joshishollywood:

I would actually watch The Big Bang Theory if they got rid of the laugh track but kept the pacing they employ to fit the laugh track

Right now The Big Bang Theory isn’t funny at all really, and this isn’t a particularly revolutionary observation, most people are pretty aware of its humour-free approach to comedy

See, the funny parts, or at least the parts that elicit a reaction from the laugh track, can be broken down as follows

None of those things are actually funny, and a lot of them are kind of sad

So here’s what they could do

Axe the laugh track altogether but keep the timing as part of it all to change the show from a comedy (which it is bad at being) to an intense, dramatic character study of four fully grown men struggling to get some sort of reaction from the people in their lives

Sheldon compares the wonders of a clean apartment to the remarkable work of astrophysicist Somnath Bharadwaj. Penny and Leonard stare at him for thirty seconds, blinking. Sheldon’s face is entirely unreadable. Raj pipes in, “In my country, we ate that with toasted papadum!”

Nobody reacts

Though his face remains as stony and expressionless as ever, a single tear rolls down the cheek of Sheldon Cooper