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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Meanwhile, poor, poor team Blowup (Yes, we can’t believe we feel that way either) is paddle boarding across a giant lake for no reason. Ohhhh mannn….Then, they finish and run to the finish line….WAIT, WHAT?! Yup, they arrive to all kinds of clapping and they are all kinds of excited while we are all kinds on confused. How did they even get there, how did they know where to go?? Shhh, let’s see if Phil can straight out this mess.

Phil tells them they have not completed the roadblock and he cannot check them in until they complete it. Everyone is VERY confused. Including us. They cut to commercial, probably because Dave just tried to fight Phil and just steal the million dollars.

We’re back and off they paddle back. Ohhhhhh… so the paddling IS a task, they just skipped the sled task and somehow went right to paddling. Well Team Boy Guns is sittin’ pretty right now even though they are thinking they are way far behind. And what about team Reality? Who cares!! Blowup searches for Coral Kingdom which is apparently is a half mile way, so they start running as Dave berates Rachel, she’s not running fast enough. Oh Dave, you suck so badly.

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Why did she take her shirt off?

Team Blowup arrives at the wooden sleds. Boy Guns realizes they still have a chance! Rachel gets ready to sled and it is super dramatic and neck and neck! Dave screams at Rachel, “Come on baby, we know how to sled, let’s do it!!” She knows how to sled? Well, I guess she is from Wisconsin. Oh yeah, that’s probably why she says “baig” instead of “bag.” Art and Rachel are sledding down, falling off and going back up again. And…Rachel gracefully slides across that line thing. Of course she does. She is so tiny and svelte, she is exactly the size of the sled. Art on the other hand, let’s just say there’s a little “runoff” on either side. And I think that wraps this season up. Oh wait, the lava rock throw! Maybe there’s still a chance. And Art falls off the sled the 16th time. Damn. Rachel begins rock bowling, and before she even throws one rock Dave is yelling at her to focus on her technique. I love how Dave is the the most knowledgeable at everything. Even rolling lava rocks into a goal in an ancient Hawaiian game. Dave, please admit you have no idea what you’re talking about!! Finally, Rachel starts dropping some F bombs at him. Art falls for the 17th time and Rachel scores with the rock!

Come on throw at least one at Dave’s ankles for fun! Maybe Phil will do it. Or Taylor Wily! man, that guy can do anything, he’s so likable. And what an actor! Did you know his first role was on the Fox show North Shore. He played a bartender! JJ watches Blowup head to the finish line and says they were one sled ride away from a million dollars. That’s exactly how the guy who wanted Santa’s job feels.

Team Reality make it to the sleds and that just kills JJ more because he knows they were in second place. So, Team Blowup paddle boards BACK to Phil. Dave tells Rachel he’s proud of her no matter what. Sure, NOW you can say that, since there’s not much left to scream at her and blame her about. What a piece of shit.

So, more frustrating sledding and for some reason Reality Rachel is still crying about sledding even though she has clearly lost. And to add insult to injury, even she gets it before Art. And blah, blah, blah, more people who aren’t Blowup not heading to the finish line.

And the winner of season 20 is…Team Blowup. And we are very happy for half of them. We can only hope Rachel actually watches the show and has a giant revelation about what a piece of shit she’s married to. BUT, probably not, because she says this has been great for her relationship. If this was better than usual, we are really worried for her. Dave says he has a new appreciation for who his life partner is. Huh, so his wife isn’t his partner? because he has definitely not gained any appreciation for her.

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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

  3. 3
    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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