There's nothing quite like watching a great sitcom. The best sitcoms are full of clever one-liners and running gags, and often have well-written and unique characters that viewers get attached to over ...

Over years of watching television, fans have almost tuned out the tracks of laughter that are played over the scenes. If they come to think about it, are laugh tracks really necessary for sitcoms? Or ...

For decades, sitcoms ruled mainstream television. Situational comedies appealed to the masses, and using laugh tracks to signal when a punchline was delivered was the norm. In the last 25 years, ...

Critically reviled. Hopelessly dated. Forever near extinction. Yet in a TV landscape full of brutally realistic hits, sitcoms with background laughter are not only still popular, but have become ...

There's a lot of things that can ruin an otherwise decent sitcom. A cheesy script or underwritten characters is one. Cringey, outdated jokes or overused, tired tropes is another. But when it comes to ...

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