Shows with the laughing effect in the background are not funny, amirite?

Seinfeld and King of Queens are the only old sitcoms I'll watch and don't mind the laugh track

by Vellaturcotte 1 week ago

Game Of Thrones would've had a completely different vibe

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I mean Big Bang Theory has laugh tracks and is still one of the most popular comedy shows streaming.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Idts, I mean some of the sitcoms having laugh tracks got huge fan base.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I like the laugh track it gives it a communal feel, I know I'm in the minority though. I do feel like there are shows with good and bad laugh tracks though.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Laugh track. It's called a laugh track

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I feel like we need an educational PSA on the difference between a live studio audience and a laugh track… a live studio audience is a classic television tradition, and can add a ton to a show and how it feels, making it feel more like a stage performance than a movie. Shows like Seinfeld or all in the family really benefit from it. Laugh tracks are cheap imitations and worthy of making fun of, because they don't ever have that same vibe. A lot of Disney shows are guilty of that.

by Smooth-Farm 1 week ago

Very popular opinion

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Lots of people love it

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Is this an unpopular opinion?

by kevin92 1 week ago

Apparently yes. According to lots of people

by Anonymous 1 week ago

With the laugh track part, or the Friends not being funny part? Personally I agree, but fans of Friends are like the 90s swifties, they will come at you hard

by kevin92 1 week ago

It's funny because even in their hey day, sitcoms with laugh tracks pissed me off so much as a kid. I brought it up constantly to my parents and older relatives and nobody agreed with me. "WHY are they laughing at everything??? That wasn't funny. WHO is laughing??? What's going on?" "SHUT UP!"

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Could be worse, you could be watching Filipino Variety Shows, the fake laugh track is mind numbingly overused

by Sengerkayley 1 week ago

Yeah I hate it when I watch a live play and everyone around me is laughing. I'm like SHUT UP DON'T TELL ME WHATS FUNNY.

by maybellerowe 1 week ago

Strip away the laugh track from a lot of sitcoms, and it's just a group of so-called friends making snide remarks to each other.

by Free_Dinner_9720 1 week ago

And then sitting in silence for 15 seconds

by Anonymous 1 week ago

There are laugh tracks like in Big Bang Theory where they want to tell you something is supposed to be funny, and there are laugh tracks like in Seinfeld where you feel like you're laughing with a group of friends. Some shows do it better than others is all I'm saying.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Big bang theory isn't a laugh track btw. It's actual people laughing at the jokes.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Friends not funny? Well, shows the true essense of unpopular opinion.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

I've never once laughed watching Friends and saw it as a kid in the 90's. Same goes for Big Bang Theory, another popular sitcom with a laugh track. I actually liked the shows for whatever reason but don't find them funny at all lol I did laugh at Seinfeld.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Most of its jokes rely on outdated stereotypes

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Well, its a show of 90s.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

It's all just canned laughter instead of real humor

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Canned laughter? Do you even know what you're talking about? Friends was filmed in front of an audience. If the audience didn't laugh, they changed the joke/s. Perry has stated in interviews that when the audience didn't laugh, he would be devastated.

by Anonymous 1 week ago

Like I said its a show of 90s. Perhaps such laughter were appreciated more then. Well, what you mean real humor?

by Anonymous 6 days ago