Wouldn't it be great if sitcoms replaced the generic laugh track with this?
I had to see if that was a thing, was not disappointed. I present to you: Big Gobble Theory
omg it's so much better than what I had imagined xD Thank you for sharing!
Laugh tracks are horrible
I like how this video points out how brainless they can be.
"come on in"
*laugh track*
To be fair, that was the funniest part…
my mom killed herself in the garage
laugh track
gobblegobblegobble
What a horrible show.
I think they'd be better if used more sparingly and at a lower volume. The original point was that sitcoms are supposed to be like stage performances and we're hearing an audience laughter like you would if you were watching a comedy stage performance. Think more like how laughter sounds in SNL. SNL you can hear the audience laughter but it's 100% the actual audience and they aren't pumping it full volume every few seconds. I wish some of the classic sitcoms like Seinfeld edited the background laughter (whether a laugh track or actual audience) to reduce it some volume-wise because even the background laughter on it can be annoying despite the show actually being funny.
Comedy shows without background laughter follow a format similar to comedy films. The humor is different and the shows are usually in real settings as opposed to appearing to be a few elaborate stage sets. Sometimes I prefer the feeling of a classic sitcom though as opposed to a comedy that's more like watching an absurd drama and I have to pay close attention to not to miss the humor.
Most of seinfeld was shot with actual audience, not laugh track
Ah, either way, I still notice the background laughter a lot due to how loud it is. It may be harder to adjust that now though if it's all mixed into the same audio.
bbtheory just isn't funny and no amount of canned laughter can fix that
But how else are we supposed to know when writers think they've put a joke on the Big Bang Theory?
By not watching it. I haven't actually managed to identify a single Big Bang Theory joke using this method, but I stand by it.
Yes they are. The thing is...most multi-camera shows really don't use them. Most of these shows are done with an audience and the laughter you hear is them. Now there are times when, not often, where in editing they might need to add laughter for some reason or another, but really the vast majority of the time its live laughter.
wait is the laugh track actually this common in bbt wtf
Yeah seems like it. Person who made it probably cherry picked an especially egregious example, though.
Did they? That show had always been painful for me to watch because of what feels like a nearly constant laugh track. Maybe this was a worse case than usual, but not by much...
yea I don't mind "not amazing" comedy shows and like to put them on as background noise, but the laugh track of BBT makes it unwatchable for me.
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I've been watching One Day at a Time lately and I truly believe that the laughs are genuine. You can even hear some people choking or go "WOW" alone and such.
And it helps that the show is good too.
Some shows have a live studio audience so the laughs might be genuine.
Most multi camera shows do. It is rare for one to not.
BBT had a live audience for at least some of it but they still imposed a track because sitcom.
Saw an interview with Chuck Lorre and he said they actually had to de-sweeten the BBT laugh track (recorded live) because people wouldn't shut up every time Sheldon opened his mouth.
At one point it says gobble-mother fucking-gobble in the subtitles and I gotta say, I laughed harder at that than any of the jokes.
Wtf 9 years ago? Are we stuck on repeat?
Wait. How is this from 2012??? Witchcraft!
Nothing I hate more in life than the fake "ooooooo" sound when 2 people kiss on TV. Is it an audience of 8 year olds ffs?
ikr! its always sooo awkward
Its juvenile, and completely insulting to the audience's intelligence.
They're major network multi-camera sitcoms. I wouldn't worry about the audience's intelligence.
im not sure if they do it with live audiences in sitcoms, but when i went to jerry springer some dude came out and told us to follow cue cards. He even made us rehearse a few like "awwww" or "booooo". so even if the audience is real, the reactions may not be.
November only, although this is somewhat morbid
Woman: hahahaha
Turkeys: hahahaha
Me: hahahaha
... Me at your comment: hahahaha
Me at my life: hahahaha pathetic.
Come on Peter, I'm sure you're a great guy and that you're handling things just fine. You got this.
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The toaster: Hahahahhaha
Decepticons are no joke.
HELP ME MARGE! THE DOLL IS TRYING TO KILL ME AND THE TOASTER HAS BEEN LAUGHING AT ME!
JEFFREY BEZOOOOS
Thank you! I have never seen that before, and it made my day so far!
This video was the first that came to my mind on seeing the title video 😀
This reminds me of my old neighbors at the beginning of the pandemic lockdown. We had a flock of wild turkeys roving the neighborhood, which isn't unusual, but one family would stand in their driveway yelling at them for a couple hours once in a while. Not like a "hey, get outta here turkeys," but just an "AAAAAAAHHH" and then the turkeys would yell back. I think some people just had no idea what to do to entertain themselves at that time lol
Tbf, it's a lot of fun to have a flock of wild turkeys around. We do nearly every year, and watching them interact with our chickens is very amusing. They'll graze together for a bit, then realize they're different, go "WTF?" for a moment, then go back to grazing. Then, 15 mins later, repeat
That's amazing, I love that!
