TL;DR people are turning on closed captions (i.e. subtitles of the same language as the video) to increase their focus. I've been doing something slightly simi

TL;DR people are turning on closed captions (i.e. subtitles of the same language as the video) to increase their focus. I've been doing something slightly similar in reading Fawlty Towers scripts [1] on my phone while watching the episodes, and it yielded about 20% more jokes (ones I'd missed in the past, even from 10+ viewings of each episode!). For example, Basil mumbling this brilliancy in his initial exchange with Mr Hutchinson: > In a nutshell > Case, more like. [1] https://subslikescript.com/series/Fawlty_Towers-72500/season-1/episode-4-The_Hotel_Inspectors https://subslikescript.com/series/Fawlty_Towers-72500/season...