Aw, I think that's great. I think they're one of the best teams we've seen on The Amazing Race in a while. They were sweet, genuine and funny. They deserve it!

Yay! They deserve it.

Maybe Rosie can also invite Kimberob on her show and give them cows' lips...and counseling

What, no $5,000 gift certificate to the Kentucky dental clinic? Bummer.

That's great! If anyone deserves all of this, it's them.

YAY! THIS is why I liked Rosie's old show. She was always great at giving stuff away to deserving people.

Newsgasm: Will success spoil the hillbillies?

David and Mary will never be able to afford the taxes on these gifts. Might as well throw in an Oscag swag bag.

I'm so excited that I just threw a bunch of babies in a lake. It's a rite of passage.

I just watched the clip on YouTube, and Rosie mentioned that when she initially called to offer them a cruise, Mary said only if they could take the Cho brothers too, because if it hadn't been for them, they would not have made it as far as they did in the race. I, of course, cried like a baby while I watched the clip...

Awwww, so the hillbillies got "stuff" after all. I hope Rosie is paying the taxes on all of it because I don't think David makes enough money to pay them on the Explorer alone. Great stunt for Rosie, though. Way to steal AR's thunder!

Maybe it's because I've lived in Jawgia, Central Florida and North Texas, but I for one don't buy the sweet dumb "bleyss yore hort" act. One of the meanest guys I ever met was a coal miner. I think CBS carefully edited out their arguments and let us see Kimberob's, the Models and the Beauty Queens. This show is very carefully edited to gain our sympathy for the "sweet" losers while the real competitors are made to look mean and petty. Hell, yes, I loved seeing Kimberly choke on the cow lips, but this Fear Factorish stunt was disgusting. Way to make Madagascar look bad, guys!

I still root for the BQs. They're steady and tough as nails. It surprised me that the Junkies could keep up with them.

So, harumph and good riddance, people!

I must be a complete idiot. I love what YouTube offers, but I can never find specific clips that I want to see. For example, I typed in to the search box "The View Amazing Race" and the only result that comes up is "Iceland Marathon August 2006 view of the crowd." I wanted to see the clip of them giving prizes to David and Mary. Someone help me!!!

Found the youtube clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdwzxl1baEA

Haha, Tony A, tell us what you really think.

I tend to agree, all the bells and whistles editing during that tear-jerk speech makes me go, hm. As does the fact that not loving David and Mary is almost heresy these days. Anyway, I'm all for the BQs too.

Cynical much, Tony and chronic?

I moved to Kentucky 11 years ago from an urban area. Although I live in a fairly urban part of Kentucky, my husband and I have traveled to Eastern Kentucky many times, and my husband worked there for several months. I can tell you that the "bless your hort" act, as you call it, is indeed sincere. Most rural Eastern Ky folks are very blunt and do not hesitate to tell you what they think, but they are also very generous and loyal. I was touched by David and Mary's experiences on TAR. Mary was on-target when she spoke of feeling like you are never leaving the small town you grew up in. It was nice to see David and Mary going way beyond the borders of their small town and having the sense to realize the power they have in seeing that their children do the same.

Cynical LOTS, Volcat. All due respect, but I catch where you're coming from when you say you live in "urban" KY. The cities there are pretty much the same as any other in the US.

As for my comments, those "bleyss your hort" expressions are just that, much like Easterners have their own.

So, let me remind you that, in all probability, AR juiced up the show by giving the KFC TWO passes in an effort to keep them in the show and edited all the scenes to make them appear sweet and mild, leaving us only a few glimpses at their true nature, as in when Mary totally ignored David's nascent comments when in Vietnam.

Northerners do have a false sense of superiority, however, because our kountry kuzzins tawk funny. I wasn't basing my comments on that. I know and respect dozens of people with whom I regularly correspond South of the Mason-Dixon line. What got my undies in a bunch was the portrayal of two people as God's children with no flaws and no darkness in their hearts at all, when in reality they are just like the rest of the competitors, with the exception of uberdick Peter.

No job, when done honestly and proudly is beneath anyone. It was the poirtrayal of these amiable losers that annoyed me. Also, it annoys the shit out of me when someone like Rosie O'Donnell anoints them with angelic qualities and publicly gives them all those things for the sake of publicity. If charity was in her heart, then the gifts should have been given quietly and with modesty.

To quote myself: "As does the fact that not loving David and Mary is almost heresy these days."

I don't love them, yeesh! I'm allowed. There were many things that I liked about them - that they undertook the race, never bitched about the countries they visited, were usually kind to locals - but I started to resist the way, as Tony A says, they were made out to be these "pure" beings and forcefed in such a way, as manifest here, so as not to allow dissension. Personally I found Mary to be rather sanctimonious and judgmental, i.e., someone with good and bad qualities like most of the teams on the race.