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”.
By popular demand, we’re happy to offer Carrier, an engaging PBS miniseries that follows the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and its 5,000 passengers on a six-month journey to the Persian Gulf. And while we were only able to offer half of the series this summer, we now have the entire run so you can catch all the action.
We like Carrier for the insider’s perspective on all the personalities aboard the ship, and how each resident — mostly sailors and Marines — deals with life under a runway. Their lives are exciting, fast-paced and sometimes stressful, with each crew member playing an integral role, whether they’re flipping pancakes or launching aircraft. And then there’s the conflict. Listening to the drama aboard this “floating high school” — after all, most of crew members are between 18 and 20 years old — beats the latest reality TV catfight anytime, probably because it seems so real.
For all the drama, there’s also the real thrill of “shooting planes” (sending the fighter jets off the carrier). While we may be in the comfort of our own homes and cubicles, these firsthand accounts give a sense, no matter how remote, of what life at sea is really all about.
oh! how much i would like to appear among these lucky travelers! I hope this Carrier has a different fate from the one of Titanic! Joke i know everything will be allright!
June 19th, 2008 by Mark ForbesContent Relationship Manager
The fourth day of the Hulu Days of Summer brings some cerebral content to the site: Five new series from Hulu’s newest content provider, PBS.
When I was a child, I often got to stay up late to watch Nova with my parents. Not only did the show foster a love for science, but also a keen interest in the spectacular — and Nova has both in abundance. Nova comes to Hulu with 14 amazing episodes, from the Lost King of the Maya to a behind-the-scenes look at the Mars Exploration Rover project.
In addition to Nova, we’re launching 10 episodes of Scientific American Frontiers — an entertaining look at the latest trends in science, medicine, technology and the environment with the ever-charismatic host, Alan Alda. In a similar vein, we have 10 episodes of Wired Science, spotlighting the latest in cutting-edge research and technology as it redefines our culture, brought to you by the team behind Wired Magazine. If you like the magazine, you will love this show. Architecture and design fans will want to tune into design: e2. It moves “green” to the forefront of building practices and habitability, bringing sustainable architecture indoors as it explores the impact on concrete jungles and our homes alike.
My newest favorite, Carrier, takes you aboard the USS Nimitz — a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier — and gives you an incredible look at the day-to-day operations of one of the world’s largest warships. It shows what it’s like to manage an airport that floats 24 stories off the water; check out this clip of Navy F-18 pilots taking off from the flight deck at 130 miles per hour:
One of the things I’ve always appreciated about PBS is that they are publicly supported, with no commercial breaks in their shows. We’ve done our best to support that format here at Hulu. While you’ll see a couple short advertisements at the beginning of each show, as well as some “overlay” ads (the ads that appear at the bottom of a video), we’ve made sure you can watch episodes as they were intended, with no ad breaks.
Love what you see? Continue to support your local PBS station to keep great shows like these coming. In the meantime, I can’t wait to see more from PBS — and it’s a good bet that I’ll be staying up late to watch!
Amen to Poirot and Mrs. Marple…and PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, add one of the best brit-sits ever: The Vicar of Dibley. I know not a lot of people know it, but I’ll watch it so many times you’ll think you’ve reached the entire east coast 18-49 demographic.
I agree with Elizabeth: you should add Are You Being Served and other classic British tv shows such as Classic Doctor Who. The original The Office would also be nice. But right now, the only show I would LOVE to see on Hulu (which I mention to all of my college friends) is Are You Being Served? but Doctor Who would be a nice bonus ;)
I’m glad you’ve got some PBS shows up now. I love PBS. NOVA and Scientific American Frontiers are both excellent shows. But, as long as you’re adding PBS content, I would suggest that you also try to get FRONTLINE, which is the best news documentary series ever (yeah, I can watch it on the PBS website; but I’d love to have it available on Hulu, too). Another favorite PBS series is Mystery! It would be great to be able to watch Poirot, Marple, Inspector Lynley, etc. on Hulu. And as long as I’m mentioning British shows, PLEASE ADD DOCTOR WHO!!! (and also Spooks, and the original version of The Office, and Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and Blackadder, and The Avengers — I could go on … ). And, while I’ve got you on the line (so to speak), here are a few other suggestions: Smallville, Veronica Mars, Mission: Impossible (the TV show, not the movies), and Columbo. I’m sure I could come up with dozens of more suggestions; but, for now at least, I’ll be content with these. :-)
Great to see the addition of PBS, great shows such as Wired are welcome. Thanks again Hulu, at this rate I might have to watch TV anymore. That is better for everyone, the advertisers don’t waste money on TV viewers that might not be there, I get my programs when I want to watch them, and Hulu makes money so it has a better bargaining chip to provide us more content.
So I’m in LOVE with Hulu….I live in Puerto Rico and have no TV. I refuse to pay for cable, and local channels are horrible!! Now I can finally sit back and watch some good shows and not have to pay a fortune! I love it! If only we could get some BBC shows on here. I really miss “are you being served”. My only problem is this: Some days will pass and i will watch hours of tv on hulu. Then, there are some days were I can’t watch anything because the streaming is low quality, and I only get blips…it makes me SAD :( Can someone tell me why this happens?
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Please make a Playstation 3 plugin for Hulu, so we can watch your content as it is meant to be seen… on a TV! This is the future of broadcasting!
Well done!
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”.