The Amazing Race Season 20 Finale Recap: Part II starring Taylor Wily!

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By Fran and Berry | Friday, May 11, 2012 | 6:00 am | 11 Comments
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And we’re back….for part two of the season twenty finale. At the end of the first hour Team Second Chance (Ralph and Vanessa) was Philiminated. Boo hoo. Moving on! Who’s IN? WHo has a chance to win a million dollars:

Team Blowup (Dave and Rachel)
Team Boy Guns (Art and JJ)
Team Reality (Rachel and Brendan)

We continue in Osaka, which Phil tells us Japan’s kitchen. That means Tokyo is the media room and Fukuoaka is the bedroom! Osaka is making Fran hungry. More peanut M&M’s please!

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“Rachel, shape up! I’m not going to open this clue until you stand at attention and let me work it!”

Team Blowup came in first and is the first to leave for Honolulu, Hawaii!! They need to go to the twins known as Mauka and Makai. Mmmm…M&M. From that clue they have to figure out that they have to go to what Phil is non-chalantly calling the Twin Towers. Team Blowup reminds us that if they win the Amazing Race that it will be their eighth first place win which will set AR history for most legs won. Because who cares about a million dollars when you can beat someone’s record and take them down a peg?

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Hawaii hangs so loose they don’t understand the concept of Too Soon.

Boy Guns leave, they said they’ve envisioned themselves winning. I knew they were into the Secret. You can just tell with some people. I bet they have a very elaborate, erotic visioning board in their shared apartment. Team Reality leaves last, reminding us and themselves that they’re underdogs.

They have a twelve hour flight so they can rest up for the final leg. They arrive in Hawaii where it’s so damn beautiful and they’re off! Hawaii really is gorgeous. Fran and I spent some time at a nudist colony while we lived there working for Dole. Apparently Dole doesn’t like it’s workers being nude. Their loss!

Team Boy Gun and Blowup drop their packs at their airport and are runnin’ free! With only Team Reality left with all their baggage. Rachel probably can’t rationalize leaving her backpack behind because it has all her backup extensions.

It’s a cab race with Blowup in the lead and Boy Guns blindly following them in the cab behind. But Blowup Dave and his cab driver are both vets with a bond powerful enough to outmaneuver and ditch Art and JJ. Support our troops, screw everyone else!

Team Blowup makes it to the Twinsies. Teams must now ascend and rappel the forty-five story tower and while at the top find their next clue down below. Team Reality shows up as Blowup is getting strapped in. Team Boy Guns is trying to get to a hotel to ask someone where to go. They’re told to go to a pair of statues on Waikiki Beach. One statue is on a guy on a boogie board and a seal one is of a seal. No offense, but they don’t sound like twins.

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“Enough about your fantasy tombstone dude, we gotta get going!”

Dave from Blowup makes it to the top first and screams “encouragingly” to Rachel. As Rachel from Reality starts she says, “Right now I’m freaking out.” Well, that’s no surprise. I have to say this sets the Rachels apart. Blowup Rachel is saying how hard it is, but is excited and having fun. Reality Rachel is trying to win an Emmy with her emotional freak out. Okay, we’re officially rooting for Blowup. We at least like one person out of this awful foursome.

Blowup sees the AR clue which is a tent down below and Dave acts like a human GPS and figures out how to get there and they’re on their way down.

Team Boy Guns shows up at the seal and boogie board statues and realizes seals and boogie boards are two different things, not twins.  Then some lady tells them they are looking for the twin towers in Pearl City.

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11 Comments

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    JimbobJones Jimbob Jones
    Posted May 11, 2012 at 8:48 am

    You missed the best Blowup Rachel part (not sure if it were the first or second leg of this double episode) — when Dave said something like “Silence is golden, Rachel!” and she responded “Then why don’t you shut the f*** up!?!”

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    msjacqmills
    Posted May 11, 2012 at 9:08 am

    Yes @Jimbob – that was fantastic…Blowup Rachel has thrown out some gems this season.

