The bit with Elaine made me as uncomfortable as I feel like it was meant to. The laugh track alleviates a lot of that uncomfortable tension, without it we get full Elaine and that is never a good thing
@@zlatansicanica6797 right? you dont have to spend your time in line parsing out the exact level of social interaction that may or may not be necessary at a particular juncture. you just approach, state your soup clearly, take it and leave.
If the soup was dispensed via a machine, sure, this would be great. But unfortunately it is run by humans, who also frequently get their own rules wrong. For example George's problem with the bread -- He was confused by someone else getting free bread, and he was immediately penalized with no explanation by staff. Rules are not rules if they are not applied consistently. This makes it impossible to not make the same mistake twice. I'm a very rules-oriented introverted person and I would never go to this place.
Very gritty. Got that NY feel. YT travel vids done by New Yorkers admit they are not friendly in the streets. But more than the laugh track was cut. Some sound effects were lost. If it was made without one they wouldn't have those "awkward pauses".
People in sitcoms are extremely polite. They make super extra sure that they never interrupt the person they are talking to, thus leaving giant pauses in the conversation.
It’s better without the laugh track but weaker without the sound effects. (The sound of paper bag being ripped out of George’s hand. Elaine drumming on the counter.)
Yea i noticed that too. I figured laugh track was just that but a lot of sound effects were gone. Never would have thought it was part of the same audio track
They are all crazy. I actually think Seinfeld is the original "American Psycho" under the careful guise of comedy. Don't get me wrong, I used to watch it, and rewatch it religiously. When you really get into the shallowness of the characters, you realize it is all about nothing, just plain old craziness. One of the Seinfeld episodes (actually a few) go in depth, when Jerry and George are in the process of writing and presenting their script about a show - about nothing - just like Seinfeld. This show with the slap bass intro, and the laugh track, really convinced you that these characters are cool. Firstly, they are all promiscuous; relationships with people mean nothing to them. Furthermore, they abnormally hang around each other, as if to reinforce their deviancy. They are not evil per se, and do not have any particular agenda, but are extremely childish. These four are definitely borderline psychotic, Elaine is probably the worst, as she never seems to genuinely care about anything, but her own needs.
@@thomasaltruda Seinfeld and Iasip are two of my favorite comedies. Iasip almost uses the music or the intro as a laughtrack. Seinfeld is in front a live audience so it doesn't feel as unnatural as in sitcoms where that isn't the case.
Aside from some weird timing in the apartment scene, this is even better than what's broadcast, the jokes hold up and (as other's have mentioned) there is genuine tension and menace in the scenes in the soup place. Also, this feels just like a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.
Given the Soup “Nazi” theme, I’ve long thought these scenes had a life or death flavor to them. For example when George mentions his missing bread and Jerry tensely tells him to drop it … that gives me chills of dread, as if “the guard” might brutally lash out. Guess I’m still traumatized from seeing Roberto Benigni in “Life Is Beautiful” years ago.
Shows with laugh tracks have a certain pacing. The show would still be funny asf without a laugh track but the directing would have changed dramatically to fit that type of show. Standup comedians say that they deliberately build in pauses in their acts, otherwise the audience wouldn't hear half of what is said.
I think what makes these far more odd is that there is so much detail noise removed as well, like Elaine hitting the metal counter, no noise from the chain machine, even just light movement noises that make up a day. I'm still glad and thankful to have these changed as it still shows, there really wasn't that weird down time. There are a couple of moments of pause but they fit with what would be thinking time or actual character reflection. Thank you for the work!
This is probably just a consequence of the audio filtering technique. Probably a low pass filter and some extra filtering done when the laugh pauses are done
(I don’t watch Sienfeld so I don’t know any characters other than Jerry) If you take this out of the context of a show, the lady was kinda acting like a jerk tbh.
@@financialzero5684 all the main four characters are written as soulless jerks in the show. In the series finale they all face a trial for being bad human beings and end up inside prison.
This is honestly not even that bad compared to every other sitcom like Friends, and Big Bang Theory use their laugh track and are silent for a whole minuet after a sentence.
Yeah it's basically just like curb your enthusiasm except for without music and with some awkward pausing. Got something nearly as cringe as the Big bang theory without a laugh track which exposes how dreadfully unfunny every joke is
It’s weird...without the laugh track, the episode seemed new, like it was some new footage. Like I was getting to really see into the characters lives. Much more personal.
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it is like she is ready to die or get into violence at any moment for any reason i honestly felt like that guy was going to hit her when he saw her put her hands on the counter i feel like that when i breathe too loud next to people i honestly can not tell what is appropriate and what is not i think i can actually, but every thing is so scary and unbelievably horrible that i feel like it must be a dream or i must be lying or i must be insane
Part of what makes this feel tense, is because its not just removing the laughing. Its also not having a lot of the ambient noise that would be in that environment, making the scene feel stifling. Like, when she gives George his money back, there's zero sound. The silence is oppressive
The background noise was probably also removed to make sure all the laughter was removed normally there would be background noise to make it feel more real like clanging of people’s utensils on there plates in a restaurant scene for example
@kevin10001 Yeah, I know why its not there. But it changes the scene a lot more than just taking away the laughter, which is what it's advertising. And a ton of people are media illiterate so they won't even think of the fact that the background noise is missing, and just assign the stifling feeling to there not being laughter. And further entrench that the laughter is a crutch cause "look how dead and lifeless it is without the laughter"
@@trekkiejunk they probably say that but is a laugh track...you can hear the laugh track..lol..easily spotted. I used to be in a public audience....you will never make people laugh like that so many times...impossible
Well if you notice when they take out the laugh track they are also stripping out a ton of other sounds. Notice Elaines hands banging on the top of the counter didn’t make a sound. The usual sounds of shuffling and moving were also lost.
@@divinestrike00x78 Yeah, that's my point. They're supposed to be walking down the street in the Upper West Side or wherever and it sounds like they're strolling in a meadow. Whoever made this didn't do a very good job adding ambient sounds.
This definitely makes everything seem more awkward! But I'm honestly more impressed with how well the noise reduction is used to remove the laughter in the dialogue background. It's hard to get right! It sounds like you added a louder noise floor and some sound effects matching the movements on screen, to blend it together more seamlessly. Great job!
@@trexx32 that’s kind of the point of the joke??? If you thought this show is supposed to portray morally okay and whacky characters, I’d say there’s something wrong with your judgment. It’s pretty blatant the characters are morally reprehensible. They’re single in their 30s, selfish, self-centered… nothing redeemable about them other than the fact they aren’t serial killers or r*pists
Honestly if they didn’t do the awkward pauses when there’s supposed to be a laugh track I’d prefer it over the original. Seinfeld is awesome regardless.
Same here. I used to love this show in junior high and I was one of the only one out of my friends that actually got the comedy and understood it. It remember a friend telling me how he hated it. I think it's cause he didn't get it. Masterpiece of a show.
