The Best Smartphone Games of 2012
Get ready to ignore your friends and loved ones!
By Wook KimYear In Culture 2012
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2012’s Best Moments in Late-Night Television
Fallon singing barbershop, Kimmel pranking children, Handler showering with Sandra Bullock, and much more.
By Jesse David FoxMatt Zoller Seitz’s Favorite Drama Episodes of 2012
Now it's time to get serious.
By Matt Zoller SeitzThe Year in Culture As Knock-Knock Jokes
Knock knock. Who's there? Pop culture!
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Can You Guess Which Character's Facial Hair This Is?
Go face to facial hair and see which ones you recognize.
By Jesse David FoxThe Ten Best Saturday Night Live Sketches of 2012
Cecilia Gimenez, a presidential debate, and a late entry by Swarovski Crystals make the cut.
By Joe ReidThings You Might’ve Missed in 2012 — and Shouldn’t Have
If you want to be a true good-pop-culture completist, you need to be checking out Suburgatory, The Sessions, Demi Lovato, and more.
By Jesse David Fox, Kyle Buchanan, Amanda Dobbins, Margaret Lyons, Josef Adalian and Eliot GlazerMatt Zoller Seitz’s Favorite Comedy Episodes of 2012
See which installments of Louie, 30 Rock, Archer, and more made the list.
By Matt Zoller SeitzVulture Poll: Vote for Your Song of the Year
Carly? Japandroids? Frank Ocean? The choice is yours.
By Vulture EditorsBests, Worsts, and Other Superlatives From the Year in Entertainment
Worst Posture, Best Use of TV Nudity, and more!
By Kyle Buchanan, Amanda Dobbins, Margaret Lyons, Jesse David Fox, Josef Adalian and Eliot GlazerIn Memoriam: TV Shows and Characters We Lost in 2012
Grab the tissues!
By Sarah Frank2012: The Year Little Girls on TV Stopped Being Annoying
Louie's kids, The New Normal's Shania, Bob's Burgers' Louise: an uprising of Lisa Simpsons.
By Margaret LyonsThe Year in Culture: 2012 in Viral Videos
Watch these, maybe?
By Eliot GlazerThe Year in Hate-Watching
Ah, The Newsroom.
By Margaret LyonsThe Top Ten Stand-up Specials of 2012
Tig Notaro, John Mulaney, Patrice O'Neal, and more.
By Jesse David FoxCarl, Dana, and 2012’s Other Memorable TV Kids
They're all troublemakers.
By Margaret LyonsCelebrity BFF of the Year: Jennifer Lawrence
If only she would return our calls.
By Amanda DobbinsListen to Nitsuh Abebe’s Favorite Songs of 2012
Listen to our music critic's Spotify playlist.
By Nitsuh AbebeHow Satisfying Were This Year’s Musical Comebacks?
On a simple scale.
By Amanda DobbinsSexism, Pixieism, Bookism: The Year in Lena Dunham
The backlash and the backlash to the backlash.
By Amanda Dobbins