*clears throat*

*清除喉嚨*

I hate laugh tracks.

我討厭笑聲

[ Laugh track starts ]

[笑聲軌開始]

I think they're annoying -

我覺得他們很煩人

- unnecessary, and honestly I find them to be kind of an insult to the viewer's intelligence.

- 沒有必要，說實話，我覺得它們是一種對觀眾智商的侮辱。

It's like the show doesn't trust you to know when to laugh so they have to basically hold up a big sign after every joke

就像節目不相信你知道什麼時候該笑一樣 所以他們基本上要在每個笑話後舉起一個大牌子。

And say "look that was joke it time to laugh now",

並說 "看，那是笑話，現在該笑了"。

but then at the same time it also kind of feels like a lack of confidence in their own jokes.

但同時也有點感覺對自己的笑話缺乏信心。

Like the writers know that these lines aren't that funny

就像編劇知道這些臺詞沒那麼好笑一樣。

So they have to like peer pressure you into laughing

所以，他們必須像同行壓力你笑。

Because listen to how much these other people are laughing you should be laughing - most of all though

因為聽著這些別人的笑聲，你應該笑得很開心--雖然最開心的是

I hate laugh tracks because as a viewer when I hear the sound of canned laughter

我討厭笑聲，因為作為一個觀眾，當我聽到罐頭的笑聲的時候

I am completely taken out of what in my opinion

在我看來，我是完全被帶出去了。

Should be an immersive experience

應該是一種身臨其境的體驗

I want to watch a show and feel like a fly on the wall during a realistic human

我想看一場演出，在現實的人的過程中，感覺自己就像一隻蒼蠅。

Interaction and yet a laugh track serves as a constant reminder that these characters whose lives

互動，然而笑聲卻時刻提醒著我們，這些人物的生活中，其

You're trying to get invested in are not actually characters

你想投入的其實並不是什麼角色

They're just actors acting on a stage in front of a live audience

他們只是在舞臺上表演的演員 在現場觀眾的面前

That reacts to every joke like they just woke up from a long coma and this is the first joke they've heard in 20 years

他們對每一個笑話都有反應，就像他們剛從漫長的昏迷中醒來，這是他們20年來聽到的第一個笑話。

Joey: "Closeness schmoseness, there was 3 of us for cryin' out loud!"

喬伊 "親密無間，我們有三個人，大喊大叫！"

[ audience laughs like they just woke up from a come and is this the first joke they've heard in 20 years ]

[觀眾的笑聲就像他們剛剛醒來 從一個來，這是第一次笑話 他們已經聽到了20年]。

In addition to being an auditory distraction laugh tracks also mess up the flow of

除了聽覺上的干擾，笑聲也會擾亂流程。

Every scene even if you remove the actual sound of the laughter it's still evident that these conversations

每一個場景，即使你去掉實際的笑聲，也能看出這些談話的內容

Have a very unnatural rhythm

有一個非常不自然的節奏

Pink Shirt Lady: "Get one yourself!"

粉色襯衫女士。 "你自己去買一件吧！"

[ awkward silence ]

[尷尬的沉默]

Beer Nerd: "Oooh Somebody's been taking bitchy pill!"

啤酒呆子："Oooh Somebody's been taking bitchy pill! "Oooh Somebody's been taking bitchy pill！"

[ even more awkward silence ]

[更加尷尬的沉默]

Pink Shirt: "God, he's an ass when he drinks"

粉色襯衫 "上帝，他是一個屁股，當他喝"

Outfit Matching Nerd: "Well, he's an ass when he doesn't, you just don't hear it."

裝備搭配的呆子。 "好吧，他是一個屁股，當他不這樣做，你只是沒有聽到它。"

[ silence ]

[沉默]

Line! Long pause. Line! Long pause. I've never in my life had a conversation with that cadence

行！長時間的停頓。臺詞！停頓了很久我這輩子都沒有用這樣的節奏交談過。

It's just not how people talk, probably the worst thing about these laugh tracks

只是人們說話的方式不一樣，可能是這些笑料最糟糕的地方吧

Is that they don't always

是，他們並不總是

Correlate with the quality of the joke every response seems to indicate the same level of hilarity when here's the thing

與笑話的品質有關 每個人的反應似乎都表明了同樣的搞笑程度，當事情是這樣的。

Some jokes are just better than others

有些笑話就是比其他笑話好聽

I don't expect every line to elicit this room wide eruption of laughs and cheers

我不指望每一句話都能引起全場的笑聲和歡呼。

And I don't hold it against a show if a joke doesn't make me audibly laugh

如果一個笑話不能讓我笑出聲來，我也不會反對一個節目。

but when a throwaway line is followed up by several wasted seconds where I'm just waiting for the next joke and

