The Amazing Race Season 20 Recap

The Amazing Race Season 20 Recap

Daron Aldridge

May 1, 2012

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Thanks to a gas stop for Army of Two’s rickshaw, Vanessa & Ralph get to the Roadblock clue first. They have to spin and spool 40 feet of rope made from coconut husk. Since this is remotely physical, Vanessa lets Ralph take it. I hope she realizes that she will be required to do a Roadblock as some point, even if it is physical.

Rachel & Dave are at the Roadblock with Border Patrol right behind him. Dave and Art are the ones up for their teams. As the girls are admiring Dave and Ralph’s Roadblock attire of a sarong, Vanessa makes the unsolicited admission that Ralph is one of the few guys she has dated that didn’t cross-dress. Not sure where that came from but now it’s out there.

The guys are slowly…and I mean…slowly making progress on the task, when Big Brother shows up to the amazement of the other teams. They ask Rachel about the Fast Forward, since Brendon is doing the Roadblock, and she just says she doesn’t want to talk about it. JJ then openly questions whether anyone is playing strategically since there are two teams that could’ve taken the Fast Forward but didn’t. Accurately, JJ says that if Bopper & Mark do the Fast Forward, they are in a four way race for last place. That’s a big if because I don’t think that they would guess that it would still be available.

This also gets a better look at the utterly low self-esteem that Rachel has, as she said that Joyce was skinny and cute, so being bald didn’t change that. Whereas, she says that she needs hair to be pretty and that she already has a big nose. She doesn’t want to be the girl with a big nose and no hair. That makes Vanessa’s nose job dig earlier seem even more harsh.

Back to the Roadblock, Dave is the first one down and off to spool four bundles of rope. Art and Ralph are next out. All three guys are spooling as fast as they can and losing flesh on the hands in the process. Brendon is the last one to finish the rope spinning portion and Rachel says she understands that they may be in danger of elimination because she wouldn’t shave her head.




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While Dave and Art lament the hand and back pain, Ralph just blows through the spinning portion. Anti-Big Brother is out first and heading to a barber at Fort Kochi. While they are running to the rickshaw, Vanessa takes a header into the sidewalk. Seems like a great time for a commercial. While we watch or rather skip the ads, we contemplate the severity of injury.

It appears to be a twisted ankle but Vanessa explains that she may have heard a pop. AND it’s on the ankle with a screw in it, which implies surgery at some point. With Ralph taking her bag, she soldiers on and walks gingerly to their rickshaw. Meanwhile, Dave has finished the Roadblock, after squelching Blonde Rachel’s cheerleading from the sideline. He explains that he just needs silence to focus. As Elton John sang in The Lion King, can you feel the love tonight? Because between these two, I cannot feel it.

The injury delay allowed Rachel & Dave to be in a virtual tie out of the Roadblock with Vanessa & Ralph. While they drive away, JJ gets Bad Rachel to explain why they didn’t do the Fast Forward. Strategically and discreetly, JJ tries to plant the seed for them to go back to the Fast Forward so Bopper & Mark don’t get it. He mentions that the door is wide open for Team Justified to bypass them all and then even tells Rachel that she would look good with a shaved head. In their confessional interview, I was surprised to hear JJ actually say that he thinks that Rachel is a nice girl but naïve and that is why he tried to sway her.


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