ULPT: How can I get a show removed from Hulu?
Posted by Salty-Tomato5654@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 230 comments
How do I secretly erase a show from existence without starting a household war?
My wife watches The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives on Hulu and I cannot stand it. I know we all have our guilty pleasure garbage TV. She has hers and I have mine. But something about this show is like nails on a chalkboard mixed with slow internet and lukewarm coffee. Just hearing the theme song makes me want to walk into the woods and never return.
Short of canceling Hulu or throwing the remote into the fireplace, how can I get this show out of our lives without her noticing? Is there a way to make it mysteriously disappear?
This is a light-hearted post. I love my wife. I just wish her show wasn’t slowly breaking my spirit.
Leading_Kale_81@reddit
Honestly, just tell her you can't stand it and ask that she watch it on her own time.
Unethical tip: Covertly spray some liquid ass anytime your wife turns on the show. She will eventually become conditioned not to watch it.
Dobby-is-my-Hero@reddit
I was wondering how liquid ass could be used as a solution to this post. You did not disappoint. Now, what about piss disks?
simmypom@reddit
Grow a pair
jdsquint@reddit
The most effective way would be to purchase the show from Hulu via a shell company and then take it offline. Any big attorneys office can help with this. The key is not to let your wife find out where the money went.
The most efficient way is for you to set up DNS blocking on your router that blocks Internet access to the Hulu app. Hulu will still work on your phone and when connected outside the home, but not in your home wifi, keeping it off your TV. You'll have to fake attempts to fix it in a convincing way.
As an absolute last-ditch option, you could try telling your wife how much the show bugs you and ask if she can save it for times when you aren't around. It's risky, but it just might work!
NikonShooter_PJS@reddit
Ok bud. Did you really read what you wrote? How unhelpful. The man is looking for legitimate suggestions and you give him such an unrealistic one?!?!?
Communicate with his wife? Insanity.
Buying the show from a shell account though? Honestly seems pretty easy. Surprised he didn’t think of the at himself.
Okami512@reddit
So genuine question (I'm a lesbian for reference)
Do straight people really have that much of an issue taking to their spouses? Like outside of fiction i can't say I know many if any happy straight couples, y'all look like you're contemplating killing each other. Even my own parents were like that.
killerteddybear@reddit
No, not really, the above comment is what's commonly referred to as a joke.
Okami512@reddit
I'm on the spectrum and most heterosexual couples I know generally fought like hell. Pardon my ignorance.
Suspicious_Club_5792@reddit
The thing you’re referencing exists, this one was just more sarcastic than an instance of that common pattern
killerteddybear@reddit
No worries. My wife and I don't really ever fight, pretty laid back, we generally split responsibilities evenly and all that, if the sample size helps.
OPA73@reddit
I’m sorry, what was the name of the subreddit you entered. Was it good practices for a loving relationship, or UnethicalLifeProTips? Gay or straight has nothing to do with the fact he is searching for a solution that is unethical.
TooManyPxls@reddit
/r/woosh
redrosebeetle@reddit
No, the joke is that redditors will try literally anything other than direct communication.
Look, OP, here's some real advice: delete facebook, get a lawyer and hit the gym.
PrideofPicktown@reddit
You had me until #3. Talk to your wife…. This guy….
cdgal38382@reddit
I also choose to talk to this guys wife
HexAndSnacks@reddit
"I'll be nice to her. I'll be so nice to her..."
HBThorburn@reddit
Wait, that works!? I just communicated through etchings on piss disks.
hotrod145chief@reddit
Piss disc hieroglyphics lol
Exulansis22@reddit
In “reformed Egyptian” for authenticity
Hairy_Drag8718@reddit
It only works if your the wife, only alleged claims of it working for the husband, we're still lacking evidence to back this up though
adeptusminor@reddit
Is this a Mormon joke?
HeIsNotGhandi@reddit
Don't think so.
sqrrrlgrrl@reddit
Archeologists in the future: And we know through these ancient writings, that our ancestors communicated through chisels and piss.
phenomenomnom@reddit
If your wife is not a mongoose living in a discarded toilet down the holler, there's a larger conversation to be had here.
Also, if she is.
mdl397@reddit
I understood that reference.
