I hate canned laughter
08-03-03, 10:48 PM
#26
Banned
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 11
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Originally posted by nemein
Well then you'll be happy to know the person who invented it died recently. NPR had a special piece on him a couple of weeks ago (maybe not that far back).
Well then you'll be happy to know the person who invented it died recently. NPR had a special piece on him a couple of weeks ago (maybe not that far back).
08-03-03, 11:34 PM
#27
DVD Talk Godfather & 2020 TOTY Winner
What I really hate is when they use the laugh track on exterior shots. I can plausably accept the rules of sitcoms, that they are filmed in front of a live audience that tends to laugh hysterically. But that studio audience didn't travel to Central Park to watch Debra Messing run into a lightpole, so don't pretend that they did.
08-04-03, 02:11 PM
#29
DVD Talk Hall of Fame
I thought the most obviously fake laugh track was on Brady Bunch and Gillian's Island. If you listen closely, there are only about 6 different kinds of laughter. Ugh! So lame!
08-04-03, 02:17 PM
#30
DVD Talk Hero
For some reason, the laugh track on Seinfeld sounded realistic like that they played a tape for an audience, for example, when one of Jerry's girlfriends in "the airport" says the line "squeezed my nipples together" there is sort of a delay laughter but only a few laughed at it.
[/canned]
08-04-03, 03:47 PM
#32
DVD Talk Legend
i find it interesting that certain people love going to see comdey movies in the theatre because it's funnier when the other people in the theatre are laughing.
yet they will complain about it on TV shows.
not that I disagree, but I still find it interesting.
yet they will complain about it on TV shows.
not that I disagree, but I still find it interesting.
