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The 50 Greatest Vulture Slideshows of 2010

Assuming we’re not dreaming, hallucinating, or just loopy from chopping our arm off, it appears as though we’ve finally reached the end of another year here at Vulture. And what a year it was! On this day twelve months ago, Jacob was still the protector of the Island, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce was working out of a hotel room, and the cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was safely grounded. Before we start celebrating, though, we leave you with a ranked, slideshow-based list of Vulture’s best 2010 slideshow-based lists. Happy New Year! We’ll see you in 2011.

Edie Falco! Diablo Cody! Bill Maher! Al Roker! Bryan Batt! Craig Robinson!
We’ve measured them on a scale of Zorro to Gene Shalit.
Jaws nightshirts! Star Trek funerary urns! Weirdly sexual Jar Jar Binks lollipops!
While on hiatus waiting for their January return, the Pawnee crew posted original comic photo essays on Vulture every Thursday.
Plus our guesses on how the show would have ended if they’d actually been right.
Trigger! Rex! Fritz!
Including “Thug No. 1” and “Kidnapper No. 3.”
We’re witnessing an epidemic of masculine follicular follies.
Great moments from murderous movie sharks, crocodiles, squids, and sea worms.
“Find my murderer!” “Get these people out of my house!” “Fix my wife’s broken heart!”
Warning: What you see here may disturb you.
A step-by-step video primer to the onscreen yuk-filled version of the painful, confusing, joyful miracle of life.
Inspired by Date Night, Vulture played studio boss.
Click through for a trip down zombie, donkey, dinosaur, and S&M lane.
Sorry, The King’s Speech.
Forget the 2010 winners — what about the speeches, the tuxes, the grudges, and the inexplicable gaffes? That’s where Vulture’s preshow Oscar Odds came in.
Actresses only get naked when there is a good artistic reason.
Including: tropical-island locales, existential crises, and therapy talk.
From Lon Chaney’s Hairy Mask to Twilight’s CGI Panda Dogs
It ends on exactly the effervescent note you’d think it might.
Including Marlon Brando and his Last Tango butter.
Let’s take a walk down memory lane, right off tax-dodge avenue.
Movie-producing? Party-throwing? Tantric sex?
With his George VI in The King’s Speech, Colin Firth joins the venerable house of British Movie Monarchs — here’s their full family tree.
Condo talked to us about Macbeth, ballerinas, and how he and West might have a few surprises up their sleeves.
Shockingly, they’re not all from season three.
Whose heart sparkles as bright as body glitter?
Take the quiz!
Back tats, Jesus portraits, and loads and loads of tribals.
Here are eight similarities.
Did Leonardo DiCaprio fire a guitar gun and nap on a moving motorcycle? He did not!
What really turns a Mad Man on? Teachers? Bohemians? A slap in the kisser?
The third in Vulture’s detailed comparisons of movie to overwritten, florid book.
Melted ice cream on regular ice cream: It’s like a sauce!
From too-big sweaters to too-tight denim, Mindy Kaling has worn them all.
Complete with the likely network notes that prompted all that flashing.
What if he isn’t just a shlumpy media man, but is in fact on a mission for the CIA? It could happen!
From panty-sniffing to dismemberment.
“Jon Hamm probably grew that beard in the time it took to drive to the SAG Awards.”
From Prince of Persia to The Social Network to Sex and the City 2, bad parts were all around.
Remember when Milla wore that half-severed prom dress in Resident Evil 1?
What an intermittently lethal troublemaker!
DO be from India.
A slideshow of the fall, from behind the scenes.
Whether premature, virginity-ending, or right on time, it’s always funny, especially if the eyes are crossed.
How good is Taylor at acting surprised when she wins?
The Gossip Girl star is making Abundant Cleave her look. And why not?
From Elegant Snooki to Don Draper Snooki to Art Fan Snooki.
Star Wars, Psycho, Back to the Future, Flowers in the Attic, and eighteen more relatives not worried about genetic abnormalities.
The Shoulder Shrug! The Slide-and-Point! The Ralph Macchio!

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The 50 Greatest Vulture Slideshows of 2010