Sarah Palin is the best thing that happened to "Saturday Night Live" this decade. Last Saturday's show marked the third appearance this season by Tina Fey as Palin, along with surprise guest
Queen Latifah sitting in as vice presidential debate moderator Gwen Ifill.
The 11-minute opening number drew rave reviews in the ratings and in the blogosphere, where a clip of
Fey-as-Palin saying the GOP ticket would be all "mavericky," gained wide traction overnight.
The episode averaged a 7.4 household rating, per Nielsen. That's within a tenth of a
point of its Sept. 13 premiere (also with a Palin skit), which was the highest-rated show since Dec. 14, 2002, when Al Gore and Phish appeared.
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