I really liked how Hannah took a totally different approach to her blog post. I didn't watch all of each episode, but I did look up parts of the episodes and found them both to be fairly entertaining. It was very interesting to see how she broke down the laugh tracks and saw how prevalent they were in each show. I liked how people were more likely to not laugh at something if it included a laugh track which also makes me wonder why shows still have them. Personally, I think they're really stupid unless they're used ironically, so this blog post confirmed that for me, which I really enjoyed.

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  1. Hannah ThomasNovember 12, 2018 at 6:55 PM

    Interestingly, (in the original experiment I modeled this assignment after) some shows were ranked more humorous with a laugh track and another was ranked more humorous without. This case study therefore showed that the content of a show has an influence on whether or not a laugh track helps laughable situations. Maybe, the reason Friends continued to employ a laugh track was because the track works well with the content of the episode.

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  2. Shane HerronNovember 14, 2018 at 12:46 PM

    It does seem that people used them for a long time because they did work. I think it was more of just a cultural expectation that had to shift first.

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