Survivor

"Survivor: Redemption Island" was filmed in Nicaragua, making it the second time the show has filmed there. This is the fourth time that a location has been used more than once, after Panama, Palau and Samoa.

This season was titled "Survivor: Redemption Island".

In response to Kelly S. and NaOnka quitting this season and being allowed to be on the jury, Jeff Probst announced that, from now on, the show's producers will reserve the right to determine whether or not a contestant who quits during the jury phase for any reason (other than medical or family emergency) will be allowed to sit on that jury.

Towards the end of the reunion, Rob Mariano announced that he and wife Amber now have two children. Their youngest daughter, Carina Rose, was born on December 10.

During the Rites of Passage walk the final four took recalling and collecting wooden shields representing the names of all the voted out people, each shield is painted red, blue or yellow according to the person's tribe. In the case of NaOnka and Kelly, who quit, their shields were black.

"Sash" joins Russell from "Heroes vs. Villains", Mick from "Samoa", Stephen from "Tocantins", Sugar from "Gabon", Cassandra and Dreamz from "Fiji", and Becky from "Cook Islands" as the only contestants to reach a final and not receive any votes to win.

For the first time in the show's history, the final three are all males. Furthermore, they are all from the original younger tribe and therefore, in the battle of young versus old, the young tribe won.

At 21 years old, Jud replaces Todd from "Survivor: China" (who was 22) as the youngest winner of "Survivor".

After this episode's initial airing, many fans were angry that NaOnka and Kelly S. were allowed to be on the jury since they quit. Jeff Probst announced on his official blog, that Janu (from Palau) was also allowed to be on the jury even though she had quit. Therefore, since it happened once before, they believed it was fair.

This is the second time that contestants did not vote while at Tribal Council after Janu quit in Palau.

For the first time in "Survivor" history:
- 2 contestants quit in one episode.
- the jury consists of 2 people who quit.
- the final words of the person who quit was aired during the credits.

On Brenda's voting ballot for NaOnka, she drew a picture of the hidden immunity idol in an attempt to tell the others that she had the idol.

According to his official Twitter page, Chase said that the editing of the episode made it seem like he let go of his rope during the Immunity Challenge when in reality he was disqualified from the challenge for an unknown reason.

For the first time in the show's history, the randomly selected teams for the reward challenge ended up being boys versus girls.

The contestants may have thought that it was too soon for a tribal shake-up, however in The Amazon and Vanuatu, the males vs. females tribes were mixed during the fifth episode.

One of the contestants this season, Jimmy Johnson, is a former NFL coach who won the Super Bowl in 1992 and 1993. He currently appears on the pregame show "Fox NFL Sunday". He had originally been cast for Gabon but was unable to go after failing a physical.

Not including any specials, reunions or re-cap episodes, and only counting episodes with game play in them, this is the 275th episode of Survivor.

The theme song for this season is the original used during Survivor: Borneo. It is the first time a theme song is not updated to feature a "flavor" from where the season takes place in.

Kelly B. is the second contestant to be an amputee, the first being Chad Crittenden from Survivor: Vanuatu.

This marks the fifth straight season in which a female is the first player voted out. Only twice have males been the first eliminations in consecutive seasons (and only for two each time): Thailand/Amazon (John and Ryan) and China/Micronesia ("Chicken" and Jonny Fairplay).