Why old Scooby-Doo cartoons have an annoying laugh track

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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You debuted with a fake laugh track. But why?
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@SupportGamin2024 Год назад

Scooby doo was filmed in front of a live studio audience

@SIDEKICKDUSTY Год назад

Very few cartoons are animated live; it's a terrible strain on the animator's wrist

@Vaguer_Weevil Год назад

They couldn't stop laughing throughout the entire animation process, even during the board room meetings.

@CODDE117 Год назад

Oh thanks, I hate videos that take too long to get to the point

@AnthonyRusso93 Год назад

Deadass?

@CubeAtlantic Год назад

That seriously boosted-up nostalgia haven't heard them use that for specifially sitcoms, et-cetra in yrs rotfl.

@charliegein438 Год назад

I thought the canned laughter in the video game was a hilarious addition. I never thought I'd hear a laugh track in a video game. Plus it made the game feel more nostalgic to me.

@reeyees50 Год назад

You have something called comon sense

@ryanwysocki6437 Год назад

Yeah this tuber had a massive L take

@backbreakerer Год назад

Crash of the Titans for the DS has a laugh track.

@harryallsopp9136 Год назад

@@ryanwysocki6437 as a kid I hated it, as an adult I find it charming. Seeing as it's a kids game but kids opinions are trash, I'm stuck in the middle on it.

@charlieclark9552 Год назад

You related to ed

@mothersbasement Год назад

Bro I started playing Night of 100 Frights on a whim like two days ago. This is one spooky coincidence!

@mangamandrew Год назад

You know, the fact that this coincidence is between two nerds makes it feel like you guys are in sync. So you could say that your are a Nerdsync. *ba dum tss*

@EAKugler Год назад

I DEMAND COLLAB

@NoobixCube Год назад

Zoiks! Jinkies! Etc!

@TheOneTrueNeravarOfOoo Год назад

I'm kinda sold on the game just seeing the laugh track in there. 😂 I never seen a game with a laugh track. Would you say it was a fun experience?

@RandomParkShots Год назад

Anyone else get a kick out of you tubers you watch commenting on videos of other you tubers you watch

@kyleway8513 Год назад

To be honest, hanna-barbera cartoons are the only instance where I dont find laugh tracks annoying, in fact I kinda find it charming in them. It feels very emblematic of the time in which they were made and a good indicator of how they were sort of a parody of the kinds of live action shows adults were watching around them.

@stevehagen9804 Год назад

How can a company built on making cartoons only get 6 different laughs?!? That is some amazing trivia

@Manganization Год назад

6 animators, perhaps?

@ZeroGoofs Год назад

Fr like they couldn’t just bring in some random peeps to record laughing??

@kevinrosario2729 Год назад

Hanna Barbera cartoons from the 60s and 70s were made on a shoestring budget

@lightninjohn5651 Год назад

@@kevinrosario2729 yeah this is true. It’s also why people joke about repeating backgrounds wherever someone is running in these old cartoons

@foxymetroid Год назад

@@kevinrosario2729 To be fair, animation is incredibly expensive and television shows typically weren't expected to rake in as much money as movies or even theatrical shorts. It's why shows like The Flintstones and Scooby Doo, which were made specifically for television, look far cruder than Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry, which were originally made for theaters. What Hanna Barbera did was find a way to make television cartoons more practical, especially in an age where animators couldn't simply just expect to make up the difference in merchandise sales and cost-saving software, like Flash, were still many years from existing.

@slycooperscane Год назад

I know it's unpopular but I really love laugh tracks they add some kinda special corny charm to a show.

@Joecbg100 Год назад

Bingo. It's what makes Scooby that much more special.

@ahsanvirk130 Год назад

Laugh tracks gave it that old classic charm, felt weird watching recent iterations of Scooby Doo without it

@Zacman1123 Год назад

I disagree entirely

@kyleellis1825 Год назад

After 3 years of lockdown, I like having other people to laugh with.

@music0babe707 Год назад

Agreed. Many old cartoons had laugh tracks and there are so many other old cartoons with laugh tracks that are amazing.

