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Post by Ark on Mar 7, 2016 13:38:05 GMT -5
According to wikipedia
"Episodes contained a laugh track, one of the first Saturday morning cartoon shows to do so. It was removed for syndication in the 1980s. Not long after the Turner networks (TBS, TNT and Cartoon Network) began airing the show in 1994, the laugh track was reinstated in 1997."
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Post by Biscuit Mutt on Sept 6, 2016 20:18:46 GMT -5
All the episodes on the Season 1 and 2 dvd set have laugh tracks. So wherever they found the source, they hadn't removed them. I think the first seasons culled the laughs from I Love Lucy or something like that, got me if I can remember where I read that one. Laugh tracks on cartoons are silly things, but if they were removed, it would seem like the older shows were missing something since they've been ingrained in my brain to be there.
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Post by Ark on Sept 6, 2016 21:20:11 GMT -5
I watched Scooby Doo episodes on TNT before 1997 and I don't think the laugh track was removed. I'm starting to question that date.
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Post by wileyk209 on May 13, 2017 16:43:58 GMT -5
Sorry for the thread bump, but I actually do remember reruns of most episodes of this series prior to 1997 omitted the laugh track. "What a Night for a Knight" and "A Clue for Scooby-Doo" kept it in, but the others didn't. These syndication prints were also time-compressed, resulting in higher-pitched music and voices, and the picture quality was a little fuzzy. In fact, when Cartoon Network or Boomerang would show "Go Away Ghost Ship" since late 2007, they still use that old 80s syndication print, while the others use the updated 1997 Turner masters. The DVDs use new remastered prints that also retain the laugh track.
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Post by ShaphneLegacy27 on May 13, 2017 18:41:58 GMT -5
I always found the laugh tracks annoying which is one of the reasons why I'm not real found of Where Are You?. Laugh tracks where always on reruns for me because I didn't exist when they reran Where Are You? with out them.
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Post by snesgamer on May 14, 2017 1:25:35 GMT -5
I always found the laugh tracks annoying which is one of the reasons why I'm not real found of Where Are You?. Laugh tracks where always on reruns for me because I didn't exist when they reran Where Are You? with out them. In What a Night for a Knight, they literally played the laugh track when the Professor's eyes were moving in the statue. That was presumably supposed to be a scary moment, not a funny one! |
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Post by russm on May 14, 2017 10:27:31 GMT -5
I hate laugh tracks, I don't need to be told when to laugh, I'll laugh if I find it funny.
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Post by Ark on May 14, 2017 21:01:05 GMT -5
I believe WNSD didn't have a laugh track at all.
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Post by Ark on May 14, 2017 21:05:12 GMT -5
Sorry for the thread bump, but I actually do remember reruns of most episodes of this series prior to 1997 omitted the laugh track. "What a Night for a Knight" and "A Clue for Scooby-Doo" kept it in, but the others didn't. These syndication prints were also time-compressed, resulting in higher-pitched music and voices, and the picture quality was a little fuzzy. In fact, when Cartoon Network or Boomerang would show "Go Away Ghost Ship" since late 2007, they still use that old 80s syndication print, while the others use the updated 1997 Turner masters. The DVDs use new remastered prints that also retain the laugh track. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing! I've heard about Go Away Ghost Ship having high pitched audio. |
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Post by ShaphneLegacy27 on May 14, 2017 21:30:17 GMT -5
I believe WNSD didn't have a laugh track at all. I believe they stopped adding laugh tracks by the time of the Scrappy-Doo era. |
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Post by wileyk209 on May 18, 2017 9:53:44 GMT -5
I believe WNSD didn't have a laugh track at all. For the most part it didn't, due to it trying to be more modern and close to real-life, and as it was more or less an action/drama series. BUT... "A Scooby-Doo Halloween" DID have a laugh track in it, obviously as a homage to the older shows having one. In this case, it sounded more like modern sitcom laughter. And SeaSponge, I recall the last Scooby-Doo show to have a laugh track as the norm was the first season of "Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo," after which it was dropped. |
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2017 20:48:56 GMT -5
Laugh tracks...ridiculous who needs a spray can of laughs? I know that I love Lucy started this because people payed to see live tapings...but why did the technicians have to record to laughs? That's annoying.
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Post by barneynedward on May 26, 2017 19:27:24 GMT -5
The classic episodes don't feel right to me without them.
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Post by Chorake on Nov 8, 2018 21:29:20 GMT -5
Another bump, but I've recovered some episodes of the syndicated laugh-less version from various off-air and cable recordings: 1. What a Night for a Knight (17 minutes from a 1983 syndication airing. It's missing the opening scene where Shaggy and Scooby find the Professor's truck. The recording Starts with Velma's "Very funny.") - Clip: youtu.be/mvC0z2FUK6s3. Hassle in the Castle (Whole episode from a 1995 TNT airing) - Clip: youtu.be/XetNTYQ4AXM4. Mine Your Own Business (Whole episode from a 1995 TBS airing) - Clip: youtu.be/9lzQ5JuCwtUI've also recovered a handful of New Movies episodes without the laugh track. The Boomerang streaming copy of episode 2 is the old Turner master, and sounds the best of the bunch: youtu.be/nmxaxnoF1MAI also have almost the whole of The Scooby-Doo Show season 2 without the laugh track from some Teletoon airings recorded last year. |
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Post by Chorake on Dec 10, 2018 3:12:35 GMT -5
Recovered five more episodes!: 6. What the Hex Going On? (from 1995 Cartoon Network airing) - Clip: youtu.be/TIcQrXtOWvg7. Never Ape an Ape Man (from 1995 Cartoon Network airing) - Clip: youtu.be/DjZYZOHFtT813. Which Witch is Which? (from 1995 Cartoon Network airing) 18. Nowhere to Hyde (from 1995 TBS airing) - Clip: youtu.be/0HX7vjBR-Ng24. Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Werewolf? (from 1983 syndication airing) The person who originally provided What a Night for a Knight's 1983 copy recaptured the tape, with infinitely better sounding results: |
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