Finale for Great Am Road Trip, you watching?

My kids have been totally hooked on "The Great American Road Trip" reality TV show this summer. The Di Salvatore family from Yonkers have lived up to so many stereotypes of an Italian-American family from New York that all of us have been thoroughly entertained watching this show.

And my kids are rooting whole-heartedly for this family to win the final road challenge tonight, although I'm not sure they will.

The other family in the final challenge is the Cootes family. My kids really don't like this family's ungracious, competitive-to-the-detriment of all others attitude. I equate the parents' behavior to the unpleasant antics of the competitive adults on the sidelines watching a child's sporting event (up to and including commenting - kids and the adults - on how much smarter and skillful they are than all others in the game. This family has also deliberately mispronounced other family's names, which was clearly meant as an insult, when they won a challenge).

Watching this family though has opened some good discussions with my kids about the desire to win and come out on top and being a good sport about it. And what being a "good sport" and the spirit of sportsmanship is -- and what it is not.

Here's a short clip from last week's ending, which actually makes the DiSalvatore's look a bit like poor sports but they've been pretty gracious up this point given the other antics of the Coote family.



Anyone watching this show and want to share their opinion about it?