August 23: Richard Hatch wins a Pontiac Aztek on “Survivor” on this date in 2000

The march of time reveals the embarrassments of previous decades to the ridicule of the present. Just like we made fun of hippies and lava lamps and yuppies, we are almost far enough removed from the year 2000 to look back and ask the age-old question: "What the hell?" Like today's anniversary of the date when Richard Hatch briefly became the most famous person in America for winning a Pontiac Aztek -- a car he'd later go to jail for.