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Obligatory tangent of Friends without the laugh track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgKgXehYnnw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgKgXehYnnw Similarly creep
by rfarley04 2y ago
Obligatory tangent of Friends without the laugh track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgKgXehYnnw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgKgXehYnnw
Similarly creep and unsettling.
- alabastervlog 2y agoMASH is available without the laugh track. Really changes the tone, though in that case it doesn't ruin it, just makes it different.
- chuckadams 2y agoAlan Alda has mentioned in interviews that he prefers it that way.
- KerrAvon 2y agoI feel like removing it removes some noise, but doesn't affect the tone. Story is, the MASH showrunners didn't want a laugh track, but the network insisted, so they used the lowest-fidelity one they could get away with.
- dingaling 2y agoThankfully it was broadcast in the UK without the laugh track. Obviously it still wasn't as darkly observant as the movie, but it did have a edge.
- triceratops 2y agoThey filmed in front of a live audience in a theater and those are real people laughing. It's unsettling because the actors pause between lines until the laughter stops. Reflexive dismissals of shows with laugh tracks are lazy.
- rfarley04 2y agoTo each their own! When I watch Ross ask how to beat up a woman in the street with eyes bugging out of his head there's a pretty big difference between a laugh track and no laugh track. Just like Garfield comics hit very different when you realize that John is actually talking to himself. I don't "reflexively dismiss" all shows with a laugh track. Some of Friends is genuinely hilarious. But a lot of it is only funny, to me, when surrounded by others laughing.