>>211903429There are sitcoms that used live audiences and didn't cue the audience, take cheers for instance, people complained a ton about the laugh track going on to long but that's because it was live and the actors couldn't be heard unless they held for applause, and they rehearsed the show without the punchlines on purpose so not even ask the actors one what the joke was and could react naturally, watching that show you can easily tell if a joke didn't land because the actors all pause for half a second and nobody laughs so they just keep going, and the opposite was true as well, sometimes they didn't expect any laughter or cheering and you can tell the actors were taken at back for a second and had to pause because they didn't anticipate a reaction to something. It's why they started putting
>cheers is filmed before a live studio audience Before every episode.
I don't know if seinfield was the same but cheers took a lot of shit for it early on and people thought it was fake.