The Best Episodes of The Amazing Race Season 16
Every episode of The Amazing Race Season 16 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Amazing Race Season 16!
This reality competition sees teams embark on a trek around the world to amazing destinations where they must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical. Only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. Teams who are the farthest behind will gradually be eliminated as the contest progresses, with the first team to arrive at the final destination winning the race and the $1 million prize.
Season 16 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Amazing Race" season 16 is "Nanna is Kickin' Your Butt", rated 7.5/10 from 67 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Nanna is Kickin' Your Butt" aired on 2/14/2010 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "When the Cow Kicked Me in the Head".
7.5/10 67 votes#1 - Nanna is Kickin' Your Butt
Season 16 Episode 1 - Aired 2/14/2010
Eleven Teams depart Los Angeles for Chile, where Racers find themselves dangling 120 feet in the air, battling exhaustion and their fear of heights in order to stay alive in the game, and one Team discovers that Brazilian currency will not get them very far in Chile
Director: N/A
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7.3/10 62 votes#2 - When the Cow Kicked Me in the Head
Season 16 Episode 2 - Aired 2/21/2010
A Roadblock turns into a recipe for pain when one Racer encounters a moody cow, and things turn sour when a newly formed alliance rubs teams the wrong way.
Director: N/A
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7.4/10 64 votes#3 - Run Like Scalded Dogs!
Season 16 Episode 3 - Aired 2/28/2010
One team ends up in the hospital with food poisoning while the other teams struggle through cowboy challenges to make it through this leg of the race.
Director: N/A
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7.7/10 67 votes#4 - We Are No Longer in the Bible Belt
Season 16 Episode 4 - Aired 3/7/2010
Racers must navigate an unfamiliar and confusing train system without their teammates, take a dive over Hamburg and reunite for a nausea-inducing lesson in German gastronomy.
Director: N/A
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7.6/10 62 votes#5 - I Think We're Fighting the Germans, Right?
Season 16 Episode 5 - Aired 3/14/2010
A World War I reenactment - complete with air attacks, gunfire and explosions - tests the Racers' nerves, and one Team finds that their cocky attitude may cost them dearly when a Blind U-Turn comes into play
Director: Bertram van Munster
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 60 votes#6 - Cathy Drone?
Season 16 Episode 6 - Aired 3/21/2010
Racers are less than bubbly after sprinting to the wrong Detour location, and one Racer tests the power of duct tape after their car becomes a casualty of the Race
Director: N/A
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7.6/10 57 votes#7 - Anonymous?
Season 16 Episode 7 - Aired 3/28/2010
Teams take a stunning helicopter ride to a remote island paradise where they must race with a giant tortoise and search for a message in a bottle at the bottom of the sea
Director: N/A
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7.8/10 63 votes#8 - You're Like Jason Bourne, Right?
Season 16 Episode 8 - Aired 4/4/2010
Teams find that luck doesn't pick sides in a sweat-drenched test of endurance where they must choose to face a 153-step climb or take a 35-foot-high lesson in Chingay
Director: N/A
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7.5/10 66 votes#9 - Dumb Did Us In
Season 16 Episode 9 - Aired 4/11/2010
Tempers and tensions flare when Racers place a target on one Team's back, and feuds come to a head when a U-turn comes into play
Director: N/A
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7.6/10 58 votes#10 - I Feel Like I'm in, Like, Sicily
Season 16 Episode 10 - Aired 4/25/2010
After noodling their way through their first Roadblock, Teams are forced to complete a second Roadblock, and the fate of two Teams lies in the hands of confused cabbies
Director: N/A
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7.6/10 58 votes#11 - They Don't Even Understand Their Own Language
Season 16 Episode 11 - Aired 5/2/2010
The Final 4 teams struggle with the language barrier in Shanghai while sorting through hundreds of golden Buddhas and thousands of Chinese stamps in their pursuit for a spot in the Final 3.
Director: N/A
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7.4/10 64 votes#12 - Huger Than Huge
Season 16 Episode 12 - Aired 5/9/2010
With the million-dollar prize on the line, Racers come face-to-face with Darth Vader, and Teams drop all pretense of friendliness after a cut in line cuts into another Team's time while an angry confrontation awaits another at the finish line, on the 16th season finale of THE AMAZING RACE
Director: N/A
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