Half the scenes were filmed in front of a live audience so they decided to use a laugh track in scenes that weren’t filmed in front of an audience so that it was consistent
This is pretty common with shows that were taped in front of a live audience. They still have to be a bit over the top for the audience to see everything and to get a reaction
@Marquis De Sade Thank you! I keep trying to tell people this. Nowadays people complain about laugh tracks to feel smarter about themselves when they don't even know the history of sitcoms and laugh tracks. They're not there to tell you when to laugh, they're there because good sitcoms are supposed to be a theatrical experience from home.
It’s almost as if this was edited with a laugh track in mind, and had they not planned for that they might have edited it differently. What a huge revelation!
Just for the record, unlike some other shows, Seinfeld was shot in front of an audience -- I know absolutely because I was there for "The Opposite." While I'm sure they messed around with the sound in post for maximum impact, I can tell you that people were laughing for real -- even on repeated takes and without having to stretch. They were good.
@@stainless1175ablethe interview with Jason says that they performed in front of the audience for every season, right up until the finale. He also said that yes, all the laughter is the audiences. A laugh track is used only when a scene has different takes, and thus different laughter, to smooth it out for the viewer.
Big Bang Theory is mostly live as well. They have a person whose job it is to keep the audience relaxed and entertained between breaks and resets. So it may be impossible/very hard to successfully remove the laugh tracks without screwing up the audio.
That’s cause it feels like a natural conversation not one with awkward pause for audience reaction the slight pauses at the start we’re probably signals for the other person to start and it’s normally unnoticeable with the laugh track that helped it feel more natural
@@kevinrudy It's not a laugh track. They filmed it in front of a live studio audience. That's the audience laughing. That's why they have the big pauses, because the actors are waiting for the audience to stop laughing.
The reason Gone With The Wind went over budget was because they added the laugh track, then they had to remove it again after the test audience didn’t realize it was supposed to be a comedy.
The show without the laugh track feels much more 'real'. The jokes feel more subtle and natural in a way. You can also hear the background noise a bit more and that adds a bit of ambiance to it, which is calming, in my opinion and makes me feel like it'd be a nice show to watch near a fireplace in the wintertime.
Interesting that you say that. I wouldn't mind watching more episodes like this. It would be even more interesting without the pauses for the laughs, but even as it is I wouldn't mind watching to for the appreciation of the craft perspective. And yes I couldn't imagine doing this with many other shows.
@@JohnnyNatrium ah kk, well that's your opinion Me and most people my age enjoyed it a lot whilst growing up, I remember watching it on E4 everyday after school/college/uni with my sister or mates and it was funny as fuck It's also one of the highest rated/watched shows of all time so I'd guess most people find it funny But I get it, everyone is a normie except you 😂
It's still funny but had you never saw Seinfeld you wouldn't laugh as much. It's your nostalgia of the effect the laught track had on you that makes you still realise it's funny.
@@vika0194 I disagree, I find Seinfeld funny for the same reason I find Curb Your Enthusiasm funny. If nostalgia were the only factor then removing the laugh track wouldn't change the humor for shows like Friends or Big Bang either, but it definitely does
Watched this to compare to Friends without laughter track, and this is infinitely better. Better acting, better dialogue, better chemistry and better camera-work.
I think this accents not just how good Seinfeld’s comedy is, but how the laughtrack can be done at least in an non-obnoxious way. Most of these videos taking the laugh track out of sitcoms have huge, long pauses between the laughtrack, but this is keeps more or less the same pacing. It’s incredible how tightly the scripts are written, even with the laugh track
That’s likely Seinfeld’s part in the screenwriting process. Jerry’s lifelong project has been getting comedy down to almost a science. He’s always writing and refining every part of his material and delivery. So while Larry David undoubtedly came up with the spark that was ideas and jokes it was likely Jerry who winnowed it down to something workable on set.
Only thing really sounding "off" about it is that the background score is silent during the dialogue and replaced with alternating laugh track and funk groove. Taking those out leaves it essentially silent and creepy like soap operas.
Wow, every other "X Sitcom without a laugh track" has been so painful and highlighted just how unfunny the shows were, but this was... not bad at all. I know this episode is somewhat burned into my subconscious, but I haven't seen it in forever and I genuinely laughed during this clip. There weren't nearly as many super long and awkward pauses for laughs, the actors were always still doing something.
I mean, the writers wrote this show with the laugh track. Some show were even filmed in front of a live studio audience back in the day. It was a different time
@@Matt-hw1lq Seinfeld was filmed in front of a studio audience. There is no "laugh track." David and Seinfeld would never write jokes that a live audience wouldn't laugh at.
Steve Owen there is a laugh track. When they have bloopers and have to use two different takes there’s NEVER a cut in the audience laughter Neanderthal
Holy Shit. Elaine has that “Dee” vibe at the end. Always Sunny has no laugh track and it works. This show is a testament to the writing and comedy of Seinfeld and David.
@Taylor Lemoine yea but to be fair larry carried all the neurosis of castananza, which makes the show (and his style in general) hard to watch if you have anxiety troubles or a low tolerance for bullshit. dont get me wrong he can still be funny sometimes. but hes the reason it took me so long to enjoy seinfeld again as i got older. jerry was the people person without him thered be know larry.
Taylor Lemoine lol oh I don’t know the real life jerry too well so maybe he is arrogant. But idk if it would easy to replace him. His whole comedy stand up has always been about relatability even in the most mundane situations. IMO Kramer was the show stealer but my favorite will always be George castanzas dad.
@Taylor Lemoine yea im a fan. it made me really appreciate and respect larry more. he is such a creative oddball. ill admit i havent watched all the episodes yet though. maybe im saving them for a special day or something lol. im guessing you love curb?
@Taylor Lemoine youve got great taste too from the looks of it. even though i havent watched all the shows you have mentioned, iv'e heard great things about all of them lol. i enjoyed sharing opinions with you. its a rare thing on youtube to find people willing to have a civil and open conversation lol. also yea hes from the JRE podcast and without spoiling too much he has people from podcasts on his show. if one day you do end up watching/ liking the show let me know. take care and stay safe man.
It has the potential to be a funny show even without a laugh track, but only if it had been designed that way. As it happened, the laugh track (aka "sweetening") was very standard in the 80s and 90s, so actors were instructed to pace their lines so that could be added in later. The entire timing of the dialogue was changed to accommodate it. The real issue here isn't the lack of laugh track, we're okay with that in the 10s and 20s (shows like Parks and Rec and It's Always Sunny don't have it at all). The issue is that now you have a show full of awkward pauses.
There were times during the filming of Seinfeld when they'd have to retake just because the damn audience was laughing too hard and messed up the dialogue and delivery. I guess any changing of audience laughter can be viewed as "sweetening" but it seems wrong to apply the term here when it's so often an instance of laughter being added into the show.
Seinfeld was taped in front of an audience. I even know some moments where you hear individual laughter not found in any other episode. For example, the ending with the hobo in the puffy shirt. You can here a lady scream "Oh my god!" as it's revealed.
