Hulu.com scares the shit out of me

Any H.P. Lovecraft fans would know why the commercials for Hulu.com are a little disarming. Famous actors on TV telling us that they want our brains to rot so they can eat them because they're really aliens? I don't like being so deceived by the television.

For those of you unfamiliar with Lovecraft, he was a horror-fiction writer in the early 1900s who created what is known as the 'Cthulhu Mythos.' It's pronounced "kuh-tooloo," but sometimes it's just pronounced "hooloo" (!!!). The primary figure's name is the aforementioned unpronounceable word, and he is a sort of alien god hidden on Earth waiting to take over the human race.

Those in charge of the Web site say that the word "Hulu" comes from the Chinese language meaning "a holder of precious things," or the second meaning, "interactive recording" (an odd connection, don't you think?). I hope I'm not the only one confused by this. The two conclusions that I arrive to from this definitions are: 1) That by promoting a chinese definition, yet saying that those who run Hulu.com are aliens - the chinese are aliens. I aim to deter from this conclusion, not because it's irrational, but because it comes off as blatantly racist. This leaves me with: 2) That the people who run Hulu.com really are aliens and seek to throw off the populous and the media with they linguistic cunning. I am not deceived!

This all doesn't mean that I don't use the Web site. What kind of human being would I be if I wasn't hypocritical? How else am I supposed to catch up on episodes of 'Dollhouse' (it's amazing by the way) when it's showing on Friday nights? Or what about 'Fringe' which is a Tuesday show? Those are my busy days. 

So what if Seth McFarlane's belly button conceals a hungry alien? Or if Eliza Dushku has a long serpentine tongue (I'm actually doubtful of any CGI use for that. My God I'm naughty...)? My point is they may be aliens, and they may want to eat our brains, but they certainly know what we need - television.