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MsDbird posted...

I feel like every other show these days is a laugh track plagued sitcom :/ If your show is genuinely funny I will know when to laugh, thank you very much.

The Goldbergs and Brooklyn 99 are good examples of sitcoms that don't need laugh tracks to be funny.

What? >_> I can't think of many shows today that still use a laughtrack, other than stuff like BBT. (And of course Fuller House, which does that as a nod to the original since the 90s was super heavy on "audiences")

MsDbird posted...

Golden Road posted...

Sitcoms used to dominate TV schedules a few decades ago--they're far less omnipresent today--and sitcoms without laugh tracks were almost nonexistent back then, while a lot of them today don't have it. It feels like some of you have legitimately forgotten what TV used to be like.

Fair enough, I'm only 25 so my experience doesn't go back past the 90's. Still, from what I've seen nearly all sitcoms these days have laugh tracks. Big Bang, 2 Broke Girls, Two and a Half Men, How I Met Your Mother, Kevin Can Wait, Baby Daddy and Melissa and Joey are a few I can think off of the top of my head. They all have laugh tracks and because of that the jokes feel incredibly try-hard and funny.

Whereas I find myself genuinely laughing at The Goldbergs, Brooklyn 99 and New Girl which don't have laugh tracks.

Just my observations.

...most of the shows you mention have been canceled. >_>

And GR is absolutely right, the 90s was *super* heavy on laugh tracks and "filmed in front of a live audience." And the same is true of even older sitcoms as well.

MICHALECOLE posted...

so much quality tv on and people still watch cbs the most

Well, it's basic cable and people can get it even with an antennae...
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