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tv Our weakness is strong: thoughts on the year in TV
By Emily St. James December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Spend tonight playing games with your best friends: Hollywood celebrities!
By Emily St. James December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv How A Christmas Story became the preeminent American Christmas movie
By Emily St. James December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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film A Christmas Story 2 honors a holiday classic through awkward imitation
By Kyle Ryan December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux The people have spoken: The 2013 A.V. Club Readers’ Poll results
By Kyle Ryan December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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aux The year in swag 2013: The war on worthlessness
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Josh Modell, David Anthony, Andrea Battleground, Sonia Saraiya, Marah Eakin, Laura M. Browning December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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film “How can you tell them on Thanksgiving?”: 12 awkward family revelations at holiday gatherings
By Kyle Ryan, Drew Toal, Matt Wild, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Andrea Battleground, Sonia Saraiya, Les Chappell, Marah Eakin December 23, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Getting On: “Nightshift”
By Sonia Saraiya December 23, 2013 | 3:30am
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tv Treme: “Sunset On Louisianne”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 23, 2013 | 3:00am
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tv Saturday Night Live: “Jimmy Fallon/Justin Timberlake”
By David Sims December 22, 2013 | 4:00pm
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tv Who is this mysterious Britney Jean?
By Erik Adams December 22, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Doctor Who (Classic): “Scream Of The Shalka”
By Christopher Bahn December 21, 2013 | 8:00pm
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games The 10 Best Sports Videogames of 2013
By Garrett Martin December 21, 2013 | 1:00pm
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tv Comedy Bang! Bang!: “Zach Galifianakis Wears A Santa Suit”
By David Sims December 21, 2013 | 3:30am
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aux Happy holidays from The A.V. Club
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 10:27pm
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aux David Mamet to Always Be Condemning with Fox series about the seven deadly sins
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 9:03pm
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aux New drunk-driving PSA starring RoboCop warns drivers to stay within the algorithmic mean set by the government
By Sarah Shachat December 20, 2013 | 8:45pm
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aux All that Today Show controversy is becoming a Lifetime original movie
By Caroline Siede December 20, 2013 | 8:30pm
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aux Here's who will be playing Andre Braugher's husband on Brooklyn Nine-Nine
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 8:20pm
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aux Have yourself a merry little dark, animated Community Christmas trailer
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 8:00pm
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aux Michael Peña joins Fox's Broadchurch remake
By Caroline Siede December 20, 2013 | 7:30pm
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aux R.I.P. Ned Vizzini, author of It’s Kind Of A Funny Story
By Kevin McFarland December 20, 2013 | 7:20pm
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aux Katie Couric's talk show was the top new show in syndication, but it will still be cancelled
By Mike Vago December 20, 2013 | 7:13pm
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aux Thee Oh Sees are going on indefinite hiatus
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Hear Sharon Jones cover the Goldfinger theme for The Wolf Of Wall Street
By Kevin McFarland December 20, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux How To Train Your Dragon 2 trailer adds more dragons, destiny, Cate Blanchett
By Sarah Shachat December 20, 2013 | 6:38pm
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aux Xbox to start producing original shows, starting with documentary about Atari's legendary E.T. game
By Mike Vago December 20, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux J.K. Rowling is doing a play about Harry Potter's early years, as a sad, non-magical little kid
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 6:17pm
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aux George R.R. Martin to host free screenings of every Game Of Thrones episode instead of working on next book
By Mike Vago December 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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games Readers rebel against the ’Gestys’ controversial Game Of The Year winner
By Matt Gerardi December 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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film Jacques Tati returns as Monsieur Hulot in Mon Oncle
By A.A. Dowd December 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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music A “Mad World” cover supplanted the original and helped define Donnie Darko
By Kyle Ryan December 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux The Duck Dynasty family cannot imagine progressing, also not sure it wants to keep doing its TV show
By Sean O'Neal December 20, 2013 | 5:34pm
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aux Watch Inside Llewyn Davis star Oscar Issac sing a folk version of Katy Perry’s "Roar"
By Dan Selcke December 20, 2013 | 4:25pm
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film How do you have a happy Christmas when your life has gone to shit?
