• The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOPM
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    2 months ago

    Community, IT Crowd, Arrested Development, 30 Rock, Scrubs… The 00’s had a lot of great sitcoms. We didn’t know how good we had it.

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      2 months ago

      My name is Earl

      (Since you’re including things that began barely in the 00’s, I’m going to include things that ended in the 00’s)

      Friends

      Frasier

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          Laugh tracks usually have nothing to do with how funny a show’s writing actually is, but studies regularly show that people have a more positive experience with TV comedies when they have a laugh track. I assume it’s probably something parasocial.