The Amazing Race — Season 16
The world is waiting for you.
About this season
The Amazing Race 16 is the sixteenth installment of the reality television show The Amazing Race. The Amazing Race 16 features eleven teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, in a race around the world. The sixteenth cycle started on Sunday, February 14, 2010. It aired on CBS in the United States on Sunday nights at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT with the season finale on May 9, 2010, and in Canada, the show premiered on the A-Channel, not CTV, but it returned to CTV after the Winter Olympics concluded. The show was again hosted by Phil Keoghan.
Episodes (12)
1. Nanna is Kickin' Your Butt
Aired 14 February 2010 • 42 min
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
2. When the Cow Kicked Me in the Head
Aired 21 February 2010 • 42 min
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.
3. Run Like Scalded Dogs!
Aired 28 February 2010 • 42 min
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.
4. We Are No Longer in the Bible Belt
Aired 7 March 2010 • 42 min
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.
5. I Think We're Fighting the Germans, Right?
Aired 14 March 2010 • 42 min
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
6. Cathy Drone?
Aired 21 March 2010 • 42 min
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
7. Anonymous?
Aired 28 March 2010 • 42 min
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
8. You're Like Jason Bourne, Right?
Aired 4 April 2010 • 42 min
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
9. Dumb Did Us In
Aired 11 April 2010 • 42 min
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
10. I Feel Like I'm in, Like, Sicily
Aired 25 April 2010 • 42 min
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
11. They Don't Even Understand Their Own Language
Aired 2 May 2010 • 42 min
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.
12. Huger Than Huge
Aired 9 May 2010 • 42 min
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