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Laugh Track

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Laugh Track	comment	Closed-captioning for the humor-impaired. In the early days of television, comedies were "traditionally" performed essentially as short plays in front of a live Studio Audience, broadcast live or with minimal editing (see Three Cameras). However, as television production grew more sophisticated in the late 1940s and early 1950s, there was at least a partial shift away from live performances to productions that were filmed movie-style, with a single camera and on a closed sound stage or on location. The latter gave the director more freedom in selecting shots and angles, as well as the luxury of multiple takes. However, there was no longer an audience to provide instant feedback on the humor. The general opinion of the audience held by television executives then (and some would argue now) was very low. There was serious concern that without an audience to "prompt" the home viewer's responses, a comedy would fall flat. The solution was the creation of the Laugh Track (also known as "canned laughter", "tinned laughter" or "fake laughter") — an artificial audience that does nothing but react uproariously to anything and everything. Naturally, within a few years of its introduction, it was abused and overused. Every punchline, no matter how lame or subtle, would receive the same tsunami of belly laughs from the virtual audience. It became epidemic, even intruding bizarrely into cartoons (The Flintstones and The Jetsons, anyone?). By the 1960s, it had become an annoying intrusion, hated but (in the minds of most producers) mandatory. In the 1970s, however, most sitcoms began to switch away from the single-camera, movie-style format and back to the multi-camera format with a studio audience providing real laughter, which producers found more pleasing because it had a better comic "rhythm" and helped them write better jokes. By the 1980s, the only hit that still regularly used a laugh track was MASH (which increasingly dispensed with the device toward the end of its run). And while the Turn of the Millennium saw a resurgence of single-camera comedies in the US, these were influenced by the new wave of British comedies of the 1990s, which omitted laugh tracks completely (leading to some Misplaced Nationalism). Some comedies resorted to the use of certain sound effects that served the same purpose, but as the focus of 2010s-era comedies shifted towards either dramatic or outrageous situations, laugh tracks have seen a decrease in use. They are sometimes Played for Horror in the Subverted Sitcom, though. Although it may not seem so, laugh tracks were surprisingly sophisticated systems at the height of their use. Rather than being just simple recordings of a laughing audience, they were actually carefully generated and mixed, with such discrete components as "the guy who gets the joke early" and "housewife giggles" and "the one who didn't get the joke but is laughing anyway" all precisely blended and reblended to create the illusion of a real audience responding to the show. Up until the late 1970's, these were all the work of one company, owned by Charley Douglass, which used a mysterious machine of his own invention to create those imaginary audiences for hundreds of shows. A history and analysis of the laugh track can be found on the web here. Cecil Adams' syndicated column The Straight Dope also covered the topic. The Onion is very fond of mocking laugh tracks extensively. The term "laugh track" is often misapplied to shows that are filmed and later screened to an audience, whose responses are then recorded. This is inappropriate, though, because in these cases the laughter was a genuine response to the humor in the show, and was not pre-recorded... although it's not unheard of for supplemental canned laughter to be inserted afterwards. Sometimes the term is even applied to the existence of a Studio Audience. In fact, studio audience sitcoms tend to get accused of employing "laugh tracks" more than shows that actually do so, because a laugh track tends to be quieter and less noticeable than real live audience laughter. This situation led to many shows, such as Cheers to add a disclaimer either at the beginning or the end of a program: "(Program X) is filmed before a Live Studio Audience". In some Latin American countries (Argentina, for example), the laugh track is replaced by a crew of off-screen people paid specifically to laugh on command whenever the comedic situation (presumably) merits a laugh; they are known as reidores; a senior laugher signals all the others when to laugh. In Mexico, the Chespirito programs, particularly El Chavo del ocho, had laugh tracks for most of their runs, but in later years this device was dropped, with a disclaimer proclaiming that it was done to respect the audience. Note that even the shows that record laughter live from an audience (or show pre-recorded material to an audience and record that laughter) will edit, alter, or even add to the laughter in some way, even if (as in most cases) it's just to cover the transition between takes/scenes, using the same techniques used to add true canned laughter. While some claim the reason for laugh tracks is Viewers Are Morons, in their defense laughing along with everyone else in a group is a very social phenomenon and watching TV can be a very solitary phenomenon. It's not polite to laugh at something that isn't funny, not everyone has a well defined sense of humor (and that doesn't mean they are a moron, either), so the cue can be helpful to some people. One other criticism of laughter tracks is that it creates an enforced No Fourth Wall scenario for every series that features one, continually reminding viewers that that are viewing a performance rather than allowing for immersion into the story and characters (see, for example, MASH). Another complaint is that if the fan videos that edit out the laugh tracks in sitcoms are anything to go by, the funny moments are only funny because of the laugh track itself, turning it into a comedy crutch. Laugh tracks and other uses of recorded laughter can have one interesting benefit in terms of pacing a show. Similar to theater, when the audience laughs, the actors will often pause for the joke to "land" and for the audience to calm back down before continuing. This pause is beneficial in some cases because it prevents dialogue or important details from being missed if the audience is still laughing. However, the dialog sounds very strange without the laugh track, as the actors must deliver a line then pause for about five to ten seconds for the next one. It also changes the type of dialog one writes; a laugh track forces short, brief, quip-laden dialog. Without a laugh track, more natural dialog and more complex jokes can get the space to breathe.
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Laugh Track / int_12192c96	comment	Space Tree: Used in Face Bee the Face Bee in Your Face! Perpetually.
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Laugh Track / int_1271d122	comment	Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged has one play whenever Genbu says "Git-er-done". Hiei does not approve, and forcibly interrupts Genbu's last invocation of this trope.
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Laugh Track / int_136e43a2	comment	Some Nick shows have no laugh track, such as Zoey 101, Big Time Rush and The Troop, which are somewhat unusual for the channel but are all justified by not being typical Three Cameras Kid Com shows and being shot extensively on location. It also helps than Zoey 101 is a dramedy and The Troop is an action/adventure show. Subverted at least with Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide in which the laugh track was replaced with a set of specific "stand-in" soundsnote (the show was filmed mostly on-location, and by the time it premiered, laugh tracks were on their way out), having one for a determinate situation. Same goes for some Disney Channel Shows, such as the channel's earliest shows, the show Lizzie McGuire and more recently Jonas L.A. which was shot on location in (you guessed it!) L.A. Jonas L.A. also was Disney Channel's first show with a continuing story in each episode. It too was a drama, so no need for laugh track.
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Laugh Track / int_1622155	comment	In Kirby Super Star Ultra, an unlockable blooper reel features a laugh track. Being the Kirby series, all of the laughter is unintelligible squeaks.
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Laugh Track / int_18acb3a5	comment	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air used a studio audience. "Will's Misery" ends with a gag where Carlton freaks out and runs screaming across the set and out into the audience.
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Laugh Track / int_1aa9d9f4	comment	The Archer, a villain on the 60's Batman (1966) TV series, used a laugh track in his crimes, his henchmen carrying the device around and turning it on at appropriate moments. He stole it from a "producer of so-called comedies".
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Laugh Track / int_1ed2c571	comment	Later The Cosby Show was taped in front of a live audience.
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Laugh Track / int_1f72b18d	comment	All H-B's prime time animated comedies in the 60s had laugh tracks. Their Saturday morning shows, save for Scooby Doo, Where Are You!, didn't. The only 1970s series that didn't have laugh tracks were those animated in Australia, the odd drama shows (Sealab 2020, Devlin) and their Tom and Jerry 1975 retool. The laugh track was abandoned in 1981.
