Rare is the news interview that's re-created almost verbatim on SNL, but such was September 2008's two-parter with CBS's Katie Couric. A flustered Palin wouldn't name any of the periodicals she read, nor, when pressed, would she identify any of John McCain's pro-regulation votes.
As her new reality show ''Sarah Palin's Alaska'' premieres on TLC tonight, look at key events that in two years whisked a little-known governor into the center of the pop culture conversation