I cannot take laugh tracks anymore. They just annoy the fuck out of me. If you ever get a chance and you like the show, the European version of M*A*S*H without the laugh track was a revelation. The people responsible for the laugh track didn’t understand when the show was actually trying to be funny half the time.
That’s true for some shows with laugh tracks, but I don’t agree about M*A*S*H. Especially since it was shot knowing there would be no laugh track in Europe. The pauses aren’t there. That’s one of the reasons the laugh track doesn’t work on that show.
I cannot take laugh tracks anymore. They just annoy the fuck out of me. If you ever get a chance and you like the show, the European version of M*A*S*H without the laugh track was a revelation. The people responsible for the laugh track didn’t understand when the show was actually trying to be funny half the time.
Unfortunately, shows with a laugh track are paced around it, so MASH, for example, has a ton of weird pauses when you take it out.
That’s true for some shows with laugh tracks, but I don’t agree about M*A*S*H. Especially since it was shot knowing there would be no laugh track in Europe. The pauses aren’t there. That’s one of the reasons the laugh track doesn’t work on that show.