I think that's how the office managed to avoid the awkward pause because it was meant to be a documentary you could have have Jim react to the camera filling the empty noise with a loud expression
Zerb Games depends how they have the audio panned looks like the dialogue was down the middle in mono and effects background and laughs were panned left and right stereo. They do this so you can understand the dialogue with crappy speakers or if u don’t have stereo sound (90’s)..so anyway whoever just removed everything that wasn’t mono which can be done a bunch of ways but generally takes a few seconds.. It’s still funny but would be way less creepy if he/she found a way to leave the other sounds in!
@@MaxBeamer if i remember correctly seinfeld was actually one of the last shows to have an actual studio audience. So there's a good chance he couldn't remove just one and that's the best that could be done
@@PauloJose-fx9wj considering how i saw ross act like me as a psychopath, i should ... idk how to finish that sentence i understand why my enthusiasm has to be curbed
The laugh track must cause some kind of distraction, I noticed for the first time, here, that when Elaine asks about him looking like Al Pacino, the Soup Nazi very slightly shakes his head.
@@V3rnSqwd5611 Big bang is literaly only funny to those people that put "nerdy" in their tinder profile, mening that they watched 10 minutes of a Star Wars movie and they wear glasses. Also to those "big brain" people that like to shit on everyone because they they read a scientific article once lol.
The Big Bang Theory is funny with and without a laugh track. So is Seinfeld.. Laugh tracks aren't bad. It's part of a culture that's leaving nowadays, and it's become a trend for Millenials and Gen Zs to hate on a culture they do not appreciate or understand. There are exceptions, but without laugh track sitcoms, the way wouldn't have been paved for shows like "The Office," "Parks and Recreation," "Modern Family," etc.
Lol this confirms that George Costanza is still funny without laughtrack, and also that soup guy looks like he is trying to not to laugh through the whole thing.
EXACTLY...........Problem is, Seinfeld was filmed MOSTLY in front of a live studio audience. You can tell in some parts, the entire sound was muted. Laugh tracks weren't used. Even scenes that weren't filmed in the studio, were played for that studio audience for a true laughing reaction. NO LAUGH TRACKS HERE!!!! THIS IS ALL IN THE SEINFELD BEHIND THE SCENES.
Cash register too No laughs is one thing but missing sound effects really take the punch out of it Why would the soup nazi be annoyed at no sound of someone pounding the countertop
Oh please... 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' just substituted live laughter for dopey, whimsical music and editing techniques to tell us what is funny. Sitcoms today are still emotionally manipulative; Just in a different way. And they're not anything new too; They're basically just half-hour comedy movies now. Personally, I prefer my sitcoms on a stage with three walls.
@@1d10tcannotmakeusername it's been happening for literal centuries. Back in the day you lost your life. Damn snowflakes bitching about losing their jobs.
@@1d10tcannotmakeusername Considering they were cancelling comic books and rock and roll music when the first came along, I'd say Seinfeld just continued it.
@@midgetwars1 The religious right tried cancelling things, but routinely failed. The lunatic left found a method to succeed; bots on social media. Fake accounts and leftist propaganda now direct most discourse in the entire western world.
@@xthatwhiteguyx You're so far up in your own bubble you don't even know what's real. Name one person who actually got cancelled for random shit and bots? Meanwhile the religious fruitcakes on the right are banning books from libraries for daring to challenge their world view.
Friends is still pretty funny without the laugh track. David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry's facial comedy skills are great, and the chemistry all the cast members have feel really natural and entertaining to watch.
Julia is still hysterical to me. She honestly doesn't need a laugh track to make me want to laugh. She has genuine comedic chops in everything she's done. Just a natural!
It's amazing how good this is even without the laugh track. You can't just remove the laugh track from something to check whether or not something is legit funny. The actors and the script are built around the laugh track, which screws with the pacing when it's not there, which creates a sense of awkwardness. Somehow Seinfeld is so tightly written that it's good regardless which is damn impressive.
I'm from UK and we have a show called league of gentleman and their dvd you could turn off the laugh track and it made it even darker comedy wise. It was great
They filmed in front of an audience, there was no laugh track. The actors have all said at one point it got really annoying cause they had to wait for the laugher to die down so they could deliver their line, and it threw off their timing.
There’s actually a lot more tension without the laugh track.
The bit with Elaine made me as uncomfortable as I feel like it was meant to. The laugh track alleviates a lot of that uncomfortable tension, without it we get full Elaine and that is never a good thing
Adam Foss
Never go full Elaine.
@@TKinfinity01 better advice has never been spoken
A lot funnier too
@@rowanoak_ it's pretty much becomes Curb Your Enthusiasm
This is just every socially awkward person's worst nightmare when they go into a store
What, no laugh track in the store?
actually, very specific, single correct protocol of ordering sounds like a dream come true
@@zlatansicanica6797 right? you dont have to spend your time in line parsing out the exact level of social interaction that may or may not be necessary at a particular juncture. you just approach, state your soup clearly, take it and leave.
If the soup was dispensed via a machine, sure, this would be great. But unfortunately it is run by humans, who also frequently get their own rules wrong. For example George's problem with the bread -- He was confused by someone else getting free bread, and he was immediately penalized with no explanation by staff. Rules are not rules if they are not applied consistently. This makes it impossible to not make the same mistake twice. I'm a very rules-oriented introverted person and I would never go to this place.
@@CrizzyEyes Right, the rules being applied inconsistently would make anxiety worse, you would be worried even more than normal that you would fuck up
Seinfeld becomes a show about a city full of annoying psychopaths with no laugh track
How original!
-Owen Benjamin
Which is why it was funny in the first place. They're the subject of comedians' jokes, without the middleman of the comedian to tell it.
Very gritty. Got that NY feel. YT travel vids done by New Yorkers admit they are not friendly in the streets. But more than the laugh track was cut. Some sound effects were lost. If it was made without one they wouldn't have those "awkward pauses".
9 yo Army Full General Of Florida Regiment I know, right!!! We're totes woke.
People in sitcoms are extremely polite. They make super extra sure that they never interrupt the person they are talking to, thus leaving giant pauses in the conversation.
The giant pauses in this case was for the laugh track.
@@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros9266that's the fucking joke
@@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros9266whoosh
@@rodrigoodonsalcedocisneros9266yea I think he’s joking buddy
@@eren1206no he wasn't. If he was joking, there would have been a laugh track so I would know when to laugh
Now do Schindler’s List with its laugh track restored.
Mark Lawton take the barbarity back pass the Rhine please. We’re living in a society!
The high ground I know right! Almost as awkward as naming your band of tribes after all your aspirations and failing on all accounts.
@@GuavaConQueso I would have been one of the first people to go to Auschwitz. Lighten up.
As a tourist, that is, to Auschwitz 2.0. I'm not a Jew or anything.
Mark Lawton They came for the tourists, and I said nothing, for I was not a tourist
It’s better without the laugh track but weaker without the sound effects. (The sound of paper bag being ripped out of George’s hand. Elaine drumming on the counter.)
