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Response to: Hannah's Blog Post

I love this idea! Here are my answers:

Friends:
1. I would rate this episode as a 7 because I have definitely seen funnier episodes of Friends, however the entire scene on the airplane where Ross and Rachel are embarrassing each other is pretty hilarious.
2. I would rate this episode as a 9 because I love Friends and any episode is enjoyable for me!
3. Sarcasm, incongruity, joking socially, people doing stupid things, naughty humor, and maybe wordplay humor are all apart of this episode which is why Friends is so great! It appeals to so many different styles of humor.

The Office:
1. I would rate this episode as a 9 because I've seen a few episodes of the Office, and this was one of the funniest ones I've seen.
2. I would rate this episode as a 9 as well for enjoyment because I laughed for pretty much the entire episode and I loved it.
3. Definitely sarcasm, dark humor, naughty humor, people doing stupid things, joking socially, and putdown humor are all apart of this episode of the Office which, like Friends, makes it very popular.

I loved this post and thoroughly enjoyed the study of laugh tracks. Honestly, when I am watching Friends, I definitely do not notice it and just find Friends a very comedic show. But that is a very interesting question because I always thought that the laugh tracks were made to make people laugh, not that fact that the comedic show itself has an impact on the successfulness of the laugh track.

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  1. Hannah ThomasNovember 12, 2018 at 6:48 PM

    You, like all the other posts I've read thus far, ranked the episode of The Office higher than the episode of Friends. Do you think The Office not having a laugh track contributed to this result? Or was The Office episode content just genuinely more funny? You did mention how you ranked the Friend's "episode as a 7 because [you've] definitely seen funnier episodes of Friends." So was The Office just a funnier episode?

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  2. Shane HerronNovember 14, 2018 at 12:43 PM

    It does seem that the Office is usually rated higher on funniness, but in this case it is tied with enjoyability. Perhaps funniness is, in a way, more objective than enjoyability. Perhaps people can separate the two more when they are asked to think about them as distinct.

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