Laugh tracks what do you think?

Laugh tracks don't belong on cartoons. Ever watch The Pink Panther with a laughtrack? Totally pointless and adds nothing except annoyance.

The only exception is when the show makes fun of their inclusion, like on Family Guy when the studio audience is next door. Or in another episode (forget which one- can someone refresh my memory?) where Peter starts a line and has to stop and wait for the audience to quit laughing, as they're ruining the comedic momentum.
 
Really, just about the only time a laugh track on an animated series worked was on Justice Friends, and that wasn't even intentional.
 
If a jokes supposed to be funny I shouldn't have to be notified plus sometimes its tricky to hear the characters. One of the things that I don't like about Out of Jimmys Head aside from the pointless-ness and minority of the animated characters are the laugh tracks, makes it seem even more like a low-budget kid-com.
 
Laugh tracks on cartoons are totally unnecessary. For one thing, no one truly believes that an animated show is taped before a studio audience. Second, if you really need a Greek chorus yukking it up in the background to tell you what's supposed to be funny in a cartoon, then the show must really not be very good.
 
I always find laugh tracks to be very, very unnecessary in general. I mean what bothers me is that whenever a laugh track is added, it tries to get the audience to laugh along with it but that doesn't work because a person's sense of humor differs or varies. And besides, why should a laugh track try to tell you what to laugh at?
 
I hate 'em....I don't even like them in sitcoms which are taped in front of a live audience....I don't like that they imply what you're supposed to laugh at (I'll be the judge of that,thank you)....I like that Family Guy has mocked the concept of a laugh track in an animated show....
 
Seconded. Laugh track is an outdated concept that needs to ride off into the sunset. There are and have been plenty of TV prime-time shows (The Larry Sanders Show, Malcolm in the Middle, The Office, 30 Rock) that have never used lack track and they've gotten along just fine.

It's even less necessary on animated shows. Cartoons are (usually) plenty exaggerated, so the audience doesn't need some Greek chorus yukking it up in the background to tell them what's supposed to be funny. Besides, as Silverstar already said, everyone knows that cartoons aren't drawn before a live studio audience, so what's the point?
 
The irony is that in non cartoon shows, much of the laugh tracks were recorded, canned. So much for taped before a live audience.
 
The one time I enjoyed a laugh track in a cartoon was watching old Space Ghost episodes on Cartoon Planet. Laughter was inserted in parts that weren't funny in the least bit.

"Oh no, Zorak is up to his old tricks! Let's go, Jan, Jace!"

*laughter*

It's so out of place you can't help but laugh.
 
Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think there has been a laugh track on a cartoon since like 1970. So...I'm not sure what's the point of the thread. Secondly, I remember when I used to watch The Flintstones on TNT Toons back in the 1990s it would be the ones with the laugh track. I thought it worked cause The Flintstones was trying to be an animated sitcom.
 
Laugh tracks, IMO, only belong in sitcoms. They just don't work in cartoons where they "force" you to laugh at scenes that A) you already know are funny or B) try to be funny but fail miserably.

Besides, I can accept laugh tracks if they're from a live audience, none of that canned laughter c@rp.
 
I don't see anything wrong with having a laugh track in animated cartoons, particularly Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids, Scooby-Doo, The Archies, The Pink Panther and The Flintstones, among others. Now, my only problem with that is how are producers, these days, going to incorporate a laugh track into today's cartoons or how they can arrange for cartoon voice-over artists to record their parts in front of a studio audience? It's still a complicated thing to do as far as incorporating a studio audience laugh track into today's animated cartoons, but I still like it.
 
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