Melissa McCarthy's Top 5 Moments on SNL 
 
 It's been a year of career milestones for Melissa McCarthy: a Best Actress Emmy for her sitcom Mike & Molly, striking box office gold with Bridesmaids and, on Saturday night, her first hosting gig on SNL."This is a dream come true," McCarthy said on the show, before warning her kids to go to bed because, "Mama's about to get pretty inappropriate." Here are the five moments not to fast forward through on your DVR:McCarthy recaptured a little Bridesmaids magic when the monologue launched into a song and dance routine with Kristen Wiig. But the really impressive part? McCarthy saunters around the stage in six-inch heels.She asks Jason Sudeikis's character, "Are you my Italian Stallion?" before tongue-kissing a pony balloon. Hopefully, the kids took mom's advice and were fast asleep by this point.Playing Linda, the over-enthusiastic focus group attendee desperate to come up with Hidden Valley Ranch's new slogan, was definitely a high point despite the cringe-worthy gulping of a bottle of ranch dressing.A retrospective on an old Hollywood actress who couldn't make it up a staircase without falling put McCarthy's physical comedy skills on display.While being picked up in a bar (by Andy Samberg's character) McCarthy tells her would-be suitor, "My lifelong nickname is Skid Marks, but I’ve never owned a car." 

 [Bridesmaids star Melissa McCarthy's sketch comedy roots were on display as she threw herself into every scene, with mostly strong results.] 
 
 Some highlights... 
 
 Oversexed clerical worker Arline (Melissa McCarthy) puts the moves on Jason Sudeikis and gets inappropriate with a balloon bouquet. (Also featuring Bill Hader, with flowing ponytail): 
 
 Lil Poundcake, the HPV-vaccine-administering doll: "The only thing you'll get infected with is fun!...": 
 
 Tyler Perry (Kenan Thompson) drops by Weekend Update to discuss his next movie (Child, Why You Got to Bother Me While My Feet Are So Weary?) and his lack of appreciation from the white community. ("My movies are about the modern black experience. They're all disaster movies."): 
 
 A permed, spock-sweatshirt-wearing Melissa McCarthy hijacks a salad dressing focus group. ("There's a HIdden Valley Ranch party in my mouth!"...): 
 
 Barflies Andy Samberg and Melissa McCarthy fend off complaints about their strange lovemaking habits: 
 
 Also: The Lawrence Whelk Show—Kristin Wiig isn't the weirdest singing sister from the Finger Lakes; Jay Pharoah gets some screen time with his Chris Rock impression; Wiig joins McCarthy for a dance number during the monologue; and screen siren Lulu Diamond (Melissa McCarthy) has some trouble with the stairs. 
 
 Musical guest Lady Antebellum performed "We Owned the Night" and "Just a Kiss." 
 
 NEXT WEEK: Ben Stiller, with musical guest Foster the People.
– Bridesmaids star Melissa McCarthy hammed it up last night on Saturday Night Live, admonishing her two young children to "go to bed now 'cause Momma is about to get pretty inappropriate." The actress' "sketch comedy roots were on display as she threw herself into every scene," writes Sage Stossell for the Atlantic, "with mostly strong results." She wasn't kidding, writes Danielle Anderson for People, between "tongue-kissing a pony balloon" and telling would-be suitor Andy Samberg, "My lifelong nickname is Skid Marks, but I've never owned a car." Click through the gallery to catch Stossell and Anderson's top picks from last night.