While I remember Fat Albert and Rocky and Bullwinkle well, He-Man was the show my younger brother and I watched after school every day. We knew the opener by heart — “By the power of Greyskull, I have the power!” — and tuned in to see Prince Adam pick up the Power Sword and transform into the most powerful man in the universe. No longer a cowardly prince, He-Man was able to step up to the evil Skeletor and protect Eternia with a little help from his friends Man-At-Arms, Teela, Orko (He-Man’s magical sidekick) and Battle Cat.
Watching our grab bag of episodes from the first season of He-Man, including the first, “Diamond Ray of Disappearance” (embedded here) has been a lot of fun — but don’t forget the other classics. Rocky and Bullwinkle is as zany as ever, and Fat Albert is a fun combo of education and fun delivered with Bill Cosby’s signature style.
We have more Hulu for the Holidays coming your way: new site features tomorrow and then a string of movies the rest of the week. We’re featuring a day of documentaries, a day of serious drama, and then a day full of family-friendly picks. Check back throughout the week to see the latest!
While I was a kid during the ’90s(born in 1990, actually), I still enjoyed watching(and still do, to some extent) Rocky & Bullwinkle and He-man, as well as Thunder Cats, when they were shown on Cartoon Network(Ah, the days when good cartoons will still shown on that channel).
It’s nice to see that you have brought them back, and I’m looking forward to lots of other great shows to come. ^.^
I loved He-man as a kid. I collected everything and anything.I watched every episode. I’m so excited that you added a piece of my childhood. Would love to see more cartoons from the 80’s.. Aww to be a kid again..
I was all set to show my kids “He-Man” until that Edge commercial came on. I don’t remember seeing commercials like that during cartoons when I was a kid! Even Teela and She-Ra wore more clothes!
Wow, He-Man! I remember this too when i was a young boy back in the 1980’s. They also did not have closed captions then, but i still watched it tirelessly.
Though i do wish i could actually read what He-man was saying, especially in the beginning at the theme where he magically upgrades from a full set of clothing into a barely naked striped armor suit.
Try watching an entire show without sounds and captions. Its quite something to see, especially when you’re 6 years old.
They’ve been around long enough that most of us consider them old friends: Ernie and Bert, Big Bird and Snuffleupagus, Oscar and Grover. Striking the right chord of playtime and education, our colorful puppet pals taught us not only letters and numbers, but also to respect each other and to eat your veggies.
Now that Sesame Street is available on Hulu, you can revisit Elmo, The Count and Cookie Monster any time you want. We have 75 clips spanning the show’s history, including some of the notable guest visits: Natalie Portman, Johnny Cash, Ben Stiller, Liam Neeson and American Idol’s Ruben Studdard, among many others. They cover everything from exercise and art to asking questions and rhyming — along with counting and the alphabet, of course.
So whether you need to brush up on your ABCs or just want an excuse to sing along, now you can find your way to Sesame Street through Hulu. Here’s one of my favorites:
Have a favorite of your own? Share yours on the show’s discussion board.
I’ve always enjoyed the animated pinball bit which covers the numbers 1-12. I now have a 3 month old child and she seems to love it too. There’s some weird stuff going on in that animation though that I never thought anything of until I was an adult. witches and clowns over top of some pretty eerie sounds between “verses”.
Comedy is full of great duos: Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, Cheech and Chong… In today’s Hulu Days of Summer feature, Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions, the minds at Aardman Animations put together a similar duo: A daffy inventor, Wallace, and his trusty dog, Gromit.
Gromit plays the straight man to his absent-minded owner, whose seemingly handy gadgets — a device that changes the channel (in “The Tellyscope“) and a robot that makes breakfast (in “The Autochef“), for instance — always seem to backfire. Luckily, the long-suffering dog takes it all in stride, gamely donning a sheep’s costume when Wallace has insomnia in “The Snoozatron” and taking a few hits in “The Soccamatic“.
These plasticine Brits come from the minds of the four-time Academy Award-winning team at Aardman. They had produced 12 stills of Wallace’s wacky inventions for a calendar, so they played off these contraptions to produce these 10 short, stop-animation films for their fans. We are happy to welcome Wallace and Gromit (and all their troublesome contraptions) to Hulu and hope you enjoy.
We often receive requests for more educational programming, and today’s Hulu Days of Summer addition should deliver. We’ve put together a collection of five new-to-Hulu documentaries that span the globe. These films, from our partners at K2 Communications, offer a close look at the world around us. Originally produced for IMAX® theaters, they offer high-impact, educational and inspirational entertainment for the entire family.
First, you can prepare yourself for the upcoming Shark Week on cable television with Search for the Great Sharks. Traveling from the coast of California to remote parts of South and Western Australia, the film pursues blue sharks (found everywhere from Newfoundland to Argentina), whale sharks and the notorious great white shark.
And then there’s Africa: The Serengeti. Narrated by James Earl Jones, it tracks the Great Migration across the Serengeti plains in Tanzania and Kenya. Over two million grazing animals — including wildebeest, zebras and gazelles — make the trek each year.
If you prefer natural wonders, The Greatest Places ventures to seven spectacular spots: Greenland, Madagascar, Namib, the Okavango Delta in Botswana, Tibet, Iguazu Falls in South America, and the Amazon. If you’ve seen the latest Indiana Jones movie, the dramatic Iguazu Falls will look familiar. This UNESCO World Heritage Site is nearly four times as wide as Niagara Falls, with 275 different cascades plunging 270 feet into the gorge below.
