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How Do Laugh Tracks Work? Video

Jun 28, 2016By Jeremy Butler

The Brain Stuff show put together a pretty useful overview of how laugh tracks work, including a bit of scientific data. They cite many of their sources, which is quite handy (see below). Published on June 23, 2014. The source they cite:Read more…

Jun 28, 2016Jeremy Butler

The Wire With a Laugh Track

Oct 28, 2014By SitcomAdmin

YouTube user linguica took a short scene from The Wire and added a laugh track to it–mining the show, Married With Children for the recorded laughs. The result is pretty disconcerting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIi0dzmvpE

Oct 28, 2014SitcomAdmin
Dick van Dyke behind the scenes - bedroom

Dick van Dyke Show: Behind the Scenes

Sep 20, 2014By Jeremy Butler

In Television: Critical Methods and Applications I used a screen shot of The Dick van Dyke Show to illustrate high-key lighting–even in a nighttime bedroom scene. Today, thanks to a fascinating article by Xenia at Collar City Brownstone, which pointed to Shorpy.com, IRead more…

Sep 20, 2014Jeremy Butler
Friends floor plan

Artist Drafts Floor Plans of Sitcom Apartments

Sep 20, 2014By Jeremy Butler

Melissa McSweeney found some very cool hypothetical layouts of sitcom apartments–not the sets, but the characters’ apartments as illustrator Iñaki Aliste Lizarralde imagined them. She explains: [illustrator Iñaki Aliste] Lizarralde’s sitcom apartment renderings offer avid TV watchers a whole new levelRead more…

Sep 20, 2014Jeremy Butler

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