Before people start saying "See I always knew that show wasn't funny, it's just the laugh track." etc...

This show was written and performed in front of an audience. Just like the Wonder Years was filmed to make room for narration. It was designed for that and nothing else. Taking it out of that scenario is what makes it feel very strange.

>> ^jmzero:

I'd forgotten just how intrusive laugh tracks were back then... and how slow things went.


Yeah, it's hard to imagine that the laugh tracks were once worse than they are now. Still, Night Court always felt a bit like a stage production to me - just a few sets, small cast, etc. The laugh track almost, ...almost, fits.

I'd forgotten just how intrusive laugh tracks were back then... and how slow things went.

This is just the English pilot with a terrible laugh track =(

*science

Crazy laugh tracks.

Yes ... the piano out of a window was a joke too. But seriously, unless you consider a pair of sneakers a vehicle, I don't get your analogy. I'm not bent out of shape over it. Someone should edit this with a slide-whistle and a laugh track.

Nice one...but man, that laugh track is annoying.

The cheesy laugh track is part of the Just For Laughs Gags charm!

*Canada

This would have been better without all the laugh track non sense

>> ^Trancecoach:

can't believe we're reduced to sifting America's Funniest Videos.


Worse still... a hand held video of an airing of AFV with personal laugh track. It's not even a capture.

>> ^jimnms:

Someone fire the fucker operating that camera.


THIS. The dude has a hands down serious and important message, and he's got an MTV cameraman and a laugh track?! Why, why, why...

>> ^Auger8:

3rd Rock was always one of my favorite shows. I think I cried a little when it got canceled. It was like Big Bang Theory but cooler.


I 100 percent agree with this analogy. I did not appreciate 3rd rock when it was on though, for age reasons. Recently I was hooked on big bang theory and watched all the episodes after a new found love for the show ( hated it before because of the laugh track ) ; I watch 3rd rock now and I literally say " well this is way better than big bang theory ". This trumps a lot of shows in a lot of ways. But still, that damn laugh track is annoying, but I can now hear past it.

The gags are so funny and obvious, the audience knows when to laugh, so no need.>> ^Trancecoach:

how can the 700 Club not have a laugh-track??

how can the 700 Club not have a laugh-track??

In the past I have detested the big bang theory, I thought it was the lowest on television, three weeks ago I watched the pilot on the internet, and got past the laugh track and got more into the characters themselves and the back and forth between them all, it turned into a really enjoyable show and I watched it daily for 3 weeks until I just finished season 5 or what there was of it.

So I can say from someone who hated it to someone who likes it now, it does have some merit.