Expensive_Clock985@reddit
This guy talks
KingSolomonsFrog@reddit
r/thisguythisuys
abdab909@reddit
Talk?! No thanks, I’m just over here with binoculars…
maybeimbornwithit@reddit
I found out that my husband had been turning off my sleep podcast as soon as I fell asleep because he hated it and it gave home nightmares. Like, my dude, you could’ve just told me and I would find something else, or just not listen to anything 🤦🏻♀️
jasonmgaydos@reddit
Wouldn’t he be doing you a favor at that point? You don’t get to miss too much of the podcast!
maybeimbornwithit@reddit
It’s a sleep podcast so I could just find a boring story to listen to instead
Watch_The_Expanse@reddit
I too choose to not speak with this guy's wife.
ctlemonade@reddit
“I bought the airline…. It seemed neater”
AnotherDoubtfulGuest@reddit
Suggesting that he talk to his wife when he could just encase their house in a lead dome to shut down the WiFi is crazy work.
Against_All_Advice@reddit
This post is art. No notes.
XASTA123@reddit
You mean…communicate with their spouse? Like an emotionally intelligent adult? Lmao he should just insist TV is the devil and force his family to become Amish, obvs.
jdsquint@reddit
You're right, that was a silly suggestion, I don't know what made me think that would work. 😂
Gen_JohnsonJameson@reddit
It's all good until she starts calling the ISP to complain that Hulu isn't working. They'll send out a tech to "repair" it and charge you $100 or whatever. That will really put sand in your crankcase.
nleksan@reddit
I've always heard this expression as "put sand in your panties", so from now on I'm going to start referring to panties as crankcases.
heylooknewpillows@reddit
I mean this is ULPT. communicating with your spouse is not unethical.
UnitedAttitude566@reddit
Haha, yeah, because that's why no one watches mafs, American idol, America's got talent, so you think you can dance, dancing with the stars of so you think you can dance or Taylor swift anymore, right? Right?
thisissomeshitman@reddit
Will momtok survive this????!
deeannbee@reddit
100 percent
cacaracat@reddit
I don’t think momtok will even survive this 😔
thisissomeshitman@reddit
this isn’t what momtok stands for!!
cameltoeannie6@reddit
You guys, it's about the intention.
LiberalAspergers@reddit
Or the implication.
deeannbee@reddit
100 percent
wedonotrelate@reddit
Dude just talk to her, as you know, the friend your are first, and let her know you think the show sucks ass and please not put it on when you're around.
My wife has a handful of extremely stupid fucking ani e she likes for some reason I don't want to know, but I love her enough to not put her down about it. I simply stated I think the shows are very irritating to me and please just watch them on her time and not even mention them to me.
And fyi everyone. I know my response sounds blunt, I just wanted to type fast, i love my wife and do not talk to her like an ass, i spent some time constructing how to approach her kindly about my disinterest in the shows.
UnethicalLifeProTips-ModTeam@reddit
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Old-Salary-3900@reddit
The most effective way is to lean hard into "loving" The show. Make it the most important thing in your relationship. 1. Have it on in the background at all time (including sexy time), 2. Develop an unhealthy infatuation with one of the characters. (The ugliest one that obviously has no real soul) 3. Start reading the Mormon mythology and comment constantly how it "just makes sense." 4. Test the waters for multiple "wives" 5. Tell her that she has to cut chocolate, alcohol and caffeine from your lives, because Joseph Smith said so.
They are many more you can do if the above do not work. I'm available for consultation if need be.
Good luck! That show and those people are truly awful!
Choice-Shoulder-3180@reddit
Number three got me. Can't argue with that.
Highvolts@reddit
Parental controls
Mouthshits@reddit
Communicate that she should watch it while you aren’t around and you get to pick up a hobby that gets put away from the TV, win win
charliemom3@reddit
um probably hugely improper
But you could pretend to like some of the wives and wonder out loud what it would be like to add a wife to your household???
domdymond@reddit
Get a dns blocker for hulu?
T0nysoprano@reddit
Block hulu from the wifi using your router’s settings
Pacman4202@reddit
Divorce
Reasonable-Holiday53@reddit
You sound so manipulative 🚩 what if you communicate like adults? “ hey honey, I don’t want to hurt your feelings ( because you genuinely shouldn’t ) but something about that show really drives me nuts and I know we all have our trash tv show of choice so it’s not a big deal but for some reason I can’t stand the voices of this cast, can we come up with a solution where I don’t have to hear this but you also enjoy your show unbothered ? “
Use your words
floranpinky@reddit
It’s not 9 seasons. Tough it out, it’ll be over soon
moxvoxfox@reddit
Season three coming soon!
NullGWard@reddit
Convert her to Mormonism. The Church elders will then tell her to stop watching this crap show.