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Laugh Track / int_20ac8a71	comment	During the Doom Patrol story with the first appearance of the Men from N.O.W.H.E.R.E., Mr. Jones has a laugh track installed in his house to emulate his "normality". It goes off seemingly at random, coinciding with him stabbing his wife and planning a massacre
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Laugh Track / int_22048dce	comment	A Year at the Top used one, judging by the promo.
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Laugh Track / int_2275c659	comment	House has a dream sequence with House and Wilson raising Cuddy's daughter in a sitcom setting, complete with laugh track.
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Laugh Track / int_231c22b6	comment	Titus used a live studio audience, but with a twist in style. Every episode had a main story taking place primarily in one location and in approximate Real Time, and this was performed as a play. A Framing Device called the neutral space (a black and white room where Titus talked directly to the camera) divided up the action with a Flashback, Imagine Spot or other type of gag to put the main story in perspective. The cast would record the various Neutral Space-related bits on Wednesday, but also rehearse the main story all week for the Friday taping. At the taping they would perform the main story live for the Studio Audience, but would also show the audience video of the Neutral Space material in the appropriate place in the overall episode, capturing the laughter as a complete episode rather than in piecemeal.
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Laugh Track / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers is probably the most famous example of a show drawing attention to their live studio audience; a random cast member announcing that fact would be the first thing audiences heard every episode (as opposed to most shows, like All in the Family, which did so over the end credits). Not that they really needed to; watch any given episode and you can hear every last titter, clap or cough from some random audience member. That set must have had some great acoustics...
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Laugh Track / int_24ffd341	comment	It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia parodies the use of laugh tracks in the episode "Old Lady House: A Situational Comedy", where Dennis puts sound effects over surveillance footage of Charlie and Mac's moms to make a sitcom out of their exploits, with characters noting that the laugh track not only tells them when something is funny, it turns what would otherwise be uncomfortable situations into something funny and palatable.
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Laugh Track / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons played with this a couple times. As in the "Love-Matic Grandpa" portion of the spinoff episode. Another episode had a Studio Audience hoot after Marge makes a suggestive comment. Homer immediately says "Bart, I told you not to play the TV so loud!", followed by Bart looking ashamed and the "TV audience" going "Uh-oh!" Another episode had Mr. Burns taking over all the TV stations and putting on his own stupid shows to blackmail Homer. Every single line had canned laughter after it, even though nobody was telling any jokes. note But then again, that remains true even when other shows play this trope straight. The episode "$pringfield", in which Marge develops a gambling addiction. Marge promises Lisa she will give up gambling, saying she will stay home. The two of them hug, with Homer saying, "Aw... just like on TV". Cue to Homer tripping over a chair, with canned laughter.
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Laugh Track / int_280bed0a	comment	The original British version of Da Ali G Show used a laugh track, but its American adaptation (known as Ali G in da USAiii in Britain) lacks it.
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Laugh Track / int_2990bf98	comment	The Laugh Track gets weaponized in Dicey Dungeons, where one of the Jester's possible finale cards in Episode 6 is named that, which Curses their enemy into making their next attack have a 50% chance of missing.
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Laugh Track / int_2a162f17	comment	101 Dalmatians: The Series didn't normally use a laugh track, but included a brief snippet of a laugh track following one of the jokes in "You Slipped a Disk" as well as the second half of the episode, "Chow About That?," apparently as throwaway gags.
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Laugh Track / int_2a458d08	comment	The Tines in the Zones of Thought novel The Children of the Sky can only communicate with humans by reproducing the sounds of human voices, since their native tongue is The Unpronounceable. But since they can reproduce virtually any audible frequency (and many inaudible ones), they can speak in multiple voices simultaneously or even, Johanna notes, provide their own laugh track.
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Laugh Track / int_2a8943c0	comment	In the Miraculous Ladybug episode "Derision", Kim is transformed into Dark Humor, whose powers cause other people to start playing malicious pranks. Every time such a prank is played, a laugh track is triggered. At one point, Ladybug (pretending she was hit by Dark Humor) glues a Lucky-Charm-created toilet bowl to Dark Humor's head, which results in a laugh track even though she's only faking.
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Laugh Track / int_2b82b95f	comment	Possibly lampshaded in the "webcast" parts of iCarly (as in, the bits where we're watching the Show Within a Show) with Sam's remote. Usually Once per Episode, she'll hold it up and press a button, which cues the laughter. It's played straight in the show proper, though.
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Laugh Track / int_2b91d798	comment	True Jackson, VP begins each episode with a narration by Keke Palmer telling us that the show was filmed in front of a live studio audience, but if you listen closely, you can still hear the same stock laughs heard in the average Kid Com. Filmed before a studio audience it may be, but laugh tracks still came into play somewhere.
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Laugh Track / int_2c511b86	comment	The Kenny Everett Video Show on ITV in the late 70s was unique in that there was no studio audience, but the viewer could clearly hear the cameramen, floor manager, writers and other studio crew laughing out loud off screen.
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Laugh Track / int_32233a78	comment	Ozy and Millie: In one strip, Millie has a boombox with a laugh track on it. Her mother uses the power of theme music the next day to retaliate.
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Laugh Track / int_341a1fd2	comment	Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated pays homage to the franchise's use of this trope at the end of the final episode.
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Laugh Track / int_34424cd2	comment	Steve D'Monster : The series utilized one beginning in Season Five. Steve lampshades it usage in "2012: A Look Back" (S7), when he opens his Monstrocity News broadcast with: Subverted in "Steve Vs. Internet Commercialism" (S7), where Steve is constantly interrupted by a series of commercials, which is met with boos and hisses.
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Laugh Track / int_34fd3cf6	comment	In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "The Cloning", a possessed television used inappropriate laugh tracks in its efforts to scare the people watching.
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Laugh Track / int_3558eaa2	comment	Community opened its fourth season with canned laughter and applause - then it turned out this was Abed's mental "happy place" where he pictured himself and his friends in a sitcom.
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Laugh Track / int_364144a3	comment	The 1980s comedy Sledge Hammer! had its first-season, early-episodes laugh track edited out for the DVD release. The director's commentary explains that the talking heads at the studio forced the laugh track on him because they felt the show was too violent without it. The producer explained on the DVD that he edited it out because the audience doesn't need to be told when to laugh.
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Laugh Track / int_3727e5f8	comment	Camp Candy: The justification is that John is telling stories to campers and that the laughter is coming from them.
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Laugh Track / int_381bb5a8	comment	Averted in The Alvin Show. Ross Bagdasarian insisted that the show skip the addition of a laugh track, against the wishes of the network. Though there was the sound of clapping that sounded like it came from a recording in "Wild, Irish Rose."
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Laugh Track / int_3ab7c208	comment	In the Flash short "Metallica Millionaire", parodying Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, there is a laugh track every time a contestant does something wrong or dumb.
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Laugh Track / int_3c8e9588	comment	In American Born Chinese, the Chin-Kee story is meant to resemble a TV comedy—the story even uses canned laughter in the form of "hahahaha" written at the bottom of the panel. The canned laughter is played straight for most of the Chin-Kee story, until near the end when Danny fights Chin-Kee, where the laughter becomes overwhelming.
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Laugh Track / int_3d0180fa	comment	The theatrical The Pink Panther shorts had laugh tracks added when they were shown on television. This stuck out even more in a program that had almost no dialogue at all. The All New Pink Panther Show pushed the laugh track to breaking point. For example, the Crazylegs Crane segments would open with canned laughter just because the character was on screen, having not done anything yet. This could be particularly annoying to that section of the audience who were far from convinced that the character was funny at all.
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Laugh Track / int_3e027a0f	comment	The Nutt House: Co-created and written by Mel Brooks; Executive Meddling forced laugh tracks, because the executives felt that Viewers Are Morons. The result was loud, jarring, clumsily dubbed-in laugh tracks that often drowned out the punchlines.
