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film Two versions of Bad Santa’s opening scene create different expectations
By Mike D'Angelo December 17, 2012 | 6:00pm
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tv The Great Santa Claus Switch introduced Jim Henson’s obsessions
By Tasha Robinson December 17, 2012 | 6:00pm
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tv Batman: The Animated Series: “Never Fear”
By Oliver Sava December 17, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux USA adding modern-day Zorro to its lineup of shows about people in nice pants
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 5:30pm
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aux AMC officially welcomes Low Winter Sun to its bleak drama family
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 5:02pm
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aux Fan who rushed stage at Odd Future show receives violent beating instead of free hugs
By Sean O'Neal December 17, 2012 | 4:31pm
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aux Read This: Mental Floss gathers once-annoying words that are now common
By Josh Modell December 17, 2012 | 4:15pm
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music Come on get on Frankie Smith’s “Double Dutch Bus”
By Marah Eakin December 17, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux Weekend Box Office: Moviegoers see new J.R.R. Tolkien film out of Hobbit
By Scott Tobias December 17, 2012 | 2:57pm
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tv Dexter: “Surprise, Motherfucker!”
By Joshua Alston December 17, 2012 | 8:00am
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games Lego The Lord of the Rings (Multi-Platform)
By J.P. Grant December 17, 2012 | 7:00am
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tv The Simpsons: “To Cur With Love”
By Robert David Sullivan December 17, 2012 | 6:20am
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aux Mark Atherton: There And Back Again: J.R.R. Tolkien And The Origins Of The Hobbit
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 17, 2012 | 6:02am
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aux José Saramago: Raised From The Ground
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 17, 2012 | 6:01am
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aux Magnus Flyte: City Of Dark Magic
By Noah Cruickshank December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Homeland: “The Choice”
By Emily St. James December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Exclusive: Behind the scenes of Sleepwalk With Me
By Josh Modell December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: December 14-16, 2012
By AV Club Staff December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Rock stars rescue faded actors (and Colonel Sanders) in the Austin Powers lead-up The Phynx
By Nathan Rabin December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv This holiday season, celebrate the CW's gift of finally cancelling Gossip Girl
By Emily St. James December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux December 17, 2012
By David Malki ! December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv The Lawrence Welk Show was TV’s best party—until it wasn’t
By Emily St. James December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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film Losing our edge?: 14 panicky works about growing older
By Nathan Rabin, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson, Scott Tobias December 17, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Survivor: “Million Dollar Question”
By Carrie Raisler December 17, 2012 | 5:42am
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tv Bob’s Burgers: “God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins”
By Rowan Kaiser December 17, 2012 | 2:00am
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tv The Simpsons (Classic): “Treehouse Of Horror IV”
By Nathan Rabin December 16, 2012 | 8:00pm
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tv Saturday Night Live: “Martin Short/Paul McCartney”
By David Sims December 16, 2012 | 6:00pm
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tv Ho-ho-Homeland finale!
