History Characters / TheAmazingRace16

* NeverLiveItDown: Jet missed lassoing his target while doing the Roadblock on the third leg. After successfully roping in his target on his second try, [[{{In-Universe}} he said how everybody will be ribbing him about missing it the first time back home.]]

* NeverLiveItDown: [[{{In-Universe}} Her main reason for coming on the Race]] was that three years after the fact, people still weren't letting her forget the "U.S. Americans" speech, and she wanted to prove to people she's not an idiot. Any sympathy she got from this angle disappeared quickly, when she started acting ugly.

* SurpriseDifficulty: [[{{In-Universe}} Discussed]] at the second Pit Stop.

* UnderCoverCopReveal: They said they were undercover cops in their intro, preventing them from ever serving as undercover cops again.

* GenreSavvy:
** Jordan was the only contestant to think to look outside of the Victoria Theater for Allan Wu in leg 9, every other team seemingly forgot that most clues are located outside of places and went inside to look, except for Jet & Cord, who got there last and just followed Louie & Michael to the clue. This allowed them to jump into 1st place and grab the Fast Forward.
** When they had trouble finding the Garden Bridge in leg 11, they just decided to latch onto Mike & Louie, as their strategy was never to be alone in last, and Mike & Louie still had a Speed Bump ahead.
** Dan knew the rules regarding first class tickets. He also knew that there was nothing in the rules that prevented him and Jordan from moving up to First Class during the flight for free.
** Discussed by Jordan in how he knew there might be some kind of memory task in the finale, so he took notes throughout the season.

* GenreSavvy: Cord immediately figured out the Coit Tower clue in the finale as he had bought a San Francisco travel guide in Shanghai, and read it on the flight.

* HeyItsThatGuy: InUniverse. Some Passerby yelled that he loved Caite. Also, Jordan recognized her and repeated her infamous speech.

** When doing the Intersection with Jordan Lloyd, they managed to get on the wrong train.

** When doing the Intersection with Jordan Lloyd, she and Caite managed to get on the wrong train.

Brothers and professional bull riders. They are quite possibly the most popular team to ever run the race, displacing [[Characters/TheAmazingRace9 B.J. & Tyler]] from that spot just a few episodes into the season. They quickly established themselves as the favorites to win, claiming victory in both the second and third legs, and grabbing two more legs wins on their way to the Final 3, all the while captivating fans with their Southern charm. Despite looking like a shoe-in to win against some of the weakest Final 3 competition ever, they fell apart when Dan & Jordan cut in front of them at the Shanghai airport, and took so long to complete the Industrial Light & Magic task that Dan & Jordan cruised to victory. Their popularity would get them invited back for [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceUnfinishedBusiness Unfinished Business]].

Dating couple, who met on ''Series/BigBrother'' 11, which Jordan won. As fans of ''Big Brother'' already knew, they were not very bright, and though they managed to win the first leg, they bumbled their way to the back of the pack from then on out. Leg 4 saw them get a bad cab driver who, by following bad directions from his GPS, put them hours behind the other teams. Though they managed to survive that leg due to it being a non-elimination, neither of the next two legs had an equalizer. They once again escaped elimination in leg 5 due to Joe & Heidi being unable to decipher Morse code, they fizzled out in leg 6, as their own bad navigational skills combined with all the driving they had to do kept them from closing the gap with the other teams, and they finished 7th.

* CoolOldLady: Jody, who competed in triathlons and half-marathons. In fact, She is the oldest women to compete in the race, being 71 at the time.[[note]]Jody was former the oldest person to complete overall until Vladimir Vasilenko from the Ukrainian version displaced being 72[[/note]]

* CoolOldLady: Jody, who competed in triathlons and half-marathons. In fact, She is the oldest person to compete in the race, being 71 at the time.

* SiblingTeam: The first team of Brothers to win the race. [note]Excluding [[Characters/TheAmazingRaceFamilyEdition The Linz Siblings]][/note]

* SiblingTeam

* LuckySeven: Said this about finishing 7th on the first leg.

* SitcomArchnemesis: With Brandy.

* HeyItsThatGuy: InUniverse. Some Passerby yelled that he loved Caite. Also, Jordan recognized her and repeated her imfamous.

* PrecisionFStrike: Michael in Leg 2 when Jordan told that were the location of the Roadblock was and they drove right past it.

* PowerHair: Both women.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Their introduction explains Joe's personality making him the Problem child.

!!Jody Kelly & Shannon Foster [[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/JodyShannon_8314.jpg]]

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Michael thought that Jody was Shannon's mom.

* TheTeetotaler: Jet claimed he never had a beer in his life at the Boot of Beer task in leg 4. He mention on the way to the pit stop that he never wants another beer again.

* OhCrap: Caite's reaction to the sharp pains she suffered in Leg 4 during the penalty kick detour.

Brothers and professional bull riders. They are quite possibly the most popular team to ever run the race, displacing [[Characters/TheAmazingRace9 B.J. & Tyler]] from that spot just a few episodes into the season. They quickly established themselves as the favorites to win, claiming victory in both the second and third legs, and grabbing two more legs wins on their way to the Final 3, all the while captivating fans with their Southern charm. Despite looking like a shoe-in to win against some of the weakest Final 3 competition ever, they fell apart when Dan & Jordan cut in front of them at the Shanghai airport, and took so long to complete the Industrial Light & Magic task that Dan & Jordan cruised to victory. Their popularity would get them invited back for [[Characters/TheAmazingRace18 Unfinished Business]].

!!Jordan "Jody" Kelly & Shannon Foster [[quoteright:200:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/JodyShannon_8314.jpg]]

* GameBreakingInjury: Joe's knee started bothering him in leg 4, keeping them from completing the soccer Detour.

** They had issues finding the Taittinger vineyard in leg 7, which led to their SequenceBreaking moment below.

* BreakoutCharacter: Easily the most popular team to run the race.

* MusclesAreMeaningful: Subverted. Their reasoning was that Adrian's greater strength would would allow him to pull himself along the high wire easier. However, his fear of heights caused him to go super slow across the wire, and, once he fell off, his greater weight meant that, unlike Dan in a similar situation, he could not recover by pulling himself back up or pulling himself along with just his hands.

* ShockingElimination: They hadn't finished below 3rd place since the second leg, and had finished in the top 2 in four of the past five legs, then went from 1st to last and eliminated.

* ShockingElimination: They had finished at the front of the pack for the first four legs. Also, their last leg all but should have been a ForegoneConclusion, as they stared the leg in 3rd place, and there was no equalizer to close the two hour gap between them and Jeff & Jordan.

* ShockingElimination: They looked to be breezing through everything until Shawne hit that Roadblock.