@emivalx Год назад

I personally love the laugh track in Scooby Doo. It sets all the HB cartoons apart from other cartoons out there, and I think it adds to the camp of Scooby Doo. It'd be like cutting the songs out of the chase sequence. It's part of the Doo-NA.

@trinkab Год назад

What was funny about Scooby walking? Scoob was told to be "on guard" and instead of just sitting in front of the door he began walking back and forth as if mimicking the changing of the 💂 at Buckingham Palace set to goofy music. It's hilarious. (In later shows they made it more obvious with hats and uniform jackets and fake rif1es, for those who didn't get it.)😂 I never minded the laugh track. And it's removal was probably contributed to the hatred of Scrappy. I mean, if even the canned laughter didn't think he was funny, why should **we** think he was funny🤔?😁 Why start laugh tracks at all? Well, every comedy I saw on TV at the time was either "filmed in front of a live TV audience" or had a laugh track. And comedy "beats" were punctuated with pauses for the audience to laugh only getting weird silence... was weird. Also "Like, WOW" (laugh track).... well Shaggy's hippy saying "like" before almost everything he said was to punctuate the fact that even his interjections of shock surprise were hippy-mellow which is silly.

@girliboi Год назад

yea, i think it's generational.. kids in the 60s/70s/80s would've been used to hearing a laugh track ALL the time, to the point it was just background and they probably didn't even notice it much (if at all).. it's really in the last 20yrs or so that tv comedies starting dropping it (no doubt in tandem with the rise of single camera format), so it's probably more noticeable (and annoying) to zoomers/millenials, while anybody over the age of 30 most likely doesn't need the laugh track explained to them.

@dooplon5083 Год назад

@@girliboi I grew up watching older shows with laugh tracks and definitely can attest to it becoming like background noise, honestly. If a joke lands you appreciate the space to laugh without missing any story details or additional jokes as the characters pause to wait for the track to finish, but if it doesn't you're just sat there for a bit waiting for the show to continue. The thing is though, in both those instances it's more the pacing that it affects, I feel, since people that grew up with tracks might tune them out anyways to the point where it only serves to make the pauses when a joke doesn't land not feel like awkward silence (which many youtube edits of sitcoms with the track removed but the pausing not cut out very plainly demonstrate, lol). I think it's really interesting how it seems to stand our so plainly to me with Scooby-Doo and how I just accept it as part of its chatacter. It's the one show where it always seems to be obvious to me as opposed to say The Golden Girls where if I'm remembering an ep I'll almost never remember any laughter unless it was my own when recalling my reaction to a joke. Keep in mind that I love the golden girls so that's not a knock on the show, lol, I just don't associate the track with it at all, only the audience cheers when they delivered the episode's moral lol.

@trinkab Год назад

@@dooplon5083 Interesting, The Golden Girls had lots of laughter (mostly studio audience) there were LOTS of pauses for laughter as grand pauses were one of Bea Arthur's things (watch Maude) and Estelle's character naturally had long pauses, almost every thing she said was a punch line. Pausing so long for laughter didn't seem as natural for the other girls. I distinctly remember times when RUe and Betty tried to start their next lines but stopping and starting after the laughter died down.

@dooplon5083 Год назад

@@trinkab Honestly that makes sense to me, when I think of the laughter on golden girls the first image that comes to mind is Dorothy giving an annoyed grimace facing to the audience, lol, it always felt so natural for her that it never stood out as weird to me so all of what you're saying makes sense rven if I never would've consciously picked up on any that. And Yeah, Sofia and Dorothy were the two characters with the most natural feeling pauses overall I'd say, they were probably my favorite of the girls overall lol.

@inyrui Год назад

I personally hate laugh tracks, there doesn't need to be a pause after a joke for the audience to laugh

@GeekFilter Год назад

Interestingly, one of the few times that I went to a sitcom recording here in Los Angeles the majority of the show took place when the characters were on vacation. So what they did, is they just put that video up on a series of screens, and we all reacted to that. I think most of the audience felt pretty cheated! But they didn’t need to move people outside I think they solved that problem pretty early on in television history.

