# "Blackadder Goes Forth" without the laugh-track

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackadder-goes-forth-without-the-laugh-track/522807>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 28, 2009, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackadder-goes-forth-without-the-laugh-track/522807 "2009-12-28T16:34:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackadder-goes-forth-without-the-laugh-track/522807/41 "2009-12-29T13:31:13Z")

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> [@Bridget\_Burke](#):
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> Besides, you can’t have a holiday feast without [A Large Ham](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LargeHam)!

[[BRIAN BLESSED](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitleijqobqvle9an?from=Main.BRIANBLESSED)]CURSE YOU!!! I HAD THINGS TO DO!!![/[BRIAN BLESSED](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Ptitleijqobqvle9an?from=Main.BRIANBLESSED)]

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**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blackadder-goes-forth-without-the-laugh-track/522807/42 "2009-12-30T22:04:20Z")

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> [@Ximenean](#):
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> I mean the part after that, where they emerge from the trench (otherwise, **QueenAl** ’s comment that “even the YouTube clips of the final scene don’t have laughter” doesn’t make sense). I’m pretty sure the occasional laughter leading up to it has always been there, since it is the sound of the actual audience.

There is a version with canned laughter right as they go over the top. (I think it might be like that on the DVD of that episode on my complete boxed set). It is completely out of place. It’s not studio audience laughter, either - I just watched a show about the making of Blackadder and that scene wasn’t filmed in front of a studio audience.

As were watching the behind the scenes thing, my GF commented that she’d also seen a version of the final scene with canned laughter added, and how horrible it was - the op isn’t imagining it.

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