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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…
You made me GOL.
GMFTO
What
The longer clip it is pretty funny without a laugh track, but the laugh track makes it terrible.
my mom killed herself in the garage
laugh track
gobblegobblegobble
She was just…hanging there…
laugh track
Everything felt so still, and yet—the way the shop fan gently swayed her corpse slowly from side to side was almost like a sick parody of life…
laugh track
Oh God, I can still remember the smell! 😩
laugh track
What a horrible show.
Yeah, I don't know why but they always made me kid me feel stupid, because I heard all that laughter all the time and I felt like I weren't getting obvious jokes.
At least they're not as bad as a shitty comedic news show they have on Italian TV... Not only it is constant, it also sounds awful. Its called striscia la notizia and its probably one of the worst thing we have on TV lmao
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
So was Cheers.
They pad SNL with a laugh track. Sorry to burst your bubble.
Well, the original reason that the laugh track was invented is because live audiences were often not reliable enough to get the effect that was wanted.
I wish some of the classic sitcoms like Seinfeld were redone with the laugh track reduced because even its laugh track can be annoying despite the show actually being funny.
Do people not realize sitcoms with a laugh track are filmed in front of a live audience and the track is played over them in order to cover up incongruous/inconsistant laughter? They aren't just randomly putting in a track for S&Gs. They do sometimes stop production to re-write a scene if it falls flatter than they hoped.
I don't think all sitcoms have a studio audience but Seinfeld did. I meant the background laughter in general, whether it's an audience or dubbed in. I think it would sound better to younger people today if it were toned down some volume wise.
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.
Your joke identification process is about as effective as watching the show.
Can't really blame them. They're just following the same sitcom formula that's been around for 50 some odd years.
Except I think some of the older sitcoms actually contained jokes and humour... but I could be mis-remembering them.
So complain about the jokes then, not about the audience.
Did I say anything about the audience?
No, they were lame to believe me.
Not in all cases. Watch some old Three's Company. That was some good stuff!
I Love Lucy?
Nah, Cheers, Married With Children, Seinfeld, Golden Girls, Taxi, among many more. Don't be dense. There were tons of great shows that had laugh tracks.
I guess I'm just not a sitcom guy. Even back in the 90s I thought it was kinda cringy.
Half that show is laugh track... it got old quick. Then Howard got married and I was like, fuck this shit.
Mmm rabbit
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.
*live* laughter is also a bit misleading as well because there is a prompt to the audience to laugh on some studios even using a live audience as well.
So you can have genuine laughter at something funny, prompted laughter, and post edited canned laughter all in the same show. :/
Yes audience members are encouraged to exaggerate.
But these are turkey tracks
Creeped me out when someone pointed out that they used to recycle old laugh tracks in different shows and some of them were so old that a majority of the people you would hear laughing were most likely dead.
I love a laugh track. Reminds you when to laugh.
The BBT is horrible
Hahahahahah
I mean, they are better than sitcoms without laughtracks/audiences
That’s only because they awkwardly pause to allow the track. If they directed it to not have the tracks it wouldn’t be bad.
In sitcoms filmed in front of audiences like BBT they are pausing until the audience stops laughing so their next line can be heard.
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Sometimes I laugh along with the laugh track, just to see how unrealistic and timed they really are. It's super strange and I hate them.
More so their execution. Almost none of those interjections were at a "funny" moment.
"Sure come in" hahahahaha
OMG GUYS SHE WALKED IN THE ROOM HOW FUNNY!!!!
wtf?
Yet they works somehow. Everyone hates them, but they still works
cue laugh track
Super annoying.
Have you seen it with no laugh track? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKS3MGriZcs
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.
It's a studio show with audience, i am quite sure
Ah yeah that's true, I just wish they would tone down the laughing sound.
It's only "egregious" though because it's an actual funny scene that the audience responded to with more laughter than for the usual scenes on the show. And it is an actual audience, although they do also further the edit the laughter.
They pipe in more than half of it, and the stuff that isn't piped in is requested by bright [LAUGH] signs
The scene posted here is getting a bigger laugh relative to other BBT scenes.
Funny how on first glance none of the Youtube comments mentions it. Must be true fans of the series :-)
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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.
They probably mix that with some laugh in the can
The old one or the remake?
The remake.
Yeah I tried to watch the episode with Nimoy and couldn't get through it. The laugh track was that annoying.
