GIGGLE EPIPHANY

The laugh track was invented to tell you when to feel joy, like emotional subtitles.

✗ FAKE
The laugh track was developed in the 1950s to simulate audience laughter on recorded shows. It was meant to cue reactions, so part of the claim is accurate, but the emotional-subtitles line is a joke.

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