I stumbled upon a strange one. It was a screen shot of hulu.com. If you're unfamiliar with hulu, it's a streaming video service for television shows. Vicki and I aren't huge television people, but there are some shows that we like to catch like: The Office, 30 Rock, Parks and Rec, ABC's The Bachelor (wait what?!?, I'll admit it, we watch ABC's The Bachelor, mostly to make fun and to get date ideas) As we became familiar with our Dutch cable we learned that the main English comedy options were reruns of Seinfeld, Friends, Dharma & Greg, and The Ellen Show (we actual grew to like Ellen DeGeneres, she's kind of funny; who knew.) Now, don't get me wrong, this was all quality programming especially when your other options were a Dutch version of skating with the (washed up) stars; a group of Dutch people sitting around a table and and arguing in Dutch with each other; and of course the light night ladies helping you practice counting in Dutch by offering you their phone numbers.
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| A commercial for Olive Garden on hulu |
Then a light went off! hulu.com could help! It was wonderful, we were catching up on our comedies and judging the newest crop of wackos on ABC's The Bachelor. (Was there really a jumbotron operator this season?) But then after two nights the party was over.
You the reader: "Wait; Dan, you said it only worked for two night? What happened? Didn't you get to see who got the final rose and a proposal for a failed marriage?"
Me the writer: "Nope."
While trying to begin an episode of 30 Rock we got the message below. The gig was up or was it? With a simple refresh of my screen about 3-4 times, the show would start playing. This refresh strategy worked a few more times after that but then they caught on to my scheme and shut us down completely.
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| I clicked "here", but it didn't help. |
Oh well. We never saw the final rose but we still had Ellen Shows from October of 2012.
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