{"id":66,"date":"2014-10-02T18:36:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T23:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/?p=66"},"modified":"2014-10-05T07:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T12:22:03","slug":"big-bang-theory-no-laugh-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/2014\/10\/02\/big-bang-theory-no-laugh-track\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em>: No Laugh Track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s safe to say that laugh tracks, in general, do not improve sitcoms. In fact, overactive laugh tracks\u00a0make some sitcoms unwatchable. But how much laughter is too much laughter? If you remove\u00a0<em>all<\/em> of the laugh track from a show, will it seem funny <em>at all<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>YouTube users &#8220;sboss&#8221; and &#8220;omgitsaduck12345&#8221; test this by removing most of the laughs from\u00a0<em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em> excerpts. Of course, it&#8217;s a bit unfair to the show as the rhythm of the original dialogue is\u00a0paced to accommodate audience response. So, now it just seems eerie and weird, but in a sort of cool way.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Big Bang Theory - No Laugh Track 1 (Avoiding the Shamy)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jKS3MGriZcs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Big Bang Theory - No Laugh Track 2 (Raj is a Dick)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dffCCSb1JCo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Big Bang Theory minus laugh track 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ASZ8Hks4gko?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I first became aware of these when I came across their inverse&#8211;<em>The Big Bang Theory<\/em> with extra laughter added!<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.clickhole.com\/video\/watch-big-bang-theory-more-laughter-added-1132<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s safe to say that laugh tracks, in general, do not improve sitcoms. In fact, overactive laugh tracks\u00a0make some sitcoms unwatchable. But how much laughter is too much laughter? If you remove\u00a0all of the laugh track from a<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/2014\/10\/02\/big-bang-theory-no-laugh-track\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-sitcoms","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}