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Laugh Track / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs is a notable exception, all the funnier for a lack of a laugh track in almost every episode (there is one exception in the Imagine Spot episode ("My Life in Four Cameras") which parodies the traditional Sitcom) — the lack of a laugh track allows for innovative use of Sound Effects instead.
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Laugh Track / int_3e5de40b	featureConfidence	1.0
Scrubs	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_3e5de40b
Laugh Track / int_3eacc2fd	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_3eacc2fd	comment	The Canadian sitcoms Corner Gas, Little Mosque on the Prairie, Made in Canada and Robson Arms avoid Laugh Tracks. (Except, as noted with the Corner Gas example elsewhere on this page, for comedic effect.)
Laugh Track / int_3eacc2fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Laugh Track / int_3eacc2fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Corner Gas	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_3eacc2fd
Laugh Track / int_3f0d1805	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_3f0d1805	comment	Malcolm in the Middle's ultimate legacy is that, along with the British sitcom Spaced, it's considered to be the Trope Codifier of the single camera, laugh track-free sitcom. Since Malcolm premiered, it's become popular for high-quality, single-camera sitcoms like Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office (US), 30 Rock, Community, Peep Show, The Inbetweeners, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development and Flight of the Conchords (among others) to eschew laugh tracks entirely. Coincidentally (or rather not) these shows are usually some of the most acclaimed comedies on television, with laugh-addled comedies seen as lowbrow. Naturally, some (specially people related with the laugh track) have often complained that the stuffiness of modern comedies (specially regarding the British-influenced "Mockumentary" format) has made them devoid of any climax, even if their criticism is dissed as Misplaced Nationalism).
Laugh Track / int_3f0d1805	featureApplicability	1.0
Laugh Track / int_3f0d1805	featureConfidence	1.0
Spaced	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_3f0d1805
Laugh Track / int_400469e	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_400469e	comment	In one strip of Calvin and Hobbes Calvin decides that to liven up his life, he's going to make it more like a TV show, complete with soundtrack and laugh track. His mother's reaction mirrors that of most people on hearing a laugh track.
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Laugh Track / int_400469e	featureConfidence	1.0
Calvin and Hobbes (Comic Strip)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_400469e
Laugh Track / int_42c05590	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_42c05590	comment	One episode of Rocko's Modern Life featured two parasite characters living on Spunky, whose adventures were spoofs of typical '60s sitcoms. The scenes with them have laugh tracks, which the rest of the show lacks. The Show Within a Show The Fatheads also had a laugh track, with the characters mugging for the camera whenever it played. Of special note, however, is that instead of a group of people, the track consisted of a single guy laughing hysterically.
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Laugh Track / int_42c05590	featureConfidence	1.0
Rocko's Modern Life	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_42c05590
Laugh Track / int_4617a9f2	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children is one of those cases where people bitch and moan about the "laugh track"... and are ignoring the fact the series was taped in front of a live audience. Live audiences can provide situation-specific reactions that would be difficult to get from a can; in one episode, a tarantula crawls across Al's face while he sleeps, and as the audience's "Eeeew!" dies down, one voice rises above the crowd to ask, "Is it real?" The show's studio audience by the latter half of the run was actually filled with hardcore fans of the show that were excited to be there (versus the "Hey you're visiting Hollywood, come in and watch a TV show being filmed!" that many shows did) and maybe at times were a little...overboisterous (the many moments where its obviously breaking the flow of the characters waiting abnormally long times to speak or continue a conversation because the crowd's going crazy),note In one of David Garrison's return guest shots, the applause at his entrance goes on for so long that he actually breaks character for a moment, comically looking at his watch. but the crew and actors were always extremely offended at the notion. They didn't NEED sweeteners/canned laughter.
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Laugh Track / int_4617a9f2	featureConfidence	1.0
Married... with Children	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_4617a9f2
Laugh Track / int_465d8bc0	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_465d8bc0	comment	The Game (2006) used a laugh track frequently in the first three seasons. Seasons 4 & 5, however, became heavy on drama with the comedy being an afterthought, so the laugh track was used sparingly, and often sounded out of place. By the sixth season, the laugh track was completely ditched, and the current revival also lacks one.
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The Game (2006)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_465d8bc0
Laugh Track / int_48527140	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_48527140	comment	Scooby-Doo: Mystery Mayhem is another Scooby-Doo Licensed Game that uses canned laughter.
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Scooby-Doo: Mystery Mayhem (Video Game)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_48527140
Laugh Track / int_48aae64	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_48aae64	comment	Glenn Martin, DDS, a stop-motion show, had a laugh track for about 8 episodes until it was removed entirely because the creators claim "it gave the show too much internal thinking".
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Glenn Martin, DDS	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_48aae64
Laugh Track / int_4c4e08ca	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_4c4e08ca	comment	The Benny Hill Show actively used laugh tracks.
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The Benny Hill Show	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_4c4e08ca
Laugh Track / int_4c99197e	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_4c99197e	comment	Both The Muppet Show and Muppets Tonight used laugh tracks. Justified in that both shows were presented as shows being performed for an audience, and it would be entirely impossible to film this show in front of an audience due to the special effects and the puppeteers. This was something of an embarrassment to Jim Henson, who disliked the artificial quality of canned laughter but conceded it had to be used. This is most awkward during musical numbers where nothing particularly funny is happening, but the audience guffaws away for no reason. To The Muppet Shows credit, some of the laughter was actually the off-camera cast and crew cracking up at their co-star's antics, mixed in with the laugh track. Richard Hunt had a particularly loud laugh that can be distinctly heard, for example, in the "Japanese Cake" sketch. Sitting under the table waiting for his cue to bring the cake to life, Richard is audibly in stitches as the Swedish Chef throws candy and sugar all over the set. The Steve Martin episode was originally supposed to dispense with the laugh track and feature only the cast laughing (The Muppets had to cancel the show to audition new acts, but Steve Martin decided to perform anyway). However, the Muppeteer's laughter at some of Steve's antics was so loud it actually had to replaced with a laugh track to avoid drowning out the act itself. The Sandra Bullock episode of Muppets Tonight did a parody of Speed, where a villain set a bomb that would blow up the studio if the laugh frequency dropped too low. Trying to get the laughs back up, Pepe and Seymour do a truly dire joke that has the audience silent and unamused - and over the shot of a non-laughing audience, the laugh track gives a big laugh.
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The Muppet Show	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_4c99197e
Laugh Track / int_4d8e5ec	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_4d8e5ec	comment	The Daily Show and likewise its sister show The Colbert Report are filmed in front of a live audience. Both hosts interact with it fairly often, usually by telling them an off color joke was still funny, or criticizing their choice to laugh at a gag. Even more annoying than the audience laughing at a bad joke: the audience bursting in laughter too soon, obviously mistaking a mere set-up line for the punch-line. It's the exact opposite of Late to the Punchline, but it still confirms that Viewers Are Morons.
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The Daily Show	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_4d8e5ec
Laugh Track / int_4e45b093	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory is one of the few shows that proudly uses a Studio Audience. As the show became more popular most of the audience consists of die-hard fans, thus the laughter tended to be a bit more aware of the nuances of the show and were anticipating the punchlines (ie Sheldon starts an innocuous sounding dialogue about Windows 7 and there are some snickers at "It is much more user friendly" before the actual joke of "I don't like it"). This resulted in many people assuming the show did, in fact, use a laugh track. One Chuck Lorre Vanity Plate at the end of an episode featured a composite picture of the studio audience with the caption "This is our 'laugh machine'" Additionally, as common in similar shows there are some locations where a studio audience would not be able to attend such as an actual park or street corner. The show also has a sequence where the characters climb the stairs to Sheldon and Leonard's apartment, which are filmed in piecemeal fashion because each floor is a redress of the same set, making it difficult for the studio audience to laugh at a punchline set up on a previous floor.
