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Originally Posted by blujax01
Anything with a laugh track. Try this experiment.
Pick a sitcom you regularly view, preferably an episode you've seen several times. This cuts down on the distraction of the "plot".
Listen closely - not to the dialogue but to the laugh track. It takes a degree of concentration to stay with it.
Hee-hee-hee, haw-haw-haw. Aaaawwww!!! Tee-hee... Ooooohhhhh. It's constant. Always there, in the background. Never ends.
It's telling you what is funny, how funny it is and exactly when to react.
Subliminal as all get-out, ain't it?!
My wife and I were active in ballroom dancing for several years (Salsa) and didn't miss an episode of DWTS the first and second season. After that, it turned onto "Dancing With the Celebrity Lookie-Lou's and Rehabs" so we gave it up.
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AT Last!! Somebody else that agrees! Sometimes they start the trak before a single word is spoken. Nearly all of the shows wouldn't even get a smile if they didn't have to rely on that stuff.