@girliboi Год назад

yea, i feel like 99% of the time older shows didn't really go out on location much anyway, with the exception of the occasional "special episode(s)" (the brady bunch goes to hawaii, etc).. even when stuff was supposed to be outdoors often times it's pretty obvious they were usually still on a studio set (again, there were exceptions, but just seems like that was the case the majority of the time)..

@GeekFilter Год назад

@@girliboi this one was shot on the CBS lot where they used to film Gilligan’s Island, it was the lagoon set!

@Stephen-Fox Год назад

Yeah - The _usual_ - for the UK at least - is to have any outdoor scenes filmed and then inserted. For episodes that are entirely on location, you get that. (Of course, for One Foot In The Grave, there's an episode that has a filmed insert that took place in one of the standing sets - The second episode of the second season - because they needed to do some major set redressing for that one scene so couldn't realistically redress the set sufficiently within the recording day of the episode. There are two episodes from that season that were filmed out of order based on the production notes, that episode which was filmed late in the recording order of the season, and the final episode of the season, which took place entirely in a different standing set - When they likely filmed the insert while the actors were in the studio to film that one episode.)

@ThatJohnKillion1970 Год назад

Imagine the confusion if they erased the laugh track and replaced it with Wilhelm screams.

@waywardlaser Год назад

The laugh track was honestly one of the defining features of the original series to me

@Turtle_347 Год назад

I’ve always loved the Hannah-Barbara’s laugh tracks. Reminds me of a simpler time in my life. Brings me back every time I hear it.

@jamesroseii Год назад

Man, I really don't understand the hate! For me, and I'm probably older than most of your audience, the laugh track is part of the nostalgia of it...part of the charm. When I was little, Scooby Doo monsters TERRIFIED me. I think the laughter helped me to realize that it was all in fun. I really enjoy your videos, especially the Scooby ones. Keep up the good work!

@GeorgeDCowley Год назад

I remember being scared by a couple of SD monsters, and don't remember the laughter. Of course, I might have mostly been watching newer stuff.

@johnsmith3859 Год назад

yea exactly I hate laugh tracks generally. but scooby doo is different

@tristanistired2162 Год назад

Same, I always felt like scooby doos laugh track was more well integrated than other shows if that makes sense?

@superbroadcaster Год назад

Honestly the original laugh track feels more natural than many laugh tracks I've ever heard. And there are a couple SD monsters that scared me so bad I couldn't watch some episodes. Great show.

@jamesroseii Год назад

@@superbroadcaster Willing to bet Space Kook was one...

@Jasonwolf1495 Год назад

Ive never minded the laugh track. Its always just sort of been part of the fabric of the show to me and just blended right in.

@chyennetatum3541 Год назад

i was today years old when i found people hate scooby doo's laughing track 😭😭 I've always found it so endearing and nostalgic, never once was annoyed lol

@kyleellis1825 Год назад

Seems like about 35% of people in the comment shate the laughtracks and the rest prefer them/don't notice.

@WiredLain_ Год назад

i hate laugh tracks, but i don’t mind it in scooby doo for some reason ahaha

@calebbarnhouse496 Год назад

People have gone very anti laugh track nowadays because they don't understand the point of it, people respond better when other people are also doing the same thing, it's easier to get 4 people to laugh together then it is to get them to laugh at different points separately it also makes people remember themselves having a better time, because they were laughing

@kyleellis1825 Год назад

@@calebbarnhouse496 Exactly. A laughtrack is supposed to make you feel like part of the studio audience.

@Scripture-Man Год назад

"today years old"???

@gebbo221 Год назад

I'm really loving these Scooby Doo videos you've made. As someone who's grown up watching the old and new cartoons and movies, and still watches them to this day, it's nice to see someone talking about them on RU-vid. Really appreciate you making these videos. Much love.

