Quote Originally Posted by Raistlin View Post
After years of not watching anything that had a laugh track, they are kind of tough to bear now. If I was interested enough in a show I could probably learn to tolerate them again eventually, but they can be ridiculously abused.
Same. And as has been said, there's a lot of shows that just don't need them. After realizing how gaudy laugh tracks can be, it was painful to go back to Seinfeld - the show is legitimately funny, but I can't get my mind off of how cheesy the laugh track is.