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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Team Reality gets to the top, Team Blowups gets to the bottom and Team Boy Guns gets the clue. It’s anyone’s game!

Blowup Dave takes control and shuts Rachel down to go into navigator mode and tells his cab driver EXACTLY where to go. Shut up Rachel! Let me work it! Shut up! I guess he’s back to treating her like his wife instead of an equal.  On the way down from the building, while Reality Rachel says she is pretty much going to die, Brendan is having problems with his footing and sliding all over the place.

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This is exactly what I expect Spiderman’s Turn Off The Dark looked like.
Complete with a red haired girl’s annoying scream.

Team Boy Guns is strapping in and not looking forward to the heights. JJ said it’s like tempting fate. Meanwhile, Team Reality hits the ground. Not in the fun way though, they get there safe. They are off to Sand Island as Art and JJ hit the top.

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Hell-eye lens.

Team Blowup get the roadblock, “Shave Ice!” Using a samurai sword they have to shave 14 quarts of ice. If they do, they will be given the next clue by famous Hawaiian actor Taylor Wily. Famous, huh? Maybe we should put famous in quotes. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. To IMDB!…..Well, surprise, surprise. His big show? Hawaii 5-0. And Forgetting Sarah Marshall. He doesn’t do much mainland acting, but I’ll call him a real actor. Of course, he wasn’t in Lost…

Blowup Dave starts shaving his ice as Boy Guns comes down the tower. Reality arrives and Brendan starts shaving as Wiley looks on.

Blowup Dave gets all his ice shaved pretty quick and Wiley gives him a very cool, “Alllll right,” along with his clue. Oh man, if that’s his catch phrase we are totally gonna start watching Hawaii 5-0. Scott Caan be damned!

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“Your false confidence will be your undoing.  Allll riiiight!”

Now teams must make their way on foot to a baseball field where a helicopter is waiting for them. Dave has some issues with this and tries to get in a cab like three times with Rachel yelling at him. They jog over to their helicopter and Dave starts spouting aviation terms. Great, now he’s going to be a backseat helicopter driver. But seriously, this guy has really been in his element this leg, everyone he’s met does what he does in some way.

Team Boy Guns shows up to shave ice and Team Reality tries to talk to them and get ignored. I get it. Reality is annoying as hell, but you’re in Hawaii and on the last leg and you’re shaving ice with a dude from Hawaii 5-0. Relax the grudges dudes!!

Cut back to Blowup’s scenic helicopter ride. And now for the obligatory, “this view is beautiful” moment as they chopper over Hawaii. Which is immediately spoiled by Dave reminding us he’s also seen other beautiful places.

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“Delta Foxtrot request for you to throttle this nugget, I’ll take it from here!”

Team Reality finishes and we get another awesome “Allll right” from Taylor Wily. Man, I love this guy! I wonder if he’s also a midwife? Seems like a fun guy to be around with all that pushing and screaming. And me passing out. By the way, is there an Emmy category for Best Guest Star on a Reality Show. There’s not. Let’s start a Facebook page for Taylor Wily!!

So, hilariously, Team Reality gets in a cab to go to a stadium. And unless it’s being driven by Fred Flinstone that is a penalty!!

Yes! Team Boy Guns finished. Not that I care about them, but I get to hear Wily say “Alllll right,” again. And give a thumbs up AND a “hang loose.” Hey, did you guys know he is also a former sumo wrestler and a mixed martial artist? His real name is Teila Tuli, but he goes by Taylor Wily. I’m a HUGE fan!

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“Your perception of strength is your actual weakness.  Alll riiiight!”

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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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