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477 points gyomu | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 15:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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operator-name ◴[02 Sep 25 20:32 UTC] No.45108624[source]▶
In the west we have “No Animals Were Harmed in the making of …”, which I’m only just learning comes from the American Humane Society: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Humane_Society#No_A...

I had always thought it were a generic phrase!

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talideon ◴[02 Sep 25 23:15 UTC] No.45110340[source]▶
And "filmed in front of a live studio audience", which doesn't prevent the addition of laugh tracks.
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Buildstarted ◴[02 Sep 25 23:43 UTC] No.45110561[source]▶
I read a long time ago that Fran Drescher of The Nanny fame was huge in replacing those audiences with extras instead of random people.

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/flashback/how-fran-...

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borski ◴[03 Sep 25 07:09 UTC] No.45113063[source]▶
That’s true, but the article also explains it isn’t nefarious; she had a stalker (after past horrible trauma), and was terrified, so replaced the live audiences with extras. It just happened to work so well it caught on and became a mainstay of sitcoms after that.
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1. stockresearcher ◴[03 Sep 25 15:28 UTC] No.45116940[source]▶
The Academy Awards can’t even trust the extras to fill empty seats in the audience, so they use lawyers and accountants who have already signed NDAs with the Academy for their day jobs.