laughtracks

remember back in the day when they told you an episode was filmed in front of an audience? ("Cheers is filmed before a live studio audience")... it's been years and years since i've heard that. i guess they've stopped doing that and just dub in laughtracks all the time now? i do recall though, one of the Seinfeld clip shows, they did show some footage of the cast & set in front of an audience (the fab four holding hands and bowing, Jerry doing some bit with a cigarette).... i suppose a show like Seinfeld, and other modern sitcoms, would be hard to record live in front of an audience, what with the huge numbers of scene and set changes....

anyone with any insight on this?

No, most sitcoms are still filmed in front of an audience, same as always. They just don't announce it at the beginning of the program.

If you watch some of the older episodes, maybe season 3 or 4 when the show was really taking off in popularity, the live audience would almost disrupt the taping when Kramer would make his bumbling appearance. Kramer's entrance would set off a wild round of cheers, and the actors would have to hold their lines for a few seconds.

I don't know if they changed to a laugh track in the later seasons or not. Of course, by then there was much less to laugh at....

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I heard a rumor that clapping/shouting at Kramer's entrance was stopped because the producers eventually told the audience not to do it. Can anyone confirm or refute this?

I heard that too. It was to stop Kramer from becoming Fonzie-esque.

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Less to laugh at? The later seasons had wonderful plots with plenty to laugh at. Maybe you were watching Friends at the time and didn't realise....

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I would prefer a laugh track to a rowdy audience that loudly cheers at the first appearance of every popular character. Like on Married with Children, Al walks in and the crowd goes wild, and he waits 10 seconds before starting his lines. That just disrupts the show.