By Erik Adams December 16, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv The X-Files: “Rush” / “The Goldberg Variation”
By Emily St. James December 15, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Read This: Our sister publication The Onion profoundly, profanely covers the latest unspeakable tragedy
By Nathan Rabin December 15, 2012 | 5:35pm
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tv Fringe: “Black Blotter”
By Noel Murray December 15, 2012 | 4:30am
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tv Portlandia: “Winter In Portlandia”
By Les Chappell December 15, 2012 | 3:00am
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aux Jon Stewart finds Hugh Grant to be the most detestable man he's ever met, declares they'll never get back together
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 11:51pm
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aux The best music, comedy albums, and so much more this week on The A.V. Club
By Sarah Collins December 14, 2012 | 11:50pm
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aux That whole "Paul McCartney playing with Nirvana" thing was also to promote Dave Grohl's new movie
By Marah Eakin December 14, 2012 | 10:50pm
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aux Hey Chicago, come see The A.V. Club’s Erik Adams on The Late Live Show this Saturday
By Austin Bernhardt December 14, 2012 | 10:45pm
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aux HBO orders Laughs Unlimited, a show that will provide very limited laughs
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 10:18pm
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aux Keith Phipps is no longer editor of The A.V. Club
By AV Club Staff December 14, 2012 | 10:02pm
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aux Never mind, Jack White is no longer doing the music for The Lone Ranger
By Marah Eakin December 14, 2012 | 10:00pm
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aux Bates Motel
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 9:31pm
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aux Whatever, NBC still thinks Dane Cook is funny, so suck it
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 8:39pm
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aux Everything seems insignificant right now anyway, so here's a story on an ABC sitcom about Justin Bieber's life
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 8:00pm
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tv Eugene Mirman: An Evening Of Comedy In A Fake Underground Laboratory
By Erik Adams December 14, 2012 | 8:00pm
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music Trust’s “Sulk” pushes ahead into the darkness
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 7:30pm
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film Chris Tucker on Silver Linings Playbook and his intermittent film career
By Nathan Rabin December 14, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux R.I.P. Donnie Andrews, real-life inspiration for The Wire's Omar
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 6:40pm
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film Eight Crazy Nights proves that it’s not worth spending Hanukah with Adam Sandler
By Nathan Rabin December 14, 2012 | 6:00pm
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film The Princess Bride cast duels with words as much as with swords
By Tasha Robinson December 14, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux The Walking Dead to rerun its first and second season in prestige-adding black and white
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 5:43pm
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aux Listen to Too $hort's new gelt-riddled, schmaltz-laden rap about Hanukkah
By Marah Eakin December 14, 2012 | 5:30pm
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aux History Channel to squeeze more out of Hatfields & McCoys with a reality series
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 5:03pm
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aux L.A. Reid withdraws crucial "guy with glasses" credibility from X Factor
By Sean O'Neal December 14, 2012 | 4:20pm
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aux Caption Contest: What is this dwarf from The Hobbit thinking?
By Josh Modell December 14, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux The Joker and his flesh-mask are back in two haunting Bat-family titles
By Oliver Sava December 14, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv The Simpsons believes in The A.V. Club bump
By Erik Adams December 14, 2012 | 3:30pm
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tv Glee: “Glee, Actually”
By Brandon Nowalk December 14, 2012 | 8:55am
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tv Unsupervised: “Black Squirrels”
By Brandon Nowalk December 14, 2012 | 6:55am
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tv Celebrate Christm... er... the holid... er... winter with Portlandia
By Emily St. James December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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music Our favorite songs of 2012
By AV Club Staff December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux Artie Lange opens up to Jay Mohr and Judd Apatow continues his rounds
By Genevieve Koski, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Maggie Serota, Steven Moore, Scott Tobias, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Oliver Sava, Scott Gordon, Colin Griffith, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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aux The best podcasts of 2012
By Genevieve Koski, Aaron Frank, Nathan Rabin, Dan Telfer, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Trip Cook, Steven Moore, Dan Fitchette, David Anthony, Colin Griffith, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, D.X. Ferris December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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music The least essential albums of 2012
By Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Josh Modell, Keith Phipps, Marah Eakin, Genevieve Koski December 14, 2012 | 6:00am
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tv Elementary: “The Leviathan”
By Myles McNutt December 14, 2012 | 5:50am
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tv The Big Bang Theory: “The Santa Simulation”
By Oliver Sava December 14, 2012 | 5:20am
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tv Burn Notice: “Odd Man Out”
By Scott Von Doviak December 14, 2012 | 5:15am
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tv The League: “Our Dinner With Andre” / “12.12.12”
By Margaret Eby December 14, 2012 | 5:00am
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tv Person Of Interest: “Shadow Box”
By Phil Dyess-Nugent December 14, 2012 | 4:45am
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tv It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia: “The Gang Dines Out”
By Emily Guendelsberger December 14, 2012 | 4:00am
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tv The Vampire Diaries: “O Come, All Ye Faithful”
By Carrie Raisler December 14, 2012 | 3:44am
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tv Last Resort: “Blue Water”
By Scott Von Doviak December 14, 2012 | 3:05am
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aux Comedian Duncan Trussell probably has “CANCER!!!”