By A.A. Dowd December 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez end Locke & Key with tears, hope, and magic
By Oliver Sava December 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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aux Watch the exclusive video premiere of The White Buffalo’s “The Whistler”
By Kevin McFarland December 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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games Aquapazza
By Aevee Bee December 20, 2013 | 7:00am
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aux Here are links to all of our Best of TV coverage for 2013
By Emily St. James December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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games Tell us your favorite holiday gaming memories
By John Teti December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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music Andrew W.K., Kumail Nanjiani, Dave Holmes, & Jake Fogelnest pick their favorite pop-culture of 2013
By Kyle Ryan December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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games In season two of The Walking Dead, a coarser, jaded Clementine emerges
By Drew Toal December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv CBS tries to pretend it’s still airing I Love Lucy
By Emily St. James December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Enlightened was the best TV show of 2013
By Emily St. James December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv 25 other shows that made 2013 one of the best years in TV history
By Alasdair Wilkins, Kevin McFarland, Steve Heisler, Scott Von Doviak, Joshua Alston, Zack Handlen, Carrie Raisler, Genevieve Valentine, Molly Eichel, Caroline Framke, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, David Sims, Ryan McGee, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk, Les Chappell, Emily St. James, Myles McNutt, Dennis Perkins December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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music What makes an atheist love religious music?
By Jason Heller December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv The best shows that didn’t make our Top 40
By Alasdair Wilkins, Kevin McFarland, Josh Modell, Myles McNutt, Zack Handlen, Carrie Raisler, Pilot Viruet, Molly Eichel, Caroline Framke, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Ryan McGee, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk, Les Chappell, David Sims, Dennis Perkins, Emily St. James December 20, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv NTSF:SD:SUV::: "Wreck The Malls"
By Kevin McFarland December 20, 2013 | 5:45am
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tv The Returned: “The Horde”
By Erik Adams December 20, 2013 | 3:00am
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tv White Collar: “No Good Deed”
By Kenny Herzog December 20, 2013 | 3:00am
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aux R.I.P. Al Goldstein, porn provocateur
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 10:35pm
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aux Clams Casino releases his third and final Instrumental Mixtape that you can download right now
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 9:16pm
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aux New Sundance Channel show about the NRA sure to cause no controversy whatsoever
By Mike Vago December 19, 2013 | 8:54pm
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aux Johnny Depp puts on his artificial thinking hat in the Transcendence teaser
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 8:50pm
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aux Someone is maybe trying to sabotage Lana Del Rey's Oscar chances
By Marah Eakin December 19, 2013 | 8:20pm
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aux Wedding Crashers director to tackle the life story of Hugh Hefner
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 8:03pm
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aux Here’s the video premiere of By Maker’s “Misgiving” from I, Frankenstein
By Kevin McFarland December 19, 2013 | 7:40pm
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aux Sufjan Stevens' group Sisyphus is releasing a new record next year
By Marah Eakin December 19, 2013 | 7:10pm
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aux Have you heard about this, folks? CNN is pursuing Jay Leno for a new show
By Mike Vago December 19, 2013 | 7:02pm
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aux David Koechner is developing another sketch comedy series for NBC
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 6:55pm
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aux One YouTube user made the definitive Christmas Carol from 10 different versions
By Emily St. James December 19, 2013 | 6:40pm
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aux Daft Punk, Kendrick Lamar, and more confirmed to perform at next year's Grammys
By Marah Eakin December 19, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Hugh Jackman may be Pan's Blackbeard instead of Javier Bardem
By Mike Vago December 19, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Brad Pitt may reunite with Tom Cruise in racing film Go Like Hell
By Kevin McFarland December 19, 2013 | 6:27pm
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aux Pussy Riot is getting out of prison
By Marah Eakin December 19, 2013 | 6:15pm
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aux Sarah Palin and others protest the revoking of Duck Dynasty star's First Amendment rights to be on a TV show
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 6:03pm
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aux How The Best Show On WFMU became The Simpsons of comedy radio
By Trip Cook December 19, 2013 | 5:54pm
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aux Benedict Cumberbatch looked totally insane doing motion-capture work for The Hobbit
By Dan Selcke December 19, 2013 | 5:10pm
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film Who needs White Castle when you have WaffleBot?
