While we had no school last Monday, I found myself awake before noon and glued to the TV, watching an old favorite of mine, "The Jerry Springer Show."

First of all, I would like to point out that I still have most of my teeth. I also lost interest in this show sometime after seventh grade. After a while, every episode blended together. Some girl would bring her boyfriend and her husband on to watch them charge each other and get pulled away by Steve, the security man. Then the girl would turn out to actually be a man. Throw in some klansmen and audience members who can't seem to hold onto their clothes, and you get the basic idea.

But this episode actually struck me as unconventional and attention-holding. A woman was trying to save her marriage, which was currently in peril because her husband liked his pet sheep more than he liked her. He even took out the front seat of his truck so the sheep could ride up front, and his wife had to ride in back.

The husband was brought out (with the sheep on a leash of course), and explained that he had always felt a special connection to sheep, ever since they had helped save his mother's life.

While his wife appreciated that, she still felt that this connection wasn't worth ruining her marriage over, and issued him what I found to be a quite reasonable ultimatum. Either he found the sheep a nice new home or she would leave. If he got rid of the sheep, she would crawl around and baa, and also let him "shear" her head.

I expected the husband to pick the sheep, or at least protest the ousting of his furry friend. But instead without thinking for more than a few seconds he said something like: "You'll really let me shave your head? All right, I guess I can find the sheep a nice home."

Then Jerry "just happened" to have some shears in his pocket, and the wife had her head shaved, to the intense cheers of the audience. Jerry also signed the back of her head with a Sharpie permanent marker.

The best part is, after a commercial break, Jerry came back on to say that they had collected the hair and it would be donated to Locks of Love.

I'm not sure why I was so fascinated by the tale of this couple and their pet, but I hope that Jerry does one of those "Where are they now?" update shows, so I can find out what happened to the sheep.

Also, it might have been a fluke episode, but you should check out Jerry Springer to see if this trend toward more interesting writing — I mean, guests — continues. At the very least, this ridiculous entertainment is sort of helping a good cause. What could be better than that?