It's not a laugh track as far as I can tell. I think it's a live studio audience. It's always possible it's tweaked, but I'd guess not. Some shows actually tone it down in the sound mix. This may or may not be one of them.

I took it to mean a return to the format of the early TNG reviews. I could definitely see not wanting to go back to that though.

Yeah, but to rip the discs you still need a drive. I'd rather just keep it in the laptop than have one more peripheral I have to hook up to the thing. Plus I like that I can have that piece of media, and something to read it, there just in case I need a it.

I think that's an anecdote that escaped me. But I could see that being a fight. Considering the plot of the episode it would actually make more sense for male and female torsos to be similar.

Laptops are still good because I like having an optical drive on there. When I can afford it I want to see about getting one so that I can make my desktop the media production machine and the laptop my Internet and recreation machine.

Yeah, I miss scanning them for the comments in pink to see if the conversation in which I participated continued.

Don't give up the fight! Cynicism is the death of hope. We may have downvotes, but we can work to make these conversations better.

That's a good argument. I think there's a good reason some of the most popular episodes are stand-alone.

Before the break someone argued for keeping them all to two a piece because that would set up a one-two punch of "Inquisition" and "In the Pale Moonlight."

I think that's why my girlfriend has told me I should have been a lawyer. It's sort of a neutral statement.

That's a good Weird Al song!

While we're recasting Mr. Peabody, how about William Daniels?

There was a comment @Rocketpilot:disqus made about the realism of the show relative to other cop shows (Disqus keeps crashing when I try to reply).

Yes, but in single-camera sitcoms there are avenues toward manipulation there too (editing and music being the primary tools). Most of the sitcoms I've liked in the past ten years or so happened to be single-camera shows, but they're just as capable of manipulation as multi-camera shows.

An important distinction must be made between canned laughter and a studio audience. Some shows that have a studio audience actually have to tone down the laughter in the sound mix, while canned laughter is completely a creation of the sound mixers.

It wasn't written on the Steinway, it was written on a much less grand piano of his.  What I'm trying to say is that he had multiple pianos.

My nickname for Leland Palmer has always been "Dance With Me!"

The YouTube link for Space Madness is broken so I found this: http://www.veoh.com/watch/v…

Any recovered television recordings, no matter what the program, are great finds for media archeology.

The word "cool" is one that describes a relative property.  That ice cream is a frozen food is a statement of objective fact.