This feels like one of those rare cases where a legacy show actually becomes more accessible instead of more fragmented and putting so much of it free in one place just makes sense for how families watch now.
braunyakka on
That’s actually really bad. The show has been on the air 55 years, with over 3000 episodes, and the BIGGEST free library is only 100 episodes.
iuse2bgood on
I’ve seen complete collections on private trackers. This is abysmal
MrSlime13 on
It’s low-key weird to me how I want my kids to watch the same Sesame Street *I* grew up in, but all of what I can find is either seasons 1-5 from the *’70s*, or seasons 45-48 or whatever, that have just recently came out. A whole gap in the middle of what I’m looking for.
gli_liphon on
“Free” as in “with targeted ads for children” or “free” as in “ad free”?
Bo0ombaklak on
That’s 3% of the episodes. 97% to go!
mr_greedee on
sesame street should have always been available to the public
_kehd on
If you know where to look, there’s actually 56 seasons available for free on the interwebs 🏴☠️
justarand0mstan on
The show has over 4500 episodes. Making 2.5% of those available shouldn’t be that newsworthy, tbh.
What HBO Max did at first was truly the sweet spot, since it had so many of the classic seasons, if not all of them.
Hopefully this is just a start and not the end all and be all for Sesame Street on YouTube.
In_Search_Of_Gainz on
Could YouTube ad revenue fund PBS if they added more content?
-Clayburn on
Bigger than PBS?
SuperRonnie2 on
How many ads do I have to watch?
Spi_Vey on
Yall ever turn on Sesame Street for your toddler and see llana glazer of “broad city” fame as Mrs noodle
I mark out everytime I see her lol
MinecraftTroller28 on
The [American Archive of Public Broadcasting had damn-near all of them available to stream for free with no ads](https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/sesame-street) for the show’s 50th anniversary, but then the word got out that the infamous lost “Wicked Witch of The West” episode was in the lot, and people started downloading and sharing that around. The Archive and Sesame Workshop decided to immediately shut it all down and leave a redirect message explaining why. It was up for a couple of years and nobody really knew about it.
TheRealVicarOfDibley on
Only 100?!
Weak_Worry7477 on
Monetized Sesame Street on YouTube might be the best thing ever for them. Convert them into shorts and cash those checks
VQQN on
Hopefully these are all from different eras of the show.
not-area51 on
Now do between the lions please! 🙏
draxes on
Every episode should have been on YouTube day one for the biggest outreach
gen_wt_sherman on
Too bad YouTube isn’t safe for kids.
Between the incessant and inappropriate ads and the algorithm moving them into bad places it’s just not advisable
Underwater_Karma on
Only 100 episodes are available? And that’s the biggest library?
Clean-Shift-291 on
By “free”, does this mean tons of ads?
reiichiroh on
With NPR, PBS, Corporation for Public Broadcasting all getting defunded, this is the most we could hope for in our timeline.
I like to imagine they had randomly recorded the Sesame Street episode to VHS when they were in Canada, and ended up watching it many times out of boredom. (The special edition of Carl Sagan’s _Cosmos_ was also released on VHS at around this time, and this would have been the most likely place for BOC to have first heard Hair’s _Aquarius,_ whose baseline they borrowed.)
ComputerSong on
Are these the good 70s episodes?
Cryophoenix_Killer on
I’ll get cyber on it, have them consolidate all the episodes so that everyone’s kids can grow up to be kind and responsible.. and well entertained
TheMasterGenius on
This sounds great, right up until the YouTube algorithm feeds these children some PragerU bullshit following their Sesame Street episode.
wittor on
Unfortunately, it is hosted on a site that is an active part of many criminal networks, YouTube.
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This feels like one of those rare cases where a legacy show actually becomes more accessible instead of more fragmented and putting so much of it free in one place just makes sense for how families watch now.
That’s actually really bad. The show has been on the air 55 years, with over 3000 episodes, and the BIGGEST free library is only 100 episodes.
I’ve seen complete collections on private trackers. This is abysmal
It’s low-key weird to me how I want my kids to watch the same Sesame Street *I* grew up in, but all of what I can find is either seasons 1-5 from the *’70s*, or seasons 45-48 or whatever, that have just recently came out. A whole gap in the middle of what I’m looking for.
“Free” as in “with targeted ads for children” or “free” as in “ad free”?
That’s 3% of the episodes. 97% to go!
sesame street should have always been available to the public
If you know where to look, there’s actually 56 seasons available for free on the interwebs 🏴☠️
The show has over 4500 episodes. Making 2.5% of those available shouldn’t be that newsworthy, tbh.
What HBO Max did at first was truly the sweet spot, since it had so many of the classic seasons, if not all of them.
Hopefully this is just a start and not the end all and be all for Sesame Street on YouTube.
Could YouTube ad revenue fund PBS if they added more content?
Bigger than PBS?
How many ads do I have to watch?
Yall ever turn on Sesame Street for your toddler and see llana glazer of “broad city” fame as Mrs noodle
I mark out everytime I see her lol
The [American Archive of Public Broadcasting had damn-near all of them available to stream for free with no ads](https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/sesame-street) for the show’s 50th anniversary, but then the word got out that the infamous lost “Wicked Witch of The West” episode was in the lot, and people started downloading and sharing that around. The Archive and Sesame Workshop decided to immediately shut it all down and leave a redirect message explaining why. It was up for a couple of years and nobody really knew about it.
Only 100?!
Monetized Sesame Street on YouTube might be the best thing ever for them. Convert them into shorts and cash those checks
Hopefully these are all from different eras of the show.
Now do between the lions please! 🙏
Every episode should have been on YouTube day one for the biggest outreach
Too bad YouTube isn’t safe for kids.
Between the incessant and inappropriate ads and the algorithm moving them into bad places it’s just not advisable
Only 100 episodes are available? And that’s the biggest library?
By “free”, does this mean tons of ads?
With NPR, PBS, Corporation for Public Broadcasting all getting defunded, this is the most we could hope for in our timeline.
Missing from those 100 is [episode 2852](https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_2852), _Elmo Pretends to Be a Grouch._ The episode now famously understood to be the one that Boards of Canada sampled from when creating [_Roygbiv_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT0gRc2c2wQ&pp=ygULYm9jIHJveWdiaXY%3D) and [_Aquarius_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3Q8RNDRm9Q) and probably others.
I like to imagine they had randomly recorded the Sesame Street episode to VHS when they were in Canada, and ended up watching it many times out of boredom. (The special edition of Carl Sagan’s _Cosmos_ was also released on VHS at around this time, and this would have been the most likely place for BOC to have first heard Hair’s _Aquarius,_ whose baseline they borrowed.)
Are these the good 70s episodes?
I’ll get cyber on it, have them consolidate all the episodes so that everyone’s kids can grow up to be kind and responsible.. and well entertained
This sounds great, right up until the YouTube algorithm feeds these children some PragerU bullshit following their Sesame Street episode.
Unfortunately, it is hosted on a site that is an active part of many criminal networks, YouTube.