"She Liked You in March. It's October Now."

Attraction runs on a clock.

She flirted for weeks. Touched your arm. Found reasons to be alone with you. And you were careful. Respectful. Waiting for the right moment.

The moment had a shelf life. It expired around month two, and by the time you asked her out, she'd quietly filed you under "little brother."

One of the hardest lessons inside the 22 Rules: women rarely wait. Interest either grows or it decays, and nothing decays it faster than a man who never moves.

Make the move while she's still inventing reasons to be near you.

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Laugh Tracks, Good or Bad?

Are laugh tracks are good or bad?

  • Good

    Votes: 1 9.1%

  • Bad

    Votes: 7 63.6%

  • Depends on the show.

    Votes: 3 27.3%
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One of the presents I got for xmas was a season one DVD collection of the show "Sledge Hammer". I had never heard of this show until I got it for xmas. What is though is a parody cop show (like the Police Squad show and the Naked Gun movies, just with different actors essentially), made back in the mid-late 80s.

I've watched the first DVD so far and in the beginning of the DVD the director of the show comes on and says he has removed the laugh track from the DVD. He said he removed the track because he felt the audience should know when to laugh and that they should not be so stupid as to need a laught track to tell them when to laugh. I have to say I do agree with him on that, and I have personally always found laugh tracks a little annoying. What do you guys think are laugh tracks good or bad?

P.S. I know this poll may seem stupid, but I'm just curious as to other people's opinion on the matter.
 

"Why Women Dump the Guys Who Try the Hardest"

You paid for dinner. You drove. You said "whatever you want is fine" every single time. All the effort, no expectations.

And she left anyway — probably for a guy who makes her pick up the pizza.

Painful. Also predictable. Her mind quietly concludes that anything requiring zero effort from her is worth exactly zero. You became a free sample, and free samples get taken for granted.

The 22 Rules flip the dynamic. Small shifts that get her investing effort, money, and time in you — until SHE'S the one afraid of losing YOU.

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It depends on the show.

Usually, I think laugh tracks are bad, because they force the viewer to laugh at parts which aren't that funny at all. On shows like Friends and Everybody Loves Raymond, laugh tracks are bad. Then again, those shows would be weird without laugh tracks, because nobody would ever find those shows funny anyway.

Then you have shows like Seinfeld which could still be very funny without one, but rely on the laugh track to make a bolder punch line to the jokes.
 
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The lamest thing I've ever seen is laugh tracks in cartoon shows. Mostly cartoons of the 60s and 70s. I think the Jetsons and Flintstones had it. So did a few other Hanna Barbera cartoons. Especially during the 70s when the Scooby Doo cartoons started doing those lame-o Scooby meets Sonny and Cher and whoever. Scooby always rocked except in that case! At least it seems that way looking back now.
 
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Haha they had laugh tracks in cartoons???

Laugh tracks good/bad? It depends on the show. Shows like Everybody Loves Raymond usually have a punchline and then the laugh track goes ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON while the characters just STAND THERE STARING AT EACH OTHER WASTING TIME . That is boring.

However, shows like Seinfeld are hilarious already and don't need to rely on the laugh track to fill up the timeslot. :)

I wonder who thought up of the laugh track in the first place?
 
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Originally posted by cant think of a user name


I wonder who thought up of the laugh track in the first place?
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500th Post Hurray!!! Anyway to answer your question:

The laugh track was "invented" on 1940's radio to spice up the studio audience. With the advent of Television it made the jump over with the "The Hank McCune Show" in 1950.

The Laugh Track was first introduced by engineer Charley Douglass.
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"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"

Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.

You've been "getting ready" for two years.

She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.

Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.

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The laugh track was "invented" on 1940's radio to spice up the studio audience. With the advent of Television it made the jump over with the "The Hank McCune Show" in 1950.

The Laugh Track was first introduced by engineer Charley Douglass.
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I don't think he really wanted to know that :rolleyes:
 
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