[ SECRET POST #3118 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3118 ⌋

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

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Comments

[fscom]

05. http://i62.tinypic.com/1zdrh52.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Cue 5000 posts about how any laugh track, whether canned or live, is absolutely terrible, unwatchable, ruins any show its on, insults the intelligence, etc etc etc

[(Anonymous)]

OP, at least wait a second. Or post it on your secret!

[(Anonymous)]

Actual OP

Give me some credit here, I didn't even think it was necessary to make an S!B on the secret itself.

[(Anonymous)]

Baby now you just gotta relax, relax into it, c'mon now, release all that tension, just let yourself go. Breathe a little deeper, a little slower. There you go now. There you go. Now lean back, that's it, just a little more. Feel all your muscles easing up? You feel 'em? You feel 'em? Close your eyes and feel 'em. Sink into that chair. Put your feet up. Don't be afraid to sigh, I see you holding it in, I see you fighting it, why don't you wanna relax? Relaxing is good. Here's a hot compress. Put it on your forehead. Ice cream. Chocolate. Clonapin. You can do it now, baby, you can do it, you just gotta give in.

[(Anonymous)]

Incidental music is worse, though.

[diet_poison]

I think it's highly subjective

[(Anonymous)]

Not if you do the foxtrot to it.

[diet_poison]

I feel like I'm missing a really good joke here because I don't have the context.

[kallanda_lee]

You're my polar opposite, OP. They give me headaches and drive me nuts.

[(Anonymous)]

There are at least two M*A*S*H episodes that are improved immeasurably by the lack of laugh tracks, IMO.

[(Anonymous)]

Same. Laugh tracks are one of the fastest ways to make me quit a show now. Probably why I've long since quit sitcoms.

[(Anonymous)]

I remember reading a snippet that all we hear with these 'live studio audiences' are fake laugh tracks that were made in the 50's so we always hear dead people. I want to say I read it in a book, written by Christopher Moore? Or maybe he stole the idea from someone else, I don't recall.

[(Anonymous)]

DA

There was a short story where this fact was used as a plot point, in that the souls of these dead people came back every time the tracks were used, and the main character got trapped in one. Can't remember the title, the author, or which SFF mag it was in, but I'm pretty sure it was from the 1990s.

[(Anonymous)]

There's nothing worse than an inappropriate, canned laugh track, but spontaneous laughter and applause is great.

[elaminator]

Yea, (at least atm) I can't think of any examples of a canned laugh track that I'm fond of, but 'real' laughter and applause is nice and makes me feel like part of the experience.

[(Anonymous)]

Nayrt but that feeling of greater immersion is so great with unprompted audience reactions. (The worst ink was that trend of putting laugh tracks on cartoons in the U.S. -- The Flintstones, Pink Panther, etc. had some versions with them.)

[elaminator]

The Flintstones did cross my mind! There's probably a ton of other cartoons I watched that had them too. It's kind of awkward to me... I don't like feeling like I'm expected to laugh at a joke. Either it happens or it doesn't.

[nightscale]

I don't mind live audience reaction or canned laughter, it depends on how much I like the show since I've enjoyed and disliked TV with either.

[ninety6tears]

Laugh tracks are worlds away from live studio audiences in terms of annoyance IMO. I kinda like the idiosyncrasies of the latter.

[(Anonymous)]

OT laugh track tangent: I don't know if it was a particular stock laugh track or someone who was in the audience all the time but the Drew Carey show used to have one guy whose bizarre laugh made me crack up every time. it wasn't even a laugh really, just a guy yelling "hey-hey!!" in the midst of the other laughs. I've never heard it on any other show.

[(Anonymous)]

It's fun hearing people have fun

[(Anonymous)]

I dislike canned laughter and like studio laughter, but I still think more shows should be given the chance to go without it. Though I don't buy that even well-done laugh tracks "dumb down" shows.

But what really gets my goat is when Youtube commenters (yeah I could end this sentence here) call studio laughter canned laughter. Even if the creators didn't explicitly state there was a recording, can't you tell? And even if I'm wrong, kudos to the sound people.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not really fond of laugh tracks, and can take or leave live studio audiences -- but I absolutely love live fan reactions from when, for instance, there's a new trailer for something revealed at a convention. Getting to experience that moment when everyone gets so hyped (especially because I never get the chance to go to conventions myself), and hearing them gasp or squeal at the big surprises, and cheer for the favorite moments, is really thrilling.