I had a friend like this in college. His name was AJ. That’s it. Just the letters.
Everyone in the department spent ages trying to guess what it stood for. I managed to glance his ID when we got lunch together once. His name was just AJ. There weren’t even periods marking it as an abbreviation.
If you’ve never gotten the DVDs and never seen the European version without the laugh track, definitely watch it. It’s like a different (and even better) show. You start realizing that the laugh track was being put in where it shouldn’t have.
I bought the Martinis and Medicine DVD box set back in college and ripped them to my NAS many years ago. Every once in awhile I will be visiting my in-laws and catch an episode with the laugh track on television, and it’s the most awkward thing ever.
It really is amazing where they put the laughs in sometimes. Something that is definitely supposed to be sardonic is taken to be a joke by the laugh track. Gelbart must not have been involved beyond his insistence that OR scenes never had a laugh track because, like you, I occasionally catch an American version on TV and it feels so wrong now.
It kind of ruined shows with laugh tracks for me. I start analyzing where the laughs are being put. Shows I really like with laugh tracks are shows I just can’t watch anymore. I can do live audiences, but not laugh tracks.
It’s a great litmus test for good writing. If the show with it’s laugh track removed is awkward, it’s bad writing. If the opposite is true, it’s not a clear test, but at least it’s a good indicator.
I had a friend like this in college. His name was AJ. That’s it. Just the letters.
Everyone in the department spent ages trying to guess what it stood for. I managed to glance his ID when we got lunch together once. His name was just AJ. There weren’t even periods marking it as an abbreviation.
Still haven’t told anyone though
Now I want to name a kid Ay-Jay.
Did you call him Aj or A.J?
Reminds me of the character BJ in M*A*S*H. Named after his parents, Bee and Jay
That was a fun episode. I love M*A*S*H. We need a good anti-war show like that today.
Still my favorite show ever aired, and that’s in a universe where Star Trek exists. But there’s just something special about MASH
If you’ve never gotten the DVDs and never seen the European version without the laugh track, definitely watch it. It’s like a different (and even better) show. You start realizing that the laugh track was being put in where it shouldn’t have.
I bought the Martinis and Medicine DVD box set back in college and ripped them to my NAS many years ago. Every once in awhile I will be visiting my in-laws and catch an episode with the laugh track on television, and it’s the most awkward thing ever.
It really is amazing where they put the laughs in sometimes. Something that is definitely supposed to be sardonic is taken to be a joke by the laugh track. Gelbart must not have been involved beyond his insistence that OR scenes never had a laugh track because, like you, I occasionally catch an American version on TV and it feels so wrong now.
It kind of ruined shows with laugh tracks for me. I start analyzing where the laughs are being put. Shows I really like with laugh tracks are shows I just can’t watch anymore. I can do live audiences, but not laugh tracks.
It’s a great litmus test for good writing. If the show with it’s laugh track removed is awkward, it’s bad writing. If the opposite is true, it’s not a clear test, but at least it’s a good indicator.
My stoner friend’s incredibly, unbelievably stupid girlfriend has kids from a previous relationship named AJ, BJ, and CJ.
you have now made me suspect they are not abbreviations.
Names only an ancient roman could appreciate.
Assuming those are in sequence, sucks to be the middle kid
I see what you did there.
Honestly I dunno, I’m not that close.