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The Big Bang Theory	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_4e45b093
Laugh Track / int_4eb63b97	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_4eb63b97	comment	The last few episodes of Out of Jimmy's Head, a one-camera Roger Rabbit Effect series on Cartoon Network, had a hastily added-in laugh track in a last ditch effort to make the show appealing. Ironically, the consensus was that it made the show less funny, as the show's absurdist and cartoony sense of humor made canned laughter an awkward fit (they were completely removed from the Italian dub).
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Out of Jimmy's Head	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_4eb63b97
Laugh Track / int_52c4cef4	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_52c4cef4	comment	The Archie Show was the first Saturday-Morning Cartoon to use one.
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The Archie Show	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_52c4cef4
Laugh Track / int_53a0bd32	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Dummy", one is used for the scenes in which Jerry Etherson is performing his ventriloquism act. The Poorly Disguised Pilot "Cavender is Coming" featured a laugh track during its original showing and early syndication. The director Christian Nyby was so offended by this that he refused to be in the studio when the laugh track man was present. It was removed from the syndication prints in the mid-1980s.
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The Twilight Zone (1959)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_53a0bd32
Laugh Track / int_569093cc	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_569093cc	comment	DuckTales (2017): The episode â€œQuack Pack!â€� Is a parody of 90s sitcoms, so naturally, the show takes jabs at the laugh track. Huey even notices it, and is horrified that there are these omnipotent voices that are laughing at them. They actually are trapped in a sitcom set. During another one of the familyâ€™s adventures, Donald gets his hands on a magic genieâ€™s lamp and accidentally wishes that he had a normal family, which the genie interpreted to mean a sitcom family.
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DuckTales (2017)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_569093cc
Laugh Track / int_59fb8a3b	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_59fb8a3b	comment	A very deliberately fake-sounding one is used in the "Dickie and Dino" segment of The Young Ones episode "Bomb" to mock the bad jokes told by Dino.
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The Young Ones	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_59fb8a3b
Laugh Track / int_5a0093	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_5a0093	comment	The CBS editions of The Price Is Right and Match Game had notoriously obvious audience reaction tracks (mainly of "oohs") in their early years. It sounded odd on Match Game simply for an Audience Match answer being revealed. Goodson-Todman's syndicated reboot of Concentration repurposed Price's audience reaction tracks of "oohs" during the Head Start portion of the game (showing four prizes on the board). They tried to make prizes like cat food and candy sound awesome.
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The Price Is Right	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_5a0093
Laugh Track / int_5ca2f3f9	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_5ca2f3f9	comment	Same deal with the Wizards of Waverly Place movie.
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Wizards of Waverly Place	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_5ca2f3f9
Laugh Track / int_5cad8158	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_5cad8158	comment	Same goes for some Disney Channel Shows, such as the channel's earliest shows, the show Lizzie McGuire and more recently Jonas L.A. which was shot on location in (you guessed it!) L.A. Jonas L.A. also was Disney Channel's first show with a continuing story in each episode. It too was a drama, so no need for laugh track.
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Lizzie McGuire	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_5cad8158
Laugh Track / int_5d354f8	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf, which was considered by a lot of fans to have a laugh track, was in fact filmed in front of a live studio audience throughout most of its eight-series run, at least the bits that weren't on location or technically complicated. The exception is Series VII. It was not recorded in front of an audience at all, due to the fact so much of it was filmed on location and involved complex special effects, but it was screened to an audience in post-production in order to provide a laugh track — it mostly works, but there are a couple of conspicuous points where the actors pause for laughter and there is none. Three episodes from Series VII were available in extended versions without laugh tracks - on a VHS called Xtended (later also on the Series VII DVD) - but this did not get very good responses from fans. As a result, the makers abandoned their idea of not using laugh tracks in Series VIII (by returning to the format of recording episodes in front of a live audience). The Back to Earth mini-series that constituted Series IX, was totally filmed on location (or at the Shepperton soundstage), and has no laughter track. The pre-recording of Red Dwarf sequences played back to the audience on screens didn't begin with series VII, though. Long before then, numerous episodes had had lengthy sequences pre-recorded due to their reliance on location shooting or effects work. For example, the series IV episode "Bodyswap" was entirely pre-recorded, due to the actors having to overdub each other's voices. During "Bodyswap", you can hear the cast of the show on the laugh track. (They were sitting in the audience during the laughter recording.) Craig Charles and Chris Barrie only agreed to return for Series X if it was filmed in front of a studio audience. Unfortunately this took up so much of the budget that all location filming had to be cancelled. This had the knock-on effect of making the scripts for episodes 5 and 6 unusable as they relied heavily on locations they could no longer afford. The replacement script for episode 5, "Dear Dave", was cobbled together so fast they could only film half of it in front of the audience. The rest of the scenes were filmed in post-production and the finished episode aired for fans at a convention to complete the laugh track.
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Red Dwarf	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_5d354f8
Laugh Track / int_63230cb	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_63230cb	comment	Also appears in Dragon Ball Z Abridged when Vegeta makes a pun.
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged (Web Video)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_63230cb
Laugh Track / int_671dadb5	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_671dadb5	comment	The Powerpuff Girls revival episode "Somewhere Over The Swingset" had the girls entering an alternate world Townsville where everything is 50's sitcom perfect and every line is met with canned laughter/reactions. The girls even want to know where the laughter is coming from. Original series episode "The City Of Clipsville" was the girls and the Professor looking back at their past. It ends with the voiceover and superimposed caption "The Powerpuff Girls was recorded in Burbank in front of a live studio audience," with canned laughter and applause over it.
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The Powerpuff Girls (2016)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_671dadb5
Laugh Track / int_67cc40be	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_67cc40be	comment	Used in one episode of Mr. Robot, which starts off with a parody of 90s sitcoms, with Elliot's family as the stars on a road trip. It's just as weird as it sounds.
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Mr. Robot	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_67cc40be
Laugh Track / int_67ebaac3	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_67ebaac3	comment	A rare written example in Sherlock Homes vs. Jack the Ripper, whenever Watson does something stupid, "da audience laffs".
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Sherlock Homes Vs Jack The Ripper / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_67ebaac3
Laugh Track / int_6900a95f	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_6900a95f	comment	Early episodes of the NBC sitcom Whitney had a poorly orchestrated laugh track that bore a striking resemblance to the flushing of a toilet.
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Whitney	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_6900a95f
Laugh Track / int_69daf29	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_69daf29	comment	Grrl Power: The grandmother of Tony and Olivia uses a tape recorder to turn her family life into a sitcom.
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Grrl Power (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_69daf29
Laugh Track / int_6c9193a1	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_6c9193a1	comment	A Venture Brothers episode ran flashbacks of Rusty and Pete's college days with a laugh track added to evoke an '80s sitcom.
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TheVentureBrothers	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_6c9193a1
Laugh Track / int_6d27b424	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_6d27b424	comment	The current trend of mockumentary style sitcoms like The Office (US) and Parks and Recreation has dealt another blow to the laugh track. Obviously, shows like these can't use laugh tracks, since that would destroy the illusion that the shows consist of documentary footage. This type of series doesn't use music (except in the opening credits) for the same reason.
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Mockumentary	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_6d27b424
Laugh Track / int_6ee9416d	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_6ee9416d	comment	The Legend of Kyrandia III: Malcolm's Revenge has what is presumably a parody of this: laughter will often occur after Malcolm's comments, regardless of whether they are intended to be funny. Thankfully, it can be disabled in the options menu.