Agreed
Yea i noticed that too. I figured laugh track was just that but a lot of sound effects were gone. Never would have thought it was part of the same audio track
@@NobodyCaresALot ?
@@NobodyCaresALot LUL what?
@@killwalker2474 Originally it wouldn't be but from RUclips or dvd or whatever there's only one sound track.
This makes Elaine seem even crazier than she did in the original.
UltimatePiccolo frfr
I thought she was funny while talking to the cook.
Shawn P yeah me too which is weird because I didn’t find it funny when I watched it with the laugh track
They are all crazy. I actually think Seinfeld is the original "American Psycho" under the careful guise of comedy. Don't get me wrong, I used to watch it, and rewatch it religiously. When you really get into the shallowness of the characters, you realize it is all about nothing, just plain old craziness. One of the Seinfeld episodes (actually a few) go in depth, when Jerry and George are in the process of writing and presenting their script about a show - about nothing - just like Seinfeld. This show with the slap bass intro, and the laugh track, really convinced you that these characters are cool. Firstly, they are all promiscuous; relationships with people mean nothing to them. Furthermore, they abnormally hang around each other, as if to reinforce their deviancy. They are not evil per se, and do not have any particular agenda, but are extremely childish. These four are definitely borderline psychotic, Elaine is probably the worst, as she never seems to genuinely care about anything, but her own needs.
She seems way more like Dee without a laugh track.
“forget it, let it go” still gets me, even without the laugh track
"Do I know you?"
Stupid people are easily amused
it has a a lot more of a “sunny in philadelphia” feel with no laugh track
Not when Jerry and George went to dinner with Elaine's father.....
Yeah but Sunny can carry its own without the laugh track..
Thanks for commenting for me.
I mean they are both about nothing
@@thomasaltruda Seinfeld and Iasip are two of my favorite comedies. Iasip almost uses the music or the intro as a laughtrack. Seinfeld is in front a live audience so it doesn't feel as unnatural as in sitcoms where that isn't the case.
"You can't eat this soup standing up. Your knees buckle."
"..."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HOWWWWWWLL
Jewish people are strange and interesting
I have to admit I laughed, it's a silly thing to say
crickets
@@matthewcutler_tx why the fuck did i understand the exact sound u were alludin to
I like how George is so nervous he randomly says thank you to the customer next to him.
Big "replying 'you too!' when the waiter says 'enjoy your food!'" energy.
@@bryanchandler3486 Or "You too" when the girl who hands you your popcorn at the movie theater says "Enjoy the movie."
@@keymaster430 id think about that moment for the rest of my life lol
@@bryanchandler3486words
No he doesn’t no he doesn’t he repeats the phrase he doesn’t say that no groaning no flank me off though scrape me
Aside from some weird timing in the apartment scene, this is even better than what's broadcast, the jokes hold up and (as other's have mentioned) there is genuine tension and menace in the scenes in the soup place. Also, this feels just like a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.
Given the Soup “Nazi” theme, I’ve long thought these scenes had a life or death flavor to them. For example when George mentions his missing bread and Jerry tensely tells him to drop it … that gives me chills of dread, as if “the guard” might brutally lash out.
Guess I’m still traumatized from seeing Roberto Benigni in “Life Is Beautiful” years ago.
I’d love to rewatch the entire series like this. Laugh tracks have always been a turn off
@@yungjeezy5232 Just watch Curb Your Enthusiasm lol
Aside from him saying "do I know you?" What jokes?
Ive never watched seinfeld in my life. The part about him pretending not to know his girl so he can get soup was hilarious.
look up sienfeld cableboy
It is the single most awesome show in TV history.
You're lying.
That wasn’t even funny you corn ball
I think you’re lying, I think you’ve seen it before.
Unlike the rest, the pauses make it the best dry humor in the world.
How is a pause unlike a rest? 🤔
@@josephgoodroad5928 unlike the other sitcoms with no soundtrack
@@josephgoodroad5928 youre brilliant
Yea - listen to big bang theory - nothing funny about that show
That is what we in the industry call bias.
Shows with laugh tracks have a certain pacing. The show would still be funny asf without a laugh track but the directing would have changed dramatically to fit that type of show. Standup comedians say that they deliberately build in pauses in their acts, otherwise the audience wouldn't hear half of what is said.
100% correct
Thank you!!!
Seinfeld himself insists that there are very few artificial laugh tracks in the show. Says it's mainly the real audience laughing.
Understood, makes sense. Just like shows that have laughs are meant to and those without are meant NOT to.
@Corey Cole Why are you like this? Who hurt you?
I think what makes these far more odd is that there is so much detail noise removed as well, like Elaine hitting the metal counter, no noise from the chain machine, even just light movement noises that make up a day. I'm still glad and thankful to have these changed as it still shows, there really wasn't that weird down time. There are a couple of moments of pause but they fit with what would be thinking time or actual character reflection. Thank you for the work!
This is probably just a consequence of the audio filtering technique. Probably a low pass filter and some extra filtering done when the laugh pauses are done
“Seinfeld without laughtrack”
Did you mean: _Curb Your Enthusiasm?_
I don't think he did as they are different TV programs
@@007Hutchings r/woooosh
@@melko.6323 r/wooooosh is for homosexuals and dramaqueens
@@007Hutchings my thoughts exactly
007Hutchings no u
Without the laugh track it actually made me feel really bad for George haha
@RealBallistic SMN Man just wanted some bread
@@ulyssesjimenez87
It's the only thing him and Kimbo Slice had in common.
It's like watching The Pianist
Adrian Jimenez - George deserves all the bad shit that happens to him
...You're pushing your luck little man. Lol
The laughter track is how they normalise psychopathic behaviour.
(I don’t watch Sienfeld so I don’t know any characters other than Jerry) If you take this out of the context of a show, the lady was kinda acting like a jerk tbh.
@@financialzero5684 she was even with context
How is it normalised? The joke is the absurdity of his behaviour.
@@financialzero5684 all the main four characters are written as soulless jerks in the show. In the series finale they all face a trial for being bad human beings and end up inside prison.
@@financialzero5684 All four were kind of awful people. That was sort of the point of the hated final episode.
This definitely still works without a laugh track, I still cracked up at him shouting “3 dollars!”
and you are an American...and white, right ?
@@pocojoyo you’re not supposed to talk 😂
it was lame as shit
This is honestly not even that bad compared to every other sitcom like Friends, and Big Bang Theory use their laugh track and are silent for a whole minuet after a sentence.
It's just stupid removing laugh tracks. The shows are based on laugh tracks comedy. That's how they work
@@anshitgupta1294 the problem is laugh tracks make anything funny so the jokes themselves don't have to be.
Jerry ditching his girl for soup made me laugh
@GoTi4No so did tbbt
Yeah it's basically just like curb your enthusiasm except for without music and with some awkward pausing. Got something nearly as cringe as the Big bang theory without a laugh track which exposes how dreadfully unfunny every joke is
I mean, Jerry pretending not to know the woman for soup is genuinely funny, laugh track or not.
