I ran into an old episode of Hogan’s Heroes the other day that stuck me as odd. It didn’t have a laugh track. Ironically, the show was one where two pilots were shown, one wit ...

Episode Notes Decoder Ring is marking its 100th episode this year. To celebrate, we’re revisiting our very first episode from 2018, which asks: What happened to the laugh track?

I ran into an old episode of Hogan’s Heroes the other day that stuck me as odd. It didn’t have a laugh track. Ironically, the show was one where two pilots were shown, one with and one … ...

According to Houghton, CBS insisted on including the laugh track, which was removed from subsequent edits of the episode. "They were in a pilot mood and they wanted to get a Jesse White thing ...

According to voting audiences on Ranker, "laugh tracks ruin everything" when you're watching a sitcom on TV. Over 2,000 TV-watching users voted laugh tracks as the top annoying thing that makes ...