@GrouchyGander Год назад

This is so weird to see for someone growing up in Europe. Especially Sweden. I tried watching a lot of old cartoons in English and a lot of them had laugh tracks (The Flintstones being my most prominent memory of it), but there were no laugh tracks present in the Swedish dubs of the shows. In fact, I don't even think Swedish sitcoms had any laugh tracks. At least, I don't remember any. Unless it was a comedy play recorded live on stage. I even remember me and my siblings annoyedly discussing about why they'd have people laughing or applauding while we were watching Friends or similar shows. I gotta say though, I don't think it's as much "this is when you should laugh", but rather a try at simulating watching with company and having people laughing. Like, they're laughing WITH you, not FOR you. But that's just speculation, of course. Such a strange thing. I don't mind it, but it's definitely strange.

@superbroadcaster Год назад

Something everyone forgets about is the awesome chase music. It's so good and doesn't get enough love for the songs used.

@hamishfox Год назад

I don't know about anyone else but the idea of having a laugh track in a game sounds both hilarious and creepy. Perfect for a horror based game.

@miamc4602 Год назад

I had no idea the laugh tracks were gone after the first season with scrappy. I always assumed they were removed at 13 ghosts or in the 2000s shows. It feels like such an essential part of classic scooby doo

@rc25 Год назад

I didn't grow up watching Scooby Doo in English so I never knew there was a laugh track because it somehow disappeared in the dubbing process

@thefatheroflies7921 Год назад

As someone who has never had a problem with laugh tracks or ever heard someone complain about them (especially not in Scoobert Doobert) this video is incredibly surreal.

@PVMPlays Год назад

I was today years old when I realized some laughs were slowed down... so that's why some of them were so jarring as a kid. Man. The lengths they went to haha. I never really minded the original original laugh track either though, honestly.

@bland9876 Год назад

The closest thing you could do to having a live audience reaction would be if you had microphones inside of some room where you played the footage to the audience. Basically you make an entire episode of a TV show but don't have a laugh track and then you play it in front of real people and you record their reaction.

@grantbaugh2773 Год назад

I was part of a live studio audience once and honestly it was exhausting. Especially when there were multiple takes and you had to try and genuinely laugh multiple times.

@birdiec Год назад

Perfect video for the spooky season

@hpspacecraft713 Год назад

The retro cartoon style effects look fantastic on the transitions

@SeanaTrys Год назад

I love to see you cover the scooby doo video games. They were my bread and butter growing up! I remember begging my dad to stop by a specific local computer hardware store so we could get one of the old point and click games. Tho Night of 100 Frights and Unmasked were definingly my favourites

@ItsOver9000Productions Год назад

Unmasked is the best!

@MistressDove Год назад

There are so many Scooby games but strangely we haven't gotten a console Scooby game since 2010

@SeanaTrys Год назад

@@MistressDove has been that long since spooky swap came out?? I feel so old

@MistressDove Год назад

@@SeanaTrys Yep, that threw me through a loop to when I made my first video on Scooby games back in 2021.

@SeanaTrys Год назад

@@MistressDove Ill have to check that video out!

@EnriqueMaxx Год назад

to each their own I love the laugh track.

@_L10 Год назад

Scooby Doo laugh tracks are so iconic. Scooby doo without it is unfathomable.

@TheLethalWeapon1 Год назад

I love the laugh track and I’ve never heard anyone in my life complain about it

@thefantasticretroreviewer3941 Год назад

To be fair, I think it meant to be like a Goofy Cartoon Sitcom or something

@IlaMedlin Год назад

Really hoping we get some Scoob-vember this year again ❤🤞🏻

@GiuseppeGaetanoSabatelli Год назад

Laugh tracks are important in kids shows I think. Lots of kids don't understand body language or facial expression jokes, sarcasm, or a lot of veiled or hidden jokes. But by sneaking in a laugh track, it actually helped me understand comedy a lot more as a kid. lol.

@alchemistofsteel8099 Год назад

Yeah but Nickelodeon overuses them

@EAKugler Год назад

I always assumed that they added the laugh track to Scooby because they didn't want little kids to get too scared.

