Hulu has accrued a lot of anime over the years, so sometimes it’s hard to parse what’s great. This week, Funimation writer Scott Porter previews Shin Chan, a hilarious, raunchy (and re-dubbed with more raunch) comedy that’s new to Hulu.— Ed.

by Scott Porter, Funimation

Poo Poo Doo Doo Pee Pee. Still with me? Fantastic. That means you’re going to love Season Three of Shin Chan, which will be rolling out over the next few weeks on Hulu. This new season is even more crass and stupid-funny than the previous two. And that’s really all this blog post is supposed to communicate.

My boss said something like, “Hey, new guy, Steve, write something about how Season Three is the craziest yet. Share some info about the first four episodes.” So, I said, “Dude, my name is Scott and I’ve worked here for, like, seven years.” Then I went to the bar for lunchbreak and that’s when I got an idea.

See, I could easily just type something like: In the first episode, Shin plays volleyball with porn stars. In the third episode, Shin undergoes an experimental “de-snotting” treatment.

But I don’t want to do that. That’s like telling your buddy how great this beer you just had for lunch was, instead of just bringing him a few bottles back in your “laptop bag” and getting him wasted before the HR presentation. Does that make sense? No? Okay, well, what I mean is this: Instead of telling you about what happens in the first four episodes of Shin Chan’s third season, I’m going to let the show speak for itself. What follows are several randomly selected lines from the scripts:

“There’s a tide of medical waste rolling in!”
“Use your mouth.”
“I’m not even swimming, I’m just farting!”
“Philip and I make taco sauce.”
“It wasn’t me, it was O.J.!”
“Like I often say, clean body cavities do wonders for the soul.”
“This isn’t my first encounter with a bedpan, boy.”
“I make boom-boom in my undies.”
“See you in hell, Panda!”

So there you go. That’s what happens in the first four episodes of Shin chan, Season Three, available for your viewing pleasure now. After that, you can expect a new episode every Friday until late July. By the way, you’ll know you’re watching the last episode of the season when you hear this line: “It’s like I’m wearing it and going commando all at the same time.”

Michael Tucker saw a bunch of his friends coming home from the war in Iraq. He saw them in need of a support system that, he concluded, didn’t really exist. He decided to make a movie about their stories.

That might sound very political, and he’s worried about that. But How to Fold a Flag is really just the story of a few soldiers from his previous movie Gunner Palace and how they returned to America with odds, bills, and responsibilities stacked against them. And they had no help.

One soldier has PTSD, a family, and complicated finances from a bureaucratically mangled exit. Another is stuck in a beaten-down home working a minimum wage job. And the final story follows the parents of a GI Joe-esque super soldier; the unkillable who was killed in Iraq.

It’s devastating and very hard to watch, but it’s not political. It’s a reminder of the sacrifices of the modern American solider.

On Memorial Day, Hulu presents Tucker and Petra Epperlein’s film “How to Fold a Flag” and salutes the American soldiers we lost, the ones currently serving overseas, and its veterans back home.

Hulu: This is probably the most agnostic war film I’ve seen in a long time. It has no direct narrative. Do you have a hard time explaining to people what kind of movie this is?

Michael Tucker: There have varying degrees of how people feel about that. It’s funny that you say that actually. Our distributor on this, Virgil Films, put it on their Facebook page. Those were some of the first people to really come out in support of it. But, if you look on Netflix, it’s our lowest rated movie ever. It’s, I think, at 2.1 now (out of five). Yeah, it’s coming in at a 2.1. It’s one of the toughest things you can watch, if you watch it to the end—when you see the Colgan family that lost their son there. That’s part of it.

That’s very interesting about the rating. I’d find it hard to watch this film and get to Michael Goss’ section and see his kids climbing over him, then going right to the Internet give this thing a really low rating.

I think it has more to do with people they don’t want telling them stories, telling them stories. They view the voices of the soldiers as fairly liberal voices, which I think is very unfair. They’re very critical voices of everything, but I don’t think it’s from a political side. It looks like these guys looking at their country and they’re saying what they see they don’t necessarily like.

