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"episodes that were designed to run without interruption,"

BBT has an 'enhanced' laugh track - that is, it's filmed in front of an audience but they boost a lot of it with canned laughter (producers tend to call it 'sweetening'). This is fairly standard practice, because if you screw up the first take of a scene the subsequent response you'll get from the audience will…