但當一句空洞的臺詞後面是幾秒鐘的浪費，我只是在那裡等待下一個笑話，並。

Then it happens again

然後它又發生了

And again and again I get impatient

我一次又一次的不耐煩

And I don't want to watch the show anymore these episodes are about twenty two minutes long

而且我不想再看這個節目了 這幾集大約有二十二分鐘長

And it feels like I'm only getting maybe ten minutes of actual comedy, and that's when my brain hatched an idea

感覺我只有10分鐘的真正喜劇時間 這時我的腦子裡有了一個想法

Exactly how much of an average episode of Friends is just laughter?

究竟《朋友》平均一集有多少是笑聲？

What percentage of each episode's 22 minute runtime is wasted by a glorified sound effect?

每集22分鐘的時間裡，有多大比例的時間被美化的音效所浪費？

And then to take it one step further how many jokes are there in an episode of Friends,

再進一步說，《朋友》一集有多少個笑話。

Compared to an episode of, let's say, The Office?

比起一集，比方說，"辦公室"？

Obviously quantity and quality aren't the same thing and one good joke is better than a hundred bad ones

顯然數量和品質不是一回事，一個好的笑話比一百個壞的笑話要好得多

But in this case I do think quantity is a pretty good indicator of overall writing quality.

但在這種情況下，我確實認為數量是衡量整體寫作品質的一個相當好的指標。

So I had to know I had to get to the bottom of this

所以我必須要知道我必須要弄清這一切

00:03:01,450 --> 00:03:02,540 But how?

00:03:01,450 --> 00:03:02,540 但是怎麼做呢？

And then I remembered I have a youtube channel I can do stuff like this

然後我想起我有一個YouTube頻道，我可以做這樣的事情。

[ Elevator Music ]

[電梯音樂]

Now keep in mind about 90% of this video is simply gonna be opinion based

現在請記住，這個視頻90%的內容都是基於觀點的。

I may present a lot of what I'm saying as if it were fact

我可能會把我說的很多話當做事實來陳述。

But what most of it comes down to is simply personal preference

但大多數情況下，這只是簡單的個人喜好。

So let's start with The Office. The Office is my favorite show of all time

那麼，讓我們從《辦公室》開始吧。"辦公室 "是我最喜歡的節目

I'm a bit of a basic bitch, so no I'm not talking about the British version nor the Japanese version for that matter

我是個基本的婊子，所以不，我說的不是英國版，也不是日本版的問題。

I'm talking about the American office because here in the USA

我說的是美國的辦公室，因為在美國這裡

We may not be the first to do and stuff

我們可能不是第一個做和東西

But I'll be damned if we aren't the best.

但如果我們不是最好的，我就會被詛咒。

The office combines everything I want in a comedy show

《辦公室》結合了我對喜劇節目的一切要求

Again, personal preference.

再次，個人喜好。

It's hilarious, it's quick,

很熱鬧，很快速。

But there's also a lot of depth to it.

但也有很多深度的東西。

Characters develop deep meaningful relationships that have ebbs and flows and give each episode more of a purpose.

人物發展出深具意義的關係，有起有伏，讓每一集都有更多的目的。

Particularly in the first three seasons with the back-and-forth between Jim and Pam.

尤其是在前三季中，Jim和Pam之間的反反覆覆。

More than anything though

但更多的是

I love the way The Office is directed.

我喜歡《辦公室》的導演方式。

You can tell there's so much deliberation involved in setting up the perfect shots.

你可以看出，在設置完美的鏡頭時，有那麼多的深思熟慮。

Which is something that may seem small

這是一個看似很小的事情

But I think the movement and position of the camera can contribute so much to the tone of a scene..

但我覺得攝影機的移動和位置對一個場景的基調有很大的影響。

As well as even serving as a joke in its own right.

以及甚至本身就是一個笑話。

For example in the season 2 episode entitled "The Carpet",

比如在第二季中題為 "地毯 "的情節。

After it's been established that someone took a dump in Michaels office

在確定有人在麥克爾斯辦公室拉屎後

And no one can go in there because it smells so bad,

而且沒有人可以去那裡，因為它聞起來很糟糕。

Michael has a talking head bit where he kind of rambles about how this is like his fear factor audition

邁克爾有一個說話的頭位 在那裡，他有點漫不經心 這是他如何像他的恐懼因子試鏡。

Eventually he can't stand it anymore and starts to rush out of the room.