BoxMunchr@reddit
Become super interested in the show. Talk about all the benefits of that lifestyle, becoming gradually more and more in favor. Either she will begin to dislike the show, or you will get more wives.
DannySantoro@reddit
Start saying things like "You know, that multiple wives thing is kind of an interesting concept." and "Is your friend Becky married?"
intdev@reddit
Can't get bothered by your wife's shows if she's no longer your wife
PacoMahogany@reddit
Or maybe one of your others wives will have better taste in shows
thatdeterminedguy@reddit
This is why i pay my internet bill
Swoopert@reddit
This is the way.. take a very active interest in the show, consistently bringing up sister wives.
redthump@reddit
She will start asking about Mark from work. Choose wisely.
eltonjock@reddit
That’s not how Mormon polygamy works
redthump@reddit
Your point? Mormon polygamy usually isn't about getting on TV and talking about all your sexual indiscretions either but somehow that seems to be okay.
eltonjock@reddit
It was more a comment on how patriarchal Mormonism is.
redthump@reddit
I think one threw away traditional Mormonism the second they started watching this show. I don't believe the Mormon Church would be happy about its chaste women watching a bunch of Jezebel harlots slut around. Truthfully, I'm just guessing. I've never actually watched any of this show, nor am I a Mormon. I can just guess.
UnethicalLifeProTips-ModTeam@reddit
Your comment was removed for violating rule 14: No reason to be a dick. Seriously, get therapy or fuck off.
BJntheRV@reddit
Sadly that show has nothing to do with polygamy and little to do with Mormons.
It's about a group of til tok mom's who happen to be Mormon who got caught up Ina swinging scandal and mostly left/got kicked out of the church. Several moved away from Mormonland, but the promise of money and fame has brought them back together again to create trash TV.
OPA73@reddit
For the love of god. Please do not tell my wife this show exists!
whiskeyjane45@reddit
This might backfire. Or be good, depending on your view lmao
My husband and I watched an episode of Boston legal where they were representing a family of 3 wives and a husband a long ass time ago. My husband was like, doesn't that sound good? After they described getting the house to themselves after sending the husband to another house to have sex with someone else when they didn't feel like it
I laughed it off
Now here I am, giving his other wife a heads up that he's grumpy and her promising to give him a bj later to lighten his mood and happily settling in with the PS5 all to myself while he's gone
firebreathingbunny@reddit
Wat
SuperSpecialUser@reddit
You can get two fights at the same time with this one.
always_a_tinker@reddit
100% nose dive into being interested and tossing in real acquaintances for hypothetical situations. “This would be like if Becky was also a wife and her son needed braces but they weren’t on my insurance…”
smooth-brain_Sunday@reddit
**our son
yousirnaime@reddit
This is the way.
Then when she’s pissed back pedal just enough to make it to the next round
“What!? No I’m just saying, like if I had to provide for 2 wives it’d be hard but the extra help would mean less cooking for all of us”
Effective-Window-922@reddit
But....seeing she's a fan of an Amish show, maybe she responds with "yeah, it really is. I'm starting to think this is how we should all live" and next thing you know you're Amish
eltonjock@reddit
Mormons are very different than Amish.
ADisposableRedShirt@reddit
Giggity!
_holy_potatoes_@reddit
On all streaming applications each show has a dedicated ID (either an alphanumeric string or the episode title) that forms part of the request. If there is a season ID in the URL then it's simply a case of blocking all of the outgoing requests that contain this ID. Otherwise you need to go through and collect each episode ID and block these individually which shouldn't actually be too time consuming, you can probably scrape them from the main show details page. All other content will load as normal.
bunny_387@reddit
Start talking really positively about a woman in the show without adversely showing interest.
Also this show is fake asf. My aunt was part of filming once and she said their voices change, they posture straightens, and the drama starts as soon as the cameras come on. People who are “fighting” in the show seemed like friends until they were filming. Absolutely nothing is real about it.
slope11215@reddit
Maybe your wife just wants you to start walking into the woods.
Draelon@reddit
Cancel your Hulu?
FJBP95@reddit
If you want to block a show on Hulu, go to your profile, tap Settings, then Parental Controls. Hold your finger on the word Parental for five seconds to unlock the hidden Blocklist. Search for it, tap Block, enter your PIN (default is 1234 if you haven't set parental controls before) and restart Hulu. It will be gone forever.
