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the_batdemon
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Was Sheldon's voice a bit deeper in the clip without the laugh track?
That's what they did. If you watch the outakes on the dvd when they flub a line there is laughter. Why would you insert a laugh track on outakes? They film before an audience.
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the_batdemon
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If they film before an audience, then why the need for a laugh track? Can't they just record their reaction?
How do we know that what we hear isn't the audience?
Um...good for me? It's a joke sir. You have your opinion...I have mine. I disagree with yours.
So... since your definition of comedy is different than mine, please enlighten me as to which sit-com makes you laugh?
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Anyone who doesn't think this show is funny clearly isn't watching it on a quark gluon plasma screen.
The free gluons really sell a punchline.
...Too nerdy?
-Nick
The free gluons really sell a punchline.
...Too nerdy?
-Nick
I'm kind of curious about this myself. If you post on this forum regularly, there should be something about this show you enjoy. Yes, of course you are more than entitled to your opinion, I'm just sincerly curious what you find funny. Sienfeld? Friends? Gilligan's Island? (Which I happen to love all three BTW
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Prop Collector
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Fine, I'll bite.
Arrested Development
30 Rock
Modern Family
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
The Office (the first few seasons - it's garbage now)
Basically any comedy that respects that the viewers might, just might, be smart enough to figure out what to laugh at. The only laugh track show I really enjoyed was Roseanne.
Arrested Development
30 Rock
Modern Family
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Andy Richter Controls the Universe
The Office (the first few seasons - it's garbage now)
Basically any comedy that respects that the viewers might, just might, be smart enough to figure out what to laugh at. The only laugh track show I really enjoyed was Roseanne.
I've always wondered about this. Several of the shows you list are what I consider to be not funny at all. I have yet to have anyone be able to explain it to me so that it makes sense so perhaps you can help me.
To me most of the shows center around stupid people acting stupidly. I call it moron humor. Why would I watch a show about someone who is so stupid that they muddle through life acting stupidly? I see enough of those people in the real world. I do enjoy 30 Rock, and some Curb, but with Curb it's the same. Let's see how dumb Larry David can be this episode.
I'm certainly not condemning anybody for watching these show. If they like them than great. I just don't get it.
John
Prop Collector
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Larry's eccentric. The people on BBT are just as bad - if not worse. And they aren't funny, so it makes it even worse.
Thanks for clearing that up for me.:rolleyes
Ok. I understand that you don't like BBT. We will have to disagree on the shows that you think that are. I don't particularly find any of them funny except for 30 rock. I laugh at the way you so matter-of-factly have pronounced the show not funny at all.
Again, we'll have to agree to disagree. :cool
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Prop Collector
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How many episodes have you seen? A lot of the "humor" of TBBT was derived from the relationships on the characters who were originally a couple on Roseanne.
Do you even know for sure what show(s) if any uses a canned laugh track?
The dozen or so shows I've seen filmed always indicated the laughter of the audience was used in the show. Hence the live studio audience. Even "on location" portions of the episode are shown on monitors in the audience to garner audience reaction to those scenes.
The dozen or so shows I've seen filmed always indicated the laughter of the audience was used in the show. Hence the live studio audience. Even "on location" portions of the episode are shown on monitors in the audience to garner audience reaction to those scenes.
Geniepants
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I haven't watched sitcoms in years, but enough people told me about this show that I fiannly checked it out this past summer. I now own seasons 1-3 on DVD, and one of my favorite shows on TV.
Though I'm not nearly as smart as the characters, enough of their nerdiness is right on the mark. Whenever Sheldon mentions his watch that gets updates from the atomic clock in Boulder, CO, my wife just looks at me and chuckles.
Though I'm not nearly as smart as the characters, enough of their nerdiness is right on the mark. Whenever Sheldon mentions his watch that gets updates from the atomic clock in Boulder, CO, my wife just looks at me and chuckles.