@robbiewalker2831 9 месяцев назад

That would make the most sense, if you ask me; after all, if you remove the laugh track, it can be a bit forboding sometimes.

@greenghoul157 Год назад

I got a good dose of nostalgia when you talked about that game, it's amazing how well the old Scooby Doo cartoon was translated into it

@ThePuppyTurtle Год назад

I actually really liked the laugh track in Night of a 100 Frights. The disembodied laughter had this ghostly quality that made the game feel creepier to me. It was almost as if the game itself was haunted.

@princembat Год назад

i have never and i dont think i will ever understand laugh tracks fr, its like the creators have such little faith that their audience knows how to feel the emotions theyre meant to...like, its not even just laughter nowdays, theres sounds for everything youre meant to react to, and its like. i know how to react to things! thanks! with that said i can understand them using it as an excuse to not have to animate an extra few seconds at least

@DruNature Год назад

call me crazy but I like the canned laughter, it's always the same and it punctuates scoobys antics. Idk maybe its just cause of repetition but its so absurd that they are laughing at every random thing he does, it does make it all feel like a huge farce and it's perfec!

@kyleellis1825 Год назад

Roughly 65% of us agree (atleast based on my tally from the omments)

@michaelhegwood9977 Год назад

Um, it's cause they filmed it in front of a live studio audience? DUH!

@alittlekittycat21 Год назад

I honestly really like laugh tracks because I grew up as an only child and it made me feel not so lonely. It may be sad but laugh tracks are really nostalgic to me.

@wblakekimber Год назад

A quality new video from Scott "I swear I make videos about stuff other than Scooby Doo" Niswander.

@jgrayson1940 Год назад

I hate laugh tracks in sitcoms, but I actually don't mind it on the old HB cartoons. I find it easier to cope when it's just Shaggy freeze framed for a second than watching a real actor pause for their joke to land.

@RodKim Год назад

I feel damaged as being old enough where the laugh track was ultra-normalized and I don't even realize it's happening anymore 😭

@kaitengiri Год назад

If someone can say "People look back at Scooby-Doo with disdain BECAUSE of the laugh track", then doesn't that just naturally lead to the reverse thought that you posited at the end of them thinking that it was liked because of it?

@SuperMustache555 Год назад

I love these high production-value NerdSync videos! Keep up the great work, Scott

@gemmamoon5998 Год назад

I’m so excited for another Scoob vid!

@kirkdgm Год назад

Here in Brazil they removed the laugh tracks in old Hanna-Barbera cartoons, I was baffled when I first heard they use to have it.

@JelloFluoride Год назад

Omg I just love the laugh track. To me it just adds to the character of the show. Personal preference I guess. ALSO, I just wanted to state how GOOD I think the Mystery Inc show actually WAS. It was a great sort of origin story for the gang before the leave town to start solving mysteries and the humor was some of my favorite in any Scooby-Doo show.

@konatea Год назад

I enjoy the laugh track, i often hate it in more modern comedy television, but I wouldn’t have og scooby doo without it

@CrappyGamer Год назад

The laugh track that plays at the end of mystery incorporated was a great call back to the original show and I love it. I wish more of the shows and movies would use it.

@danmerget Год назад

It might be more than just a callback. SPOILERS AHEAD There's a theory (which I've adopted as headcannon) that "Mystery Incorporated" is a prequel to "Scooby Doo, Where Are You". At first glance it appears to be a sequel: there are statues of "Where Are You" villains such as the Space Kook. But it's heavily implied that the gang encountered all of those villains in Crystal Cove, instead of scattered all over the country like they did in the original series, which implies those weren't quite the same encounters we remember. In the last episode of "Mystery Incorporated", reality got rebooted to a new timeline in which none of those villains ever haunted Crystal Cove. They decided to drive across the country in the new Mystery Machine, solving mysteries as they go. That cross-country road trip sounds a LOT like what they were doing in "Where Are You": driving through the country and solving mysteries. The theory goes that the last scene in "Mystery Incorporated" is the very beginning of "Where Are You", in which case the laugh track is a hint that they're now living in the "Where Are You" reality (which has a laugh track).

