four immediately went to vote after the challenge
and at first kelly did side with sue to vote out rich but realizing rudy would
literally never vote for rich on the rebout she switched her vote to sue making sue the
13th person voted out of survivor borneo and the sixth member of the jury okay tribe has spoken
the next morning the final three are awakened by jeff for the rites of passage which eventually
led them to the site for their final mini challenge the classic hand on an idol
endurance challenge richard would shock the 50 million at home watching when he stepped
off but explained his reasoning to jeff and that he was guaranteed the final two either
way so there was no reason for him to make the cutthroat final vote off after over four hours
rudy had a one million dollar slip up accidentally taking his hand off the idol
and giving kelly her fourth straight immunity win and with her soul vote eliminated the lovable rudy
the first of many fallen angels and survivor and speaking of angel rest in peace rudy bosh
in this case kelly has spoken
rich and kelly reflect on their 39 day journey before they face off against the jury of seven
this jury segment would ultimately give us one of if not the most iconic moment in
survivor history with sue hawk's rats and snake speech i plead to the jury tonight
to think a little bit about the island that we have been on
this island is pretty much full of only two things snakes and rats we have richard the snake
who knowingly went after prey and kelly who turned into the rat that ran around like the rats do on
this island trying to run from the snake to let it be in the end the way mother nature
intended it to be for the snake to eat the wrap we then get to the vote and survivor doesn't even
hide the fact that it's a close one as jarvis jenna and colleen vote for kelly while shawn
rudy and sue both are rich leaving greg as the swing vote at the time it seemed like his decision
was based on who picked the closest to his number as that was his jury question but in reality he
did vote for the person he was closest to in the game and that person was rich making him the
first sole survivor beating kelly in a 4-3 vote the winner of the first survivor competition is
rich congratulations rich so there you have it guys survivor borneo in 19 minutes
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