[ SECRET POST #2772 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2772 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Audrey Tatou, Coco Avant Chanel]


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03.
[Orange is the New Black]


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04.
[Recettear]


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05.
[Mad Men]


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06.
[Game of Thrones]


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07.
[Archer]


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08.
[Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant]


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09.
[Sleepy Hollow]


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10.
[Divergent]













Notes:

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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I generally like sitcoms, but I am so with you on this, OP. (The canned-sounding laughter on Vicious has been annoying me lately.)

Oddly, I don't feel this way when I attend a play and am part of the audience that's laughing.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. Me too.

[a_potato]

I know what you mean. I enjoy the occasional sitcom, but canned laughter can be really irritating.

[mekkio]

I HATE forced/canned laughter. I have turned off shows because of it. I am getting happier that fewer and fewer comedies these days are going that route. Every time a new comedy comes up with that canned laughter format I think it automatically makes the show look dated for me. Like even though the show is from 2014, I can't help but think I just took a time warp leap to 1994.

[cushlamochree]

I don't think that's an uncommon opinion at all. It feels like by far the majority opinion on the Internet, in fact. It doesn't bother me (and I definitely don't think it makes a show bad) but it's obviously a massive issue for a lot of people, so you're not alone.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't mind the laugh track if it's a sitcom that I enjoy. If I don't like the show the laugh track does nothing.

Big Bang Theory's a comedy?

[chardmonster]

I thought it was some kind of weird Vice documentary about living with unbearable people

[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit, I was thinking about making this secret a couple hours ago!

[(Anonymous)]

I long for the day laugh tracks finally die. In the meantime, I've given up on sitcoms.

[(Anonymous)]

canned laughter is the most laughter these shows will get.

Counter-point

[(Anonymous)]

I quite like laugh tracks, if the comedy suits (not particularly intellectual humour, but still funny). The reason for them is simply that people feel more comfortable laughing in company. It's just the same as the fact that people will often laugh along with friends, even if they didn't catch the joke.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't get over laugh tracks either. I can just manage the mockumentary style with Parks & Rec but it was a battle.

[taversham]

I find if I like a show then I enjoy it with or without audience laughter, it's when a show is already something I don't like then the laugh-track makes it somehow worse and more annoying. And then there are shows I think are just okay, but I see them without a laugh track and wonder how I ever found them funny (the couple of episodes of Friends I've seen without laugh-track made me feel like that). So I guess most of the time audience laughter has a neutral or positive effect for me, it only ruins things I wouldn't have liked any way.

Though the actual worst thing is when a programme is shot without a studio audience, but then shown to an audience later to get a laugh-track (like Red Dwarf series VII), because then you have the actors pausing and not pausing in all the wrong places and the audience laughter drowning out lines that you need to hear. idk why anyone would ever think it was a good idea.

[(Anonymous)]

The only time it really bothers me is when the joke in question wasn't that funny. Then it just feels like the show is trying too hard for laughs and can be distracting.

[dethtoll]

I've always held the belief that, with rare exceptions, most canned laughter is there because the show isn't funny.

Humor is subjective...

[(Anonymous)]

Just because all of you don't find something funny does not mean the audience/the viewers won't or shouldn't.

[tabaqui]

YES. I bought a particular release of the first season of M*A*S*H because you can *turn off* the laugh track. Shows are so much better without them.

[(Anonymous)]

I went to a taping of the Drew Carry show way back when - they would do the scene multiple times so the first one would get the most laughter but every time they did another take, the audience would laugh less and less so we'd get producers(?) telling us to laugh more and laugh louder :|a

[(Anonymous)]

I know it should weird me out in theory, but in most shows, I don't really mind it. It's more like, I don't find a lot of mainstream sitcoms to be that funny. I actually kind of enjoy Big Bang Theory, which seems like an unpopular opinion in this community, but I don't think any other sitcoms make me laugh. 2 and a Half Men is a no, so is How I Met Your Mother. I liked Friends, but other than that, I think the only other sitcom I really enjoyed was Seinfeld.

Watching footage without the laugh tracks though is pretty creepy. lol I found some on Youtube. Just.. weird.

[(Anonymous)]

I think laugh tracks worked on shows in the 70s/80s/90s but I just find them cringe worthy now. I don't think there has been a genuinly funny American sitcom with canned laughter since the 90s.

[(Anonymous)]

I actually like How I Met Your Mother, but Big Bang Theory? Yeah, the laughter is REALLY annoying.

Oddly enough, I like the clips where the laughter is cut out and everyone is standing around in an awkward silence. Go figure, right?

[(Anonymous)]

Me either and it seems to have gotten worse over the years to the point that it's inserted after damn near every single line. Oh well, another reason not to watch sitcoms.

[i_paint_the_sky]

I'm with you OP, though the laughter bugs me a bit less for Big Bang, since it's actually filmed in front of a live audience, which I don't think HIMYM was.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't usually like laugh tracks, but HIMYM's doesn't bother me as much as other shows. I don't know why. I think it might be because the directors have it set up so that the actors are evidently telling some of the jokes for the first time so that the others react more naturally. (I read that on TVTropes, so take it with a grain of salt, I guess.)