最後他實在受不了了，開始衝出房間。

But it's at that moment that the camera zooms out to reveal that even the cameraman didn't want to be in that room.

但就在那一刻，鏡頭放大，發現連攝像師都不想在那個房間裡。

It's a small detail, but it was enough to make me chuckle and feel smart for noticing it.

這雖然是一個小細節，但足以讓我莞爾一笑，覺得自己很聰明，因為我注意到了這一點。

But I'm rambling..

但我在胡言亂語...

I love the show. I could talk about it for hours,

我喜歡這個節目。我可以談論它幾個小時。

But the title of this video isn't why I like The Office,

但這個視頻的標題並不是我喜歡《辦公室》的原因。

It's The Office vs. Friends

這是辦公室對朋友

So I will try and get to the point.

所以，我將試著進入正題。

How many jokes are in one episode of The Office?

辦公室》一集有多少個笑話？

Now, no scientific endeavor would be complete without taking an educated guess beforehand,

現在，如果不事先進行有根據的猜測，任何科學工作都是不完整的。

so here's my hypothesis

所以我的假設是

I'm gonna say that an episode of The Office averages 140 jokes

我想說，一集《辦公室》平均140個笑話。

Which is roughly 1 joke every 9 seconds.

大概每9秒就有一個笑話。

On the other hand, I'm gonna guess that an average episode of Friends contains about half that.

另一方面，我猜測平均一集《朋友》的內容大約有一半。

Let's say 80 jokes or one joke every 15 seconds.

比如說80個笑話或者每15秒一個笑話。

In addition, I'm gonna guess at approximately three and a half minutes of every Friends episode is just laughter,

此外，我猜測每集《朋友》中大約有三分半鐘是笑聲。

And I'm also gonna guess that roughly 7% of you just clicked off the video when I started rambling about math

我也會猜測，大約7%的你只是點擊關閉視頻 當我開始漫無邊際的數學。

So let's speed this up a bit for the office. I chose season 5 episode 14

所以，讓我們在辦公室裡加快一點速度。我選擇了第五季第14集

"Stress Relief Part 1" this episode is near and dear to my heart

"緩解壓力第一部 "這一集是我的心頭好

The opening scene alone is an absolute work of art Dwight for awareness reasons

僅僅是開場的那一幕就絕對是藝術作品德懷特因為認識的原因

Intentionally starts a fire in the office to see how prepared everyone would be in that situation which is funny enough on its own

故意在辦公室裡放火，看看大家在那種情況下會有多大的準備，這本身就已經很好笑了。

But then he has this

但他有這個

self-righteous attitude throughout the scene while everything

自以為是的態度，而一切

Deteriorates into chaos led by Michael who immediately puts his safety before everyone else's there are so many hilarious

惡化成混亂的邁克爾上司誰立即把他的安全，而不是每個人的有這麼多的熱鬧。

Details like Kevin going back to break into the vending machine..

像Kevin回去闖入自動售貨機這樣的細節... ...

Angela hurling her cat into the ceiling..

安吉拉把她的貓扔到天花板上... ...

Stanley ultimately having a heart attack as Dwight explains that this was all a test.

斯坦利最終心臟病發作，因為德懷特解釋說這一切都是一個測試。

From start to finish, it's beautiful, and there are 41 jokes in it.

從頭到尾都很美，裡面有41個笑話。

After the opening theme,

開場主題後。

The next scene is a meeting between Michael Dwight and 2 corporate higher-ups.

下一幕是邁克爾-德懷特與2位企業高層的會面。

Halfway through the scene michael casually gets up and sort of waltzes over to the other side of the table

畫面過半時，邁克爾隨意地站起身來，走到桌子的另一邊。

Trying to subtly switch his role in the situation and then starts lecturing Dwight.

試圖巧妙地轉換自己在這種情況下的角色，然後開始教訓德懷特。

There are 16 jokes in the scene,

現場有16個笑話。

3 during their car ride back to the office,

在他們坐車回公司的過程中，3。

and 11 in the next scene

和下一幕的11

Where Stanley comes back to the office and Michael offers him a wheelchair.

斯坦利回到辦公室，邁克爾給他提供了一個輪椅。

Quote: "Until he's back on his feet."

引用："直到他重新站起來。"

Stanley: I'm going to die.

斯坦利 我要去死。

After a commercial break comes one of the greatest scenes in television history..

一段廣告休息後，出現了電視史上最偉大的場景之一... ...

The CPR training scene.