@CrappyGamer Год назад

@@danmerget honestly this is all just what I suspected from the get go I just figured it was a prequel and time got reset so they went on to living out the original show. Makes sense

@TheCommenterDragon Год назад

I theorized that the reason why they added stupid laugh tracks to the original Scooby Doo stuff is because it's possible that on some level when they first created Scooby Doo they thought nobody would think it was funny like some of the scenes were partly intended to be. at least that's my guess.

@girliboi Год назад

that and also elements of the show most likely would've been considered "scary" relative to most other kids cartoons at the time, so there might have been the added consideration of trying to "lighten" it up for younger kids..

@reptilian_geneticist Год назад

No its because basically all shows in the 60's and 70's were filmed in front of a live audience and had laughing... so they just did the same thing with scooby doo because its what they knew

@reeyees50 Год назад

They thought that kids werent gonna know when something was a joke, as they have reduced understanding of humour and lack attention span

@calebbarnhouse496 Год назад

No, the fact is they used laugh tracks just like almost every other show in existence at that time because it works, there's physiology behind it, if you hear laughing it makes you more likely to laugh at the same joke, it's because it makes it feel more natrual to start, like the first person to start clapping at the end of a performance

@reptilian_geneticist Год назад

@@calebbarnhouse496 laugh tracks are exactly the same as a live audience.... you're just reiterating what I've already said lol They did it for scooby doo because practically all shows had a live audience or laugh track, period.

@Skotty8 Год назад

As always, informative and highly entertaining! I adore how you make learning about the history behind a favorite franchise of mine such a rewarding experience

@Doomsword0 Год назад

I just noticed the change to your send off Scott, I really like it. It's a great natural but small shift from between the panels reflecting what your channel is now, I love it!

@zeeamja1 Год назад

Now that you’ve mentioned Scrappy Doo, it would be interesting too see the whole saga about him. How he was introduced, his raise and how he improved the show rating to how it all ended up. The characters raise and downfall how always intrigued me.

@kyleellis1825 Год назад

Billiam has like 6 hours where he covers every single Scooby Doo movie, the newer ones, and all the crossover movies.

@WhiteManOnCampus Год назад

Personally, I hated Scrappy when he was introduced but loved him in the movies and other shows like 13 Ghosts. It has to do entirely with the character's portrayal. Even if the monsters aren't real, it's still a criminal in a costume and someone often willing to do real harm to innocent people, so Scrappy's deluded "Lemme at 'em!" is just putting him, Shaggy and his uncle Scooby in genuine danger. In later shows and in the movies, he became the brave if less-than-capable heart of the team who exhorted his friends to be as brave as he believed they could be.

@iamflipachip Год назад

I love the groovy graphics you used this video. The title card and transitions are beautiful.

@Samantha_yyz Год назад

I've never had a problem with laugh tracks, even often find them to be something that helps the work. Is this a hot take? Also laugh tracks do help you know when to laugh, like I get that we should know a joke equals laugh time, but laugh tracks help tell when to laugh. Especially in the earlier days of TV, where audiences and production studios were learning this medium together. Also hearing other ppls laughter can make it easier to laugh instead of just like watching the show impassively. Respect the laugh track

@GuessWho7197 Год назад

I completely forgot that game existed. Oh man, what a trip of nostalgia that intro gave me.

@fightthepowerman Год назад

Thanks for answering the question in the thumbnail. Saved me a lot of time.

@nicholasewanco8461 Год назад

Am I the only one who LOVES the laugh tracks. They make me feel nostalgic

@dhealy1176 Год назад

Yeah they add a charm to it for cartoons likes this back in the day, think, don't think it is even hated

@kyleellis1825 Год назад

I've been tallying numbers and it seems like roughly 65% of people prefer laugh tracks.

