Okay so the whole point of the "Laugh Track" blog (below)went awry. My original point was to ask if anyone has ever been watching a show and gotten completly sidetracked by the laugh track?
Let me tell you that the track becomes subliminal. Most of us really dont notice its there at all coaxing us to erupt with laughter upon every lark they find to be funny.The networks could quite honestly throw in some crazy devil worship by injecting tracks of old Ozzy records, or The Beattles White album played backwards! They could even maybe be feeding us milliseconds of porn like in Fight Club or worse, it could be they are throwing in snipits of mind altertering chants to love greasy fried food for their advertisers, thus the reasoning behind America being full of Obese couch potatoes ... Just something to ponder.
But if you actually listen for it and pay attention,I promise it will ruin your entire 30 minutes of sitcom viewing pleasure.I tested this theory during a rerun of Seinfeld, oh how I love the quirks of Seinfeld. (Have you seen the Proctologist license plate one? "Assman"-Hilarious)
As I began to watch I heard the first joke, of course the fake laughter ensued. I went from there to count how many times they would interject more and more laughs.It became Deafening !
I couldnt follow the episode at all, I got so sucked in by the roars of seemingly unnecessary laughter. Why cant I laugh of my own free will ?? WHY !!!!!!!! I was to the point of almost going completely Mad- when, at long last, the show was over - Thank goodness. I mean I could have gone nuts in this little experiment! So, tonight as you watch your favorite sitcom I suggest you "tune in" to the subliminals that are going on,possibly warping your mind. Though if you are in an already shaky mental state due to the economy maybe you could leave this one to the mythbusters for now.I would hate to see anyone use this as their last straw.
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I have to say that the laugh track is catchy and gets you sucked in. It works. For example, I was watching the Jetsons the other day...for nostalgic reasons of course, and I did not remember it had a laugh track but it did! At first it started getting annoyed and about half way into the show I started to crack up at the parts they thought were funny and I thought to myself, "That was kind of funny - haha. Maybe this laugh track thing works."
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