The Amazing Race Season 20 Recap

The Amazing Race Season 20 Recap

By Daron Aldridge

April 23, 2012

The webmasters are squarely on Team Justified.

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Let’s check back in with Phil and see what happens when our teams invade India as last week’s preview teased.

During the pitstop, Bopper gets a semi-"all clear" from a doctor for his knee problems. The doctor claims that with a leg brace, he should be fine and that’s good enough for them to remain optimistic. Mark understands that the injury will place the running burden on him for the rest of the race but if that’s what has to be done, then he will do it.

So in what new and exciting place will he be carrying Bopper this leg? Cochin, India. Nearly 3,000 miles from Tanzania, in Cochin, they have to head to a bus depot and then head to Sacred Heart College for their clue.

Team Justified leaves in first but is only one minute ahead of Rachel & Dave. Both teams are at the travel agent and find out that the first flight doesn’t leave until the following evening. Dave acknowledges that the Art & JJ are angry but says that that agreement was simply because Border Patrol wanted someone else to do their dirty work for them.




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As they are working on their reservations, we get a recap of the supposed transgression imposed upon them. Surprisingly, Art is the one singing the bitter tune and not JJ but he uses the exact wording that JJ repeated during the previous leg. Maybe Art was just trying to make JJ look less bad.

Anyway…at the travel agent, Border Patrol intentionally doesn’t even acknowledge that Army of Two is there, yet gets their panties in a bunch that Dave didn’t say anything to them, either. I guess they really thought that they deserved and would get an apology of some sort. Even Bopper & Mark (who earlier were given $5,000 by Art & JJ) sum up Border Patrol’s attitude as acting like babies. When someone who you have essentially paid off still can’t get on your side, then you just might be in the wrong. Just a thought.

Either way, Rachel & Dave and Art & JJ proclaim that they will do better by just racing on their own. Their supposed common U-Turn target Brendon & Rachel leave and say they are actually "over" what Art & JJ did because they feel them completing the U-Turn and being in fourth (out of only six teams, mind you) proves they deserve to be there. I disagree with that way of thinking just as I have disagreed with 92% of anything this team has said or the ways they have chosen to act.


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