Johnny Socko & His Flying Robot Episodes Available on Hulu - UPDATED For Non-Americans
This is how you make a private beta so awesomely worth it. By posting stuff that you’d never expect a giant conglomorate site to post. Like Johnny Socko. And his Flying Robot. That made news long ago. On TV. In Japan.
P.S. I’ll post some more of these here if you’re interested. Not everyone can get into Hulu yet.
UPDATE: I am sometimes not so smart. While Hulu surprised a lot of us here in the States with how good it ended up being, I forgot that internationally Hulu don’t work. Which is a real bummer for those TViJ readers outside the borders of the USA. Hopefully, sometime soon Hulu will find a way to make it work in all territories.
Thankfully, Youtube has a metric TON of Johnny Socko which you can find right here.
Hi, please don’t post videos that can’t been seen by everybody. Hula says i’m not in the “right” country
January 30th, 2008 at 4:22 am
Ditto. Damn the regional drm type things…
January 30th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Well, at least allow me to be the token grateful person. I’d heard these were available on Amazon Unbox, but this is much better. Awesome and thanks a million.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:56 am
It’s a shame that we can’t view it… (UK)
January 30th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Buckethead fans such as myself are screaming with joy.
It’s well known that Buckethead was a huge fan of the show. He has covered the theme song, used samples from the show and the “Giant Robot” has been shown on album covers.
Thanks so much!
January 30th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
wow seeing johnny sokko and his flying robot takes me so far back to my childhood it is crazy.I used to run home from school just so that i would not miss show,that show and ultra man and marine boy.thanks
February 17th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
I’m 37 years old & I think those missles shooting out of his fingers are still, to day this– bad ass!!
February 25th, 2008 at 4:35 am
it was fab, after all of these years to finally find episodes of JS. I watched the show as a toddler and never forgot it, or Ultraman. Thanx
February 29th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Sounds very enterntaining, sure would like to see it, unfortunately I’m in Japan. But maybe I can get a copy of the original in Tsutaya.
As for this,
“Hopefully, sometime soon Hulu will find a way to make it work in all territories.”
the internets don’t work that way. The people at Hulu are deliberately blocking access based on IP addresses. People browsing with IPs registered to ISPs outside the US are blocked.
I’ve never quite understood the motivation for this practice, since if you REALLY want to see something that is being blocked in this manner, all you have to do is proxy your browsing session through a computer located in the country or region you require.
With firefox this is as simple as 1,2,3:
http://technicalbliss.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-use-free-proxy-with-firefox.html
The programmers who set this up certainly appreciate how pointless and counterproductive this is, but the media execs probably think they are creating potential alternative revenue streams, and the lawyers probably think they are limiting their liability with respect to their region-restricted content distribution licenses.
All it really adds up to though, is an annoying experience for a large part of the viewing public.
March 1st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
I can view the hulu and I have been a long time fan of Johnny Socko and his flying robot, often times remembering the moves of the Robots arms. Thanks, much appreciated!
April 6th, 2008 at 7:47 pm
thanks for taking me back to my early days, i almost forgot about johnny sooko and ultraman, that was real cool
May 31st, 2008 at 9:44 pm