Not watching that either...in fact all those sitcoms and shows have a big sign *Avoid it* for me and seeing that i am one of
those that don't watch commercial tv i follow that sign.
If you are asking what i call commercial tv...we in Germany have our public channels, 19 or 20. Everybody who owns a tv or radio must pay a monthly fee for them regardless if he watches them or not. Advertising on them is strictly restricted and
a no no after 8pm so watching movies without advertising interruption is possible. And than of course there are the
others were you have advertising every few minutes. And i consider my time too precious for watching commercials.
Well, its me :p. Raised in a time were the idea of free will was high (to each his own).

Yes, yes, I see good sir. To each their own. :D

I very much dislike laugh tracks.
I vastly prefer watching my M*A*S*H DVDs without them, for example.

It's time for laugh tracks to go away.
You have to pay this "fee" whether you own a TV / radio or not.
Since I own neither a TV nor a radio you can imagine how joyous I am about this.

They always annoyed me - especially on cartoons!

Still, there are some shows that are so bad, and the jokes are not funny, that they could use a laugh track.

Yeah, I was going to make that point. Most of the time when people are getting annoyed at things like this it's because they aren't actually paying attention to what's happening on screen.

If you're paying attention to things like this, then you're probably not really into the show anyways.

Also, Big Bang Theory has a studio audience? I never noticed that.

They did like a jokey flash mobby Carly Rae Gypsum thing once, but I had totally forgotten they had a studio audience.

Right sorry, its now per dwelling regardless how many persons.....fun for those with more than one house/apartment :p

I tried to watch that show for Titzilla, but it is just horrible. Not even a great rack can keep me watching that train wreck. She's always got a second career lined up in the porn industry.

I don't mind laugh tracks, but generally comedies like It's Always Sunny or Curb Your Enthusiasm just work so well without them. I enjoy the live audience laughter from shows like Seinfeld, though. :)

This.

Although let's face it, on people who insist on laugh tracks being stupid and everything that features them also being automatically stupid, laugh tracks can have an (almost) exclusively negative effect - it's probably just stubbornness but hearing laugh tracks may keep people from laughing when they normally would and consider writing - that they would normally consider great - just awful.

Anyway, I enjoy them and know that many shows would be far less enjoyable if they didn't have those. Not that a laugh track would make me laugh at a show that I couldn't ever enjoy otherwise (and I do find laugh tracks irritating in shows that are utter crap and where the sole idea of anybody laughing at the things happening on screen appears absurd) but I know that it does remove certain barriers and makes it easier for me to laugh and that's a good thing in my book.

This may be the most brilliant thing you have said in your whole life.

When I first got MASH on DVD I assumed I would watch it with the laugh-track off, but I surprisingly found I preferred it with it on. Not to tell me when to laugh, but more to make the whole thing seem more fun and lighthearted.

Yeah, it's a huge misconception that laugh tracks are simply meant as a primitive trigger for inducing laughter. Laugh tracks have an amazing psychological effect and their invention is among the biggest achievements in audio design IMO. Not that I'm saying everything should have laugh tracks but they undeniably do a whole darn lot for many shows including ones that would already be great without them.

That's something considering the show wasn't very funny.

The movie on the other hand is one of the greatest comedies ever.

I'm starting to see why According to Jim lasted as long as it did...