I don't know what TV show this is from and it doesn't really matter. 
The goddamn laugh track has to go.

 

As a kid, I remember every comedy on television having this type of an incessant, inane chattering of idiocy liberally sprinkled around dialogue.  Alice, All in the Family, Facts of Life, Maude, Gilligan's Island, Alf, What's Happening Now: they all had this type of retarded clutter for the ignorant audience members who were not quite sure where the jokes were at in the script.
The laugh track is the ultimate slap in the face to a television viewer.  It is a sign that someone thinks you are a moron.
According to the laugh tracks on some shows, it is possible for every other word in a sentence to be fucking hysterical.  In this imaginery world, it is possible to laugh for one half hour as you've never laughed before.  
All you have to do is take the cue.



Tune out, turn off and drop in man.
Drop into the television for a nice bit of family-ish friendly programming.  Laugh as you've never laughed before.  We'll let you know what's funny.  We'll let you know when to laugh.  We'll let you know when to applaud.

Fuck laugh tracks!

I suppose there may be solace that our nation may be evolving even slightly because more shows on television since M.A.S.H. don't have laugh tracks.  Shows like the Office for example. 



It doesn't matter if you like the show or not. 
I don't care if you think the show is funny. 
There are no laugh tracks, so at the very least the writers, producers and directors credit you with the intelligence to know when you think something is funny. 
It's really a rather simple process.
You find something funny.  That's an appropriate time to laugh.  (Just don't do it at a funeral.)
Is the lingering death of the laugh track a sign of a group of individuals evolving or just an example of the people in charge listening to their audience?  WIll we ever see the end of the laugh track?
At the rate we're going we may have already evolved an additional finger for quicker changing of channels by the time the laugh track finally dies.