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775 points mike1o1 | 1 comments | 10 Apr 25 17:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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rfarley04 ◴[10 Apr 25 17:47 UTC] No.43646366[source]▶
Obligatory tangent of Friends without the laugh track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgKgXehYnnw

Similarly creep and unsettling.

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triceratops ◴[10 Apr 25 18:04 UTC] No.43646528[source]▶
They 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.

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1. rfarley04 ◴[10 Apr 25 18:25 UTC] No.43646737[source]▶
To 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.