Wait, a bread tie alone wouldn't hold that tension. The metal tab you bent back is what's actually doing the work, the tie just keeps it from slipping. Not to be that person, but if that tab bends again you're back to square one.

I read somewhere that MTV basically wiped a ton of their old stuff, like the masters for some seasons just don't exist anymore in a usable form. So it's not even that they're holding out on us, the tapes are gone or too messed up to put on streaming. That's why you see stuff like San Francisco going for crazy money on eBay, it's not coming back anytime soon. My brother kept a bunch of VHS tapes from that era and half of them don't even play right anymore, so even the old copies are dying off. Wish I had told you this before your cousin got in your head about it.