Some multi-camera shows use live audiences. Hot In Cleveland had a better laugh sound with an audience than BBT does with a laugh-track. Hated the laugh-track on M*A*S*H, too. Both great shows…but that canned laughter is so grating.

Grandfathered, The Grinder and Life In Pieces are all laugh-track free. I hope this is a trend. I don't mind live audiences, like Cheers or Hot In Cleveland, but laugh-tracks are annoying. Big Bang Theory's only flaw is the awful canned laughter. A show that funny doesn't need to tell me when to laugh!

Sitcom pilots always struggle with the very thing this review notes: they have to tick off a lot of plot points, and do it in about 20-22 minutes of screen time. And be funny in the process. This didn't do bad, and it has potential.

Yes. And most of them, especially in the Thin Wild Mercury era, were clearly symbolic characters that represented a figurative truth.

I've always assumed "Mr. Jones" was a way to essentially label a Middle American average person—a man in a gray flannel suit—who simply "didn't get" the new trends in music and culture. Mr. Jones listened to Perry Como and watched Gunsmoke.

Loudon Wainwrights cameo reminded me of Leonard Cohen appearing on Miami Vice.  It was as cool as it was sublime.

Loudon Wainwrights cameo reminded me of Leonard Cohen appearing on Miami Vice.  It was as cool as it was sublime.