October 18th’s Saturday Night Live had ratings not seen since the night that Olympic medalist Nancy Kerrigan hosted fourteen years ago, thanks to Alaskan governor and Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin’s “surprise” appearance. Yup, the real Sarah Palin. The one that kills moose and plays the flute in a french-cut bathing suit. She showed up in the opening sketch, along with trying-to-undo-the-crybaby-bitch-image Marky Mark, and then sat in on the evening news while Amy Poehler performed an impressive Sarah Palin-themed rap. Sarah’s husband Todd also made an impromptu appearance during the rap segment, accompanied by fake snow and a man in a moose costume. I kept waiting for her and Tina Fey to strip down to bikinis and oil wrestle or challenge each other to a topless jump rope-off, but no dice. I guess that might have been a little too “politically charged” for the McCain ticket. Leave it to the Republicans to just want to play it safe!