Yes, This is Anti-iCarly Propaganda

I'm gonna start this by saying I just posted a facebook status about this the other day. Yeah. That means this is legit.

I was watching iCarly today, and I heard laughter. But I realized that was not a live studio audience. Sometime in the 90s, they stopped having live studio audiences for sitcoms, so the producers recorded the studio laughter to reproduce it when their work is displayed on your television screen without using a real audience.

Like how weird is that. You don't know who those people are! They could be anybody! One person even pointed out on my status (I know I'm really cool for making a thousand facebook references per minute) that most of those people are probably dead. YOU'RE LISTENING TO DEAD PEOPLE LAUGH WHEN YOU WATCH ICARLY! Well, probably. You don't know for sure. But it's always a possibility. Which is creepy enough for me.

But really, who are they? You could be listening to like your long-lost cousin or something. Or a serial rapist. Or someone famous. Or maybe even the ghost that's haunting your attic.

It's also really conceited of them to add it in. It's like laughing at your own joke when nobody else laughs. 'Cause when I watch tv alone, I'm normally not cracking up like that recorded studio audience is. They laugh at EVERYTHING. Like "I'm gonna go to the grocery store. We need food, but I don't know if we have enough money to buy everything we want." And that recorded studio audience FLIPS out, and I just sit there and try to figure out what I missed 'cause that wasn't funny.

In conclusion, don't make sitcoms. It'll make you look like a creep and a freakin' jerk.

~Not-Matt