But it’s the curse of doing anything creative. You take a few arrows along the way.

That’s another thing about this film that I found interesting: You found four guys who could very eloquently piece together—and were open about—how they’re dealing with the war after they came back. That’s not an easy thing to do. I know you worked with them on (Tucker’s previous wartime film) Gunner Palace, but did you expect to have four open books like this?

Well, all of them were in the unit that we filmed for Gunner Palace. Stuart (Wilf) is basically a little brother to me. I’ve been in these horrible times with him in Iraq. Over time he’s been able to process these experiences. At the same time, he had a brother that was going off to Afghanistan.

Javorn did some hip-hop stuff for our first film. Three years ago, he invited me down to see how his life was going, and what he came back to—it was not good. That was pretty instructive. He’s also funny and also very articulate. It came by surprise that his mother was dying, so we followed along as he went through that.

John did all the press for us for Gunner Palace. That’s led to him finding his voice, I think, and running for Congress. Now he’s a Special Appointee for President Obama.

Mike Goss I didn’t know that well in Iraq. His life has just been a shitstorm. I knew nothing about MMA, so I learned a lot about that in filming. He’s very eloquent. There’s a part of a film where he says he wants to know what normal means, what home means. People, they don’t—there’s a very rah-rah element. You just label people, “You’re a hero, welcome home, now fuck off.” That’s the challenge. Everyone’s experience is different. But you go from 15 months in combat to being a civilian, and you can’t forget that.

I think that’s the most jarring part of the film. There’s that scene with Colonel Larry Wilkinson—and I think most people do this—where he speaks in abstract terms about PTSD. He says, “Why someone didn’t intervene in that.” It seems to be a fully recognized problem that everyone understands is serious and real, but there’s no real, genuine help at the end of the day.

Mike Goss in the film is a prime example of that. If it’s not actually in your life, nobody pays attention. Before we started filming, we got a text message saying, “I’m gonna go kill myself.” He was completely out of the system. There was nobody to help him. If you live in a city, maybe there’s some help. But Mike’s not there. There aren’t many support services out there for people.

That happened before we started filming. One of the things, as we’ve met, more and more people have been helping support the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. We were able to reach out to people that we knew. That’s the interesting about this generation of vets: They socially mobilize pretty fast, especially compared to the Vietnam.

Do you think average Americans are starting to pay enough attention to how serious PTSD can be?

Society is a lot more progressive now in general. I still think most people think war is this Hurt Locker-esque thing. And there are some people who are like that, who come home and say, “I need some adrenaline.” They want multiple war experiences. But, for most people, war sucks. After the honeymoon wears off, it just plain sucks. Not everyone comes home with PTSD. But the ones that do, they need to be able to say, “I need to talk through this.” And that’s impossible to do if coming home means “Welcome home son, go fuck yourself.”

It’s funny, we were out with Javorn. We were stopped by the police one night, filming him. At one point he said, “I was in Iraq.” And the police officer says, “Big deal, you’re in Iraq. The whole town’s been to Iraq.”

You bring up The Hurt Locker part of this, and your film touches on this in some scenes, but there’s a Hollywoodization, I guess, of the war experience. The Army is using that sort of adrenalin rush to recruit people now. They’re using video games and that sort of experience more than the honor-based stuff they used for ads last decade. How do you feel about that?

Yeah, there’s that stuff in the film, it sounds like “Pirates of the Carribean” music. We paid huge money to a Hollywood composer. Turns out he’s this enormously liberal, yoga zen guy. He got a huge amount of money making this horrendous piece of music. It’s funny.

There’s this element of, “The uniform is your passport.” They show pictures of you shaking hands with faceless Middle Eastern children. I was 11B infantry; enlisted in the army reserves when I was 17. I think society is so out of touch to what the reality of all this is.

