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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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