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The Legend of Kyrandia (Video Game)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_6ee9416d
Laugh Track / int_6eed44ab	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_6eed44ab	comment	One sketch on Dead Ringers suggested adding Barry Cryer's characteristic laughter as a laugh track could make any show sound funny.
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Dead Ringers	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_6eed44ab
Laugh Track / int_70c7b114	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_70c7b114	comment	Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch are two good examples of the height of laugh track abuse from the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Gilligan's Island	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_70c7b114
Laugh Track / int_71169c78	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_71169c78	comment	An episode of Chowder featured some jokes uncharacteristically followed by a laugh track, until Mung finally orders a stop to "the canned laughter." This being "Chowder", it was quite literal.
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Chowder	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_71169c78
Laugh Track / int_71c01786	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_71c01786	comment	Two Garry Marshall-produced sitcoms (The Odd Couple (1970) and Happy Days) had laugh tracks in their inaugural seasons, before shifting to a live Studio Audience, with the canned laughter occasionally used for "sweetening."
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The Odd Couple (1970)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_71c01786
Laugh Track / int_740fab62	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_740fab62	comment	Strangely enough, this trope is also invoked by the Ganbare Goemon series, the most well-known example being in Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon. It works due to the general Camp nature of the games.
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Ganbare Goemon (Video Game)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_740fab62
Laugh Track / int_75bb7c2a	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_75bb7c2a	comment	Pittsburgh Dad, being an homage to classic sitcoms, adds a Laugh Track for stylistic reasons.
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Pittsburgh Dad (Web Video)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_75bb7c2a
Laugh Track / int_76515a04	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_76515a04	comment	Jake and Amir: In 'Studio Audience', Amir uses a soundboard to create one. Inexplicably, he also downloads the YMCA and multiple fart noises on the same board, and frequently mixes them up.
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Jake and Amir (Web Video)	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_76515a04
Laugh Track / int_77184a72	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_77184a72	comment	Towards the end of Victorious, creator Dan Schneider had begun to insert a laugh track in every line, regardless of there being any joke involved.
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Victorious	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_77184a72
Laugh Track / int_7884ec15	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_7884ec15	comment	The laughter in the standup scenes on Seinfeld sounds rather jarringly fake compared to the audience response in the rest of the show, presumably because they got a handful of actors in to play the standup patrons. Could also be that it was the "warm-up" to the show, shown before the start. Because the set design precluded a studio audience, "The Parking Garage" was filmed and then shown to a studio audience, then aired and syndicated with their laughter.
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Seinfeld	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_7884ec15
Laugh Track / int_7af252ef	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_7af252ef	comment	For All Mankind. Three astronauts are stranded on the Jamestown Moonbase with their only entertainment a Betamax tape with a few episodes of The Bob Newhart Show. When the tape gets eaten in the player, they've all long since memorized the whole thing and just act it out themselves, complete with laugh track.
Laugh Track / int_7af252ef	featureApplicability	1.0
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For All Mankind	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_7af252ef
Laugh Track / int_7c6f5e19	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_7c6f5e19	comment	Infamously (at least in Canada), the Canadian sketch comedy show The Red Green Show didn't have one... until it was imported to the United States.
Laugh Track / int_7c6f5e19	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Red Green Show	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_7c6f5e19
Laugh Track / int_7d122312	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_7d122312	comment	Most Hanna-Barbera animated series of the late 1950s and into the 1960s have laugh tracks. Justified somewhat with The Flintstones as it was intended to be an animated variant on live-action sitcoms such as The Honeymooners which were recorded in front of audiences at the time.
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The Flintstones	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_7d122312
Laugh Track / int_7dbde88b	type	Laugh Track
Laugh Track / int_7dbde88b	comment	Drake & Josh also uses this very often.
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Drake & Josh	hasFeature	Laugh Track / int_7dbde88b
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Laugh Track / int_7ec0cdab	comment	Oddly enough, The Mighty Boosh was supposed to have a laugh track in its early stage of production, as we can see with the pilot episode (it's included in the DVDs). They actually showed the episode in front of an audience and recorded their laughter. Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding found the audience overdid it so much that they decided not to keep it. It sounds disastrous indeed, as The Boosh is clearly not a "laugh out loud" type of comedy.
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Laugh Track / int_80942169	comment	In Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, the episode "Class Clown" deals with the gang trying to replace the previous class clown (who has moved out of the school), and Cookie's approach is using a device that adds laugh track to whatever people say, claiming that laugh track makes everything funnier.
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Laugh Track / int_81906c11	comment	The Indian sitcom Dekh Bhai Dekh often used a laugh track whenever a joke was made by any of the characters.
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Laugh Track / int_84823809	comment	On one episode of Kaeloo, the cast were making their own parody of a sitcom. There was this every time somebody made a joke, no matter how cheesy or lame it was. Later, Stumpy walks in through the door, and a laugh track plays, causing him to get annoyed.
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Laugh Track / int_8529459f	comment	Latin American hits, El Chavo del ocho / El ChapulÃn Colorado. It is a long story. These shows were originally filmed in front of a Studio Audience and then got increasingly abusive of the laugh tracks late in their run, but the later sketch show Chespirito from the same author that often included El Chavo Del Ocho and El Chapulin Colorado did not have a laugh track and it was explicitly mentioned that it was for respect of the audience. However, it is worth noticing that it actually used certain music tracks that played after each joke.
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Laugh Track / int_880cfa15	comment	Not only does the original U.S. version of Hogan's Heroes contain a laugh track (and a rather over modulated one in the earlier seasons), one of the German redubs of the series (known in English as A Cage Full of Heroes) adds its own laugh track, containing a single recording of a couple of women cracking up. Interestingly, CBS used this show as part of an experiment to see if comedies fared better with a laugh track than without. The pilot episode was screened to test audiences in two versions: one with laughter and one without. The first one fared better than the second one, supposedly due to the cerebral nature of the show's humor.
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Laugh Track / int_89bf8ce	comment	In an episode of 30 Rock, Tracy Jordan is having a drug induced hallucination which gives him an epiphany moment which gets interrupted by a laugh track, he becomes quite annoyed by them mocking him.
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Laugh Track / int_8a08048e	comment	Taskmaster: Series 1-9 were filmed in front of a clearly visible studio audience. When this was impossible in series 10-12 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the producers scorned to use a laugh track, and instead screened each recorded episode to a smaller audience in post-production, recording their genuine laughter and using that.
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Laugh Track / int_8a3a1edd	comment	Saved by the Bell had a live studio audience - and, like the audiences from Married... with Children and The Big Bang Theory, it was very in-your-face and obnoxious. However, predecessor series Good Morning Miss Bliss used a conventional laugh track; and since the two shows are part of the same syndication package, it makes for a good education as to the differences between the two.
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Laugh Track / int_8d814070	comment	MASH had one at the network's insistence, but the producers successfully averted it in the OR scenes, and were able to dispense with it entirely for certain later episodes. (The DVD releases of the show provide an option for the viewer to disable the laugh track on the episodes that have it.) Interestingly, one exception to the 'no laugh track in the OR' rule was in the episode "The Novocaine Mutiny", specifically, during Frank's flashback to the incident that caused him to charge Hawkeye with mutiny. It's actually a pretty handy tell that Frank is lying about what happened: note Hawkeye's flashback has no laugh track. When MASH was originally brodacast on The BBC, it was without the laugh track. The show's producers said at the time that they wished it could have been shown in the US this way. Unfortunately the version now seen on cable/satellite channels in the UK has the laugh track.
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Laugh Track / int_8d840259	comment	SCTV did sketch comedy without a live audience. The formative years for the show were shot in Edmonton, Alberta, where television talent was apparently so sparse that the laugh track was done by the guy who did the farm reports, just adding laughter at regular, arbitrary intervals.