JK. To talk to your wife about not watching it in front of you. Way easier than hacking Hulu.
bitch-baby-2021@reddit
Brah let her enjoy her show, what's worth more to you?
threeheadedfawn@reddit
Is there a time when she can watch it when you’re not around? I save all the shows my partner doesn’t like for when they are not around and then I binge
reptilianmonk@reddit
Maybe get on hulu on another device and lock it out? Type the password wrong over and over, or update credit card and change a number. Delete the app from the device and say some bullshit about how they took it off there for contract disputes.
attractive_nuisanze@reddit
This is the way.
Also, to extra ULPT it, post your username and password on reddit and encourage others to use your "free" Hulu account. You will get banned so fast and it's really hard to reinstate it. (Ask me how I know, I shared my password with 20 people and my IP address and account are still effed)
HarleyQisMyAlter@reddit
This always comes up for me on Hulu and I hate it. What about my horror movies and serial killer documentaries algorithm makes you think I want to watch this rubbish?! I support your mission.
xtrahandy@reddit
Reassociate the sound.
Find a side piece. Every time you hear the theme song, it triggers an itch for the side piece. You go scratch the itch, wife watches show.
onetwentytwo_1-8@reddit
Invade Utah.
Emotional_Tea_8813@reddit
Literally just get noise cancelling headphones
Doodiehunter@reddit
If you call 1-888-537-7700 the nice Mormon that answers the phone will assist you, if you give him your wife’s name and your address they will call and bother your wife so much, she loses interest in Mormons
fastgetoutoftheway@reddit
Start living the Mormon life. Multiple. Underage. Sisterwives.
Winter_Persimmon_110@reddit
Sound isolating earphones like airpods or etymotics
Stolen, to make it unethical
EnvironmentSea7433@reddit
One of my favorite replies, ever lol
Either_Cupcake_5396@reddit
Thank you for your commitment to our collective joy
Djshav@reddit
Take a walk when she’s watch. You’ll end up in better shape. So unethical.
Morphchalice@reddit
Maybe consider talking to your wife?
xzl830@reddit
Take a walk in the woods while she watches her show. Win-win. Also probably tell her you hate the show.
BlottomanTurk@reddit
For the unethical part, OP: collect at least one Cool Stick™ every time you go into the woods, and show it/them to her when you get back.
Build a larger and larger collection of Cool Sticks™. Take up as much space as you can to display them; and especially start taking over spaces reserved for her knickknacks, baubles, crystals, or whatever stuff she collects.
And make sure she knows that the Cool Stick Collection™ size is directly proportional to how much/often she watches that show.
Should probably start now, as you likely have a lot of catching up to do.
feryoooday@reddit
lmao, I love this
tubaman23@reddit
This is how it works for the fiancee and myself. I hate the dialogue I overhear from it, so she times out watching it when I'm either doin games with friends or out biking or something. If she's really wanting to watch it and the timing doesn't work out, looks like I'll just go take a walk or adventure a bit
Compromise is awesome.
NullVoidXNilMission@reddit
I would block it at the router level. My router can block certain urls. I would get the show url path and do it like that.
"Im sorry honey, bot sure why it doesn't work"
jkvf1026@reddit
Take shrooms and watch it with her, i recommend 2 or maybe 4 grams in a protein smoothie with like some liquid iv blended in
Ivantherapp2@reddit
Woah. As I read this I thought I possibly posted this in my sleep. It’s incredible that there’s someone out there who feels exactly the same way about the show. I hate it so much, and my wife is such a fan. I have to hear all about it, and it kills me inside a little every time. I also love my wife very much I really do. Hear me someone!! Please for f*ck sake , can we stop making stupid people famous??
Crabman1111111@reddit
I would concur. But then I love the grand tour... turnabout is fair play.
jennafromtheblock22@reddit
Ethical: earplugs.
rdhb@reddit
Or try the double fake, just completely and totally engage. Have watch parties with your friends. Wear and use swag .
Imhal9000@reddit
My gf watches this show but it’s only two seasons and she’s finished it. Is your wife doing multiple rewatches or what?
SeniorVibeAnalyst@reddit
There is an unfortunate amount of spinoff content. Cast reunions, podcasts breaking down the drama, etc. I know about this against my will
burglin@reddit
There are zero spinoffs and one single reunion episode on Hulu. But yeah, the podcasts elsewhere are significant
Krystalinhell@reddit
There is a tie in episode on Vanderpump Villa season 2 episode 3 though.
SeniorVibeAnalyst@reddit
So OP will also need to get content removed from YouTube and potentially other sites too. I just use ANC headphones and my laptop when I want to watch different shows from my partner bc I’m lazy.