It's definitely fun to watch my cat react to the turkeys. He's an indoor-only cat because he's terrified of everything, but he loves watching the birds and chipmunks out the window. When the turkeys came around the first year that I had him, he seemed very confused about whether he should want to watch them or hide from them. (Actually, I was kind of surprised that it seemed like he hadn't seen them before, since we live in New England and he was already 8 years old when I adopted him, surely he'd encountered them before)
I mean that sounds like fun even before covid
Toss in some fainting goats and it's some real Must See TV.
We had a flock of wild turkeys roving the neighborhood, which isn't unusual
I'm sorry, WHAT
if you live somewhere turkeys live, it’s not unusual.
The turkey should've been the US national birb
And yeah as the other poster said, I see turkey's every few weeks or so and I'm in a very populated area. They go further into the city too.
https://amp.wbur.org/radioboston/2019/11/25/turkey-conservation-rebound-urban
I don't think eagles for Thanksgiving would be as nice.
Speaking from experience? How does eagle taste? Maybe it's the forbidden food we've all been waiting for.
Eagles are just vultures with a PR agent, I'm sure a lifetime of eating rotted meat doesn't imbue them with good flavor.
Are you sure you're not taking about the US?
I think I'm not legally required to incriminate myself here.
I’m from a place where they literally roam in groups everywhere, even shopping mall plazas… not massive flocks usually 10-20, sometimes small groups
We treat them like Canadian geese, just drive around them yelling, ahhhhhh and laughing as they ahhhhahaah back
We get little flocks in our neighborhood sometimes, usually 5-6 at a time. They're cool animals
Central Florida checking in. We see them all the time, sometimes alone, or sometimes walking along in a long line.
I used to see them on the way to the Orlando airport, but I haven't seen any since they cleared all those trees at the intersection of 417 and 528. :(
We get a roving gang walking through our Sacramento-area suburban neighborhood every couple of weeks. I love it (except the one time two of them sat on top of my Outback). They're basically giant, awkward pigeons.
My office has also had a family of wild peacocks living outside it for five years now. The patriarch occasionally guards the door with full tail fan. And attacks himself in the mirrored windows.
We did a lot of things during the pandemic that we weren't proud of.
This is my favorite video on the internet and I watch it every time I'm having a crappy day
Dude, your username...
Have you not heard the legends?
Legends say they had to use a body double for a nude scene, because Willem's schmeat was too distracting.
I hate you people.
I just spent the last 10 minutes googling "Willem Dafoe dick size".
My Google search recommendations later today are gonna be fucked up.
It's very easy to find a video of a young Dafoe dancing around naked with his huge flaccid Green Goblin happily flopping in the breeze.
It's very easy to find a video of a young Dafoe dancing around naked with his huge flaccid Green Goblin happily flopping in the breeze.
It's real , and didn't take long to uncover.
This is exactly why you use incognito.
There are things for which Bing is uniquely suited.
Bing Bong Ding Dong
finger guns
Well, that settles that then.
He looks like every other guy I’ve seen with a gigadong though. Scrawny af with long extremities.
Why have you seen enough guys with gigadongs that you have a stereotype for them?
Risky click of the day. Here goes nothing!
You're named for a legend, I'm named for a legend.
I was hoping this would be the top comment. Goddamn I'm getting old...
you ever stumble upon a really old youtube video you don't even remember, only to find your own comment from 8 years ago?
Thanks for that! Made my day!
It's like the opposite of Silence of the Lambs - "The Laughter of the Turkey's".
It reminds me of that South Park Thanksgiving episode.
Urgh, you've just reminded me of the old South Park Game with the stupid Turkeys. shudder
South Park the video game released on PSX and N64
And PC!
Loved that game. Cow launchers ftw! 🤣
The alien dancing weapon thing that’s what I remember. Man still couldn’t believe my mom let me buy that at eb games.
Loved big head mode. Could never beat the giant robot even with cheats.
the turkey nightmare lasts forever!
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Its almost time for my annual watch of this classic WKRP episode.
As God as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
Greatest fucking game ever! Peeing on a snowball and throwing it = epic gaming
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FOR STUFFING
FOR SPAAARTAAAA!
Gobbles!
Turkeys
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anymore
distrustful squint
These "anymore"s are out of control these days.
She's laughing now, but this 100% works as the beginning of a horror movie -
I mean, she went "ouch" first because she was being attacked and from what she said it wasn't the first time?
Well Clarice, have the turkeys stopped laughing.
"The View"
The turkey's what?
Was gonna comment but yours is enough
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What a great audience
terrific audience
Have you seen this? Have you heard about this?
Finally a crowd for my standup.
Anyone know any good turkey jokes?
Ass...
Gobble gobble gobble
*Arse
Eat the booty like groceries!
So excited for the thanks giving day! it's a long weekend and good time to bonding with your family and friends..
Even the Turkeys know what's up damn
You know if you'd never seen a turkey before but then saw one in the wild, you'd probably never even dare to eat it because it looks like it feeds on the rotting corpses of the dead.
They basically look like an 18th century judge or parliament writer…still alive.
I guess that’s why the US chose a turkey as the country’s bird before the bald eagle
And that screech you hear all the time isnt even from a bald eagle, its from a red taled hawk.