Yes! That's the ONE part I laughed out loud at without the track. I feel vindicated.
That stare down that Jerry had between the Soup Nazi and his gf had me in the floor laughing
That was good.
The whole show stinks. Not a laugh to be had.
@@nonofyabidnez5737 That phrasing you chose was hilarious to read. LOL
It’s weird...without the laugh track, the episode seemed new, like it was some new footage. Like I was getting to really see into the characters lives. Much more personal.
it is like she is ready to die or get into violence at any moment for any reason
i honestly felt like that guy was going to hit her when he saw her put her hands on the counter
i feel like that when i breathe too loud next to people
i honestly can not tell what is appropriate and what is not
i think i can actually, but every thing is so scary and unbelievably horrible that i feel like it must be a dream or i must be lying or i must be insane
Part of what makes this feel tense, is because its not just removing the laughing. Its also not having a lot of the ambient noise that would be in that environment, making the scene feel stifling.
Like, when she gives George his money back, there's zero sound.
The silence is oppressive
I think how this passed as comedy back in the day is oppressive.
@@rks5457 OK.
The background noise was probably also removed to make sure all the laughter was removed normally there would be background noise to make it feel more real like clanging of people’s utensils on there plates in a restaurant scene for example
@kevin10001 Yeah, I know why its not there. But it changes the scene a lot more than just taking away the laughter, which is what it's advertising.
And a ton of people are media illiterate so they won't even think of the fact that the background noise is missing, and just assign the stifling feeling to there not being laughter. And further entrench that the laughter is a crutch cause "look how dead and lifeless it is without the laughter"
@@rks5457you are cringe
"You're pushing your luck, little man."
Even without a track, that's a gold line imo 😆
It's not a laugh track. It was filmed in front of a studio audience.
@@trekkiejunk they probably say that but is a laugh track...you can hear the laugh track..lol..easily spotted.
I used to be in a public audience....you will never make people laugh like that so many times...impossible
@@mihaisorinneacsu7539why do you write your sentences like that?
Yes! AND when Jerry shuns his girlfriend, and then when Elaine screams “NEXT!”. All funny on their own.
why?
It's way too quiet for Manhattan.
not anymore
@@joppippoj literally a ghost town!
I guess you've become used to the laugh track!
Well if you notice when they take out the laugh track they are also stripping out a ton of other sounds. Notice Elaines hands banging on the top of the counter didn’t make a sound. The usual sounds of shuffling and moving were also lost.
@@divinestrike00x78 Yeah, that's my point. They're supposed to be walking down the street in the Upper West Side or wherever and it sounds like they're strolling in a meadow. Whoever made this didn't do a very good job adding ambient sounds.
It still works because Seinfeld actually has jokes, not just quips and turn-based insults.
these videos are so dumb. it's filmed in front of a live studio audience. they pause for laughter.
@@howdareyou41 do your research before you comment
@@jonathanjoestar3923 i'm an expert on seinfeld. multicam sitcoms. and your mom. go away.
bazinga
@@howdareyou41 Lmao
This definitely makes everything seem more awkward! But I'm honestly more impressed with how well the noise reduction is used to remove the laughter in the dialogue background. It's hard to get right! It sounds like you added a louder noise floor and some sound effects matching the movements on screen, to blend it together more seamlessly. Great job!
This is a long-lost David Lynch short film.
it definitely has a Twin Peaks vibe
Even without the laugh track, Jerry picking the soup over his girlfriend is still hilarious
No this just shows how disgusting his Character really was
@@trexx32 which is hilarious
@@trexx32 That's the point; the gang's not exactly the brightest beacon of morality.
@@Sea-Salt and that's why it wasn't funny thus the laugh track
@@trexx32 that’s kind of the point of the joke??? If you thought this show is supposed to portray morally okay and whacky characters, I’d say there’s something wrong with your judgment. It’s pretty blatant the characters are morally reprehensible. They’re single in their 30s, selfish, self-centered… nothing redeemable about them other than the fact they aren’t serial killers or r*pists
That "adios, muchacho" part somehow became 10 times funnier without the laughs
Yeah, this is the only part I actually lold at. I’ll have to watch the episode again to see the difference.
@@zebatov same here
I’m still laughing without the laugh track. Seinfeld passes the test
"You're pushing your luck, little man." 😂 Always makes me laugh.
Honestly if they didn’t do the awkward pauses when there’s supposed to be a laugh track I’d prefer it over the original. Seinfeld is awesome regardless.
Same here. I used to love this show in junior high and I was one of the only one out of my friends that actually got the comedy and understood it. It remember a friend telling me how he hated it. I think it's cause he didn't get it. Masterpiece of a show.
Yes but times where different then.
Half the scenes were filmed in front of a live audience so they decided to use a laugh track in scenes that weren’t filmed in front of an audience so that it was consistent
Originally that's what Seinfeld wanted, it was a studio decision
@@cajuncoonass5053 no, we get the comedy, it's just shite.
the acting is more theatrical than i thought
The acting was always hammy at best on Seinfeld. At worst it was shockingly amateurish.
It makes sense since the audience is right there with them.
This is pretty common with shows that were taped in front of a live audience. They still have to be a bit over the top for the audience to see everything and to get a reaction
of course Yes, it´s called farse.
@Marquis De Sade Thank you! I keep trying to tell people this. Nowadays people complain about laugh tracks to feel smarter about themselves when they don't even know the history of sitcoms and laugh tracks. They're not there to tell you when to laugh, they're there because good sitcoms are supposed to be a theatrical experience from home.
It’s almost as if this was edited with a laugh track in mind, and had they not planned for that they might have edited it differently. What a huge revelation!
Just for the record, unlike some other shows, Seinfeld was shot in front of an audience -- I know absolutely because I was there for "The Opposite." While I'm sure they messed around with the sound in post for maximum impact, I can tell you that people were laughing for real -- even on repeated takes and without having to stretch. They were good.
Classic episode
I read that they did film in front of an audience in the beginning but went without for the last several seasons.
@@stainless1175ablethe interview with Jason says that they performed in front of the audience for every season, right up until the finale. He also said that yes, all the laughter is the audiences. A laugh track is used only when a scene has different takes, and thus different laughter, to smooth it out for the viewer.
Dude, all sitcoms are shot in front of the audience, I’ve been To one for a modern show
Big Bang Theory is mostly live as well. They have a person whose job it is to keep the audience relaxed and entertained between breaks and resets. So it may be impossible/very hard to successfully remove the laugh tracks without screwing up the audio.
I still laughed my ass off with the Jerry choosing the soup over his girlfriend bit and the Elaine bit at the end 😂
But jerry was always going to do that. It wasn't a big surprise.
@@greypossum1 Yea true, Jerry still makes me laugh every time though, classic narcissist! Lol
_"Do I know you?"_ And then Ali Wentworth's (wife of George Stephanopoulos) reaction was gold.
GOOD CHOICE
😂😂😂 Elaine is hilarious.
