Sitcoms hold a special place in American cultural history. Over the course of just 30 minutes, audiences are brought into an ...

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Regulars Tom Kenny, Clancy Brown, Rodger Bumpass and Bill Fagerbakke return to the franchise, along with guests George Lopez, Sherry Cola, Regina Hall and Mark Hamill. By Justin Lowe Breathlessly ...

Leave it up to Ice Nine Kills to make something more boisterous than it already is. I mean that in a good way. Just look at this new bit of visual delight they’ve unleashed unto the world. “The Laugh ...

In the 75 years since it was introduced, the laugh track has conditioned viewers to know when and how much to laugh Some audiences love it, and some audiences hate it, but the laugh track—which ...

Walter Matthau (Oscar) and Jack Lemmon (Felix) as two polar-opposite best friends in “The Odd Couple.” Q: I used to watch “The Odd Couple.” One season Jack Klugman and Tony Randall both threatened to ...

You have questions. I have some answers. Q: I used to watch “The Odd Couple.” One season Jack Klugman and Tony Randall both threatened to quit over the use of laugh tracks. The network agreed to run ...

I ran into an old episode of Hogan’s Heroes the other day that stuck me as odd. It didn’t have a laugh track. Ironically, the show was one where two pilots were shown, one with and one without a laugh ...

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For decades, sitcoms ruled mainstream television. Situational comedies appealed to the masses, and using laugh tracks to signal when a punchline was delivered was the norm. In the last 25 years, ...

Critically reviled. Hopelessly dated. Forever near extinction. Yet in a TV landscape full of brutally realistic hits, sitcoms with background laughter are not only still popular, but have become ...

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