Response to Hannah's Post

I’ve already seen both episodes, but of course I watched them again because these are my two favorite shows. After watching the Friends Episode I would rate this episode an 8 on funniness. The whole idea of Joey pretending he is still in a movie but is actually just dressing up as a gladiator was so funny to me. There have definitely been episodes I’ve found funnier, but this one was still very good. I would give this episode a 7 for enjoyment. The plot is somewhat predictable that Joey’s friends would fly out to Vegas and find out he is not in a movie. I still enjoyed it, especially the smaller plots taking place during the episode, like Ross walking in on Rachel, and Joey’s hand twin. I think there was slapstick humor, definitely sarcasm, incongruity, slight naughty humor, and people doing stupid things. Next, for The Office Episode, I would give this episode a 9 for funniness as I found myself laughing to myself for most of the episode. For enjoyment, I would give it a 10 because this is probably one of the best episodes of the show, and I love the plot with Pam and Jim as well as the Dundies. For types of humor, I believe that there was sarcasm (especially with Pam and Jim), dark humor (Michael’s joke about the person killing themselves), joking socially, naughty humor, and self-deprecation. After seeing your post about laugh tracks, I believe that only partially affected how much I enjoyed each show or found them funny. I personally just enjoy Friends because of the plot and the laugh track does not influence me that much, mostly because I barely notice it. It is nice that The Office doesn’t have a laugh track, or else I do not think I would enjoy it as much. I loved the different approach you took for your blog post and how you did not say what the experiment was for because that may have changed how I rated the shows.

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  1. Hannah ThomasNovember 12, 2018 at 6:41 PM

    I do agree that you barely notice the laugh track when watching Friends unless you're thinking about it. Honestly, I never usually notice the laugh track. However, when I watched the episode this time, I did notice it. I found that focusing too much attention on the background audience is a little annoying. This is why in the first blog post I made I was sure not to mention anything about laugh tracks because I didn't want you paying too much attention to it and subconsciously skewing the results. :) You like Alex ranked the episode of The Office higher than the episode of Friends. Do you think you enjoyed The Office more because it doesn't have a laugh track? Or did other parts of the episode content contribute to your more positive perception of funniness?

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  2. Shane HerronNovember 14, 2018 at 12:41 PM

    I also don't really notice the laugh track that much, though perhaps it does affect my sense of how funny it is. I'm just used t seeing it as a format at this point. It's also interesting how you point out that you liked the Office episode more than you found it funny, whereas the reverse was true for Friends.

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  3. UnknownNovember 14, 2018 at 1:21 PM

    I completely agree. I think that friends is funny because of the actual content in the show not because of the added laugh track. I understand that the laugh track is supposed to help people find humor in the shows content, however, if anything I find the laugh track to be more annoying than "helpful".

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