Two and a Half Men

Tonight the episode of Two and a Half Men that Mark and I attended the taping of was on again. It's the episode with Brooke Shields. We still have it memorized because they did every scene 2-3 times to guage the audience response, and sometimes rewrote jokes on the spot if they didn't get a strong enough response. Between takes there was a really obnoxious announcer (like Fred Willard's character in Best in Show, only worse) to pump up the crowd. "Pretend like you're seeing this for the first time, folks, this is really funny!" He even did magic tricks and tossed candy out into the crowd...it felt a little patronizing, especially when he had people do embarrassing things to compete for a $20 bill, but it was still cool to see.

They warned everybody in the audience not to try anything cute, like yell something out during taping to hear it when the episode is aired. So of course Mark clapped extra loud after a few jokes, and did an extra-loud and distinct laugh to do just that. It was taped in January of 2007, so neither of us could remember which parts he did them in, though. Oh well, it was still fun to see it again.