By Kyle Ryan December 14, 2012 | 12:00am
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aux Hear a danceable new Foals track, "My Number"
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 11:45pm
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aux Garrett Hedlund confirms he will be in next Tron movie, instead of doing whatever else it is that Garrett Hedlund does
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 11:18pm
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aux Tyler Perry creates two archetypically Tyler Perry shows for Oprah Winfrey's Oprah Winfrey Network
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 11:00pm
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aux Autechre announces Exai, a two-hour-long album
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 10:40pm
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aux The University of Chicago admissions office receives mysterious package intended for Indiana Jones
By Eric Thurm December 13, 2012 | 9:50pm
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aux Watch Hobbit stars play “Fuck, Marry, Kill” over Hobbit characters
By Tasha Robinson December 13, 2012 | 9:30pm
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aux Even Billy Campbell is done with The Killing
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 8:59pm
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aux TLC to explore death with the same dignity it explores all other aspects of life on Best Funeral Ever
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 8:23pm
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aux Kids! Enjoy Alien's light-hearted mayhem with this commercial for its action figure
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 8:15pm
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aux Thurston Moore's iconic 1960 Jazzmaster stolen in Philadelphia
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 8:10pm
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tv Yvette Nicole Brown, Kumail Nanjiani, and Damon Lindelof pick their 2012 pop-culture highlights
By Josh Modell, Marah Eakin, Emily St. James, Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 8:00pm
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aux Justin Bieber narrowly avoided a grisly castration-and-murder plot by two hit men
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 7:33pm
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aux Scott Aukerman picks his favorite Comedy Bang! Bang! episodes
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 7:30pm
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film A week of swordfighting films continues with Kurosawa’s startlingly bloody Sanjuro
By Noel Murray December 13, 2012 | 7:30pm
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aux Read This: Wired visits a Walter White lookalike contest judged by Bryan Cranston himself
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 7:00pm
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aux The Archer Live! Tour is a thing and it's happening
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 7:00pm
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music When Cloud Nothings played “Wasted Days” through a thunderstorm and without a PA
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 6:30pm
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aux Watch Paul McCartney play a new song with the remaining members of Nirvana
By Marah Eakin December 13, 2012 | 6:15pm
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film Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs
By Steve Heisler December 13, 2012 | 6:00pm
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music Fartbarf, Neon Piss, and more: the year in band names 2012
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 6:00pm
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aux Gillian Anderson to co-star on, possibly get eaten by NBC's Hannibal
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 5:43pm
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aux Want to listen to Björk's weird solstice song? There's an app for that.
By Austin Bernhardt December 13, 2012 | 5:30pm
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aux Little Miss Sunshine directors to tell the quirky story of Black Panthers founder
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 5:18pm
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aux Exclusive: Teenage Bottlerocket goes “Cruisin’ For Chicks” in a new video
By Kyle Ryan December 13, 2012 | 4:45pm
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aux Mark Wahlberg to make a movie about hackers and tell them to knock it off with the hacking
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 4:39pm
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aux Watch an exclusive Ben Folds Five performance of "Do It Anyway"
By Josh Terry December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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music Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift For You aimed for respectability—and created a new tradition
By Noel Murray December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux The memoir of Kiss drummer Peter Criss is endearingly needy and sleazy
By Nathan Rabin December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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tv Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: "The Way Of The Warrior"
By Zack Handlen December 13, 2012 | 4:00pm
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aux Pacific Rim
By Sean O'Neal December 13, 2012 | 3:48pm
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aux The Golden Globes also like Lincoln, but prefer The Newsroom to Mad Men
By Erik Adams December 13, 2012 | 3:33pm
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tv The Middle: “Twenty Years”
By Will Harris December 13, 2012 | 8:00am
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tv Top Chef: “Even The Famous Come Home”
By Emily Withrow December 13, 2012 | 7:00am
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film Save The Date
By Scott Tobias December 13, 2012 | 6:03am
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film Any Day Now
By Noel Murray December 13, 2012 | 6:02am
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film Consuming Spirits
By Tasha Robinson December 13, 2012 | 6:01am
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film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
By Tasha Robinson December 13, 2012 | 6:00am