The bald eagle is much more representative of American values as they are predominantly scavengers that use their size and strength to chase other animals away from carcasses or to steal food from smaller, more effective hunters like Ospreys.
Turkeys actually have pretty strong social networks and work together to avoid predators, in some cases they even serve as warning alarms for other prey species like deer and rabbits. The big males (Tom's) will sometimes try to intimidate or fight off small predators to protect the rest of the flock, but usually only as a last resort if they can't just avoid the predator in the first place.
I watched a female turkey take on a red-tailed hawk this summer. It was going after her chick's and she wasn't having it! (It dove down and she just jumped up in the way.
Wild turkeys look like pretty much any other bird. Cranes, herons, turkeys, meh.
They do like to fly at windshield height straight out of the brush, though.
It's especially confusing if you learn as a child that you have ancestors from Turkey.
They look awful. Like their face has melted
And wear parts of those corpses on their face so they always can smell the flesh of their prey
They look like a diseased scrotum infested with tumors
This is actually a natural reaction from the Turkeys. If a turkey hears a gobble (or something close enough it perceives as another turkey gobbling), every single one in ear shot will respond and try to gobble louder. i have tested this at a local petting zoo by playing a youbtube video of a turkey on my phone and set the entire enclosure off. works every time.
Not necessarily only reactions to other turkeys. In the wild they'll shock gobble to many noises. Part of locating them i involves driving or walking around the evening before (with available light) to find their roost and the hunter will make a loud noise to trigger the shock gobble. Usually it's the sound of a barred owl but even a car door closing can trigger it.
Turkeys do it to communicate to the flock where they are and if they are in danger themselves when the call goes out. Gobbling will trigger it of course, but yeah, most loud noises that might indicate a danger would do it too. Turkeys are easily one of the easiest creatures to stalk because their social tendencies make them easy to locate purely through sound interaction.
It's called a shock gobble. I use a crow call when hunting to get them to do it, but like you said they'll do it for just about any loud high pitched noise.
Really sweet animals if you ever bond with them
My neighbor had one. Middle of the suburbs too. He was a big Tom turkey who would puff up into a ball everytime someone approached their yard and menacingly follow them. Wouldn’t ever attack. Just puff up and waffle after you.
They're funny, they love showing off
I love turkeys and everyone thinks I'm nuts for it because they're pretty ugly. There's a few wild ones that make their home and have babies every year in a greenspace near me that I call "my turkeys". Love watching them grow up 🥲
I had a white Tom turkey that thought it was a dog. He would wait for me to get home from work, then flip on his back for belly scratches. If you were wearing flip flops, he would sneak up behind you and peck the hell out of your heel. Lol
They have only till December to be humorous.
Was her outfit intentional? She totally blends in, lol.
What are the odds. Anyone from the UK who listens to BBC Radio 1, Greg James just done a bit on Turkey's laughing to pretty much any loud noise.
I missed what instigated the conversation on Turkey's but this might have been it?
Starts at 19 minutes in: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p09z73n9
A proper goose from a turkey.
Obligatory WKRP pre-Thanksgiving Turkey post:
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.
They can
They DID!
We have wild turkeys flying all over the damn place here in Indiana. If you think hitting a deer is bad, how about a 10 to 20 pound bird coming through your windshield
Edit, link to pics
Oh the humanity!!
So this is how they make canned laughter
They named a country after them.
OMG!!!! This reminds me of a similar story with a female reporter trying her damnest to do a report on turkeys, she kept saying, "lets talk turkey" but she kept getting overwhelmed by all of the damn turkeys, she ended up freaking totally out and requiring someone to carry her out of it, lol!!!! This particular story happened at least 20 years ago.
What a toxic workplace. One of their co-workers sexually assaults a visitor to their workplace and the others just laugh it off like it is nothing; groping is not a compliment. This is not five months ago these are almost 'retired' turkeys, they should know better.
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Snatch?
I took me a minute....
Do you know what Nemesis means?
Is she saying “It really hurt! It really got my ass!” ??
Almost, I think it's, "That one really hurt, he really got my arse."
Turkeys seem like a chill lot with a good sense of humor. Maybe let’s skip the bird this thanksgiving
Anyone who enjoyed My Octupus Teacher should check out My Life As A Turkey.
It's really funny!
If I ever do standup, I'm going to invite a bunch of turkeys.
She matches them :)
At first i read as "Turkey have a wicked sense of humour" and i was like "wut?" :) (im from Turkey) ahahaha
The only time the laugh track has ever been done right in the history of TV was in WandaVision.
Because they did it ironically.
"We were raptors once.."
You can actually hear some of them saying “gobble gobble gobble” at the end. I always thought that sound was made up for children’s story books.
maybe they should just use turkeys for studio audiences on comedy shows
Turkeys do what’s known in hunter parlance as a “shock-gobble”. If you’re in turkey country and you let off a sudden sound like a crow call or something, often you’ll hear a turkey gobble back. No one is quite sure why, but it’s what they do.
What evil heartless monsters it takes to think of them as food.
Petition to replace sitcom laugh tracks with this sound.
Birds that laugh together get slaughtered together
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