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Huger than Huge is the season finale of The Amazing Race 16.

Story

Route Markers

The order of departure from the Riverside Promenade are as follows:

  1. Brent & Caite (2:37 am)
  2. Jet & Cord (3:11 am)
  3. Dan & Jordan (6:00 am)

Teams must fly to San Francisco, California, United States. Upon arrival, teams must travel by taxi to Battery Godfrey at Fort Point to find their next clue.

Teams must travel by taxi to Coit Tower to find their next clue.

The team member assigned to this Roadblock would have to use an ascender to reach the top archways of the tower to get their next clue, before being lowered back to the ground.

The Roadblock performers per team are underlined:

Teams must travel by taxi to Letterman Digital Arts Center and search for the Yoda Fountain to find their next clue.

One team member must put on a motion capture suit while their partner directs their avatar through a virtual course. After getting through the two levels of the course, the directing partner will be able to copy down their next clue through figuring out how to read it off the computer screen.

Teams must travel by taxi to the Fairmont Hotel and search for the Tonga Room. Once there, teams must select a trunk and take it to their next destination, which has clue stickered on it.

Teams must travel on foot to the Great American Music Hall to find their next clue.

Teams must open their trunk, where they will find psychedelic posters of the eliminated teams. The two teammates have to put the posters in the correct order of elimination, with three posters for the non-elimination legs, before they can receive their next clue from a roadie.

Teams must figure out a missing phrase from Jack Be Nimble, which is the word candlestick. Once they have figured out the phrase, teams must travel by taxi to Candlestick Park to cross the Finish Line.

Leaderboard

Legend:
     First Place •      Eliminated     Last placer on a Non-Elimination Leg or continue racing on a No-Rest Leg     Season winner •      Season 2nd place •      Season 3rd place • Used the U-Turn Recipient of the U-Turn
Dan & Jordan
 1st place 
Dan & Jordan
Brothers
Jet & Cord
 2nd place 
Jet & Cord
Brothers/Cowboys
Brent & Caite
 3rd place 
Brent & Caite
Dating Models

Trivia

  • This episode's title is said by Dan, referring to their granted request to be upgraded to First Class seating on the aircraft to San Francisco.

Reception

  • Andy Dehnart at realityblurred (05/10/2010): "Amazing Race 16's finale was its lowest-rated ever"
  • Beth Spotswood at SFGate (05/12/2010): "The Amazing San Francisco Finale"

References

The Amazing Race 16 Episodes

"Nanna Is Kickin' Your Butt" · "When the Cow Kicked Me in the Head" · "Run Like Scalded Dogs!" · "We Are No Longer in the Bible Belt" · "I Think We're Fighting the Germans, Right?" · "Cathy Drone?" · "Anonymous?" · "You're Like Jason Bourne, Right?" · "Dumb Did Us In" · "I Feel Like I'm in, Like, Sicily" · "They Don't Even Understand Their Own Language" · "Huger Than Huge"

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