Settlers of Catan meets Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory

[@DavidMunday]

"I don't understand the laughter." Neither do we, Sheldon.

[@KJ-su4ph]

Rest in Peace, Klaus. Your game had a positive impact on my childhood and is still my favorite today. Thank you!

[@eltonjohnson]

That is the most unnecessarily over-the-top laugh track I've ever seen. NO ONE LAUGHS THIS MUCH AS JOKES THIS REMEDIAL.

[@matteoviola5760]

Not a laugh track

[@jeffreyantizin3731]

@@matteoviola5760 yes it is.

[@georgogiannakis6123]

“Can i have some wood?” HAHAHAHA Tbh, actually my table when people start begging for wood…

[@hannes.yes.]

@@jeffreyantizin3731 in the English version, there is actually a live audience on set, that is of course supposed to laugh all the time, but it's not a laugh track

[@jeffreyantizin3731]

@@hannes.yes. its a laugh track created from a live audience. Do you think the actors nail every take the first try?.... 1 episode may be an entire day of filming. The audience can't be expected to laugh after they've heard the same joke 7 times in a row.

[@ryanspees2857]

What “Catan” player announces what they are building and then asking for the material, if you do that then no one would want to help you!

[@Diivoniis]

Ryan Spees the material you give them could benefit them so sometimes you have to think in the long run rather than the short run.

[@inago7785]

And why does he need any Sheep for a road?

[@gonzalojara398]

@@inago7785 He didn't he wanted to trade his sheep for wood.

[@ballaking1000]

@@Diivoniis It seems you have overlooked the short term.. Asking for a resource in exchange for another doesn’t require telling everyone your intentions on what you plan on doing with that new resource. It’s only situational when you want to tell everyone what your plans are.. Some examples I can give is that it’s in the endgame and you have a stuck hand on your turn and don’t want to be 7’d out.. Say you are one knight away from getting largest army so people are reluctant to trade with you.. You can then say you need the sheep for a settlement (1 point) and not largest army (2 points) in exchange for a resource you have a monopoly in. Maybe people think you’re trying to build an early settlement by asking for wood/brick when really you just want to build a road to reduce the cards held in your hand.. Maybe you’ve never bought a dev card but people are afraid you’re going to build another city with the wheat/ore you’re asking, letting them know you just want a dev card increases the chances as you aren’t really in the race for largest army, etc.. These are the moments when sharing your plan can benefit- but they’re infrequent occurrences…. And you only give out your plan when everyone has turned you down the first time. Sheldon was not playing cleverly, what you said is true but doesn’t exactly relate to the point being made by the OP.

[@Xylarxcode]

People that really need the resource you can offer in exchange for wood they don't need would be happy to make that trade. It's all about supply and demand. If you have something they want and vice versa, more often then not, a deal can be arranged. Whether you announce your plans or not depends on your group. In my group, we have a guy who plays with his cards open and frequently discusses his intentions. He ends up winning most games, because he's also really good at keeping track of what everyone else is doing and what their most likely courses of actions are and seeing to it that he either beats them to the punch, profits off their plans somehow or talks someone else into screwing them over in a way that benefits that player and himself. We have another guy who keeps everything a secret and never declares his intentions, but still loses board games very often (like 70% of the time, at least), because he never thinks far enough ahead. He's only concerned with his own plans and doesn't try to read the table and assess other people's motives and attempt to jump in on that. And most of the time, what he keeps secret isn't really that secret anyway, because when you take the resources, they are announced to the entire group. The dice landed on this number, so he got this many of resource X and Y. We remember what he has, look at the board and try to piece together his next plan of action and most often, we guess it right. You're not just playing the game, you're playing the other players too. You have to work with and against them at the most appropriate times in an attempt to come out ahead the furthest when all is said and done. Denying someone a resource because they're openly declaring their plans is dumb. If you can benefit from what they're willing to trade you for it and you can come out ahead in that deal, take it.

[@Ryan-pw9uy]

bruh this scene sounded like a pack of hyenas trapped in a room with laughing gas

[@enemycoke]

This scene needs the laugh track removed

[@JadeIsBunny]

enemycoke You can find BBT without canned laughter on youtube. It's still unfunny. Just in a funny way.