Jedi_Dropbear@reddit
The soulution to all problems: Pissdisc
schmamble@reddit
You could do what my bf does and nag and make fun of the show and talk over it so much that I literally won't watch it around you because I can't get through 2 mins without you talking about how horrible it is. I haven't watched whatever Mormon show you're talking about but this method made me stop watching other trash reality TV when my bf was around.
PRIS0N-MIKE@reddit
Lol I have a similar situation when my wife watches ru Paul's drag race(or whichever of RuPaul's shows it is) or ghost adventures. Now she just watches it when she's off and I'm at work, or when I'm gaming and she watches it in the other room. I literally cannot stand those shows lol.
If you don't want to talk to her, I would just start shit talking the show and making fun of it every time she puts it on. Eventually she won't want to watch it with you in the room.
eatingganesha@reddit
downgrade to Hulu with ads. They get so annoying, so fast. Then when she complains, cancel Hulu entirely. It is way overpriced as it is.
BigJayPee@reddit
Something something piss disc
Or you can log into your router from your phone and turn off the internet when she turns the show on. "Oh no! Hulu is working on that part of the app again, I guess we should watch something else." Turn the wifi back on when a different show is selected.
spacegurlie@reddit
phew had to scroll a bit to find this !
dogbonej@reddit
Can’t really select a new show if the wifi is out but you’re onto something m
ls_quizo@reddit
the shell of the app stays loaded on your device but the content doesn’t load. previously loaded pages/thumbnails will remain in RAM too.
Farty_mcSmarty@reddit
Why did I have to scroll this far down to find the most logical and helpful unethical life pro tip.
With my network, I can log on and pause specific devices, turn them off, or have them forever banned from the network.
Kantry123@reddit
Block Hulu on the firewall at home ?
sugarintheboots@reddit
Just discuss it with your wife. wtf.
Mhycoal@reddit
I’d recommend getting everyone addicted to crack. When you run out of money, you can’t pay for Hulu!
scorb1@reddit
Tell her you find the women on the show hot.
boferd@reddit
introduce her to the subreddit, that'll kill her love for it
Chemantha@reddit
Which is that? Ive been thinking about watching the show...I need to be stopped
boferd@reddit
i talk like i don't love it but im gonna be real with you im addicted to it. it's such garbage but it's pretty entertaining
Southern-Engineer900@reddit
There's a way to block shows on Netflix (for any profile regardless of rating settings), but I don't know if Hulu has the same feature.
roachymart@reddit
Next time she puts the show on, fling a piss disc at the television, breaking it and keeping you from having to deal with the show...
Ugglug@reddit
I’m in the same situation. I just go do my own thing. I watch stuff she doesn’t like when I’m alone and she watches stuff I don’t like when I’m not about. Together we watch stuff we both like
anonstarcity@reddit
You could always strategically have her catch you jerking off to the show a few times, she probably won’t want to watch it anymore. Has a slim possibility of backfiring though if she starts wanting to lean into that.
Even13flow@reddit
Dude i wish for the same thing. I sign on and get bombarded with sister wife and Kardashian trash- i don’t want to see any of that nonsense.
No way to hide it from view
N-Y-R-D@reddit
Comment on how attractive you find the different women in the show. Say “ I wish they would feature Velma more.” Wear grey sweatpants when it’s on and think of Shakira circa 2010.
Left_Set_5610@reddit
Sleep hypnotism. Have her associate the show with something she also hates 😂😭
hotstuff7@reddit
The show is only 10 episodes per season and there’s only 2 seasons out. Relax it’ll be over soon lol
Dailia-@reddit
You should post this on the Mormon wives subreddit. Half the folks there are snarkers. I bet it would get you some good answers.
tsuto@reddit
From a technical perspective, you can set up your home network in a way where everyone who connects uses a CA certificate that you create and intercepts all SSL traffic, then you can block requests to specific URLs like the endpoint for that show or ones with text matching it.
the_darkishknight@reddit
Since this is ULPT and not Mormon pro-tips as all the people who are telling you to communicate directly with your wife, I am going to suggest that you roast her mercilessly for watching it. You need to kill whatever joy she finds in that show. Start small with whenever you walk in and she’s watching it, do a sigh. “This shit is still going? How are there this many episodes.” Make a point to leave the space whenever it’s on. Eventually, when you get pressed about it say something like “I didn’t think something like this would be your thing.” And finally “I feel like that show sets women back, I don’t personally care for it.” Or “I feel something die inside of me a little every time I see that show. It’s like someone made a super cut of ‘our last day with our dog videos’.”
