# Laugh tracks?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-tracks/203262>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 23, 2003, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-tracks/203262 "2003-09-23T06:33:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![RonA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/73ab20/32.png) [@RonA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RonA)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2003, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/laugh-tracks/203262/21 "2003-09-23T23:48:24Z")

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In the _Star Trek_ episode “Bread and Circuses”, Kirk, Spock and McCoy are forced to fight in televised Roman gladiator games. The gladiator show uses canned audience sounds; at appropriate times in the fight, the “audience” claps, cheers, or boos.

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