Every sitcom with a live audience is sweetened. Every single one. It’s still very uncommon for a multi-cam sitcom to not have an audience. I always thought it was ridiculous in Seinfeld when outdoor scenes had the laugh track. I have directed, edited, and mixed lots of audience sweetening in my career, but not in a long time.
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She came into the place I worked for the Scooby-Doo movie (one of the worst commentaries ever due to incessant legal notes about inappropriate Freddie Prinze comments), and you would not believe how tiny she was.
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That’s how I feel every time I watch an episode of Seinfeld. It’s funny on its own, but man that laugh track after every second line of dialogue is annoying.
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Tinier than Tom Cruise??
Yeah I mean don’t get me wrong, I hate the piped in laughter as much as anyone. But I can’t completely dismiss a show just because it had it in an era where they all had it.
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Luther
The Dick Van Dyke Show
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I saw Tom Cruise at the DVD special edition premiere screening of Shawshank. He was wearing a baseball cap and skiddadled before the Q&A. I had a great view of everyone entering and exiting. I wasn’t standing, so I couldn’t see how tall he was. I remember remarking that he looked like an 11 year old from the view I had.
SMG was way tinier than even that. Movie actors, for the most part, come across way smaller by weight in person. It’s probably why there are so many body image issues for women and men in Hollywood. If these tiny people look normal on screen, imagine what a normal sized person looks like. If someone looks super skinny on screen, they’re probably practically anorexic.
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My “holy crap, that person is tiny” celebrity is Salma Hayek. I met her at a screening like 25 years ago and she seemed to be literally half my height.
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TBBT always would have had it. It’s CBS, who is the most pro laugh track network around. I think it’s because their audience is old and forgot how to laugh, or the audience is young and refuses to. So they help you understand what’s funny (lol). Too bad they’re often so wrong.
I used to work sporadically with the laugh track guy from that show. A piece of trivia is that laugh guys are considered Re-Recording Mixers and are nominated as part of the mixing crew for Emmys.
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I think she’s listed at 5 feet, which probably means she’s 4’10. She also comes across on screen really short, only Danny DeVito comes across shorter to me.
A strange gift I have is guessing actors’ heights based on how they look on screen within an inch. I met Michael Chiklis once, and he’s listed at 5’9. He looked somewhere between 5’2 and 5’4 to me in person and he looks short on screen. No chance he’s 5’9 even if he’s not as short as I thought.
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If TBBT is nominated, I’d like to nominate HIMYM.
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Fine, I’m gonna nominate Superior Donuts, the Matthew Perry version of The Odd Couple, and the Matthew Perry version of Mr. Sunshine. 
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I would’ve nominated How I Met Your Mother had it not been for those godawful last two seasons, and especially for the WOAT-level finale.
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Can we please spell our nominations out for the acronym challenged?
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We don’t have to normalize this behavior.
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If mini-series count then the original Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley’s People are both right up there.
Others British ones that might not’ve been mentioned:
Auf Wiedersehen Pet
Cracker
Yes Minister
The Thick of It
Talking Heads
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What year for Tinker?
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With so many noms, maybe we should do separate brackets for dramas and sitcoms.
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My holy crap, that person is tiny story -
A friend took me to my first Seahawks game a few years ago and her tickets are right above the tunnel. Seahawks are coming through the tunnel and I legit asked my friend if one of them is a make a wish kid running out with the team. It was Tyler Lockett. I stopped bitching about him catching the ball and always immediately going down. Dude looked like he should be playing peewee league.
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- Alec Guinness, Ian Richardson, Patrick Stewart cameo as Karla. Smiley’s People (sequel) was in '82.
Edit: I genuinely think it’s Guinness’ finest performance.
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