Stuff and Moonshine

As people have pointed out over the years, the laugh track is particularly strange-when-you-think-about-it on animated cartoons, since there presumably wasn’t a live audience at Hanna-Barbara Studios watching the animators draw Scooby-Doo, or even listening to the recording sessions. However, if one can suspend one’s disbelief, there’s a weird comforting quality to being surrounded by an invisible friendly audience, even when you know they’re just a recording.