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Idiocracy posits a future president that’s as slick as he is dumbFilm : Watch This
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Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Andrew W.K., and more on their favorite things of 2012Music : Survey Says
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An old California band offers a prelude to an A.V. Club writer's future pop-punk dementiaMusic : Hear This
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The strange rehabilitation of Rage Against The Machine
Music : For Our Consideration
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How did Hawkeye become Marvel’s best comic?
Books : Big Issues
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Parks And Recreation lets Ron Swanson be the hero
TV : TV Club
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MATES and Superego return, and Neil Hamburger celebrates New Year’s Eve
Comedy : Podmass
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A Charlie Brown Christmas’ soundtrack captures the holiday spirit by not defining it
TV : 13 Days Of Christmas
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Tasteful pop-culture preferences for our presidential runs
Film : AVQ&A
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Invader Zim creator Jhonen Vasquez on the PlayStation Vita and gaming snobbery
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Primary Colors examines the moral compromises involved in running for president
Film : Watch This
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A non-single from her sophomore album shows Ellie Goulding has more to offer beyond “Lights”
Music : Hear This
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Navigating the diverse, difficult musical career of Scott Walker
Music : Gateways To Geekery
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The Pee-wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special put a fresh coat on an old format
TV : 13 Days Of Christmas
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- West Virginia senator condemns MTV for putting actual West Virginia people on television
- The Walking Dead, an apocalypse-ready gift guide, and more this week on The A.V. Club
- It looks like Nicolas Winding Refn is directing The Equalizer
- Disney finally just making another Alice In Wonderland movie, since that's what everyone's trying to do anyway
- UPDATE: "Most-loved entertainer on the planet" Psy says he's sorry for rapping about killing Americans
- Bravo also thinks Death Becomes Her might make a good TV show
- Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell have organized a senatorial screening of Lincoln
- Actually, now Kevin Smith's final movie will be Clerks III
- The Breeders are set to reunite for the 20th anniversary of Last Splash
- Believe it or not, Duck Dynasty is now one of the most popular shows on television
- Caption Contest: What's Gerard Butler thinking in this stinky new soccer-based rom-com?
- James Murphy is definitely involved with Arcade Fire’s new album in some very vague capacity
- The Residents to release a $100,000 box set packed in a refrigerator
- What's On Tonight: 30 For 30 aims to crack the eternal mystery of what, exactly, Bo Jackson knows
- The Jumanji remake hires a writer to handle all that re-imagination
- Cloud Cult announces new record, Love, premieres arty new video
- Jonathan Demme drops Stephen King's 11/22/63, claims it has nothing to do with shadow government
- TV Club Power Rankings: The Walking Dead (nearly) conquers all
- The Writers Guild also likes Homeland, Breaking Bad, and Modern Family—but y'know, for writerly reasons
- Here's the guy who will replace Michael Clarke Duncan in the Sin City sequel
- Justin Bieber's manager and Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste aren't super happy about their Grammy snubs
- New On DVD And Blu-Ray: December 4, 2012
- Johnny Depp releasing a record of "pirate ballads, sea songs, and chanteys"
- Pan's Labyrinth to become a Broadway musical, finally
- Mike Doughty will send you a personalized song message for just $35,335.53
- A&E and Carlton Cuse want you to make the opening sequence for Bates Motel
- Kristen Wiig may play Steve Carell's non-lamp love interest in Anchorman sequel
- Barbra Streisand considering Lady Gaga for the film adaptation of Gypsy
- Jersey Shore's JWOWW and Antonio Sabato Jr. to hurl themselves into swimming pools in continued bid for your attention
- Psy has tricked the world into giving him $8.1 million for "Gangnam Style"
- ABC orders yet another cop comedy, this one starring Hannibal Buress
- Mike Judge sells HBO a new office comedy
- Maybe the Grammys won't be terrible this year: Frank Ocean, The Black Keys, fun., and more get big nods
- That third Tron movie is still in the works
- R.I.P. Eileen Moran, a leader in special effects
- Star Trek Into Darkness teaser: Tremble before the wrath of Benedict Cumberbatch
- Glenn Beck and Vince Vaughn to combine truth-pursuing skills for Pursuit Of Truth
- The National Board of Review also liked Zero Dark Thirty, prefers Bradley Cooper
- Argument over The Walking Dead spurs man to shoot his girlfriend in the back
- MTV replaces Jersey Shore with an equally illuminating look at West Virginia in the new Buckwild
- Brittany Murphy's final film is now complete, looking for a distributor
- Johnny Depp is just going to make his own Don Quixote movie without Terry Gilliam
- Call Of Duty: Black Ops II makes $1 billion in 15 days
- Stream a new-old Texas Is The Reason song from the upcoming Do You Know Who You Are? reissue
- A timeline of all the crazy things Katt Williams did these past few weeks before quitting comedy
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- Read This: Some choice, throbbing lines from Literary Review's Bad Sex In Fiction Award winner
- The drinking prowess of every character on Mad Men, in handy chart form
- Indulge the evil side of the holidays with black metal Dolly Parton
- Caption Contest: What's Gerard Butler thinking in this stinky new soccer-based rom-com?
- Look at Aaron Paul's sweet Breaking Bad cupcakes
- Drink in the fantastical whimsy of the Manic Pixie Dream Prostitute!
- Watch a super-dramatic Sigur Rós video starring Elle Fanning and John Hawkes
- Merry Christmas, world: Here's a new Calvin And Hobbes search engine
- A&E and Carlton Cuse want you to make the opening sequence for Bates Motel
- M.I.A. releases a new track after being harassed on Twitter
- Watch Honest Trailers take The Dark Knight Rises down a peg
- Jay-Z rides the subway and talks to old people, just like a normal person who has jillions of dollars
- Recoil in horror at the new John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John Christmas video!
- Stream a new-old Texas Is The Reason song from the upcoming Do You Know Who You Are? reissue
- UPDATE: Enjoy some proposed Rolling Stone covers by former “Editor-In-Chief” Tim Heidecker
- Check out John Waters' favorite films of 2012
- The Roots and their toy instruments provide a cure for the bah-humbugs with “All I Want For Christmas Is You”
- A new Thee Oh Sees track helped save an adorable dachshund named Popcorn
- Stop The Presses! Tom Waits, Hugh Jackman, and Rachel Zoe inducted into the Headwear Hall Of Fame
- Superchunk's "Crossed Wires" cat video goes viral sans any mention of Superchunk
- Watch an exclusive acoustic performance from Florida punk band Merchandise
- Listen to Dan Deacon’s impressively eclectic end-of-the-year mashup mixtape
- Here's a 40-minute compilation of painful Tim & Eric junket interviews
- Special Edition Caption Contest: What's Guy Fieri saying (or more likely, yelling) to Drake?
- Let this Reading Rainbow remix bring some happiness to your otherwise bleak existence
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