I mean, it’s still really exciting when a Navy SEAL team took out Osama Bin Laden. I was jumping up and down. As a red-blooded American male, it’s in our veins. The way they’re selling it. We’ve got two wars going on. It’s showing you all the images. It’s selling it like a rite of passage, as an adventure. If you’re 18 and your life is boring. Here’s a way to become a man.

I think it’s great for people. It’s really painful to watch. No matter whatever anyone thinks of the military, there’s some mom or some dad that are torn up inside about it. That’s the reality. Somebody has to do it. I really respect these guys. There’s a part of me that’s very hooah. It’s seductive. Nothing can prepare you for the intensity of experience. That’s often good.

So it’s a challenge: How do you recruit people? It’s a way to become socially elevated very fast. My father did it. In 20 years he got places that it would’ve taken much longer to get to. It’s a challenge. How do you get people in the military with a war going on?

And the truth is, for a lot of people, joining is an act of rebellion. As it’s presented to some people, a lot of people are like, “Yeah, I want that.” “Belong to something, join us. We are the 1%.” It’s like joining the Hell’s Angels or something. It’s probably the most rebellious thing you can do.

And they’re still very proud of their service. But, at the end of the day, it’s the military and you have to take instruction. You look at Stuart, and he’s not at war with anybody but the army.

If you could make a pitch to someone browsing around Hulu, what would you say to convince them to watch How to Fold a Flag?

I guess I’d say, as the wars have gone on, we owe it to these guys to listen to their stories. Not just greet them and say, “Welcome back,” but absorb what they’re saying and make it a part of the national conversation.

Here are the top five shows and clips that still have us talking (and laughing) at the end of the week.

1) “Green With Envy” trailer

Jason Segel: “Woah woah woah, wait wait wait, stop! Are there Muppets in this movie?”

2) Mozart Dress Rehearsal

Mozart: “When I was a boy I was in the Austrian Mouse Club with little Beethoven, little Hayden, little Christina and Ryan Gosling.”

3) “Neil Young,” Crosby and Nash sing “Party in the USA” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon

It’s the saddest anyone has said “And the Britney song is on” since Kevin Federline heard one in an H&M last month.

4) “Modern Family” Season Finale

Manny: “Her name is Tara. I met her online. She’s really smart and funny, but she’s on the softball team.”
Cam: “Well, nobody’s perfect.”

5) Jimmy Kimmel Live: Boyz II Men Oprah Tribute

Boyz II Men: “I’ll miss the way you gave out cars.”

Since you’re probably a human being with things like responsibilities and priorities, you most likely didn’t watch every reality show finale this week. You didn’t know that Lauren Alaina won American Idol, that Kirstie Alley won Dancing With The Stars, or that Donald Trump’s hair turned into a thousand hornets and killed everyone on set at the taping of The Celebrity Apprentice finale.

That’s because all of those things are lies. (And that’s too bad. At least about the Donald Trump part.)

So to clear up rumors and expedite your time-wasting, here are all of the reality show finales from this last week summed up and videoized. We no longer feel human. Join us!

Celebrity Apprentice

The circumstances: Country singer John Rich and Oscar-winning actress (and National Association for the Deaf activist) Marlee Matlin duke it out to… do whatever being the Celebrity Apprentice for Donald Trump entails. Get him ties that look like puppydog ears? Buy him a non-alcoholic mojito from an Orange Julius?

What happened: Trump dealt with this eloquently and clearly stated his decision to an awaiting American public. Haha, no, just kidding. He said something really confusing and everyone left bewildered and unsatisfied.

What should have happened: Well, for one, he probably should have picked the one upstanding citizen to ever appear on his show. I’m sure John Rich is nice and all, but Trump had a choice between a woman who dedicated her life to charity and the guy who wrote “Save a Horse Ride a Cowboy,” and he picked the latter.

Then Trump should’ve announced that he was just kidding and he is, in fact, “running for Mayor of Americaland in 2013, God Bless Americaland, goodnight, Barack Obama was born in East Korea, save a horse ride a cowboy, goodnight, goodnight.”