This is actually quite natural compared to many sitcoms
That’s cause it feels like a natural conversation not one with awkward pause for audience reaction the slight pauses at the start we’re probably signals for the other person to start and it’s normally unnoticeable with the laugh track that helped it feel more natural
honestly i barely even noticed
larry david didn't want too use a laugh track.
@@kevinrudy It's not a laugh track. They filmed it in front of a live studio audience. That's the audience laughing. That's why they have the big pauses, because the actors are waiting for the audience to stop laughing.
@@mat5473 And there always had to be big pauses when Kramer entered the room!
The reason Gone With The Wind went over budget was because they added the laugh track, then they had to remove it again after the test audience didn’t realize it was supposed to be a comedy.
what
Just order the soup and move on. Its not that difficult.
everything is difficult in Seinfeld, thats the premise of the show
But what if I want bread
@@lobsterairsoft499 You want bread?
Xezlec yes please
Borat Sagdiyev three dollars extra. Easy.
Its darker but funnier without the laugh track
Lol i agree
Milka Milkha I'm with you.
It becomes similar to it's always sunny in Philadelphia when the laugh track is removed
Yeah I think a lot of my friends who don't like Seinfeld don't understand that it's technically dark and dry humor
@James
"Sunny sucks" are you sure we watched the same show
The show without the laugh track feels much more 'real'.
The jokes feel more subtle and natural in a way.
You can also hear the background noise a bit more and that adds a bit of ambiance to it, which is calming, in my opinion and makes me feel like it'd be a nice show to watch near a fireplace in the wintertime.
The back ground noise was added on purpose to mask the silence of the removed laugh track.
I actually laughed a couple times. I couldn't see myself doing that during friends or big bang with or without a laugh track.
Interesting that you say that. I wouldn't mind watching more episodes like this. It would be even more interesting without the pauses for the laughs, but even as it is I wouldn't mind watching to for the appreciation of the craft perspective. And yes I couldn't imagine doing this with many other shows.
@@jichaelmorgan3796im obsessed with it for some reason
The way that George had his soup snatched away from him and the money handed back to him could not have been done any better. That is classic.
Yes! I'd never noticed how crisp the movements are. Facial expression of the cashier slightly over-the-top. It's awesome to see the scene this way.
It doesn't sound all pervy and weird like "friends" always does without the laugh track
Euro American yea In Friends the actors overact aswell with exaggerated facial expressions which look so weird without the laughtrack
That's because Seinfeld was made by competent professionals.
That’s because the whole method of shooting / timing changes if you’re not using a laugh track
Ross is a legit psycho
You right
This isn’t Friends , so it’s still funny. Somehow it even feels edgier without the laugh track.
What's wrong with Friends?
@@javalavadingdong It's not funny
Ouch!!!
I actually saw a scene of Friends edited to replace the laugh track with camera zooms on Ross’s face, and it was damned hilarious.
@@JohnnyNatrium ah kk, well that's your opinion
Me and most people my age enjoyed it a lot whilst growing up, I remember watching it on E4 everyday after school/college/uni with my sister or mates and it was funny as fuck
It's also one of the highest rated/watched shows of all time so I'd guess most people find it funny
But I get it, everyone is a normie except you 😂
Looks like a solid conversation to me
Yep
If you have a ten second skip thing on, you realise that the sounds in the background of the ordering scene are literally just a ten second loop.
Good catch.
Without the laughs it's like every dinner i had with my dad.
Lmfao
Saaaaadface
Come back, one year!
Your dad must have been hilarious!
I still laughed real hard when Jerry ignored his gf
All of the preceding "Schmoopy" stuff (not in this video) was a buildup to that scene.
Still very funny when he is under the pressure of the Soup Nazi and he throws his gf under the bus like a stranger in favor of the god-tier soup
Remind me never to stand next to you when a bus is coming
It was a bisque.. Have you tasted the soup?
Oh yeah, hilarious 🙄
“You’re pushing your luck little man” and “adios muchacho” still made me crack
I still laughed my ass off, especially when George gets denied his soup. Felt very real, which made it funny.
It's still funny but had you never saw Seinfeld you wouldn't laugh as much. It's your nostalgia of the effect the laught track had on you that makes you still realise it's funny.
i think you're right. i haven't watched sienfeld once and just found it boring and unfunny.@@vika0194
@@vika0194 I disagree, I find Seinfeld funny for the same reason I find Curb Your Enthusiasm funny. If nostalgia were the only factor then removing the laugh track wouldn't change the humor for shows like Friends or Big Bang either, but it definitely does
Watched this to compare to Friends without laughter track, and this is infinitely better. Better acting, better dialogue, better chemistry and better camera-work.
I would agree. Howeve, I'm glad we've progressed to the point where laugh tracks of dead people are not needed any longer.
better does not mean good
@@___blaggard999___8 No
Nobodys comparing the 2 lol everybody loves raymond is better than both those shows
@@kaiden840 my 67 year old mom loves Raymond. Does yours too? 😆👍
I think this accents not just how good Seinfeld’s comedy is, but how the laughtrack can be done at least in an non-obnoxious way. Most of these videos taking the laugh track out of sitcoms have huge, long pauses between the laughtrack, but this is keeps more or less the same pacing. It’s incredible how tightly the scripts are written, even with the laugh track
That’s likely Seinfeld’s part in the screenwriting process. Jerry’s lifelong project has been getting comedy down to almost a science. He’s always writing and refining every part of his material and delivery. So while Larry David undoubtedly came up with the spark that was ideas and jokes it was likely Jerry who winnowed it down to something workable on set.
How do you find this funny?
@@jayshotton Well first you need a sense of humor.
@@jayshotton it's one of the best shows ever. if not the best
@@jayshotton why are you watching this on RUclips if you don't find it funny
American comedy? Without a laughter track this is just a mundane exchange of epic proportions.
Only thing really sounding "off" about it is that the background score is silent during the dialogue and replaced with alternating laugh track and funk groove. Taking those out leaves it essentially silent and creepy like soap operas.
Wow, every other "X Sitcom without a laugh track" has been so painful and highlighted just how unfunny the shows were, but this was... not bad at all. I know this episode is somewhat burned into my subconscious, but I haven't seen it in forever and I genuinely laughed during this clip. There weren't nearly as many super long and awkward pauses for laughs, the actors were always still doing something.
I mean, the writers wrote this show with the laugh track. Some show were even filmed in front of a live studio audience back in the day. It was a different time
@@Matt-hw1lq There are still sitcoms filmed in front of live audiences. The Big Bang Theory for example.
@@gooddouble2 Those people are not really alive.
@@Matt-hw1lq Seinfeld was filmed in front of a studio audience. There is no "laugh track." David and Seinfeld would never write jokes that a live audience wouldn't laugh at.
Micky Sarge as a fan of the office, even if I have not seen Seinfeld, I found this very funny without the laugh track.
I’m so glad this wasn’t cringe inducing
@Ty Walston the fuck is that supposed to mean?
It's not cringe.
