Hulu’s library of animated TV shows, shorts and features is growing more impressive by the week. Hulu’s content includes current series ( The Simpsons, Family Guy ), anime ( One Piece, Inuyasha ), animated shorts (the Koji Yamamura library, Pink Panther, Ant and the Aardvark, Tijuana Toads), features ( American Pop, The Secret of NIMH ), and old TV series ( Stressed Eric, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Fat Albert, Drawn Together, He-Man ). Hulu isn’t perfect—most of their content is geo-targeted for specific territories, some of the animation is only available for limited periods of time, and the videos have embedded advertising (though the percentage of ads relative to content isn’t unbearable). But even with these issues, it’s a…

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