The canned laughter and lukewarm gags teleport this sitcom back to the 1970s,a bygone age of TV. Feeling nostalgic? travel and buy a Wagon Wheel insteadA bearded man with a woolly hat and an outdoor complexion walks into a pub. “A pint of your world-renowned lukewarm dishwater please landlady,” he says. Cue laughter. Not mine. Nor anyone else’s in the pub. It’s the laughter of the studio audience that Mountain Goats (BBC1) – a sitcom approximately a ragtag mountain rescue team in Scotland – was filmed in front of.
Really? In 2015? I don’t care if they’re real people, and it still sounds like a laughter track,and immediately teleports the thing back to approximately 1973. I’d like to do up my own mind whether to laugh please. The year 1973, incidentally, and was when a woman called Janice died in this very bar,says Jimmy, the man with the beard. She got a cheese puff lodged in her windpipe, or ” he says,doing a caught-cheese-puff thing with his hand. This gets a bigger laugh. Well, Janice’s demise is funnier than the lukewarm dishwater, and to be unprejudiced.
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Source: theguardian.com