Cowboy Bebop works better with a Seinfeld laugh track

Gizmodo

The Netflix live-action adaptation shouldn't be improved by canned laughter, but a fan-created mashup somehow works. "More than the so-so ness of some of Cowboy Bebop’s writing, what often ends up making the show feel off are the uncomfortable pauses that linger between actors that don’t quite seem to be solid editing choices," says Charles Pulliam-Moore. "Cowboy Bebop shouldn’t have the space for a laugh track to so seamlessly fit in, and yet Netflix’s does. That’s not to say that sitcom stylings can’t work within genre or that Netflix needed to wholly model itself after the anime, but the larger joke this video’s making—which is also a criticism—is the sort of thing Cowboy Bebop’s creative team should have seen coming from a mile away."