    I also loved it when Blowup Dave was straddling the guy he rescued on the back of the waverunner and apologized to him, “Sorry bro.” hehe

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    Jimbob Jones
    Posted May 11, 2012 at 10:52 am

    “I also loved it when Blowup Dave was straddling the guy he rescued on the back of the waverunner and apologized to him, ‘Sorry bro.’ hehe”

    His lips said “Sorry, bro”, but his eyes said “Would you be my little soldier?”

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    M
    Posted May 11, 2012 at 11:11 am

    I love that the patrol guys did not win!! I also thought it was pretty damn funny how they were on rachel and brenden’s case about “following” when they were trying to follow team blow up.

    I couldn’t have been happier with the outcome considering who was left to root for.

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    Jimbob Jones
    Posted May 11, 2012 at 12:35 pm

    ^ I know, right?

    Has there ever been a more unlikable final 4 in AR history? Out of the 8 people, I liked exactly 1. And that was partly because of her ability to put up with her douche-nozzle of a husband.

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    sphouch
    Posted May 11, 2012 at 6:28 pm

    One of the things that’s kept me a consistent AR viewer is that usually there’s at least one team at the end of it all that doesn’t qualify as petty, whiny, pathetic, mean, or otherwise unlikeable. This is the first season I can remember where I felt the glimmer of hope that the earth would swallow up all the finalists and we’d be left with no winners.

    I’d like to say that this was a bleh season, which is was, but the over-the-top behavior of the final four teams really did make for some entertaining moments. I suppose I have to hand that to team Reality – they do know how to play the camera – and clearly RR believes like Barnum that there’s no such thing as bad publicity…

    I’ve never been happier to see a season end. Couldn’t have come sooner.

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    carol
    Posted May 11, 2012 at 6:45 pm

    I normally multitask while reading recaps, not so for Fran&Berry recaps. Thank you for a wonderful season of recaps. I wish there was a reunion show for TAR, mainly because I think the recap would be snark filled comedic gold.

    Sadly, that helmet-cam view of Reality Rachel was the most normal I thought she has looked this whole season. I never noticed before that her eyes don’t look in the same direction. If they do another all-stars season, Team Reality better not be asked back. I hope this is the end of their 15 minutes.

    Even if you don’t like any of the final three teams, you have to admit that was a pretty good final episode. There was some real tension. I bet the producers were just cackling with glee when they saw what was happening. As soon as Reality got in the cab I knew they were toast but I really couldn’t tell who was going to win. Then skipping a roadblock. It’s like the editors finally learned how to edit.

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    chooch850 chooch850
    Posted May 12, 2012 at 11:13 am

    I just wish we could have seen Rachel & Brendon trying to stand up and paddle across that lake. You know and I know that Rachel had to have fallen off that thing 100 times and cried and whined the whole time. She was soaking wet when she got to the finish line.

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    JimbobJones Jimbob Jones
    Posted May 12, 2012 at 12:44 pm

    @chooch — You actually WANT to hear that woman cry and whine some more?

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    Mister_Dangerous
    Posted May 13, 2012 at 12:39 pm

    I wish ART and JJ had won cause they were the most compatible but I was happy with DAVE and RACHEL winning. There’s only one thing I would change about Dave — he should grow some facial hair. He wouldn’t look so third Reich then. Dave and Rachel were very deserving winners though.

    Not a fan of that big, blobby Hawaiian guy – “taylor willy?” Uh, he’s just trying too hard. I’ve never been a fan of peeps that are so needy that they want everybody to “like” them. Personally, I think he should cut down on some of those luaus and go on a diet.

    Thanks for all the recaps. I looked forward to reading all of them.

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    Melanie
    Posted May 13, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    Hilarious recaps. Thanks. The Blowups, the Arian couple, are the first couple to officially ruin the Amazing Race by winning. Actually, if Blowup wifey would take her half million and hire Gloria Alred to wipe hubby’s arse with divorce papers, the show might just be redeemed. But for her to have learned nothing from her hubby’s (are you sure his name isn’t Heinrich or Ludvig?) behavior, just makes this million dollar win as exciting as seeing a German Luge contestant win gold.

    Can we please see Kentucky again- can they get their own show?!

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