In addition to these, there’s also Ocean Oasis, an underwater look at the Sea of Cortes in Baja California, and The Great American West, a recap of the frontier’s history through the stories and words of the real-life settlers of the Western territory.
Well, I have no issues at all even using wi-fi as my primary connection.Other competitors are far worse, best example is Joost, now that is a skipping, stutter fest if there ever was one.My laptop is top of the line, so my experience may in fact be different on older tech.
@john: movies skipping and database are completely unrelated… If you have no idea what you’re talking about, maybe you shouldn’t try giving advices to others…
@Joe: don’t expect to have an old crappy computer and be able to enjoy video streaming… You don’t complain that you can’t watch TV on a radio do you?
Hulu is one of the best websites out there in terms of features, usability, and design. High quality video content on the web is in its infancy.
So take a chill pill and stop complaining for a minute… or even better: do better if you can…
Hello everyone,I have had some glitches also, probably not to the extent that others have had. That’s saying something consdering I’m running Vista. It might be helpful if you don’t run some of the HD stuff on full screen, even having said the former Family Guy runs effortlessly either way.I would be truly interested in how things play out. P.S., I hope this won’t turn into one of those Napster debacles
Guesses for Hulu Days of Summer:
Monday- Pan’s Labyrinth
Tuesday- Much Ado About Nothing
Wednesday- Hoop Dreams
Thursday- The Scorpion King
Friday- Mad About You
Yup, I agree with Joe. I started using Hulu in March with no problems but the “Hulu Days of Summer” program appears to be adding more new content and users than the servers can handle. Short videos (5 minutes or less) tend to play with no problems but full episodes and feature films are usually almost unwatchable because of the skipping. Hulu really needs to upgrade their servers and optimize their code and database if they want to see more viewers in August.
Hulu videos skip frames and the audio cuts out like a bad cell phone call. This is not the fault of the 4 new computers I’ve tested in 2 different locations. Your severs are bogged down or you don’t have a low frame rate version with good audio. I’m a teacher and I’m glad you have woken up to education needs. Perhaps you should visit some local schools and watch hulu videos there, you will be in for some major bugs to investigate. Don’t expect your audience to have a computer that is 2 years old or newer.
As the Wachowskis’ Day-Glo take on Speed Racer hits theaters this weekend, we’re happy to welcome the original Speed Racer — along with Trixie, Spritle, Chim-Chim and Rex Racer — to the Hulu family.
One of the first successful anime series to cross over to the U.S. from Japan, Speed Racer got its start in the late 1960s and stuck around in syndication for nearly 20 years. Many of us here at Hulu caught the series when it made a comeback on MTV in the ’90s (and later on the Cartoon Network), and can’t wait to see how the Wachowskis’ version holds up to the original.
To catch up on Speed Racer’s roots, tune into any of our 13 episodes — with more on the way — to see Speed and his Mach 5 outmaneuver spies, motorcycle gangs and other bad guys with the help of his family and friends. Full of zany humor and lots of revved-up action, one of our favorites is The Race Against the Mammoth Car, a two-part episode complete with homing robots, rotary saws and $50 million in gold bars.
The two-part Race for Revenge stars a brother and sister who are out to beat Speed:
While the original Speed Racer series may not have the CGI and special effects of the Wachowski flick, the fast-paced story lines and vintage anime action can’t be beat. Still craving more Speed? Subscribe to the series to have episodes placed in your queue as they’re added to the site. Turn on queue alerts and we’ll even send an e-mail to let you know when new Speed Racer episodes have arrived in your queue.
The Wachowski Bros. could not have done a better job with this movie! They captured every nuance of the classic Anime show. Kudos Guys! I rarely buy DVD’s (much to my daughter’s chagrin)but I can’t wait for this one to hit the stores! Heck, I’ll even buy it brand new at an outrageous price; and that, my new friends, speaks volumes!!!!!!
~She Who is Very Happy About The Speed Racer Movie
The Wachowski bros certainly put a lot of effort into making Speed Racer… the movie overall looked and felt like a cross between anime, a kaleidoscope, that Flintstones movie, a video game and the Dukes of Hazard
Thanks for the Speed Racer episodes. Please show all 52 episodes. Plus can you get the Incredible Hulk and Iron man from the 60’s and 70’s cartoon that will be cool. Keep up the good work.
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While I was a kid during the ’90s(born in 1990, actually), I still enjoyed watching(and still do, to some extent) Rocky & Bullwinkle and He-man, as well as Thunder Cats, when they were shown on Cartoon Network(Ah, the days when good cartoons will still shown on that channel).
It’s nice to see that you have brought them back, and I’m looking forward to lots of other great shows to come. ^.^
I loved He-man as a kid. I collected everything and anything.I watched every episode. I’m so excited that you added a piece of my childhood. Would love to see more cartoons from the 80’s.. Aww to be a kid again..
I was all set to show my kids “He-Man” until that Edge commercial came on. I don’t remember seeing commercials like that during cartoons when I was a kid! Even Teela and She-Ra wore more clothes!
Wow, He-Man! I remember this too when i was a young boy back in the 1980’s. They also did not have closed captions then, but i still watched it tirelessly.
Though i do wish i could actually read what He-man was saying, especially in the beginning at the theme where he magically upgrades from a full set of clothing into a barely naked striped armor suit.
Try watching an entire show without sounds and captions. Its quite something to see, especially when you’re 6 years old.