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The Best Smartphone Games of 2012
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Year 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.
- 12/13/12 /
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Matt Zoller Seitz’s Favorite Drama Episodes of 2012
Now it's time to get serious.
- 12/13/12 /
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The Year in Culture As Knock-Knock Jokes
Knock knock. Who's there? Pop culture!
- 12/12/12 /
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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.
- 12/12/12 /
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The Ten Best Saturday Night Live Sketches of 2012
Cecilia Gimenez, a presidential debate, and a late entry by Swarovski Crystals make the cut.
- 12/11/12 /
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2012: When Cocaine Was Cool in Movies
"Cocaine is a hell of a drug," said Flight, Ted, and Bachelorette.
- 12/11/12 /
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Things 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.
- 12/11/12 /
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Matt Zoller Seitz’s Favorite Comedy Episodes of 2012
See which installments of Louie, 30 Rock, Archer, and more made the list.
- 12/11/12 /
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2012’s Best Entertainment Photography
Rihanna stands in a shadow. Taylor Swift reaches for something off a high shelf. Alan Arkin and John Goodman are adorable together.
- 12/10/12 /
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Vulture Poll: Vote for Your Song of the Year
Carly? Japandroids? Frank Ocean? The choice is yours.
- 12/10/12 /
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Bests, Worsts, and Other Superlatives From the Year in Entertainment
Worst Posture, Best Use of TV Nudity, and more!
- 12/10/12 /
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In Memoriam: TV Shows and Characters We Lost in 2012
Grab the tissues!
- 12/10/12 /
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2012: 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.
- 12/8/12 /
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The Year in Culture: 2012 in Viral Videos
Watch these, maybe?
- 12/6/12 /
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The Year in Hate-Watching
Ah, The Newsroom.
- 12/6/12 /
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The Top Ten Stand-up Specials of 2012
Tig Notaro, John Mulaney, Patrice O'Neal, and more.
- 12/6/12 /
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Carl, Dana, and 2012’s Other Memorable TV Kids
They're all troublemakers.
- 12/5/12 /
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Celebrity BFF of the Year: Jennifer Lawrence
If only she would return our calls.
- 12/5/12 /
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Listen to Nitsuh Abebe’s Favorite Songs of 2012
Listen to our music critic's Spotify playlist.
- 12/5/12 /
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How Satisfying Were This Year’s Musical Comebacks?
On a simple scale.
- 12/4/12 /
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Sexism, Pixieism, Bookism: The Year in Lena Dunham
The backlash and the backlash to the backlash.
- 12/4/12 /
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Vulture Asks: What Was Your Song of the Year?
Your turn!
- 12/4/12 /
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Watch a Massive Supercut of the Year in Film
How many can you name?
- 12/3/12 /
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Vulture’s TV, Movie, and Theater Critics Choose Their Best Performances of 2012
One of them is a terrorist.