Bush Mackel

I don’t remember when I first started looking at content on Hulu but it couldn’t've been that long ago… We’re probably only talking a month or two. The TV ads weren’t enough to get me to go online but a friend of mine kept sending e-mails around saying that he was catching up on the latest Family Guy’s using it, so I ended up doing the same after my wife made me miss about four weeks worth in a row. (In case you were wondering, the wife doesn’t find ANYTHING funny about Family Guy which means I hardly ever watch it).

Hulu is One of the Best Inventions Ever
The best ideas are often the simplest and Hulu is a prime example of that. I mean, from an end user point of view, there’s nothing really novel about Hulu… All they’re doing is showing video and YouTube’s been doing that for a while. I guess the thing about Hulu was doing what everyone else has been doing, but putting it where it had never been before. That’s to say that just about every cable provider nowadays offers some kind of On Demand programming. Hulu has just brought that offering to the Internet. GENIUS. Now I’m sure the real genius is what’s going on behind the scenes… Making this whole thing profitable with the bandwidth they’re using is probably no simple feat (If they’ve been able to accomplish that at all). But friends, let’s forget about all that for a second and focus on why I absolutely adore Hulu. The answer to that, is Battle Dome.

T-Money Counts Money With His Tongue
If you’ve never seen this show, it’s kind of like old school American Gladiators crossed with WCW (when it was good). Crazy awesome characters + sports competition with real people. It’s probably what the current run of American Gladiators is trying to be like. One of the best/worst parts of the show is the announcer who sounds like he has two doses of throat cancer. I cannot explain it any better than that and it’s definitely one of those things that just have to hear to believe. Well since Battle Dome went off the air, I have not been able to find it anywhere. Not on YouTube, not on Google, not ANYWHERE. UNTIL NOW.

So for that Hulu, you have my eternal gratitude.