I just had a video game idea so good that I'm kind of mad it doesn't exist yet.

[Devsman]

Why the ever loving DOOKEY isn't there a Telltale Seinfeld?

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Seinfeld was as funny as a train crash.

[Masque]

Like most sitcoms, Seinfeld is shown to be amazingly, sickeningly unfunny when you watch it with the laugh track removed. It turns out that without other people laughing to tell our gullible brains it's funny -- it's not actually funny. Search YouTube for "Seinfeld no laugh track".

[the vampire of time and memory]

everyone on the internet is so miserable the concept of someone liking something must be challenged on sight or maybe it's just a gamer thing idk

[Arnold Rimmer is AFK]

Seinfeld would make an awesome garbage tier point and click game from 20 years ago

[Soap]

Yes I want to play a Seinfeld game.

[Luis the Uma Loving Wizard]

Soap eredeti hozzászólása:

Yes I want to play a Seinfeld game.

I'll play it if it has this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jtu1PI4Cvlg

[Soap]

Masque of Clavicus Vile eredeti hozzászólása:

Like most sitcoms, Seinfeld is shown to be amazingly, sickeningly unfunny when you watch it with the laugh track removed. It turns out that without other people laughing to tell our gullible brains it's funny -- it's not actually funny. Search YouTube for "Seinfeld no laugh track".

I’m not necessarily for laugh tracks. But they do have their place. They serve a wider and more noble purpose than one might think at first.

There’re definitely bad shows. But I strongly disagree about Seinfeld in particular. Seinfeld is one of the greats and is proven funny without laugh tracks. Though it’s definitely possible to make people laugh or laugh more by simply laughing. Humor is a complex thing.

Many people do look for cues to get an okay to laugh signal. Taking out the cues they’re used to looking for doesn’t mean something isn’t funny. There’re many circumstances in life that people don’t laugh at while in the circumstances themselves. But then later realize it was really funny.

This is the essence of some of Seinfeld’s best humor, so a laugh track makes sense. Seinfeld has good characters, almost too good. Almost too relatable. It’s often about saying hey, what’s up with these things and these people, this stuff is actually really funny.

Like take “The Soup Nazi.” That situation isn’t funny in person. It’s pretty serious. If you don’t behave right, you’re not getting soup. If you’re actually in that situation, you’re not going to laugh, because you want the delicious soup. And so, when you’re watching it and relating to the characters you’re not going to want them to mess up and miss out on the soup.

The laugh track tells you, hey you’re not actually one of these characters experiencing this right now. It’s okay for you to laugh at this absurd situation in the moment instead of waiting until later. You’re not going to be punished for laughing right now. It’s like adding salt or sugar to food to bring out the flavor because your tongue needs an exaggerated cue to notice the full flavor.

Behavior cues aren’t even exclusive to humor.

Those YouTube no laugh track things are really no different in essence than laugh tracks. They’re telling viewers how to behave/think about the content they’re controlling for you to see. It’s enabling haters to hate something they want to hate at, the same way a laugh track enables someone who wants to laugh at something.

You’re going in with the expectation that it’s going to be less funny. Like no, it just doesn’t have as many laugh cues. When you take those out, some parts of a show like Seinfeld may become too relatable for those of a certain mind frame to laugh. Plus, they’re part of the show.

It’s almost like removing one of the characters. The show would likely be done very different if they went in knowing there wouldn’t be laugh tracks.

And remember, laugh tracks are common. But shows as popular as Seinfeld aren’t. So it’s probably more than just the laugh track that people find funny.

I do think over-reliance on laugh tracks can be an issue though, just like over-reliance on sudden loud sounds for jump scares in horror, or salt and sugar with food.

But I don’t think it’s fair to dismiss a show by the removal of one of it’s components.

It should be weighed based on what it has. Some things, some people just really need salt on to taste. Other things are made almost entirely of salt.

Seinfeld is not made of laugh tracks. It merely uses them for cues.

[Devsman]

Snozzberry eredeti hozzászólása:

Masque of Clavicus Vile eredeti hozzászólása:

Like most sitcoms, Seinfeld is shown to be amazingly, sickeningly unfunny when you watch it with the laugh track removed. It turns out that without other people laughing to tell our gullible brains it's funny -- it's not actually funny. Search YouTube for "Seinfeld no laugh track".

Not really much of a surprise when Seinfeld's original concept was essentially "Auschwitz on the Hudson", before his co-writer told him nobody would get the joke.

Larry David was Seinfeld.

This becomes painfully obvious when he leaves the show after season 7.