RusticBucket2@reddit
I wonder if you could set up a home Internet proxy that would block just that one show.
Dnm3k@reddit
HOW WILL MOM-TOK SURVIVE THIS?!?!
HarleysDouble@reddit
You are not alone. It was on "top 10" and beat The Bear. My husband goes wtf and blamed me lol. I haven't watched it in months. I think there's some way to go to history and delete something from your algorithm. I haven't tried, though.
Aussieomni@reddit
Oh this won’t survive a third season. There’s only so far they can get on one tik tok video, especially when all the other women are talking about freezing out the woman that’s the only reason they have the show
laserhandsmary@reddit
Your only option is to destroy it from within and become a Mormon wife with a secret life.
negasonic1991@reddit
i’m absolutely positive she feels the same about one of your things and somehow ! manages to keep her mouth shut about it.
jaded-potato@reddit
Start commenting on how hot the wives are, and maybe sit down next to her and start touching yourself.
May not be good for your marriage tho.
TypicalSmartlass@reddit
I feel for you. I don't know about Hulu or removing a single show, but we have YouTube TV and I removed Fox News and MSNBC networks from the channel options so my spouse and I don't fight. (Spouse doesn't know that we actually have access to both).
JustAGuyInFL@reddit
Maybe try dealing with your need to control her? It sounds like you are self-respect deficient.
Equivalent-Common943@reddit
I feel the same way about my husband and "ancient aliens"
skepticalG@reddit
ask her to use headphones to watch it. In my house this is not an unreasonable request.
lilhellmouth@reddit
come ye saints and come ye sinners haaaaaaaaallelujah
stinky_winkler@reddit
private listening function + headphones
TheBeardiestGinger@reddit
Just get the fuck over it dude?
bustacones@reddit
Can't you just go in another room when she is going to watch it?
sendep7@reddit
as a network engineer i'd tackle this from the network side.....a few years ago we had an employee who would secretly game while at work, management turned a blind eye, but it bothered the crap out of the rest of the team.
i went in researched what ips the game used to call home, and i null routed them so the game woudnt start. more recently i've noticed an employee watching his crypto stock tickers and exchanges all day long on his second monitor. so i went on to our layer7 firewalls and blocked the urls for the exchange he uses to monitor those things.
if you have a decent firewall setup, and a bit of know how you could possibly locate the urls for the cdn where the show's video files are hosted. and block those from your home network. it would probably manifest as an error on hulu's end.
PeachNipplesdotcom@reddit
Honest answer: if you can find a country that doesn't allow/have that show, then you could try a VPN switched to that country. She wouldn't be able to find it.
OdinMartok@reddit
Set up a parental profile. Go into the other profile, set its restrictions. Then under the parental profile restrict the shoe.
Low-Atmosphere-2118@reddit
Sounds like you need to set up the TV to auto-redirect all hulu traffic to awful parodies of babyshark
HuyFongFood@reddit
Wife watches the Kardashians and she knows I despise it. So I just leave the room when she watches it.
I can’t control what she watches, but I can control myself and what I watch.
So yeah, it sucks but you can only control yourself and your actions.
notreallylucy@reddit
Fight fire with fire. Start watching Entourage.
Pure_Egg9519@reddit
Change the maturity setting on the profile. I had to change my maturity settings in order to watch the show so I’m sure the reverse would work.
turkeyfourtwozero@reddit
Instructions unclear...OP is still an immature brat who can't let his wife enjoy an hr-long tv show with only 2 seasons.
elainaka@reddit
Literally I finished it in like a week
Farty_mcSmarty@reddit
This is unethical life pro tips. All options are on the table
jitasquatter2@reddit
Will I get banned for providing tips that aren't unethical?
Three words: noise cancelling headphones!
VirgoDog@reddit
Perhaps a new hobby. How do you feel about building Legos?
K3Elisa@reddit
You could grow up, just a thought.
sipsredpepper@reddit
Nothing would be funnier to me than this actually happening, and me finding out via some disappointed house wives post on reddit asking why their show is gone lol
epicsoundwaves@reddit
Pretend to be really interested in it, start asking a million questions. Get really deep into the lore. Only talk about the show. At breakfast. Dinner. On walks. When you’re making love. Make it be the only thing you talk about.
ColonyLeader@reddit
My wife and I have our shows that we watch separately and together and never the Twain shall meet. She knows not to ask me to watch hers and vice-versa and it’s been working for us for years.
NorthRoseGold@reddit
It's over now. You've probably got a good year of reprieve.
