This adaptation of an Australian reality show ran on A&E from 2004-2007 and was intended to be a thinly-veiled advertisement for Southwest Airlines. What it instead captures is the way in which the personalities we build around ourselves unravel completely when we have somewhere we need to go. People are thrown off planes for being drunk, for being stinky, for getting into fights with strangers. 9/11, still a recent memory, comes up with shocking frequency. I used to worry about flying; that I would miss a flight, that I would somehow offend. Now I know that it’s enough to just show up at the gate without melting down. I want nothing more than there to be 2000 more episodes of this short-lived gem, and for me to be allowed in the editing room. Episodes are frequently uploaded and reuploaded freely to youtube in multi-hour marathon formats. This is the primitive and childish American mind laid bare. Enjoy.