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so what's with the laught track?

posted 12 years ago by nunu1345
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So am I the only one that finds the laugh track distracting?

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[–] Defenseman13 11 years ago

both crap.

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[–] snoemua 12 years ago

You know very little of the history of laugh tracks.

Also, this show is not funny. Unoriginal and hacky material. Poor acting and the laugh track sounds very unrealistic. Just plain bad television.

[–] nunu1345 12 years ago

You were right, as I started watching more episodes, I started to ignore it. I'm not really a sitcom person. I do love the show now, and am kind of sad there hasn't been any new episodes.

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[–] ocrilat 11 years ago

No. A laugh track is a special effect, a recording of laughter to use when there is no studio audience. If you have an audience reacting to the show, you don't need a laugh track. In Holliston, they absolutely need the track...otherwise you wouldn't even know what was meant to be funny.

Also...a sitcom (short for 'situational comedy') does not require a live audience. To make a sitcom, you need a situation (basically a short story) and comedy. Unfortunately, this show doesn't have any comedy...so the need for a laugh track.

[–] gonetobitz 12 years ago

so that you know its meant to be a comedy when there's no other evidence

hopefully, it'll sink and the participants can go back to their day jobs

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[–] bitch-22 12 years ago

The laugh track is awful.

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[–] Gromit26 12 years ago

I thought that was the point.

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[–] jak-stiid 10 years ago

It is the point. It's a low-budget independent sitcom on a cable network that uses horror elements and mimics 80s and 90s sitcoms.

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[–] ajmal-m 9 years ago

its completely annoying but i have a feeling its there to give it a traditional sitcom feel. it reminds me of the domestic scenes in the movie Natural Born Killers which had an ironic laugh-track.

[–] smerd_70 8 years ago

Adam Green said it's purposely that way, the show is a parody of traditional live-audience sitcoms.

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