# The Ranch **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 8, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ranch/808440 "2018-02-08T14:33:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ranch/808440/21 "2018-12-11T14:18:18Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > I could certainly have done without the first two episodes, but I do like the addition of Luke. I also like Colt and Abby as new parents. Yes, it has some rough, cringe-worthy spots, and that inane laugh track is so annoying, but I’m almost finished with episode eight and plan to finish all of them. Wait… there’s a laugh track? How is it I can’t hear this?! I have the sound up to a normal level but I don’t hear anything, and that explains these weird pauses. It’s like there should be something and there isn’t so the timing seems off. ---
**Author:** ![cgg419](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cgg419/32/2847_2.png) [@cgg419](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cgg419)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ranch/808440/22 "2018-12-11T16:28:47Z")
> [@Rushgeekgirl](#): > > Wait… there’s a laugh track? How is it I can’t hear this?! I have the sound up to a normal level but I don’t hear anything, and that explains these weird pauses. It’s like there should be something and there isn’t so the timing seems off. I have no idea. The laugh track was the first thing I noticed, and it almost put me off watching the show. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ranch/808440/23 "2018-12-11T18:04:43Z")
… so I used to sort of watch this show because I liked most of the actors in it. I kind of drifted away from it; but I’m still kinda-sorta interested in it in a way where I don’t want to go back and watched the episodes I missed. So; that being said, Anyone care to spoil it for me how they wrote Rooster out of the show? ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ranch/808440/24 "2018-12-11T18:40:44Z")
> [@cgg419](#): > > I have no idea. The laugh track was the first thing I noticed, and it almost put me off watching the show. When I first watched the show I hated it too and I think I even commented on it. I just checked the pilot and the laugh track is super loud. Checked this season and I’m wrong, they’re still there but it’s so faint I have to turn the sound all the way up to blast before I hear the faint laughter. I don’t know what the deal is, but as bad as that laugh track is, it’s ten times worse when they’re pausing for laughter and there’s nothing to be heard!. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ranch/808440/25 "2018-12-11T19:09:25Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > So; that being said, Anyone care to spoil it for me how they wrote Rooster out of the show? I’m not a watcher but I just found this article on AVClub: > **[Here's how they wrote Danny Masterson out of The Ranch](https://www.avclub.com/heres-how-they-wrote-danny-masterson-out-of-the-ranch-1830992603)** > > Late last year, actor Danny Masterson was fired by his agent and dropped from Netflix’s The Ranch after he was accused of rape by five separate women. Still, the long-running Netflix comedy needed to address his departure somehow, and, as its most... ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2018, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ranch/808440/26 "2018-12-17T15:44:13Z")
It’s…okay. Mostly because it’s “uneven” in tone. The comedy tends to be formulaic, but there’s some real gems in there, mostly due to the acting chops of Sam Elliot and Debra Winger, Megyn Price, Kathy Baker, and, to a lesser extent, Elisha Cuthbert. The show can go from comedy to drama in the blink of an eye, though, leading to Mood Whiplash. ---
**Author:** ![GreysonCarlisle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@GreysonCarlisle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreysonCarlisle)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ranch/808440/27 "2019-10-03T00:28:16Z")
Sooooo… who got shot, and who did the shootin’? I’m betting that it was oxy-lady who pulled the trigger on her abusive boyfriend. Would be awesome if it turns out to be Rooster who put dude down, but that ain’t gonna happen. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ranch/808440.md?page=1)