@cdogthehedgehog6923 Год назад

Have you looked at the comments? Literally half of them are sharing the same bad opinion as you lmao

@berserkagain7976 Год назад

I like it other than the fact that the people we hear are laughing are dead. Dead people laughter hit differnt lmao.

@kyleellis1825 Год назад

@@berserkagain7976 You die twice. The first time is when you breath your last, the second time is the last time someone remembers you. So laugh with them and we can make sure those ghosts never pass on.

@Scripture-Man Год назад

Good video! Fun fact: Just like all the sitcoms from the 50s-70s had their laugh tracks done by one guy (Charley Douglass), all the sitcoms from the 90s to present day - from Friends to modern kids' shows - whether canned or live - they all have their laugh tracks done by basically 3 guys, chiefly Jack Donato and John Bickelhaupt. They are masters of the craft!

@Fishnetsandcrosses Год назад

Ngl I grew up with Scooby Doo and I did not comprehend the fact it had a laugh track until rn 💀

@aka_outlandish Год назад

Realy appreciate the eddeting on this vid, the retro graphics especially. Oh and the different filming locations were pretty cool aswell 👀✨

@pricelesspancake Год назад

For months I kept calling bananas "banas" and when my wife asked why I didn't know why.. yeah I remember now

@rielzero Год назад

I love nerd stuff like this, so detailed and historic in a sense. Even if I'm not a scooby doo fan, I do really enjoy your videos on it- there's so much history and fun stuff surrounding the topic. And you really show a lot of passion in these. I hope making these videos helps you as well! You Look so happy in these.

@mudlark4099 Год назад

We just need someone to create a Laff Box utilizing Rich Evans, the king of laughter himself.

@Bookdragon11 Год назад

I had the original Scooby-Doo Where are you? on DVD, and it Indeed had a setting where you could turn off the laugh track, and I was eternally grateful for that 😆.

@Scam_Likely. Год назад

Laugh tracks in a cartoon are definitely funnier than when it's a live-action show. It feels more tongue-in-cheek than cringe forced enjoyment

@imanicartwright4463 Год назад

I love all the random Scooby facts that I have from your stuff, not as much as when compared to my X-Men knowledge but still adding, thank you!

@kamalindsey Год назад

It doesnt in the dub to my language. They mustve weirdly mixed the laugh track _into_ the voices so when they dubbed it they couldn't seperate the laugh track like they do when they dub sitcoms. The result? Both Flintstones and Scooby Doo in my language has no laugh track lol.

@vanishingllama7342 Год назад

Okay Saw the thumbnail I had to click! Btw still love this channel after all these years

@Ranuyasha Год назад

Tbh what made the show iconic was the laugh track. Without it, it feels dead unless you grew up with the later series.

@derrickzorns6506 Год назад

Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated should come back that was a good show

@R3troZone Год назад

The laugh tracks never bothered me and I grew up watching Scooby in the late 70s/early 80s.

@winterthorn1 Год назад

Great video. Scott, I’ve wondered for awhile why there’s no good history book on Scooby, one that’s both a coffee table art book and in depth history at the same time. I think you should pitch that book and do it. It’s amazing this doesn’t exist yet.

@RealTimePogo Год назад

I knew about it, I like it. As for Scappy. I love scappy and 4 house from me someone has a dog that looks a lot like scrappy. With a blue collar. And he barks a lot. It’s great

@SupportGamin2024 Год назад

The laugh track,made it funnier in my opinion

@matthewpaul6904 Год назад

Weird how they never tried just screening the finished episode to an audience and record the laughter.

@jamessatter7418 Год назад

I dig your Shaggy friendly green/brown color palette!

@TheChunkyBadger Год назад

I like your Halloween costume homage to Patrick from Scooby Doo 2.

@eeveefennecfox Год назад

I've always hated the laugh track,I feel like it just ruins it for me,and if I was around when they first did the laugh track it would still piss me off

@geoffreykeane4072 Год назад

I once watched an episode of Get Smart where the laugh track was missing. It was very odd - as the actors always paused after the “funny” line. I realised that the script must be written so that the next line isn’t said whilst the laugh is playing else it will be buried. Quite an acting skill as the actors have to account for the right length of time.

