Seinfeld season 5 episode 8, “The Barber.”

14 minutes and 13 seconds in. A person from the audience responds to a joke with a soft, “oh no!”

It is in response to a joke about the fact that George Constanza has been working at a job he doesn’t know how to perform, and a job he doesn’t even know if he’s been accepted for. He’s been told repeatedly to work on the Pensky case, he has not. Pensky shows up.

To my knowledge this is the first time I’ve heard the audience speak any words throughout the entirety of the show. And the first time such a line has been kept in the final take. It is not subtitled.

Ratings dropped after this

okay i’ve seen a lot of studies pertaining to whether or not laugh tracks impact societal expectations and how they influence shame in everyday life, which is very cool, but i wanna know if laugh tracks actually make things funnier at all

here’s my proposed experiment:

step one: the humor survey. we compile a collection of humor-inducing clips, each pandering to different types of humor (slapstick, wholesome, dark, etc.) in video formats (an experiment based on generational differences in the delivering mediums of humor, such as text/speech, would be super interesting but im getting distracted). the recipient of the survey would consume the clips, then rate their humorous enjoyment of it on a 1-10 scale.

step two: this then leads to a pairing system, finding as many like-humored people as possible to sort into different testing groups. either people are put in pairs based on how exact their humors match, and one is administered the test while the other is the control, OR (more practically) people are sorted into larger groups based on their humor, and half of each group is randomly administered the test while the other acts as a control (bonus of seeing if the tracks affect individual humor types differently)

step three: administration of tests begins. half of each pair/group (depending on which experiment format is chosen) randomly receives a control sample of clips from a comedy show (could do personally-recorded clips of each humor type, but too many variables are introduced then. maybe a future test) in which there are typical laugh tracks. the other half of each pair/group is given the same comedy clips, but the studio audience’s reactions are edited out and the timing is slightly cropped to make the dialogue sound as natural as possible without it.

step four: while performing the tests, both groups are to record their own voices while watching the test (preferably watching with headphones. want to measure frequency of laughter), and rate the humor of each clip they viewed on the same 1-10 scale as before. results are then compared and contrasted to gather data as to what kind of humorous effect laugh tracks are having on people

Mick Jagger Presents Top Ten Things He's Learned After 50 Years In Rock ...

Rolling Stones Top 30 Countdown Extra... Mick can pull off comedy very well.  I saw a weirdo 60′s movie where he played a rock star with a few dents in his head. Hiding out taking pictures of groovy mod 60′s girls.  He’s very young in this movie. Early 20′s at best.  He wasn’t a bad actor then.. Hes not a bad actor now.  His comedy is pretty frigging funny. This is David Letterman’s Top Ten Mick has lots of fun doing this one. Enjoy. ~Red

i've been rotating the "this doesn't make any sense!" response to boy and the heron in my head and i wonder how much of it comes down to like...the kind of audience that engages with ghibli movies vs the kind of audience that mostly only engages with weird art movies vs the kind of audience that only really engages with blockbusters and marvel movies, and the overlap of those groups in the theater.

because, like, the boy and the heron is far and away more straightforward, from a plot perspective, than a lot of other Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies i've seen and love, but it IS a Weird Extremely Personal Art Movie even so. usually the only people seeing Weird Extremely Personal Art Movies, especially in theaters, are people who like that and expect that and have seen those types of films before and are therefore capable of engaging with them even when things aren't as clear as they'd be in an average blockbuster flick. like, nobody who only cares about Cinema to the extent of marvel movies and MAYBE john wick is going to see beau is afraid, and if they did they wouldn't have the tools to engage with such a dream-logicy movie. it would just be a weird thing that doesnt make sense to them, at least until they worked their media engagement muscles with other weird films. there's a lot of self-selection to the kind of person who usually sees these kind of movies.

while boy and the heron is weirder and more complex than a lot of other ghibli movies, as far as weird art films go it is incredibly, INCREDIBLY straightfoward. every weird plot point is explained very clearly to the audience, very little is up for interpretation from a strictly "what was the plot" point of view. boy loses mother. father remarries and moves the family. boy struggles to contend with grief. boy is pulled into a magical world by an old man who wants to use him. time is weird and fucked up in the magical world, but the movie is going to go out of it's way to highlight who's who and make it clear how the time travel works and the characters' relations to one another. the boy refuses to take over the magical world because he wants to live in the real world with the real people he loves. boy leaves the magical world having learned an important lesson about moving on. but the boy and the heron trusts its audience, doesn't handhold, and expects the audience to engage seriously and with focus to its plot and characters and stories.

a lot of people never watch movies like that! a lot of people are used to uncomplicated superhero movies and romcoms and that's it. the difference is that those people were never going to see beau is afraid, so the discussion about that movie instead comes from people who have the tools to engage with it. but because of the aesthetic-ification of ghibli, a lot of people who don't Do art films but are really into the aesthetics of cute little guys and girls in pretty dresses went to this art film and were confused that it was weird and dream-like and dark and strange and requires more of its audience than just passively watching.

anyway there's nothing wrong with not having the muscles to engage with weird art films, though i do think everyone should challenge themselves with the kind of stuff they watch. there's nothing wrong with preferring simple straightforward uncomplicated plotlines. but it is really interesting seeing people talk about the movie like it's insanely weird and doesnt make any sense meanwhile me and the friends i've chatted with about who DO have experience with this kind of film all feel insane because the movie is SO clear and SO straightforward by the standards we're used to. its just a neat crossover re: the kinds of movie fans that exist

Night Court - Giving Thanks (S4:E2)

Now that we have canon confirmation that Kevin sits like a bisexual i haven’t stopped thinking about how the twinyards sit. Like I need them curling their five foot nothing bodies up in the weirdest fucking ways while sitting in class or during team meetings or while playing video games

i want a timeloop episode of game changer. i dont know how this would work or how it would play out but i desperately want it

i just want to be a home for you

the subtitles being of actually good professional quality and even having explanations for specific thai references in them 😭

happy days is so crazy especially with where it stands in modern pop culture because you know about jumping the shark and the fonz but then you watch it and the actual jumping the shark arc isn't even that bad in the scope of the show and when the show actually gets bad in season 7, the plots become a torture device to torment fonzie over richies's absence and render the show unwatchable and you're left thinking wistfully about the first two seasons and how Richie and fonzie's friendship, which is the very core of the show, isn't even remembered because fonzie morphed into this untouchable womanizer icon of Cool instead of being known as a complicated man who found a family in the Cunninghams through the kindness of a red-haired boy who became his best friend

Wandavision 1x01 - Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience

DAINSLEIF and TWIN LORE I'm going to throw up

dreamwalker my silly rabbit goes to the big game

the grown person in me with self respect doesn't give a shit about the big bang theory/young sheldon/the new spinoff etc but....the sitcom historian in me............

just saw that mcfassy interview where conan played that fanvid of cherik to “fix you” by coldplay and the video was so fucking good but the audience was laughing their heads off. anyway i am now turning into the joker