But just ask her to watch when you're not around. Or on her phone with earphones.
My husband loves crime shows and I hate them. I never see them.
rtmfb@reddit
Start a hobby she will hate and do it every time she watches.
SmallPeederWacker@reddit
Buy some noise blocking head gear and put it on when she watches it.
symbi02@reddit
Setup a VPN. Set it to a country that the show is not cleared for.
Bonus points now you can pirate better shows and stop paying streaming companies.
sxrrycard@reddit
Leave the room when she watches it?
wildkitten24@reddit
Why wouldn’t you just let her finish the season and be done with it? It’s not like she’s rewatching the episodes, right?
savepongo@reddit
right like it’s 10 or so episodes per season, just deal with it for however long it HAS to be on for and call it good
iSniffMyPooper@reddit
Cancel all of your streaming services and setup your own plex server, tell your wife that you'll only download the show for her if she watches it when youre not around
You'll save money AND don't have to hear it
Rude-Particular-7131@reddit
My wife uses headphones when she watches stuff that bugs me.
Jameloaf@reddit
I go play video games in the other room when the wife watches some cringe chinese dramas. Win win!
Fernbean@reddit
I'm afraid you only have one course. You must travel back in time and bully Joseph Smith until he kills himself.
TheBluestLeg@reddit
Uhhh a lot of great responses here but the actual answer is to secretly login as an admin on a computer, use parental controls on the Hulu profile that she watches the show on and block the show. Works for Netflix too. The show should no longer appear on any searches.
Sea_Bear7754@reddit
I mean when my wife wants to watch something I don’t want to if she’s been watching it for a while I simply ask “Can we watch something else?” Usually works.
SubstantialPressure3@reddit
You're making this way too difficult. You don't have to watch it.
Do something else while the show is on. Find a project or hobby to work on. Put on some headphones.
It sounds like your problem isn't that you don't like the show,you don't want your wife to watch it.
I get that it seems like a terrible show, I don't want to watch it, either. But there's no reason to plot making it disappear from existence.
Polimber@reddit
Go walk into the woods and disappear. Or just deal with it?
BryanP1968@reddit
Have you thought about growing up and becoming a functional adult?
Routine-Mulberry6124@reddit
Have you considered learning how to read like a functional adult?
BryanP1968@reddit
Being worried about other people’s choice of entertainment is childish.
the-mortyest-morty@reddit
You know you can just... Do something else, right? I know you frame this as joking but I promise you watch shit that annoys her too. She just doesn't whine about in on reddit.
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
Have you considered telling her you enjoy the show and think y'all should become mormon? Really lean on the whole "extra wife" angle and how the show is giving you some great ideas.
Milly1974@reddit
65% of the time reverse phycology works 100% of the time..
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
And hey, if that's what she's into, bonus sex!
bluezkittles@reddit
You sound like a joy to be around, let your wife enjoy the show.
Arcnia@reddit
Tell your wife to get a new husband
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
Wrong sub, but great advice 😆
Farty_mcSmarty@reddit
This sub is getting quite annoying with everyone posting ethical life pro tips. It used to be hardcore but now everyone wants to be a marriage/life coach
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
Mods need help. It's up to us to report stuff that isn't ULPTs.
Pandapoopums@reddit
It actually would be possible to achieve this from a technical standpoint, but the difficulty of achieving this is dependent on how she accesses Hulu, it also requires someone with a bit programming comfort. If she accesses it from a computer using a browser, this is the best case scenario. In that case, you just have to install a browser extension like Tampermonkey, then you would need to write a script that searches for instances where the title might come up, and hides it/deletes it from the DOM. This can get tricky, but the main browsing carousels, search results, your watchlist and post-video suggestions are the primary places you'd have to remove it, there's probably other detailed places you'd have to find. But each one basically needs a selector to detect the text, and then a way to navigate from that selector up/across the tree to the object you want to hide/remove.
Now if she browses on a phone or tablet or using a locked down app on the PC, it gets harder. In these cases, you would have to intercept the traffic through a proxy server, you can do this at the router level if it's on a wifi you control, if it's not, then you have to set the proxy server settings on the client side (the phone/tablet). Basically you would set up a server to do the same thing as the Tampermonkey script described above, detect whether the traffic is to hulu, detect if the show name appears in the payload and remove the appropriate portion of the payload from the response before sending it to the phone. You would use a technology like nginx to achieve this, and you could make your life a little easier by working with something like njs.
Hopefully this sounds easy enough to you and you can just do it, easier than talking to your wife at least.