It was cringe
Alot of other episodes would be cringe
Its definitely cringy to people that haven't seen it before.
I kept getting the feeling that something bad was about to happen at any moment 😂
Survives laugh track test proving seinfelds genius
jeuu know it
Soooo true!
Exactly. Friends without the laugh track just sounds like lazy small talk mixed in with gibberish
Larry David also
@@damanhagene1736 I think he meant the genius of the show including Larry, not Jerry himself
This feels so much more like reality without the laugh track
Also reminds me of movies before the 1980s somehow.
Steve Owen there is a laugh track. When they have bloopers and have to use two different takes there’s NEVER a cut in the audience laughter Neanderthal
@@BagzAndPresident This series used both.
Right
Holy Shit. Elaine has that “Dee” vibe at the end. Always Sunny has no laugh track and it works. This show is a testament to the writing and comedy of Seinfeld and David.
"i don't need soup, I can make my own soup" was totally a Dee line read.
@Taylor Lemoine yea but to be fair larry carried all the neurosis of castananza, which makes the show (and his style in general) hard to watch if you have anxiety troubles or a low tolerance for bullshit.
dont get me wrong he can still be funny sometimes. but hes the reason it took me so long to enjoy seinfeld again as i got older. jerry was the people person without him thered be know larry.
Taylor Lemoine lol oh I don’t know the real life jerry too well so maybe he is arrogant. But idk if it would easy to replace him. His whole comedy stand up has always been about relatability even in the most mundane situations.
IMO Kramer was the show stealer but my favorite will always be George castanzas dad.
@Taylor Lemoine yea im a fan. it made me really appreciate and respect larry more. he is such a creative oddball. ill admit i havent watched all the episodes yet though. maybe im saving them for a special day or something lol.
im guessing you love curb?
@Taylor Lemoine youve got great taste too from the looks of it. even though i havent watched all the shows you have mentioned, iv'e heard great things about all of them lol.
i enjoyed sharing opinions with you. its a rare thing on youtube to find people willing to have a civil and open conversation lol.
also yea hes from the JRE podcast and without spoiling too much he has people from podcasts on his show. if one day you do end up watching/ liking the show let me know.
take care and stay safe man.
Now add a laugh track to Schindler's List.
It has the potential to be a funny show even without a laugh track, but only if it had been designed that way. As it happened, the laugh track (aka "sweetening") was very standard in the 80s and 90s, so actors were instructed to pace their lines so that could be added in later. The entire timing of the dialogue was changed to accommodate it. The real issue here isn't the lack of laugh track, we're okay with that in the 10s and 20s (shows like Parks and Rec and It's Always Sunny don't have it at all). The issue is that now you have a show full of awkward pauses.
I was about to write the exact same comment.
There were times during the filming of Seinfeld when they'd have to retake just because the damn audience was laughing too hard and messed up the dialogue and delivery. I guess any changing of audience laughter can be viewed as "sweetening" but it seems wrong to apply the term here when it's so often an instance of laughter being added into the show.
Seinfeld was taped in front of an audience. I even know some moments where you hear individual laughter not found in any other episode. For example, the ending with the hobo in the puffy shirt. You can here a lady scream "Oh my god!" as it's revealed.
I think that's how the office managed to avoid the awkward pause because it was meant to be a documentary you could have have Jim react to the camera filling the empty noise with a loud expression
@@Oozywolf Well of course. Each instance of laughter is unique if it was taped live!
This show still works without the laugh track unlike a lot of other similar sit coms. I think its because the writing is so solid.
I chuckled three times
Negative.
Naaah
This scene scares me without laugh track lol :(
I try to ignore the laugh tracks so I know if the jokes are actually funny or not. And yeah. It is pretty funny. XD
Seinfeld holds up without a laugh track. It’s more tense than usual, but it’s still funny.
Its not funny
I think that makes it funnier tbh
Oblio1942 no it does not
@@yiosomething its okay to be wrong
@@Oblio1942Being wrong is harmful, dumb people fail to realize that
I appreciate you making sure there's even room-tone - a lot of these cut to dead silence and it's jarring
I still laughed my ass off. Elaine actually came off funnier without the laugh track
@Kel Rowland why?
I still laughed when George said he didn't get any bread
@M. Zacharias895 Neither, but it is!
@M. Zacharias895 Oh it totally shouldn't be funny. But it is.
Friends without laugh track: unfunny.
Seinfeld without laugh track: even more funny
Friends with the laugh track is still unfunny
PositiveLastAction you got me there
I’ll enjoy both. You guys can pursue your Hipster ‘’Friends is unfunny’’ debate.
Rich Allegretti well we would but there’s no debate. The show sucks.
Friends is funnier without the laugh track, but you are not laughing at the jokes
Without the laughtrack, a certain sinister air sure does creep in...
It’s hilarious still and for some reason they took out ALL the sounds other than the dialogue lol that’s why it’s creepy
Well it's a lot easier to just mute the video for a second
It's pretty difficult to remove laughs
Zerb Games depends how they have the audio panned looks like the dialogue was down the middle in mono and effects background and laughs were panned left and right stereo. They do this so you can understand the dialogue with crappy speakers or if u don’t have stereo sound (90’s)..so anyway whoever just removed everything that wasn’t mono which can be done a bunch of ways but generally takes a few seconds.. It’s still funny but would be way less creepy if he/she found a way to leave the other sounds in!
@@MaxBeamer yeah for sure
@@MaxBeamer if i remember correctly seinfeld was actually one of the last shows to have an actual studio audience. So there's a good chance he couldn't remove just one and that's the best that could be done
this is just me and my equally socially inept friends at mcdonalds
Still funny, especially when Jerry pretends to not know his girlfriend
reminds curb your enthusiasm
@@PauloJose-fx9wj i thought that too
@@PauloJose-fx9wj considering how i saw ross act like me as a psychopath, i should ...
idk how to finish that sentence
i understand why my enthusiasm has to be curbed
Meh
The laugh track must cause some kind of distraction, I noticed for the first time, here, that when Elaine asks about him looking like Al Pacino, the Soup Nazi very slightly shakes his head.
This very clip without laugh tracks made me discover Seinfeld, as it was the only sitcom that I could find still funny without any laugh track.
#2 💯
How did you find that funny? Literally how? What could you have possibly laughed at? He is the worst comedian ever. What is wrong with you people
@@johndoughty3108 So bitter. Who hurt you?
@@TheNowhereMan0 friends is almost the exact same kind of unfunny show as Seinfeld actually but some of marvel is funny sure
@@johndoughty3108 let me guess you watch the office 🤣
As a person that has HUNDREDS of hours into Seinfeld, this was a way better
Honestly. It still made me laugh quite hard
As a person with infinite hours of Seinfeld, this was horrible.
