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Hulu? Who Knew?
Monday, March 17th, 2008 at 4:41 pm by JamiBad pun, I know.
This is a full half hour episode of “What’s Happening,” one of the first sitcoms I actually remember watching and laughing my ass off growing up. I must have caught it in syndication because the show ended in ‘79. I was 2 then, but not really watching the tele. Kinda wished they still ran reruns of this today.
Hulu has the first two seasons of What’s Happening online, streamable with limited commercial interruption. They’ve got a decent slate of other shows, including “Firefly” (thanks to reader Kevin Bahrt for sniffing this out), as well as full feature length movies.
All online. All free.
You will have to register to watch R-rated films like Usual Suspects. They bleep out curse words and I can only assume that they censor nudity. But for the most part, Hulu serves up full television episodes and movies for free.
Hulu is a joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp serving content from FOX, NBC, MGM, Sony Pictures Television, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate, and more. So no one’s going to be taking these clips down anytime soon. AZM readers outside the U.S. will have to confirm whether or not you can view these clips. And if you hate advertising of all forms, the commercial interruptions are a bit of a pain. But for the most part, this is a pretty cool site. It’ll certainly help me stay awake late at night while plowing through Erfworld pages and the like.
Poke around for yourself and see if you can’t find some crazy nostalgic show that brings you back.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, it’s been confirmed that if you are outside the U.S., Hulu doesn’t like you. So I guess it’s back to other methods of acquisition for the rest of the world. 
