Remastered – Laugh Track

[Jawscvmcdia]

Is it me, or is the laugh track in the remastered versions a lot quieter? As if they redubbed some scenes in the original and forgot to put them back in for the remastered, when they redid the soundtrack. One example of this is in Backwards, the driving scene in particular, if you compare the two scenes, you’ll see that the original has alot more laughter than the remastered.

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[NoFro]

Yerp, I’ve noticed this. No clue as to why they did it though.

[pfm]

Some of the laughs were switched/boosted on series 1, as far as I can tell anyway, but I bet some of the lower volume laughs are mistakes.

[Kris ‘Drivaaar’ Carter]

It’s part of the journey to remove laugh tracks in Red Dwarf entirely.

[Carlito]

They were gonna sort that out in the dub!

[Nakrophile]

Speaking of laughter tracks, that laugh in Holly’s intro to Rimmer (the one at the start of I and II) in either Waiting for God or Confidence and Paranoia always befuddled me. I can’t remember if it’s in the original, remastered or both, but it always befuddled me.

[Zombie Jim Undead]

So where did the laughs on Holly’s new snippets of dialogue come from in the Remastered shows?

Could it be…..CANNED….LAUGHTER?

[si]

No, it’s the Norman Lovett Appreciation Society.

Times several hundred.

[pfm]

> Could it be?..CANNED?.LAUGHTER?

Probably just existing laughs from elsewhere in the series copied and pasted there.

[Kris ‘Drivaaar’ Carter]

Or a laugh from an outtake of that episode, to preserve the same audience sound.

[Nakrophile]

It’s the fact that there is a laugh in a bit that is laugh free in the other ten times that sequence is shown that really… befuddles me. Obviously it is just a mistake, but…

[Zombie Jim Undead]

I presumed that they showed the studio audience the intro at every recording.

Sometimes they would laugh at the Rimmer intro, sometimes they wouldn’t.

[Nakrophile]

Befuddlement occurs.

[Stabbim the Skutter]

Just bumping up this old topic to point this out: I prefer the Remastered laugh track for Series III, because in the original there’s a really annoying male voice with a loud, obnoxious laugh: “TUH HUH HUH HUH!!!!” And then he’s occasionally too early. Exhibit A: “This is a sca-” “TUHUHUHUHUHUH!!!!” In Remastered he appears to have been edited out, thank Christ.

[Carlito]

Which episode?

[Stabbim the Skutter]

Well, all of the Series III episodes, really. Off the top of my head:

“Now then, gentlemen! Thanks for your support!” – Rimmer, Backwards
“This is a scalpel!” – Cat, Polymorph

[Jawscvmcdia]

Yes I know what you mean.

[Danny Stephenson]

It’s not in the remastered, but it a recognisable laugh.

The squeaky laugh during the DNA ‘polaroid’ scene, it’s almost musical..

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