"has hundreds of hours into Seinfeld" makes it sound like a video game lol
@@munat3413 Lmao
@@munat3413 Peasant didn't even find all the collectibles
I always wished Seinfeld never had a laugh track. Hearing laugh tracks in any show is awful. At least unlike Big Bang this is still funny without it.
smmmokin the Big Bang theory is not funny with the laugh track either tho
@@V3rnSqwd5611 Big bang is literaly only funny to those people that put "nerdy" in their tinder profile, mening that they watched 10 minutes of a Star Wars movie and they wear glasses. Also to those "big brain" people that like to shit on everyone because they they read a scientific article once lol.
@@susaac9755 ???
This isn't that funny honestly but it would be 15x worse with a laugh track
The Big Bang Theory is funny with and without a laugh track. So is Seinfeld.. Laugh tracks aren't bad. It's part of a culture that's leaving nowadays, and it's become a trend for Millenials and Gen Zs to hate on a culture they do not appreciate or understand. There are exceptions, but without laugh track sitcoms, the way wouldn't have been paved for shows like "The Office," "Parks and Recreation," "Modern Family," etc.
Do Kramers riot at the Comedy Store, followed by his hilarious apology appearance on the late show.
Lol this confirms that George Costanza is still funny without laughtrack, and also that soup guy looks like he is trying to not to laugh through the whole thing.
This show is actually still funny even without the laugh track.
I thought Elaine, the girlfriend and Kramer were funny without it.
Agree. It makes some of the pacing and timing of their conversations weird, but it's still funny.
I'd say it's even funnier without the laugh track. The awkwardness gives it real Zoomer humor energy. From Boomer humor to Zoomer humor.
Didnt laugh or even smile once. It wasnt funny. Theres no actual jokes here
@Jean Kennedy your comment needs a laugh track.
Elaine Marie Benes was always my favorite character. She has great timing. Elaine is played like shes one of the guys. Classic..
Why would anyone come back to this man? Soup is never good enough for a experience like this
you may want to google the definitions of comedy, hyperbole, and levity lol
I love Elaine, she is awesome! Her expressions throughout the episode are just awesome!
It's still hilarious. If there wasn't laughter, there wouldn't be pauses and the conversations would be seamless. Seinfeld always holds up.
Bingo
Yea they’re delivery would be much different if they knew there was no laugh track. Bottom line is Seinfeld rules and friends can suck a cock.
nah
@@Dorgpoop no soup for you.
The sound of Elaine tapping the counter was also removed with the Laugh-Track - 2:20
EXACTLY...........Problem is, Seinfeld was filmed MOSTLY in front of a live studio audience. You can tell in some parts, the entire sound was muted. Laugh tracks weren't used. Even scenes that weren't filmed in the studio, were played for that studio audience for a true laughing reaction. NO LAUGH TRACKS HERE!!!! THIS IS ALL IN THE SEINFELD BEHIND THE SCENES.
Cash register too
No laughs is one thing but missing sound effects really take the punch out of it
Why would the soup nazi be annoyed at no sound of someone pounding the countertop
You know he didn't remove an actual track right?
My guess is that the uploader used Audacity to remove the laugh track, which inadvertently removes other frequencies too.
@@jiggycalzone8585 because to me he seemed annoyed that her hands were even on his countertop at all.
With the laugh track removed you notice how not-funny this show truly was.
What are you yapping about? Its still funny
Curb your enthusiasm is basically Seinfeld without laugh track. I can't stand laugh track, once I become concious of it, it is bothersome.
nice shirt
Curb is much more unhinged and unfiltered. Much stronger with the sexual themes.
Intellectual Mercenary curb is actually funny.....and doesn’t have jerry Seinfeld!
That 70s show made me concious of laugh tracks. The few and far between episodes of big bang are intolerable.
Oh please...
'Curb Your Enthusiasm' just substituted live laughter for dopey, whimsical music and editing techniques to tell us what is funny.
Sitcoms today are still emotionally manipulative; Just in a different way.
And they're not anything new too; They're basically just half-hour comedy movies now. Personally, I prefer my sitcoms on a stage with three walls.
Imagine ruining this man's livelihood because he's a bit up tight
Seinfeld predicted cancel culture
@@1d10tcannotmakeusername it's been happening for literal centuries. Back in the day you lost your life. Damn snowflakes bitching about losing their jobs.
@@1d10tcannotmakeusername Considering they were cancelling comic books and rock and roll music when the first came along, I'd say Seinfeld just continued it.
@@midgetwars1 The religious right tried cancelling things, but routinely failed. The lunatic left found a method to succeed; bots on social media. Fake accounts and leftist propaganda now direct most discourse in the entire western world.
@@xthatwhiteguyx You're so far up in your own bubble you don't even know what's real. Name one person who actually got cancelled for random shit and bots?
Meanwhile the religious fruitcakes on the right are banning books from libraries for daring to challenge their world view.
It’s cool how this is still watchable unlike say friends which is dominated by laughs
Seinfeld is funny without the laughs. Friends wouldn't be I'm afraid
There's an even more horrid one than Friends. Do The Big Bang Theory. Every line is followed by a laugh track. What an absolute horrible show.
Why do people hate friends so much? I thought it was funny.
*ross and rachel kiss* "awwww.." *someone says something almost moderately funny right after* *dead people laughter ensues*
Friends is still pretty funny without the laugh track. David Schwimmer and Matthew Perry's facial comedy skills are great, and the chemistry all the cast members have feel really natural and entertaining to watch.
Thank you for proving once and for all what I've always suspected.
George quickly stepping sideways is hilarious!!!
Track or no track, Julia still shines. Tremendous talent.
It was no track. It was a live audience.
Julia is still hysterical to me. She honestly doesn't need a laugh track to make me want to laugh. She has genuine comedic chops in everything she's done. Just a natural!
ok calm down.
Elaine*
@@poluticonyou calm down. Put some respect on Elaine's name! I would still eat her clam soup 😋😋😋😋
She’s the funniest comedienne of all time!
Yeah but u only say that because you want her b00bies.
This whole show is psychotic without the laugh track. Remember the stalker episode? No laugh track and it becomes terrifying.
It's amazing how good this is even without the laugh track. You can't just remove the laugh track from something to check whether or not something is legit funny. The actors and the script are built around the laugh track, which screws with the pacing when it's not there, which creates a sense of awkwardness. Somehow Seinfeld is so tightly written that it's good regardless which is damn impressive.
That’s true
no
It’s basically Curb Your Enthusiasm
Weird I was thinking how braindead this was
The laugh track is in there in the first place BECAUSE IT'S NOT FUNNY ENOUGH TO STAND ON IT'S OWN MERIT.
This is terrible.
I actually wish they had a DVD version of the whole series without the laugh track. It works so well with and without it
I'm from UK and we have a show called league of gentleman and their dvd you could turn off the laugh track and it made it even darker comedy wise.
It was great
The swipe cuts were the worst part. Show still holds up.
Unlike some sitcoms, Seinfeld is even funny without the laugh track, there’s awkward pauses so the laugh track can play out.
They filmed in front of an audience, there was no laugh track. The actors have all said at one point it got really annoying cause they had to wait for the laugher to die down so they could deliver their line, and it threw off their timing.