I started this last week, so I'd better continue. A quick ER pop quiz:
A new doctor joins the staff as an attending physician and the director of the ER. Is she ...

A. Impossibly mean and demanding because she has a tragedy in her personal life she's not ready to share.
B. Too nice and understanding to the doctors who have already put in countless hours in the bowels of County General.
C. A normal person who balances criticism and praise.

You didn't have to see last night's episode to know the answer is A because that's what ALL directors of the ER have been like with the exception of Drs. Green and Kovach's short shifts, but look what happened to them.
Boy, can't the writers come up with a bit different character. I'm sure Angela Bassett is a great actress, but I'm just as sick of getting yelled at as Dr. Morris was in last night's episode. It was good to see him getting something more meaty to say than a dumb joke. Archie, I think, was one of the best ER characters because he wasn't so perfectly good, perfectly evil or even perfectly capable. I'm not sure I like him so much now that he's a good doctor.

Oh well, enough ER. I still hate it. The best thing I saw last night was a bunch of new SNL clips online. I realized Tina Fey filmed another Sarah Palin impersonation last weekend when Anne Hathway was the guest host, so I had to catch that one. It was pretty good - not as funny as the fake Katie Couric interview, but it had its moments. "Oh we're not going to do the talent portion?"

The clip that almost made me soil myself was the Lawrence Welk sketch I've embedded below. Maybe you have to have my family's history with that show to appreciate it. Merilee didn't even know who Lawrence Welk was. I sure did because my dad used to stop everything Saturday nights and force us all to watch that silly variety show. To make it bearable, my brother Scott used to encourage us all to put the chair's arm protectors on our heads and croon like the Lennon Sisters. Then he'd make off-color jokes about Bobby and Sissy.

Well, SNL caught all that flavor and, thanks to Kristen Wiig, added a bit more. I don't want to spoil it. Just watch, but make sure you are close to the restroom.