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[–] 54 points 9 months ago (19 children)

Giving Seinfeld shit for having a laugh track doesn't make sense. There are shows from eras before and after using laugh tracks, so Seinfeld is not an outlier in that regard. However, Jerry's occupation is literally a comedian. Having a laugh track in Seinfeld thus makes more sense than most shows that have one.

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    The laugh track is also used to fill in the pause the actors had to take due to the audience reaction. Just like with comedy shows people in groups laugh more than when you are watching at home.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    This has always bugged me. In any bygone, popular TV show when an actor first shows up there's a roar of applause, claps, stomps, whistling and shouting for 10 seconds where they just stand, kind of awkwardly waiting for noise to stop in order to say their line. I mean it's ok for a live crowd, but cut that shit off my TV show for fuck's sake.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    It's a throwback to pre-TV stage shows. The types of people funding TV shows are old and set in their ways and back then they'd make their shows just like The Honeymooners or I Love Lucy.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Was it a laugh track? Was it not live audience?

    People seem to forget that Live Audience used to be a thing

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I don’t have a problem with laugh tracks existing. I have a problem with shows not recorded before a live audience having laughter added in.

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  • [–] -3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

    Does a laugh track destroy the show? No. But there is no 10/10 top tier show with a laugh track.

    Edit: people keep replying with shows that are, at best, sensible chuckles.

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