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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music Goodfellas finds coked-up paranoia in “Jump Into The Fire”
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 5:00pm
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aux Paul Rudd is almost definitely, probably Ant-Man
By Sean O'Neal December 19, 2013 | 4:52pm
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aux Listen to Seahaven’s aching “Silhouette (Latin Skin)”
By David Anthony December 19, 2013 | 4:00pm
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tv Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "In The Pale Moonlight"
By Zack Handlen December 19, 2013 | 4:00pm
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games The 25 Best Videogames of 2013
By Garrett Martin December 19, 2013 | 9:55am
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tv Top Chef: “Giving It The College Try”
By Sonia Saraiya December 19, 2013 | 7:05am
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film All The Light In The Sky is another of Joe Swanberg’s “small” movies
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Clio Barnard moves gracefully to fiction with The Selfish Giant
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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film The Past is another emotionally complex triumph from Asghar Farhadi
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Producers dumb down Walking With Dinosaurs for movie screens
By A.A. Dowd December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Quentin Dupieux offers another dose of comedic surrealism with Wrong Cops
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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games The ’Gesty Awards name 2013’s shocking Game Of The Year winner
By John Teti December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Get your whites even whiter with White Collar
By Sonia Saraiya December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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film Why comedy sequels remain rare, even in a franchise-dominated era
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv The many exciting conclusions of Breaking Bad, 2013’s second-best show
By Erik Adams December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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music Low’s Christmas is the religious album even heathens can love
By Josh Modell December 19, 2013 | 6:00am
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tv Key & Peele: "Season Three, Episode 13"
By Brandon Nowalk December 19, 2013 | 4:00am
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aux The Wire and Friday Night Lights stars hired to make us pay attention to The Purge 2
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 10:43pm
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aux Sofia Coppola's next film will be about the gay scene in San Francisco
By Kevin McFarland December 18, 2013 | 10:14pm
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aux Also, the guy who wrote Argo is writing the Batman-Superman movie
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 10:05pm
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aux Warner Bros. reportedly wants Joaquin Phoenix around when Batman meets Superman
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 9:07pm
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aux Today in synergy: Amazon to shoot original series in Ultra HD, in order to sell Ultra HD TVs
By Mike Vago December 18, 2013 | 8:43pm
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aux There will finally just be a TV show about Twitter
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 8:24pm
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aux Nintendo announces someone’s dream Zelda/Dynasty Warriors mash-up and more
By Matt Gerardi December 18, 2013 | 8:20pm
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aux Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore reunite in the trailer for Adam Sandler's most recent vacation
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 7:40pm
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aux All-American Rejects frontman Tyson Ritter will play Gregg Allman in a new Allman Brothers biopic
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2013 | 7:30pm
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aux Secret agents, cheating husbands, and Dick Cheney top this year's Black List of the best unproduced screenplays
By Mike Vago December 18, 2013 | 7:23pm
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aux "Weird Al" Yankovic just cashed in on a major lawsuit against his record label
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2013 | 7:05pm
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aux Pulp Fiction and Mary Poppins together at last in the National Film Registry
By Kevin McFarland December 18, 2013 | 7:00pm
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film Dated jokes aside, the second Naked Gun is still funny
By Nick Schager December 18, 2013 | 7:00pm
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music Who loves the sun? For starters, the vinyl peddlers of High Fidelity
By Erik Adams December 18, 2013 | 7:00pm
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aux Now you can watch a bunch of pugs re-enact the movie Elf
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2013 | 6:50pm
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aux Death finally ended the feud between Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland
By Gwen Ihnat December 18, 2013 | 6:44pm
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aux Veronica Mars coming to PaleyFest, Pivot, your general consciousness for the next several months
By Marah Eakin December 18, 2013 | 6:30pm
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aux Yet more evidence of Shia LaBeouf's plagiarism surfaces, as Shia LaBeouf issues yet more plagiarized apologies
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 6:17pm
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tv Mad Men: “Babylon”
By Emily St. James December 18, 2013 | 6:00pm
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aux The Duck Dynasty family shared some charmingly down-home thoughts on Jesus, gays, anuses, what have you
By Sean O'Neal December 18, 2013 | 5:21pm
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aux This week we’re barely putting up with Black Panties
By Amelie Gillette December 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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film National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation proves that perfect holidays can’t be forced
By Kyle Ryan December 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
