What is going on with finding mythbusters seasons?

Posted by TapNumerous4625@reddit | mythbusters | View on Reddit | 39 comments

This was my favorite show as a kid and I decided to watch it all again because it still fascinated me and wanted to rewatch. I am a fan of Adams YouTube channel as well and it made me want to go back even more. I found a few on a mythbusters YouTube channel but it only had a couple seasons spread out.

I was already subscribed to HBO Max and saw they had some episodes but not all of them. So I looked it up and found out Discovery+ had "all" of them. Well they did and then suddenly they didn't. They randomly erased half the episodes. So I decided I would just go old school and buy the DVD's. DVD's has been pretty cheap with streaming so I figured they would be fairly low considering the show isn't on TV anymore and seems to not be crazy popular anymore.

Surprise! One full season was showing $80-150 on Amazon and eBay. For a dvd with just a few episodes of a season was $16 or more. What is going on with it? I don't think I've ever seen a show/series where a quarter of the seasons are on one service while another has just part of another quarter of them. Also the price of dvd's being so high is surprising. Phenomenal show but that's just so much for 1 season with maybe 15 episodes. It's like it's being erased from existence and you have to scavenge to find any remnants of it. I just want to watch my homies :(

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mwhi1017@reddit

Banijay/Beyond are currently uploading all of them in their original format to YouTube officially.

Not sure how many are uploaded yet and it may just be Oceania and EU geo locked.

But often when it's removed from one platform it's because the rights owner (Banijay) have ended their streaming contract - it may be that there's more direct revenue being made through YouTube than clickthrough on a streaming platform.

The beauty of the Banijay uploads is they come straight from the DigiBeta tapes and so all the episodes are presented in 16:9 (though the SD ones are 480p25 rather than 576p25 as they would have been produced and edited but you see a lot more of the frame, including the pilot).

The drawback is the episodes aren't titled properly, though they have sorted them into playlists.

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Standard-While-5506@reddit

Pluto had all the episodes

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Specialist-Owl3342@reddit

I’ve been binge watching on MAX for awhile now and yes there may be a few episodes missing but for the most part there are only a few out of the 300 missing.

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Macster_man@reddit

I have them all, which one do you need?

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TapNumerous4625@reddit (OP)

I had watched all the way from the pilot to season 10 or episode 150 before episodes disappeared and can’t find the full seasons now.

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Macster_man@reddit

I can get you the rest of the seasons, but I have very limited cloud space,(Google Drive),if you have any ideas to speed up a approx 108 gb file transfer, I'm all ears

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TapNumerous4625@reddit (OP)

I really appreciate the offer but you don’t have to do all that I’ll weasel my way around to find the rest. Again I really appreciate the kind gesture though!

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Macster_man@reddit

no prob, if you think of a way or are looking for something smaller, let me know

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RedSunCinema@reddit

Mythbusters has it's own YouTube channel with all the episodes.

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TapNumerous4625@reddit (OP)

Every time I check it’s only 3 or so seasons with short “highlights” from some other seasons. You’re talking about the mythbusters YouTube?

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92xSaabaru@reddit

It's still somewhat geo-restricted in the US and some other places. I'm in Sweden and I've found 95% of the episodes. A VPN might be able to unlock it as well as any geo-restrictions within paid services.

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Infamous_Language_62@reddit

I can really recommend to check this spreadsheet out if anyone is looking for a good VPN to use for this. It has a LOT of info in it!

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RedSunCinema@reddit

Yes. They have almost 450 clips and episodes and upload episodes as they scan them. It takes a lot of time and effort to scan and clean up the episodes. It's all volunteer work so it's not exactly going swiftly.

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StreetDark1995@reddit

I see a lot of live channels that say mythbusters but not like an episode list. Do you have a link?

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RedSunCinema@reddit

Seriously? Google YouTube Mythbusters. It's the first link.

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totally-not-prepared@reddit

They are also on Hulu as well. I have been watching them there.

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pazuzovich@reddit

Hulu only has the last (S19) season, and even that is missing one or two episodes because of some convoluted licensing issue.

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ExistenceNow@reddit

I don't know where you are, but Hulu has every single season where I am (Texas). Some seasons are missing eps though.

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pazuzovich@reddit

fascinating!

Just had a chat with a Hulu customer support, they pointed out that I'm not paying enough to access that content - lol

so Mythbusters is actually hosted by the Max service, which is an add-on in Hulu (and in other streaming platforms like Prime). I guess you're paying for it, and I'm not.

streaming was supposed to unshakle us from cable, but what it really turned into is a cable replacement platform, which costs more if you add them all up -- and I still can't find anything decent to watch half of the time :)

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ExistenceNow@reddit

Ohhhhh.... I do have the Disney/Max/Hulu bundle. I didn't realize that content from one app would populate into the other app(s). Wild.

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Vegetable-Mention330@reddit

If you can stream, look to purchase them on iTunes or Amazon. I have all the episodes via iTunes and watch them all the time

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ExistenceNow@reddit

I'd be very wary of purchasing anything digitally. Companies can and have taken away content people have purchased "permanently" after they lost or sold the rights to it.

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Antoniemey@reddit

Even that way there are a couple episodes missing, at least from Amazon. Notably, you have to buy several of the Shark Week episodes individually from the Shark Week season sets, and I've yet to find anywhere that I can buy the Supersize Myths episode where Tory waterskis behind a cruise ship.

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Vegetable-Mention330@reddit

Supersize Myths is the one episode I wish I could find. I have bought the shark week ones that I could find. It isn’t perfect but better than some options out there

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nealbeast@reddit

Here you go friend: https://www.reddit.com/r/mythbusters/s/WKEZSnjm5o

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nealbeast@reddit

This’ll help. The list I put together gives you an option to purchase the Supersize Myths episode, DVD quality: https://www.reddit.com/r/mythbusters/s/WKEZSnjm5o

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uptheirons726@reddit

lookmovie2.to

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Pburress017@reddit

There are a bunch of episodes on Pluto TV and they have a Mythbusters channdl

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madmattd@reddit

The WB/Discovery merger has been a complete mess. Which is not to say that Discovery+ was perfect and complete before the merger, but it was close. Post-merger there’s all kinda of random stuff missing from one service or the other across many many shows.

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TapNumerous4625@reddit (OP)

It seems you need 50 streaming services to watch one full show sometimes. Of course not always but it is messy. Thanks for the info.

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madmattd@reddit

Yea, it sure seems like that sometimes!

If WB/Discovery would ACTUALLY merge all of their properties into Max like they’ve been claiming for the last year or more, it’d be one thing. Or if they’d have left Discovery+ intact that would be great too. But not this 50/50 nonsense.

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deinterlacing@reddit

What's your favorite episode? Mine is the one where they do Pirate myths 🏴‍☠️

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TapNumerous4625@reddit (OP)

For some reason as of late I have very little luck sailing the seas. It ends up being the same episodes repeating or they’re like 15 minutes and not the full show sadly.

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