The Amazing Race Season 20 Recap

The Amazing Race Season 20 Recap

By Daron Aldridge

March 27, 2012

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All right, well, there you have it – how I see the remaining teams in all their glorious mediocrity. It’s check-out time for teams in Bavaria; next stop…Baku, Azerbaijan.

Before we can get actually started, the producers have to the paid for screen time to Travelocity as Team Border Patrol browses online for the trip they won. I’m surprised they haven’t officially sold the naming rights of the show so it would be renamed The Amazing Travelocity Race with Ford Motors.

Of course, our frontrunners Art & JJ will be leaving first at 8:48 a.m. and heading to the Caspian Sea to a former Soviet nation of Azerbaijan. When they land they have to find the Temple Ateshgah for their clue. It’s nice to hear the guys acknowledge that they are only one Roadblock or Detour away from being humbled in the race. Their work ethic and competitiveness is what will likely keep them as the team to beat.

On their heels (or rather 30 minutes later), Team Jersey Shore leaves the pitstop, and they are determined to keep their ascent from tenth place to second place moving up. Only a couple of minutes separates Joey & Danny from team number three Vanessa & Ralph, who recount their cattiness toward one another on the last leg. They still seem to actually like one another despite last week’s display.




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Speaking of teams that don’t seem so harmonious in the real world, we have team number four Army of Two Rachel & Dave. Even though they are a solid hour and a half behind the divorcees, Dave says he believes they are still the team to beat. That is a nice sentiment but maybe he wasn’t paying attention to the fact that Art & JJ have virtually lapped everyone on two separate legs. He does acknowledge that they will need to be more supportive of each other. And shockingly, even though Blonde Rachel makes a mistake heading to the airport, they don’t blow up at each other.

In fifth (and disappointingly, still on my TV) is Team Big Brother. Brendon & Bad Rachel display a bit more initiative than the others who are heading straight to the airport. They stop by a travel agent and find out that a 6:20 p.m. flight is the first available one. That simply means that Team Justified Bopper & Mark and Team Un-Fed Nary & Jamie who leave within a minute of one another will have plenty of time to get all bunched up.

Team Un-Fed reminds us that their strategy was for the teams to not view them as a threat, which is why they lied about being teachers and not cops. But then they use their near-elimination finish as another reason teams would underestimate them. So their checklist must be: 1) Tell the others we are teachers. CHECK. 2) Suck at a Roadblock and narrowly avoid elimination by only a couple of minutes. CHECK. I highly doubt that little tactic was on their list of ways to fool the others.


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