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Laugh Track / int_90b916ba	comment	As part of her obsession with regaining her former sitcom fame, Baby Doll from Batman: The Animated Series carries a laugh track on tape with her everywhere and plays it at moments she thinks are appropriate (along with "Ohhhh..." and "Awww..."). From the same series, there's Christmas with the Joker, where he uses a laugh track in grossly inappropriate fashion while describing his murderous plans. It's possibly a secondary Lampshade Hanging that the "audience" he's using is revealed to be cardboard cutouts.
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Laugh Track / int_9153ccb1	comment	The Shining as a Seinfeld style sitcom.
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Laugh Track / int_92844ddb	comment	Dinosaurs initially had this, but the makers didn't want it and it was subsequently dropped. Combined with The Simpsons never using one except to subvert it, TV Guide praised both shows back in the day (the early 1990s) for this avoidance.
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Laugh Track / int_93b39dc4	comment	A certain single-episode show summed up its content by taking the name Canned Laughter. While the end credits rolled, the same quick laugh track was played over... and over... and over...
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Laugh Track / int_959dd815	comment	Most Professional Wrestling promotions that produce TV shows make use, to some degree, of "canned heat", which is not so much a Laugh Track as cheer tracks, boo tracks, and sometimes specific chants ("Goooooooooooooldberg... Gooooooooooooooldberg..."). This is generally played over the stadium's PA system, in an attempt to coax the crowd into a given reaction (or, at the very least, fool the audience at home into thinking the crowd are giving a reaction). And it's also handy for importing into video game adaptations.
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Laugh Track / int_971e8e24	comment	RedLetterMedia: The Plinkett reviews often use it as Sarcasm Mode, such as when Anakin and Padme are having a romantic conversation that's particularly cringeworthy.
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Laugh Track / int_976efc02	comment	An episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 shows Servo using a laugh track every time Crow utters his newly adopted "Sitcom" catchphrase "You Know You Want Me Baby!" The really old cassette player Servo is using ultimately eats the laugh track.
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Laugh Track / int_9a44ce4	comment	Eleven years later, their animated Coneheads special utilized this.
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Laugh Track / int_9a7088bc	comment	Referenced in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Bread and Circuses", where we see a 20th century TV technician turning the canned applause on and off on a programme. Fine, except it's a 20th century Roman Empire and the programme consists of televised gladatorial fights to the death.
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Laugh Track / int_9ce851a3	comment	Malcolm in the Middle doesn't use a laugh track either. Malcolm in the Middle's ultimate legacy is that, along with the British sitcom Spaced, it's considered to be the Trope Codifier of the single camera, laugh track-free sitcom. Since Malcolm premiered, it's become popular for high-quality, single-camera sitcoms like Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Office (US), 30 Rock, Community, Peep Show, The Inbetweeners, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Arrested Development and Flight of the Conchords (among others) to eschew laugh tracks entirely. Coincidentally (or rather not) these shows are usually some of the most acclaimed comedies on television, with laugh-addled comedies seen as lowbrow. Naturally, some (specially people related with the laugh track) have often complained that the stuffiness of modern comedies (specially regarding the British-influenced "Mockumentary" format) has made them devoid of any climax, even if their criticism is dissed as Misplaced Nationalism).
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Laugh Track / int_9dc6f34e	comment	In the 1970s, the British pop music show Top of the Pops used a bizarrely fake-sounding applause track after each performance.
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Laugh Track / int_9fd048c8	comment	In the Pierce Brosnan episode of Muppets Tonight, a particularly bad pun from Rizzo provokes no reaction whatsoever, causing Clifford to remark that "Even the laugh track didn't think that was funny."
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Laugh Track / int_a147b545	comment	In A Face in the Crowd, De Palma demonstrates a machine that can produce different kinds of laughter and applause on cue for the benefit of Lonesome Rhodes, who uses it in the final scene just to practice a speech and pretend he still has an adoring public.
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Laugh Track / int_a183d57f	comment	In an episode of Futurama, the president of the network which airs "All My Circuits" proves how evil he is by saying, "I once put a laugh track on a sitcom that had no jokes in it!" In "A Bicyclops Built for Two", Katey Sagal's role on Married... with Children is parodied when an alien, Alcazar, has Leela dressed like Peggy and Alcazar sitting on his couch with one hand down his trousers ala Al Bundy, with alien rats and pigs as friends of his who contribute the 'live audience' catcalls and whoops. "Saturday Morning Fun Pit" has a segment spoofing Scooby-Doo, where the characters comment on the mysterious laughter they keep hearing, even when they don't say anything funny.
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Laugh Track / int_a5d88e5c	comment	Annie Hall features a scene in which Alvy watches in disgust as his friend edits canned laughter a sitcom. At one point, he remarks "Got any booing on there?"
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Laugh Track / int_a6999d48	comment	Nothing, Forever uses laugh track that is often placed at random points. It is more consistent in season 2.
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Laugh Track / int_a851d974	comment	Used in The Nostalgia Chick's review of Grease after Sandy says that she now knows that Danny truly respects her.
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Laugh Track / int_ab42c63a	comment	Get Smart, another series with which Brooks was involved, had some especially bad laugh tracks. (Mind you, some of its jokes weren't much to laugh about anyway.)
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Laugh Track / int_abfcff6a	comment	The first eight episodes of Rocky and Bullwinkle featured a laugh track, against the wishes of creator Jay Ward; because of the show's rapid-fire, quick-paced humor, the laugh track often played over dialogue, as there was little to no pause allowing for laughter. Jay Ward and co-producer Bill Scott fought with ABC to remove the laugh track, but it wasn't until they were able to get the show's sponsor (General Mills) to back them up, so ABC relented, and the laughs were eliminated after those first eight episodes. The first season DVD set removes the laugh track from those episodes altogether.
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Laugh Track / int_aca7b22d	comment	In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Test" Gumball decides to try and break out of his role as the loser, which causes the show to turn into a lame, outdated sitcom centered around Tobias. As well as the show suddenly having poorer video and sound quality, it adds a laugh track that, as Sarah points out, gets louder the worse the joke is.
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Laugh Track / int_acbba471	comment	Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights has one, as a tribute to the original series (see below), even during gameplay. For instance, it usually pops up whenever Scooby accidentally runs into something and bumps his head.
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Laugh Track / int_ad29dc16	comment	All in the Family was recorded in front of a live studio audience, as announced at the end of nearly each episode. In the later seasons they stopped using live audiences, presumably because they were distractions to the actors; they played back each episode to the audience instead. However later seasons, as well as the After Show Archie Bunker's Place, used a laughtrack reportedly at Carol O'Connor's insistance. Most of the sitcoms in the All in the Family Universe such as Maude, Good Times, and The Jeffersons were also taped in front of a live audience.
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Laugh Track / int_af7aead4	comment	The Brazilian version of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Greg News is recorded in front of a live studio audience, but lost that when the COVID-19 pandemic forced the show to be made from host Gregorio Duvivier's home. Yet an unintentional laugh track emerged at times: while John records alone (lest his young children hear his copious swearing), Gregorio's family is watching him off-camera, and their laughter can be heard in jokes they really like. Gregorio also once mentioned how detractors compared his studio audience laughing to one mentioned in the lead of this article, El Chavo del ocho, making him say that show's laugh track has an "acoustic excellence" of sounding like it was recorded underwater, with some turkeys\peacocks among the audience.
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Laugh Track / int_af9c8bb6	comment	A.N.T. Farm, Good Luck Charlie, Shake it Up, and Austin & Ally, to name a few, make a good effort to use the laugh track button.
