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Henson Hated The Laugh Track

American puppeteer and filmmaker Jim Henson (1936 – 1990) with his best-known Muppet character, Kermit the Frog, January 1984. (Photo by Frank Edwards/Fotos International/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

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To stay with the live act of the show, the laugh track was included. Henson was reluctant to use it, but he decided to keep it anyways.

However, he managed to include some laughs at the track’s expense. In episode 104, Kermit makes a joke that it is “up to the laugh track” whether the show was funny or not.