That would’ve been satisfying.

Biggest Loser

The circumstances: Hannah Curlee and Olivia Ward weigh 248 and 261 pounds respectively to start the competition by having Jillian Michaels make fun of their mothers while they’re doing crunches at the gym.

What happened: Olivia weighed in at 132 pounds, losing just under half of her body weight. That ain’t a joke. Not much to make fun of here. That’s pretty impressive.

What should have happened: Know what else is impressive? How many speakers she put out nationwide with her game-winning scream. If that’s what it’s like to not even smell cake for six months, the biggest loser of all is her olfactory system. And her voice is letting us know that.

Just let her dive into an Olympic-sized swimming pool full of Cool Whip next time. Make all that Jillian Michaelsness worth it for the poor woman.

Dancing with the Stars

The circumstances: Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward (best dancer in the contest), Disney actress Chelsea Kane (second best dancer in the contest), and Kirstie Alley (lost, like, 40 pounds by writhing around on a dance floor for weeks; some people continually got it confused with dancing and voted for her accordingly) strutted around the DTWS stage and waited for votes to pour in.

What happened: Hines Ward ran an out-route all the way to the endzone of justice.

What should have happened: The loser should’ve been forced to samba very sadly to “Everybody Hurts” while crying heavily into a microphone.

That’s how we deal with loss in my family, anyway.

American Idol

The circumstances: Genuine 17-year-old American sweetheart Lauren Alaina takes on possible boyfriend country singer Scotty McReery.

What happened: McReery takes it home. When they break up, is America ready for its first mass-distributed country covers of Morrissey and Dashboard Confessional songs?

What should have happened: The winner should’ve been forced to samba very sadly to “Everybody Hurts” while crying heavily into a microphone.

That’s how we deal with emo cowboys in my family, anyway.

Wipeout

The circumstances: A bunch of people try to overcome violently swaying pipes with water underneath it.

What happened: The pipes win. Every time.

What should have happened: This is how we should’ve found out who the new Celebrity Apprentice is.

Ben Collins is an Assistant Editor at Hulu. You can email him here or reach him on Twitter @globesoundtrack.

Today is John Wayne’s birthday, which means we’ve had his seminal Western “McLintock!” on in the background all day, replete with its exclamation point. Lots of Smith & Wesson firin’, cattle-wranglin’, even (really) spelunkin’ action goin’ on in them there movie-film right there.

Ahem, sorry. We got drawn in.

Who could blame us? They actually say sentences like this in “McLintock!”

“Yes, ma’am. I was standin’ right over here when ya said it, and I was standin’ right out there on those front steps when he walked up to a horse, grabbed a hunk o’ mane, stepped up on ‘em, and sunk spur.”

Yep, no idea what that means, but damn is it awesome.

The best part of McLintock, though? The reviews section underneath it. We found someone who may, in fact, be the coolest person on the Internet. His name is Carl G., and he took twenty minutes off from eating overcooked steak to write this review. It’s considerably better than most of the things we’ve read this year.

Love these movies.. Hard working Americans men were men then.. Today men not allowed to be men.. I would change in all my toys and easy living for a time machine to send me back in time…great movie, history really……No TV, no nonsense politicians all nature no bio crops, no climate issues.. just a hard days work and with the right women a clean healthy life..I gues poeple died young in those days but the lived full lives..

Hard workers made themselves into weathy americans and that wealth tranfered to some of the weathy families today….Man that a wonderfull way to live as long as you did not get sick or ill..But everything is a trade off..I ll take an old western town in that time in our history over winning the lottery today……great history… americans birth place !!!!

Also, yeehaw.

Okay, so he didn’t say “Also, yeehaw.” But he did say the rest of it.

We want to meet this guy, pay 45 cents for a beer with him, then get into his 1940s Ford pickup truck and do donuts in a Sizzler parking lot until the sun goes down.

That’s kind of what happens when you spend a day with George Washington McLintock in the background. You get these tendencies! Like stray exclamation points, for example!