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Laugh Track / int_b0b22636	comment	The old daytime version of Wheel of Fortune was known for its canned applause. Compared with the combined cheers and applause from the current syndicated version's live audiences, the 1980s version's canned applause was still much louder. There were also awkward "ooh"s every time a prize was shown or the top dollar on the Wheel was hit, "aww"s whenever someone hit Bankrupt or called a wrong letter, et cetera.
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Laugh Track / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Parodied in one episode of Danger Mouse where the title character says "I thought we weren't going to have canned laughter on this show" after knight in armor laughs and runs off after a dragon.
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Laugh Track / int_b226ea10	comment	Match Game used a laughter track in a bizarre way; during the opening of many episodes, while introducing the celebrity panelists, viewers could hear people giggling and laughing, even if there was nothing funny happening other than some TV star smiling at the camera. In reality the actual sound was likely audience applause (as they can be seen doing so when the camera pulls back to show audience members as the opening concludes). There is a possible rationale for this: some episodes of Match Game do not add in this sound, leading to a rather quiet, subdued opening.
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Laugh Track / int_b2700e28	comment	In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, Cegorach's appearance in Episode 25 is accompanied by a distorted, unnerving laugh track that comes close to hysterical screaming, and plays over the opening theme.
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Laugh Track / int_b3933a70	comment	Home Improvement not only used a live studio audience's laughter, but they also got their extras from audience volunteers. For "Tool Time" the studio audience was the actual studio audience, and you can see how people are laughing at the gags on the show as though they were at a sitcom taping.
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Laugh Track / int_b507f2d1	comment	"Saturday Morning Fun Pit" has a segment spoofing Scooby-Doo, where the characters comment on the mysterious laughter they keep hearing, even when they don't say anything funny.
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Laugh Track / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken had the canned laughter in Blooper's segment. In season 5 however, it turned out that the host was hallucinating it and the laughter changed into distorted (while telling nobody to "STOP MOCKING ME!"
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Laugh Track / int_b6b24d18	comment	Another series that averts this is The IT Crowd, also recorded before a live studio audience.
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Laugh Track / int_b7b90b58	comment	Red vs. Blue: Family Shatters: In "Phase's Reputation", when Zero walks in, a studio audience cheers from offscreen.
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Laugh Track / int_baa0410d	comment	The Sandra Bullock episode of Muppets Tonight did a parody of Speed, where a villain set a bomb that would blow up the studio if the laugh frequency dropped too low. Trying to get the laughs back up, Pepe and Seymour do a truly dire joke that has the audience silent and unamused - and over the shot of a non-laughing audience, the laugh track gives a big laugh.
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Laugh Track / int_badd1aa6	comment	Goodson-Todman's syndicated reboot of Concentration repurposed Price's audience reaction tracks of "oohs" during the Head Start portion of the game (showing four prizes on the board). They tried to make prizes like cat food and candy sound awesome.
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Laugh Track / int_bcb03d22	comment	In Hazbin Hotel, Alastor, the Radio Demon, speaks like a 1920s or 1930s radio personality (because he once was one), complete with a constant Radio Voice, even though he's personally present. This is accompanied by didactic period music and a subtle laugh track that sometimes appears when he laughs (though noticeably, not when he laughs as part of a threat). This is used for sinister effect, as a reflection of his demonic powers.
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Laugh Track / int_c1bf1af4	comment	"Two and a Half Men was filmed in front of a live ostrich."
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Laugh Track / int_c3176ee4	comment	Parodied in the second chapter of Torin's Passage, where the protagonist visits a typical 1950s sitcom housenote Still monochrome in the otherwise colourful game. And with such signs of its time as Elvis Presley portrait. where every spoken line is followed by one of three very recognizable laugh tracks, to the point of any conversation being very long, tedious and frustrating.
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Laugh Track / int_c36dd351	comment	CLW Entertainment: The Doraemon announcement "Just Finished a HUGE Episode of Doraemon!!" features a very repetitive laugh track Played for Laughs. The same soundbite plays whenever anything happens in the video.
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Laugh Track / int_c4a22754	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: One episode has Tea say that she will prove that women can be equal to men. A laugh track suddenly pops up. Used in the "Zorc & Pals" segments of Yugioh The Abridged Series, though in that case it's a spoof of '50s-era sitcoms.
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Laugh Track / int_c98e9a3c	comment	The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack used this in the episode "Please Retire" and "Under the Sea Monster". Word of God states that this (along with a episode-long "drawn in front of a live audience" gag) is done whenever the crew thinks an episode could have been better, but they didn't have enough time to fix any problems with it.
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Laugh Track / int_ca720a6e	comment	The Nintendo DS version of Cory in the House has a laugh track during cutscenes.
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Laugh Track / int_cc2a7289	comment	The League of Gentlemen ditched their laugh track after series 2. (The original Radio series had a live studio audience.)
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Laugh Track / int_d53a59cd	comment	The All New Pink Panther Show pushed the laugh track to breaking point. For example, the Crazylegs Crane segments would open with canned laughter just because the character was on screen, having not done anything yet. This could be particularly annoying to that section of the audience who were far from convinced that the character was funny at all.
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Laugh Track / int_d5d98e35	comment	Police Squad! had neither a laugh track nor a live studio audience. The DVD Commentary talks about how they fought with the executives about this — however this is inadvertently subverted because the creators hadn't seen the shows for a while, and laughed at the jokes — making their commentary a laugh track in and of itself.
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Laugh Track / int_d9c602eb	comment	In the South Park episode "Jakovasaur", the household of the Jakovasaurs is presented as a typical Dom Com, complete with laugh track. When Cartman comes to visit, he wonders where all the laughter is coming from. Also in South Park, the episode "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery" used a laugh track which also prompts a similar reaction from Cartman (because the episode is a parody of Scooby Doo). This episode also features Korn (guest voiced by the actual band), and Kenny in an ED-209 costume. It Makes Sense in Context
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Laugh Track / int_de0f8ee1	comment	RWBY Chibi had an episode titled "The One With A Laugh Track".
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Laugh Track / int_e25dd7d7	comment	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2017): Hector Evilman's creation in "Inventors Only" with mice enacting Seinfeld plays laugh tracks, with Hector explaining: "and this is something I call Mice TV, the only sustainable future of entertainment! What makes it funny is the laugh track telling you it's funny." This leaks into the real world as the track plays when Flint remarks "I came here expecting to get killed." Followed with a D'awww when he continues with "all you've done is murder my fears...with friendship."
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Laugh Track / int_e966997	comment	The 1988 Mighty Mouse episode "Bat With A Golden Tongue" had Mighty Mouse attempting to help Bat-Bat kick his joke-telling addiction. Bat-Bat's last word to the audience was "Just say no to canned laughter" (which was replaced with a guy screaming at McDonald's insistence) followed by a pan shot to a busted ceiling (caused from an earlier scene) and canned laughter and applause.
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Laugh Track / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: An episode has a gag of Brian making some comment to Peter, followed by canned laughter and applause; the two of them fidget while waiting for it to die down. Also used during the opening host segment of the "Viewer Mail" episode. Stewie claims he swiped the can from Dharma & Greg. In PTV, Stewie and Brian make a sitcom called Cheeky Bastard. Stewie claims that the show is "recorded in front of a live audience", but the (fake) laughing is actually provided by him. An earlier episode had a gag involving an actual studio audience having moved in across the street. Peter eventually gets fed up with them and goes to call the cops. In one episode, Brian's heavily edited show is played before a live studio audience. Every time James Woods and another actor says something, the audience laughs at the line and it's the same exact laugh every time, making it sound like the laughter is canned. The "Multiverse" episode parodies the laugh track used in the Flintstones when Stewie and Brian travel to a dimension where everything is made by Hanna-Barbera; nearly everything Rock Peter and Rock Lois says triggers canned laughter. "Two and a Half Men was filmed in front of a live ostrich."