Sil369@reddit
I hate all the programs Marge likes... but it's no big deal.
You know why?
No.
Go on.
Whenever Marge puts on... one of her nonviolent programs, I take a walk. I go to a bar, I pound a few... then I stumble home in the mood for love.
Very well, Selma. Whenever you watch MacGyver... I'll take a vigorous constitutional... and return more in love than ever.
Oh, Bob.
Bart no like.
Chimmychimmychubchub@reddit
Find a different show that has a jillion episodes and seasons. During the time she watches TV, get there first and start binging the alternate show. Pick one that you think she might like but doesn't drive you crazy, and hopefully she will just start watching it.
insidethoughts911@reddit
Send wife 2-3 years Dagestan and forget
Nucl3arSunsh1ne@reddit
I'm just saying that my guilty pleasure show is the Bad Girls Club. My husband hates it. He told me one day how much he despises it, so now I just watch it when he's not around.
Im sure if you mentioned this to your wife, she might just do the same.
Connect_Tip_4803@reddit
Make a baby, you and her will be too busy and tired to even think of playing hulu.... Only little detail is that you have to wait a few months to be efective
Swordheart@reddit
They're not even real fucking mormons. It's so fucking stupid.
Just get head phones mate
trippinbythesun@reddit
Why don’t you just get her headphones that connect to the tv via usb and you’ll never have to hear it
curlyAndUnruly@reddit
You need to get your wife interested in a different, but more tolerant garbage show.
Check with her something that you think he may enjoy (without pressure), that's even a nice gesture.
redthump@reddit
I got you. From the days when my ex watch The Real Housewives, I have a solution. Electronic cricket. Turn it on and hide it whenever she's watching the show, turn it off when she's not. I feel fairly confident now that there would be a pretty easy implementation for a tinkerer to run it through a Raspberry Pi that could constantly listen for the voices or keywords and Trigger the cricket for 10 minutes unless it continues to hear it. That way it would shut itself on and off for you. As long as you can hide it somewhere well, it will drive her insane. I used the underside of a movable kitchen island. You would also be able to add triggers for different shows in the future.
BroccoliCompetitive3@reddit
Does she have any strong political leanings? Dont need to know them, only if she has some. Exploit those by creating fake internet/Wikipedia posts about an executive on the show that is hard to disprove. Just need quick screen grabs and downloads of articles (you can have written by AI) that "expose" them for acts so heinous she will never support the show by watching it.
juxt417@reddit
My girlfriend wanted to watch this . I got through the first five min and was like OK so we are glamorizing infidelity and them getting famous for shaking their ass on the internet and the infidelity. No thanks, I'm good.
LadyMacGuffin@reddit
Leave the house to do something she doesn't like, whenever she puts it on. Be clear with her that if she can't manage the consideration to watch that show when you're not around, you're going to match that energy. Smoke cigarettes or weed in an enclosed area then insist on kissing her. Hang out with that friend she doesn't like and get drunk. Sucks to have a partner who doesn't consider your feelings, dunnit.
beachbum818@reddit
Become the CEO of Hulu.
Winter_Persimmon_110@reddit
Truly unethical
DRTYGRLPOT@reddit
… but really blue tooth headphones hooked up to the tv …
No_Flamingo9331@reddit
I don’t know about Hulu, but if they let you have multiple users you could say you want to create her a user so her tastes doesn’t impact the algorithm for what’s suggested to you. Then make her a new user and for a while let it be normal, then in a bit change the settings so it’s got parental controls on it and block either that show or you might have to block all adult content. Worth looking into
xzl830@reddit
Fuck her dad
ilovetylerjoseph@reddit
🏴☠️⛴️ lalalalalala
NorthDifferent3993@reddit
Nails on a chalkboard, slow internet and lukewarm coffee — f’ng lethal combo
nosniboD@reddit
Is blocking Hulu from your wifi an option? This would mean you’re not able to watch anything on it either.
skinnycenter@reddit
Wow. ULPT has found a line it won’t cross. Bunch of pussies this group.
Best ULPT is to get rid of your streaming device and go back to set top box. No way that I’ve found to block specific shows outside of parental controls.
SVTContour@reddit
My partner watches some pretty terrible shows. I've learned to tune it out and scroll through Reddit.
TJCrazyBoy@reddit
Get rich, buy out Hulu, take control.
reptilianmonk@reddit
Maybe get on hulu on another device and lock it out? Type the password wrong over and over, or update credit card and change a number. Delete the app from the device and say some bullshit about how they took it off there for contract disputes.