Those prerecorded laugh tracks in sitcoms sure do get annoying sometimes. I wonder how many sitcoms on TV have laugh tracks from people who are actually watching the show as it’s being filmed, as opposed to using prerecorded sounds. Probably not that many at all. Anyhow, making this daily flash got me wondering… what if prerecorded laughing sound effects played in real life every time something funny (or supposedly funny) happened? Then I decided that it would be very annoying. The end.
Oh canned laughter, you made dead jokes funny, now stop abusing canned pops and boos for wrestlers. The people are much better at the job. Dang machines!
There was one episode of Scrubs where they turned it into a sitcom and actually had a live audience there to fill in the laughter… There’s your random bit of trivia for the day.
1). I agree, all the time when I’m watching a show with soundtracks somebody would say something boring like, “It’s cherry pie.” or something like that, they put in a laugh! (other shows do have live audiences which means either the live audience finds it funny or people are holding up signs saying “You laugh hear.”)
2). I have something better than being first! I’m first to being the seventeenth!
Agree 100% with this flash. They are put in sitcoms with the notion of “laughter is contagious” but it just gets annoying and the show comes off as being pretentious.
Judging by the comments, I expect the end of the Flash would have made more sense to me if I had been watching it with sound. But yeah, I have the same opinion as pretty much everyone else.
And yeah, I always thought laugh tracks were stupid. I mean, if you have to tell people what the jokes are, maybe you should just get better writers instead. =/
it can be funny, on one of my plane flights, we one of the things they played was a large collection of videos, most with original sound, with the exception of some music montages, and it was still quite funny.
Concur. Instead of laugh tracks they should use explosions (or maybe laugh tracks with explosions in them), this -is- America after all. Everything should be exploding. Even sound bites.
@Fubu72: OBJECTION!! This evidence is proof that less than two years of Walfas has gone into daily flashes with sound!
Sitcom laughter is annoying. Ah well. I don’t watch actual TV enough to know any genuinely funny shows that include sitcom laughter, but maybe that’s because sitcom laughter makes it a bit less funny.
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As I’ve said, natural laughing is always better than the canned variety. It’s more fresh~
*gets tomato’d*
Oh canned laughter, you made dead jokes funny, now stop abusing canned pops and boos for wrestlers. The people are much better at the job. Dang machines!
ROFL!
Stock sounds are cheap and signify when the “funny” bit is for the less mentally active people.
Yeah, I hate them too.
People still watch sitcoms?
Hmm, so U.N. Character is saying she likes ones like Malcolm in the Middle, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch?
‘course, I dunno if she’s American, or Japanese.
XD
I hate those sitcom programs… because of that annoying canned laughter
Yeah, I don’t know why they use those anymore since everyone knows its fake…
that’s why AFV isn’t funny.
The only show i know that has real laughing from an audience is “Whose line is it anyway?” but thats not a sitcom….what was i talking about again?
i laughed xD
There was one episode of Scrubs where they turned it into a sitcom and actually had a live audience there to fill in the laughter… There’s your random bit of trivia for the day.
Damn! I actually laughed when the laughing was played.
This flash is 100% true.
I didn’t understand the joke because I turned off the sound before…
(*Hear laughs).
Now that you force my thoughts to this topic… yes they are quite annoying
1). I agree, all the time when I’m watching a show with soundtracks somebody would say something boring like, “It’s cherry pie.” or something like that, they put in a laugh! (other shows do have live audiences which means either the live audience finds it funny or people are holding up signs saying “You laugh hear.”)
2). I have something better than being first! I’m first to being the seventeenth!
Agree 100% with this flash. They are put in sitcoms with the notion of “laughter is contagious” but it just gets annoying and the show comes off as being pretentious.
But i lol’d @ the flash anyways >.<
I wasn’t expecting that from the flash. I guess that pretty much made it funny somehow because I laughed. Weird, huh?
Sound? In my daily flashes!? After TWO weeks without one!? IS THIS WHAT 2 YEARS OF WALFAS HAVE LEAD US TO!?!? AWESOME!!
GAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I hate it as much as everyone else.
BTW this might make me sound like cirno, but how do u get an avatar on the comment?
“I don’t need people telling me when I should should think something’s funny.”
I’m surprised no one else has caught it yet. :D
Edit by KirbyM: It has now been fixed!
Judging by the comments, I expect the end of the Flash would have made more sense to me if I had been watching it with sound. But yeah, I have the same opinion as pretty much everyone else.
@Rikenta: You need to set up a Gravatar. ;)
I laughed (and do it sometimes with actual ones) becouse of the irony of them laughing at something that isn’t funny.
It’s just like when e^x and c were walking down the street…
Darn it, the laugh track made me laugh. :|
Also, shows like Monty Python were filmed before a live studio audience, but I don’t think many shows are done like that anymore.
Does anyone remember when they added a laugh track to old Hanna-Barbera cartoons (like Scooby Doo, and the Flintstones)?
Does anyone even watch sitcoms anymore?
And yeah, I always thought laugh tracks were stupid. I mean, if you have to tell people what the jokes are, maybe you should just get better writers instead. =/
*insert laugh*
@star
it can be funny, on one of my plane flights, we one of the things they played was a large collection of videos, most with original sound, with the exception of some music montages, and it was still quite funny.
@thegame
You made me remember this thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMj1ijOOAjA&feature=channel_page
The only show I’ve watched that was actually funny and included a laugh track was Blackadder, the greatest comedy show ever made.
Nice ending. =D
Once I think that the laughing was real in one show, because someone laughed so hard he honked and stuff. XD So dang funny…
Concur. Instead of laugh tracks they should use explosions (or maybe laugh tracks with explosions in them), this -is- America after all. Everything should be exploding. Even sound bites.
@Danielu: Ah right THAT thing.
@Fubu72: OBJECTION!! This evidence is proof that less than two years of Walfas has gone into daily flashes with sound!
Sitcom laughter is annoying. Ah well. I don’t watch actual TV enough to know any genuinely funny shows that include sitcom laughter, but maybe that’s because sitcom laughter makes it a bit less funny.
Yeah, those are annoying…But the first time I saw this, my headphones weren’t in my ears =/
omg sound xD
Prerecorded laught make you laugh, actually… well, not always…
Ahehheha
Canned laughter sucks. It’s much better with a live recording audience. That’s how sitcom are filmed in my country.
MADTv has real audience. Same with Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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this “end” with this “boo” sound like the ran ran roo XD
they cutted the ran ran and pasted the roo .w.