@rojh9351 Год назад

Mystery Inc established a connection between the Scooby Doo universe and Lovecraft county, so the laughter track could be the sounds of the Outer Gods observing human activity.

@RogueAstro85 Год назад

I love the HB laugh track. That was the only cartoon that had a laugh track that I watched as a kid so I figured that's how a cartoon audience would sound

@mullaoslo Год назад

As much as I don't like laughtracks but I still have nostalgia for them in the old Hannah barbara cartoon

@Santoryu90 Год назад

I always thought laugh track was weird but didn't really mind it. Didn't realize people had that much of a problem with it.

@Y2Jerms Год назад

The joke where he's walking is that he's pacing. Like a guard. That's the joke.

@orinanime Год назад

I never found it annoying

@MattSipka Год назад

Fake Laugh tacks on live action sitcoms are bad, because they are often filmed on a set that can have a live studio audience. Scooby doo gets away with a fake laugh tack because it’s a cartoon. The laughs are put in places that could be considered funny, unlike shows on Disney channel that my sister watches that have a laugh after every character finishes a sentence.

@kornrocket1 Год назад

YES. FINALLY! I'm so glad you mentioned Night of 100 Frights! It's definitely a hidden gem from the ps2/gc area.

@levydeat Год назад

Scott, I love your Scooby videos. And all your videos. I could watch you do anything

@davebooshty299 Год назад

I never really cared much about the laugh track I'm 52 nowadays and I find it somehow oddly comforting and never really made a lot of sense when I was a kid but I liked it though I think overall. I think for me it's way worse when a TV sitcom uses it I think when it's used in a sitcom it's way overused and dumb , historically. Plus I noticed it first used in The Flintstones episodes. The original ones. As well.

@kyleellis1825 Год назад

Sitcoms use it to cover gaps in nothing and if you erase the laughtrack, the characters are just standing around in silence. In cartoons, the laughtrack usually plays during the reveal of the funny.

@dreamlandnightmare Год назад

I've always hated laugh tracks, especially the canned ones. Never understood their purpose. If a joke is funny, why do you need to be cued when to laugh? Cued laughter, particularly when it is prerecorded, only serves to diminish the impact of a joke.

@friedeggz Год назад

Scott went outside! SCOTT WENT OUTSIDE!! But for real, loving the different camera angles! Can definitely tell you're getting back to loving what you're doing again (hopefully)

@ThatWrestlingHound Год назад

MORE SCOOBY VIDS? Holy shit thank you so much man love every scooby video you make!!

@flyingfist4203 Год назад

Thanks for the great video Melvin Doo!

@SlightlyFizzled Год назад

Every instance of a laugh track in Night of 100 Frights is deserved and has excellent comedic timing. The growing frustration of the audience laughing at your blunders as you progress is a layer of meta-humor that goes largely understated. Look at yourself. Playing a children's game. Getting upset. You are ridiculous. Embrace your ridiculousness. Reflect and see that you are Scooby. By unlocking this subtext, you can free yourself from your ego, and truly become the wacky goofball that is Scooby. Your failures are no longer frustrations. They're just another wacky setback you got yourself into. The laugh track is a part of your world now, an immersive element that represents your interactions with the universe. By the point that I had truly entered the mind of Scoobert Doobert, I could hear my teeth chattering at the sight of an in-game enemy. I actually had to stop playing it recently because of a conversation I had with my dentist about it, but every second I feel like I'm about to relapse. But I digress, I will not stand this Night of 100 Frights slander. I politely request you issue a formal apology video. XOXO

@SeanLamb-I-Am Год назад

There was always that one squawk in the laugh track heard in so many shows back in the day. It sounded so unnatural that it always took me out of the moment from the show I was watching.

@PanthroSamah Год назад

"... mostly to annoy my fans that just want me to talk about comic books" - And this is why even I'm one of these comic books fans I watch yout Scooby Doo videos!