心肺復甦訓練現場。

If someone asked me

如果有人問我

"Hey, Drew! I want to get into comedy writing. Where do I start?"

"嘿，德魯！我想進入喜劇寫作。我從哪裡開始？"

I would say...

我想說...

"I don't know... I just make Youtube videos."

"我不知道...我只是在Youtube上做視頻。"

But I would tell them to study this scene.

但我會告訴他們研究這個場景。

I don't even know where to start with this, so I'll let Steve Carrell set it up.

我都不知道從何說起，所以我讓史蒂夫-卡雷爾來安排。

Michael: "We found ourselves on the...

邁克爾 "我們發現自己在...

less prepared side of things.

少準備的一面。

When Stanley had his...

當斯坦利有他的...

When his heart went berserk...

當他的心變得瘋狂時... ...

I knew exactly what to do,

我知道該怎麼做

But in a much more real sense

但在更真實的意義上

I had no idea what to do.

我不知道該怎麼辦。

so I thought we should have a CPR training class."

所以我覺得我們應該開一個心肺復甦培訓課。"

So this woman has been hired by corporate to teach the office CPR.

所以這個女人被公司請來教辦公室的心肺復甦術。

Michael instinctively volunteers Stanley,

邁克爾本能地自願斯坦利。

You know, the guy who just had a heart attack 3 days ago?

你知道的，那個三天前剛剛心臟病發作的人？

But then after the rest of the office starts to express concern,

但在辦公室其他人開始表示關注後。

He decides that the boss should go ahead and everyone how it's done.

他決定，老闆應該先走，大家怎麼做。

Instructor: "Okay, too fast."

教官："好的，太快了。 "好，太快了。"

The instructor has to try repeatedly to get things back on track...

教官要反覆嘗試，才能讓事情回到正軌... ...

Inst: "No, it's [singing] 'uh, uh, uh, uh, stayin' alive, stay-' "

Inst. - "不，是[唱]'嗯，嗯，嗯，嗯，活著，活著--' "不，是[唱]'嗯，嗯，嗯，嗯，活著，活著'"

Michael: "Okay, that's it."

Michael "好了，就這樣吧。"

Creed: "You were in the parking lot earlier, that's how I know you!"

克里德。 "你剛才在停車場，所以我才認識你！"

Oh! And Creed...

哦，還有信條...

Fucking Creed!

他媽的信條！

He has two lines in this entire episode

他在這一集有兩句臺詞

And they're both hysterical!

而且他們都是歇斯底里的人!

Dwight: "Check for an organ donor card. If he has one, we only have minutes to harvest."

德懷特 "檢查器官捐贈卡。如果他有的話，我們只有幾分鐘的時間來收穫。"

Creed: "He has no wallet, I checked."

克里德。 "他沒有錢包，我查過了。"

This scene is so well written the way everything slowly gets more and more heightened the way each

這場戲寫得真好，一切都在慢慢地變得越來越高大上的方式，每個

character progressively gets more involved

漸入佳境

it's

它

fantastic

妙不可言

And there are 37 jokes in it so after Dwight destroys the very expensive

而且裡面有37個笑話，所以在德懷特毀掉了非常昂貴的之後

CPR dummy he and Michael are once again forced to go meet with David Wallace in New York

心肺復甦假人他和邁克爾再次被迫去紐約和大衛-華萊士見面了

This is a short scene with only five jokes we then cut back to the office where Jim, Pam, and Andy are watching a movie

這是一個簡短的場景，只有五個笑話，然後我們切回辦公室，吉姆，帕姆和安迪正在看電影。

He downloaded illegally

他非法下載

Which doesn't exist outside of the show.

這在節目之外是不存在的。

So props to the producers for actually shooting clips from a fake movie where Jack Black falls in love with Cloris Leachman

所以，支持製片人實際拍攝剪輯 從一個假的電影 傑克-布萊克愛上了克洛里斯-利奇曼。

I counted nine jokes in this scene, eight in the next scene where Dwight issues his statement of regret

我數了數，這一幕有九個笑話，下一幕德懷特發表悔過聲明的時候有八個笑話

Dwight: "I state my regret."

