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Season 1 Trivia
Season 1
Pre-Race:
Pre-Race:
- Paul J. Alessi made an appearance on TLC's music video, Waterfalls.
- Season 1 took 39 days to film, as opposed to the average four weeks in other seasons.
- Although the race is planned so that the final three teams will all reach the finish line, Joe and Bill were so far behind that they could not catch up and did not finish the race. This also occurred for the 3rd-place team (David & Jeff) on The Amazing Race 4.
- On Leg 5 Paul and Amie were lost in the Sahara desert after trying numerous routes, getting half of their car stuck in a ditch, and Amie vomiting excessively. Paul quit, but his partner didn't and found the desert oasis pit stop by luck, unknowingly skipping the roadblock and route marker. They were not told to go back and complete the Roadblock, because they arrived in last place.
- At the end of Leg 5, teams were relocated to Gabès because of a sandstorm at the desert pitstop. Therefore, Leg 6 began in Gabès.
- An airport strike in Rome delayed Leg 6.
- During Leg 13, when Joe and Bill were still completing Leg 12, Team Guido was required to have villagers bounce one teammate upwards by the use of an Alaskan tapestry. According to the DVD commentary, the tapestry broke under the weight the day before, so a trampoline had to be used instead. This created a noticeable and odd scene where you never see Team Guido and the villagers in the same shot. In the final shot, the trampoline is clearly visible behind the villagers.
- The pilot who flew Rob and Brennan and Frank and Margarita to Seattle in Leg 13 later contacted Rob and Brennan.
- After the race, Emily and Brennan started dating.
- Kevin and Drew made an appearance in Season 8, handing out clues from a hot dog stand in New York City.
- After the race, Frank and Margarita reconciled. However, they have since divorced and Frank has remarried. Frank and his new wife are expecting children. Margarita remained with her daughter.
- After the race, Lenny and Karyn broke up. Lenny is now married and has children.
- Kevin & Drew and Joe & Bill were selected to compete in The Amazing Race All-Stars.
- Joe & Bill received a somewhat mocking letter from Frank as part of a Roadblock in All-Stars, where Frank did some freestyle poetry and then said he hoped his letter annoyed Joe & Bill as much as they annoyed him. Footage of Frank was shown in the episode. Joe & Bill later interviewed that there was also a much friendlier letter from Nancy & Emily in the pile and they were sorry they hadn't gotten to read that one on the air.
- On The Amazing Race: All-Stars Mat Chat, the Guidos said they were running the race for Margaretta, as she had been in and out of hospital. According to Paul J. Alessi (from Paul & Amie), Margaretta had been fighting cancer for quite some time, and according to Kevin (of Kevin and Drew) she was undergoing chemotherapy. Margaretta recently announced that she is in remission.
- Paul & Amie got married.
- Kevin & Drew , Lenny & Karyn , Rob & Brennan , and Joe & Bill did commentary for the Season 1 DVD.
- Margaretta passed away on October 26, 2008 after a lengthy battle with cancer... On a "Mat Chat" video on the CBS website during All Stars, Joe and Bill explained they were running the race for Margaretta, as she had been in and out of hospital fighting the cancer as that race started.
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