As someone who is interested in emerging technology, I have long been fascinated by Law & Order, which years ago replaced all of its human writers with an advanced piece of software that scans Google News, automatically fictionalizes all the proper nouns in the biggest story, and inserts a murder and Sam Waterson where applicable. This innovation was a huge help when Dick Wolf began franchising the show: he goes in and hits the “write” button in the morning, goes in and hits the “print” button in the afternoon, and nobody’s heart rate goes above 85 all week. My teetotaling ways are the only thing that has saved my life from my immaculate Law & Order drinking game, which in addition to disintegrating the human liver by the third act of any episode also gives you the ability to act out any episode as it happens without facing the screen for more than five minutes. I mean to suggest that it is not a great show.

Or it wasn’t until now.

It seems that this week’s episode of Law & Order centers on the tale of a beloved celebrity who is pulled over for drunk driving and begins to verbally assault the cops with a racist, sexist diatribe. (How do they do it?) Mel Gib– or rather, the celebrity is to be played by Chevy Chase.

I will give you this time to program your VCR.

I think this perfect storm of what-the-hell has the potential to be the greatest hour of television all year. It is, by all accounts, the role Chevy Chase was born to play. You’ll remember where you were the day you heard about this.