Yep. Ruined the show for me when my cousin pointed it out. Sometimes they use it multiple times in one sentence its exhausting
Yup...and in How I Met Your Mother; they seem use the same track through the series too. Once I heard the high-pitched "ee-hee-hee" at the end of one of the laugh segments, it's all I could hear and now it's just painfully obvious every time I watch the series.
I'm pretty sure they used the same track throughout (at least portions of) The Drew Carey Show, because I remember that same obnoxious noise from there, like, 15 years ago
I used to watch BBT in high school and enjoyed it. Not sure if it's the because someone pointed out the laugh tracks, knowing that it is cool to hate on the show on reddit or just having grown up since but man that show is not funny any more. Feels way too forced.
Im surprised a lot of people are calling it a "laugh track" bc it is really a real live audience in Tbbt.
YES. Especially kid's shows. They're training the youth.
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.
*GOBBLE-MOTHERFUCKING-GOBBLE!!!*
How do you do that without turning into italics?
Try putting a \ before each *
Sounds like a line from Gigli
Wtf 9 years ago? Are we stuck on repeat?
Wait. How is this from 2012??? Witchcraft!
Absurdity level up. Watchability level unchanged.
True hero here!
Did they deliberately add the laughs at rhe weirdest moments or was that in the original?
Oh it’s even more glorious than I could have ever imagined.
Can we replace the actors with the turkeys?
I used to love that show until someone told me to watch it without the laugh track. Turns out, it's horrible and you realize how each of the characters are quite cruel to one another. It's a toxic environment for all involved.
It cut off at the best part! I possess the DNA of Leonard Nimoy!
If I didn’t know about the turkeys beforehand I wouldn’t have noticed without headphones on
Lol!
You are a scholar whose archival work shall be celebrated til the end of the era!
Made my day!
GOBBLE-MOTHERFUCKING-GOBBLE
Thank you so much mate this made my day, Big Bang Theory is a great series tho.
….can you do it with oh idk….Dharma and Greg?
Edit: I’m just learning Chuck Lorre actually produced Dharma and Greg as well!
I didnt do anything, but find this gem.
Rest soldier. You’ve done well today!
Nine Years Ago
lmao that's great.
This did not disappoint
Finally, a version of this show that's actually made me laugh. xD
You could have taken one of the "BBG without the laugh tracks" to do it, but kudos for actually doing it at all! This is great! :)
From all the way back in 2012 that guy is a visionary.
I’m so impressed you found the perfect video for the original comment. You internet sleuth, you!
Omg I was literally about to make this. Thank you so much.
I don't get it, how is this different than ever big bang episode?
did you just make that show somewhat palatable?!
So much better but what was the joke?! That show is painful
It’s fuckin perfect
"How's your leg?"
"Better, come on in"
hysterical laughter
Comedy. Genius.
* GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE *
That's awesome.
I thought that was a porno
Oof, Big Bang Theory is so bad
I only ever saw snippits of this show when I visited people. But good lord is it painful to sit through. Just this short segment is terrible.
Almost makes the show watchable
And just like that this show became funny
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.
Yeah the network certainly isn't
or, in the case of married... with children, it's indicative of 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.
Do they still do that in modern sitcoms?
I remember it being very big and sitcoms when I was a kid -- late '80s, early '90s, but I haven't seen that much lately
Why do you guys say it’s fake? Every time I kiss people a oooooo sound is heard, even when nobody is watching. That’s normal, why would the movies make it up.
I work in a pub and me tell you that every single time anyone breaks a glass, the whole place cheers. Yes we are all 8 year olds. Every one of us.
November only, although this is somewhat morbid
Yep they make good audiences even if you crack some lame corny jokes
Are we still doing "laugh tracks, amirite?" Who is even watching shows with laugh tracks in 2021, and if you're not watching, why the fuck do you care? This shit is so fucking lazy.
Wouldn’t it be great if these animals weren’t bred to be killed as toddlers!?
That would be an amazing improvement.
I'm reminded of a kids horror book I read a long time ago. One of the stories featured an Audio engineer who was obsessed with laugh tracks and always used them too much.
One day, he starts audio work on some TV show and just smothers the thing in laugh tracks until suddenly the tapes come alive, and he is mummified and crushed to death by a seemingly infinite amount of laugh track tape, his screams drowned out by the deafening roar of what I recall being described as "angry" or "agressive" laughter.
Came here for this.
Seinfelds live studio audience!
No way, just 100 overlays of Jimmy Carr
Yea considering those generic laughs are all from dead people