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Laugh Track / int_efc22f58	comment	Versus Umbra: Discussed. At one point, Adrian watches Buddies. When Michael calls it one of the terrible shows with a laugh track, Michael responds that the laugh track is an awesome feature as it tells when the show is supposed to be funny.
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Laugh Track / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother has a laugh track, although very sedated compared to most. Originally it was taped ahead of time and showed edited to a live audience with their laughter recorded, but it has slipped that they switched to canned laughter at some point before season six. The show is actually something of a hybrid in terms of production and presentation, most indoor locations such as the characters apartments utilize a Three Cameras set-up while outdoor locations with a single camera are heavily used.
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Laugh Track / int_f0b55dd	comment	Housepets!: Tiger uses Bluetooth speakers to set up his own, programmed to respond to certain situations, like saying his catchphrase. The unfortunate drawback is that it's glitchy, and sometimes ignores him but laughs at other people saying it.
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Laugh Track / int_f361b493	comment	I Love Lucy was filmed in front of a live studio audience, and is rumored to be the source of a good deal of the canned laughter used in later shows. All other sitcoms which starred Lucille Ball or were produced by her Desilu Studios also used a studio audience instead of a Laugh Track, largely because that's how it was done on I Love Lucy. The pantomime segments from The Red Skeleton Show are also rumored to be a source for canned laughter.
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Laugh Track / int_f4345923	comment	As early as 1959, radio comics Bob & Ray were satirizing the concept by hauling out a 'laugh machine' (because "we don't feel we're getting the correct response from you [listeners],") then making it roar with joy over a deliberately awful sitcom pilot.
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Laugh Track / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends had a tendency to abuse a semi-laugh track. They mostly used a real studio audience but would minimalise or emphasise as they saw fit. Although, they got lazy and used the typical "canned laughter" a fair bit too. Some episodes (such as "The One With Joey's New Brain") can be particularly jarring, where it seems every line gets a laugh - including lines that clearly weren't meant to be jokes.
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Laugh Track / int_f7a1fa09	comment	A Charlie Brown Christmas was supposed to air with a laugh track, a common element of children's cartoons at the time. Charles Schulz objected, maintaining that the audience doesn't need to be cued to laugh. The special was so successful that it completely exterminated the use of a laugh track in animated comedy, nowadays a laugh track is almost never used in Western animation except to make fun of its existence.
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Laugh Track / int_f8ac146c	comment	Lampshaded on an episode of Blockbusters, where Bill Cullen lapses into Self-Deprecation mode after a particularly bad joke. He says, "can't we do this show with just an applause machine?", and someone off-camera (possibly announcer Bob Hilton) says "We are."
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Laugh Track / int_fd4c848a	comment	See also I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched and other contemporaneous sitcoms. Although the Latin American dub mercifully removed it from both shows.
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Barney Miller / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Batman (1966) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Baywatch / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Beef House / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Bewitched / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Big Time Rush / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Blockbusters / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Carry On Christmas / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Corner Gas / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
D.C. Follies / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Da Ali G Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Delocated / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Dinosaurs / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Eight is Enough / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
8 Simple Rules / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
El ChapulÃn Colorado / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
El Chavo del ocho / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
F Troop / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
French and Saunders / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Full House / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Gilligan's Island / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
H.R. Pufnstuf / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Hang Time / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Happy Days / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Happy Together / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Heil Honey I'm Home! / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Hogan's Heroes / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Home Improvement / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
How I Met Your Mother / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
I Love Lucy / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Incredible Crew / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Joey / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Kevin Can F**k Himself / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Langt fra Las Vegas / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Law & Order / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Leave It to Beaver / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Life with Derek / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Made in Canada / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Major Dad / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Merv Griffin's Crosswords / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Mimpi Metropolitan / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Mr. Bean / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Mr. Robot / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
My Name Is Earl / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Naturally, Sadie / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Night Court / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Odd Squad / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Out of Jimmy's Head / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Phil of the Future / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Pyramid / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Rentaghost / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Ripping Yarns / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Roll Out! / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
RuPaul's Drag Race UK / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Running Man / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
SCTV / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Sarabhai vs Sarabhai / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Sledge Hammer! / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
TV Funhouse / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Takeshi's Castle / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Addams Family / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Andy Griffith Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Banana Splits / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Benny Hill Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Bernie Mac Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Bill Cosby Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Bugaloos / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Dick Van Dyke Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Eric Andre Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Game (2006) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The George Lopez Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Goldbergs / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Jim Henson Hour / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The League of Gentlemen / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Love Boat / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Lucy Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Monkees / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Muppet Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Nutt House / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Odd Couple (1970) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Partridge Family / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Trouble With You Lilian / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Weakest Link / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Tokyo Encounter / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
31 Minutos / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Up All Night / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Vacanta Mare / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Victorious / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
WandaVision / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Zeke and Luther / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Zoey 101 / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Conquest: Frontier Wars (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Crash of the Titans (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Deponia (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Dicey Dungeons (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Duck Life (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Ganbare Goemon (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Ganbare Goemon 3 Shishijurokube No Karakuri Manji Gatame (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
God Hand (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
McPixel (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
MegaTagmension Blanc + Neptune VS Zombies (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Mike's Big Showdown (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Not for Broadcast (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Poker Night 2 (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Puyo Puyo (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Richman (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Scooby-Doo! First Frights (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Scooby-Doo: Mystery Mayhem (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Scooby-Doo! Unmasked (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Smash Remix (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Legend of Kyrandia (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Torin's Passage (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Versus Umbra (Video Game) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Ahmed and Salim (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Dorkly Originals (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Gamer Poop (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Inanimate Insanity (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Nothing, Forever (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Pancake's Show (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Red vs. Blue: Family Shatters (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Something About (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Space Tree (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Annoying Orange (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Banana Splits (1999) (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Gmod Idiot Box (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Shtreimels (Web Animation) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Ozy and Millie (Webcomic) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
A Very Special Episode (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Board James (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Bro Team Pill (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Captain Southbird (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
CinemaSins (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Dog Shirt (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Dr. Crafty (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Drew Gooden (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
50% OFF (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Final Fantasy In A Nutshell (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Friendship is Witchcraft (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Guaranteed* Video (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
JonTron (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Joueur du Grenier (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Jreg (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Lasagna Cat (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Mr. Plinkett Reviews (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
SomecallmeJohnny (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Some Jerk with a Camera (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Sugarzaza (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Annoying Orange (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Needle Drop (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Vinesauce Tomodachi Life (Web Video) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
qxlkbh (Webcomic) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Square Root of Minus Garfield (Webcomic) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
A Charlie Brown Christmas / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Avengers Assemble / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Calvin and the Colonel / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Cartoonstitute / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2017) / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Coneheads / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Count Duckula / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Fangface / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Glenn Martin, DDS / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Hazbin Hotel / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Jabberjaw / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Jelly Jamm / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Johnny Bravo / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Oh Yeah! Cartoons / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
101 Dalmatians: The Series / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Paradise PD / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Pet Alien / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Ren & Stimpy / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Rocko's Modern Life / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Sabrina and The Groovie Goolies / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Sid the Science Kid / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Tales of the Wizard of Oz / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Teen Titans Go! / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Alvin Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Archie Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Barkleys / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Flintstones / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Harlem Globetrotters / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Houndcats / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Jackson 5ive / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Jetsons / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Oddball Couple / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Pink Panther / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Scooby-Doo Show / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Top Cat / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie! / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Yogi's Gang / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Bill Nye the Science Guy / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Get Smart / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track
Wizards of Waverly Place / int_224c9aef	type	Laugh Track

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