I wish she'd get back on the air. I wonder if she killed her husband yet.

I was surfing today (the net that is) and wondered what would happen if I tried to go to Sally's old website - sallyjr.com and turns out she has a daily hour-long talk show on the Internet called Open House. It's kind of entertaining, but not the same format as her TV talk show.

What I couldn't stand about these boot camp shows that Sally and her ilk did was that the talk show hosts would never try to find out why these teens were troubled. The teen's mother would be on the stage complaining about the child's behavior, but Sally would never ask the mother what the home situation was like: was there a father in the teen's life; if divorced or single, was the mother dating and bringing her boyfriends home/living with the boyfriends; was the teen getting along with mom/mom's boyfriend/classmates; had the teen been a victim of a crime or other trauma?

Sally would just bring out some barking military bully to get in these childrens' faces
for dramatic effect. Yeah, humiliate them on tv-- that'll put them on the straight and narrow!

I'm glad that Sally, Jenny and the other irresponsible idiot talk show hosts are off the air.

Man, I miss this show. We need more talk shows like Sally. This show really makes me laugh. She rules. With crap like Ellen & Dr. Phil puking on our airwaves today, Sally would be a breath of fresh air.

Oh I miss Sally and her red glasses, too! I loved the boot camp episodes, she could be quite the b!tch when she had to be. Bring Sally back!

Has anyone else listened to her internet radio show (that I posted about above, under my old username)?

I've listened a few times, but it's pretty bad. Maybe it's aimed at an older audience than I, but I can't sit through much of it.

Your post reminded me of a Jenny Jones episode. That boot camp man came out to whoop some 9 year old ass. He got in the boy's face and asked him sarcastically if the little boy wanted him to be his father (so he could whoop his ass). The kid said yes, because he didn't have a father. It made my heart sink and it must have made the boot camp guy feel like shit because he stopped screaming and hugged the kid.

TheSmell, your response made my day. I have never seen any of these boot camp shows resolved in a positive way, so I'm glad this 9-year-old boy got a hug. It was probably the first sign of affection the child had gotten in a long time, if ever.

They show Sally re-runs here in Scotland on ITV2. In fact, I just watched one (well, it was more "on in the background" than me actually watching it). The show was about prostitute moms and moms addicted to paint huffing or something. There were all these women with real issues being paraded out, and Sally would hear their story and then try and bust the patented "Talk Show Host Smackdown" where she tells it like it is in a pithy and hardhitting manner. Except Sally was not really saying anything worthwhile and seemed to be missing the point. All of her comments were just a little off, you know?

As an expat, I can safely say that ITV2 shows only the crappiest of American television shows. Oh well.

Sally will be hosting the Surreal Life 4 Reunion Show on VH1.
I think it airs tonight, and repeats a million and a half times.

You know, I'm embarrassed to say that it was enjoyable to see Sally again, and hear that distinctive voice (though I had no idea what was going on since I'm not a Surreal Life follower). She's changed of course, gaining what looks like a bit of weight, and her forehead didn't seem to move once, which I guess is a side effect of living in LA, like asthma from the smog.

I used to watch Sally way back in the day but one time I saw an episode that just turned me off 100%. It started with this "poor, put-upon" mother showing a video tape of her daughters room. She goes through the drawers and pulls out a gaint bag of condoms and birth control pills. She goes to the next drawer and pulls out some big tube of medicine that she proudly announces is for her daughters STD. Then she goes to the top of the dresser and shows a bottle of whiskey (unopened btw) and a large pocket knife. Cut to the mom in the studio as she cries that her 14 year old is having sex, drinking, fighting and had gotten kicked out of school. Now the audiance is whipped into a fury.

The girl comes out and actually looks like a pretty normal kid other than the cat that she's sobbing uncontrollably. The audiance boos her. After Sally yellls at her for a few minutes she finally shoots back and says that she never had an STD, the tube of creme her mother showed on the tape was for a yeast infection. The only reason she had all the birth control was because her mother dragged her to some free clinic and get it. She said she had never even had sex or done more than kiss a guy. Then she said the whiskey and knife had belonged to her father and it's the only things she was able to gat after he died and her mother got rid of all his stuff. She then goes on to cry that she didn't get kicked out of school but had actually transfered to another school because she had been picked on so much at her other school. She's just crying and crying the whole time. The mother then admits that everything her daughter said is true!

What does Sally do? She yells at the girl some more because she "can't understand why a 14 year old needs all that stuff". (Like, she just explained it to you bitch.) She then marches the poor thing off to boot camp while the mother sits there with a smug look on her face and the audience cheers like howler monkeys.

I couldn't even finish watching the show and I never watched it again after that. It honestly made me sick to my stomach.