[net.misc] Laughtracks, Alda, etc.

bred@reed.UUCP (Bredehoft) (10/01/83)

Various points concerning laughtracks, Alda, and whatnot:

1.	Brad Templeton noted that the laughtrack for M*A*S*H was not
	used during the more subtle jokes.  I think that the laughtrack
	was also barred from the operating room.  (Isn't it scary to
	think that the writers or whoever had to fight the network to
	keep the operating room from becoming a laugh-a-second blood and
	humor parlor?)

2.	Why have many of these articles on Alan Alda been submitted to
	net.singles?  He's married!

3.	Shifting gears totally, did anyone else feel that the premiere
	of AfterMASH was choppy?  The worst jump was from the scene in
	which a drunk Mulcahy telephones Potter (why?) to the scene in
	which the priest's operation is taking place in St. Louis.
	Nevertheless, not too bad a show.

John Bredehoft, Reed College