德懷特 "我聲明我的遺憾。"

And another eight when Jim Pam and Andy finished the Jack Black movie

當吉姆-帕姆和安迪完成了傑克-布萊克的電影后，又有8個。

The episode ends with Michael leading a relaxation exercise

這一集的最後，邁克爾帶領大家進行了放鬆練習

Which you guessed it is not very relaxing. There are 28 jokes in the scene and the episode is over

這一點你猜對了，不是很輕鬆。戲裡有28個笑話，這一集就結束了

In total, I counted 166 jokes in 21 minutes

在21分鐘內，我一共數出了166個笑話。

Which is only slightly higher than my hypothesis you guys want to double check my math go for it

這隻比我的假設略高一點 你們想再檢查一下我的數學，就去吧

I also tried to be as unbiased with this as possible

我也儘量做到不偏不倚地處理這個問題。

I included punchlines that didn't make me laugh

我加入了讓我笑不出來的笑點。

But I recognized as having meant to be a joke if I refuse to tally jokes that I don't think are funny

但我認識到，如果我拒絕統計我認為不好笑的笑話，我就有開玩笑的意思。

Then why the hell am I even doing this you know besides, this is science

那我為什麼要這樣做呢？ 你知道嗎？ 此外，這是科學。

So now let's transition over to Friends- controversial opinion alert!

那麼現在讓我們過渡到朋友圈--爭議性意見提醒!

I...

I...

Actually like friends now if I hadn't watched it with my mom growing up and didn't have a little bit of a nostalgia for it

其實就像現在的朋友一樣，如果不是從小和媽媽一起看的，沒有一點懷念的感覺的話

I probably feel differently, but I think it's a pretty okay show it's got a likable enough characters even though

我可能會有不同的感覺，但我認為這是一個相當不錯的節目 它有一個足夠可愛的人物，即使...

They're all mostly reliant on pretty basic

他們都主要依靠相當基本的。

Stereotypes: Rachel likes to shop, and Monica likes to clean, and Phoebe's wacky! And Chandler sarcastic,

刻板印象。瑞秋喜歡購物，莫妮卡喜歡打掃，菲比很古怪！還有錢德勒的諷刺。

and Ross is awkward, and Joey likes to fuc-, but five out of the six actors are good

和羅斯是笨拙的，和喬伊喜歡fuc -，但五個出六個演員都是好的

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And the writing is usually fine with the exception of the occasional

而且文筆一般都很好，除了偶爾的例外

Awful joke thrown in from time to time

時不時地拋出一個可怕的笑話。

Chandler: "Anybody know a good tailor?"

錢德勒 "有人知道一個好的裁縫嗎？"

Joey: "You need some clothes altered?"

喬伊 "你需要改一下衣服嗎？"

Chandler: "No, no, I'm just looking for a man to draw on me with chalk..."

錢德勒 "不，不，我只是在找一個男人用粉筆在我身上畫畫..."

[ Audience laughter ]

[觀眾笑聲]

As far as the laugh track goes I can forgive shows like friends for having a dated format because

至於笑點方面，我可以原諒《朋友》等節目的形式過時，因為

Well the show premiered almost 25 years ago. It's not really dated

嗯，該劇首播已近25年了。這不是真的過時了

If it literally is dated, and that's just what sitcoms were like back. Then it was a standard

如果從字面上看是過時了，而當年的情景喜劇就是這樣的。那麼這就是一個標準的

I'm much less

我少了很多

Understanding of shows that have debuted in the past decade that rely on this format originally this video was going to be The Office vs.

瞭解近十年來亮相的節目，都是依靠這種形式原本這個視頻是要《辦公室》與。

The Big Bang Theory aka the world's worst show, but I felt like that would be too easy

大爆炸理論》又名《世界最爛劇》，但我覺得這太簡單了。

It's like making a video on Lele pons like we all know she's bad

就像我們都知道她是個壞蛋一樣，拍了一段關於Lele Pons的視頻。

I don't know anyone who actually likes the Big Bang Theory and

我不知道有誰真正喜歡 "大爆炸理論"，而且。

Honestly watching multiple episodes for research purposes just sounds like a nightmare so I ultimately decided on Friends because it is a show that people

老實說，為了研究目的而看多集，聽起來就像一場噩夢，所以我最終決定選擇《朋友》，因為它是一部人們的節目。

Generally enjoy. It's just I think sometimes a slave to its own format

一般來說很喜歡。只是我覺得有時候會被自己的格式所奴役。

There are moments in every episode where I have to fight the urge to incrementally skip forward past

每一集都會有一些時刻，我必須要和衝動作鬥爭，漸漸地向前跳過去。

predictable back-and-forth scenes where you know what the next line is gonna be but you get a wait for the audience to calm down so

可預測的來回場景，你知道下一句是什麼，但你得到一個等待觀眾冷靜下來，所以。

They can say it, but because of all this anticipation. That's built up now that line gets the enormous over-the-top applause