[@gandenkok6908]

They don't use laugh tracks, they have a set of people who laughs for them

[@maximummax5590]

That makes it so much worse

[@squeakybunny2776]

Every comedy show has either a laughtrack or live audience. It's normal stop whining. Have you ever seen a episode of friends Without the laughter. It's fucking akward and cringy

[@ShoppingBored]

you can just watch young sheldon. It's in a different format. single camera shooting without live audience.

[@ds41980]

Wood is sometimes used as an American slang term for the "excited" state of a certain part of the male anatomy. So every time Sheldon used the word wood in a sentence Raj and Howard laughed like immature boys at the double meaning.

[@radughita1992]

And "I have sheep now I need wood" has the double meaning of him havin Amy but not going further.

[@Zathurex95]

I never understood this joke until I saw this comment

[@GeorgiosD90]

Its just a bad joke. No word has a double meaning. Its the context that matters. And here we have just bad writing.

[@jaredmarshall9439]

This show fucking sucks

[@dunruden9720]

NSS!

[@Orf]

It disturbs me that people find this funny.

[@MegaSnake1000]

It's funny because Sheldon doesn't understand it, not because it's about dicks.

[@bradvandamme2116]

It disturbs me how uptight some people can be in this world.

[@guylaroche5]

***** calling out a show that has legitimately terrible writing is not being uptight, if a show sucks it just sucks. this is the type of garbage my 12 year old cousin would find funny. I would assume the writers in charge of show that makes 10's of millions could come up with something better than "wood means penis, hardy har har"

[@MegaSnake1000]

guylaroche5 I'd try to show you why you're wrong, but I know better.

[@guylaroche5]

MegaSnake1000 so in other words, you have nothing of substance to say and your comment was completely pointless. gotcha

[@Neverknot47]

Would be better if it werent for the worst laugh track in the history of all sitcoms

[@sienrid]

+Garrett W Not a laugh track, live filming in a studio with an audience

[@sienrid]

I'm okay with it, but some of the laughs are just hideous sometimes XD

[@alexandermilentis2130]

Sometimes they use laughter from the live audience but I think they can actually amplify the laughter and go back and alter it.

[@por22ito]

Seinfeld didn't use it that often.

[@JKT84]

Garrett W actually this shitcom manages to be even worse without the laugh track (look up Big Bang no laugh). It's almost creepy

[@freddy346ify]

no catan player would laugh at someone asking for wood. This show is terrible.

[@alexandermilentis2130]

You probably voted for Hillary Clinton.

[@diabolicallink]

you sure haven't played that game with the people I have...

[@amdll112]

BaneOfSand wood is another word for erection, and who has wood for my sheep is sex with a sheep, lol

[@armouredoutlaw1537]

Yet here you are watching a video clip anyway

[@paulgerg6879]

If I was American, I would have voted for Hillary and laughed at (and used) wood jokes in Catan. What is the point of Catan if someone can't give you wood for sheep? Though I think Shut Up and Sit Down did it better, they went to B&Q and asked a shop assistant a similar question.

[@TheAtticus19]

Hey look, it's the one joke that people make when playing Catan that gets old in like five seconds.

[@christopheralfveby9472]

Yes but trying to entice someone to trade you wood for sheep doesn’t ever get old.

[@vaughansheahan6276]

"Does anybody have wood for my sheep?" I thought sheldon was American, not welsh.

[@Danno1850]

The laugh track in this show is nauseating

[@shtuffs]

At first I thought they were laughing because the official name for the resources were lumber and wool.

[@harold3456]

You don't need any trade routes to trade with other players, just to trade with the ships. You're right about the desert, though.

[@jonenate]

I will never be able to play this game without laughing again

[@dshort4670]

And what game is this?

[@MrKooluis]

the laugh track gave me a fucking headache

[@mybelovedsushi]

They have a live audience AND a laugh track.

[@TheFarkanator]

Like they’d be playing the basic game and not an expansion....

[@Yceb0x]

Or even their own rendition(s)

[@thesteve120]

Can't think of anything clever to say.....now I know how the writers of this show feel :P

[@sinfrax]

The resources in Catan are Lumber and Wool, I don't think Sheldon would make that mistake.

[@jess9848]

In the uk (or as i play it) you need lumber and brick for a road..crazy

[@michaelzietlow280]

I wish descriptors would just tell us where it was taken from........ "The Recombination Hypothesis" S05E13 (For those in the "know"..... vote up!)

[@zathrasb55]

I was at the filming of this episode, and it was great to be part of the audience. The laughter is very real, and except for the last part of the clip, there were very few retakes done in this episode. Kunal kept reacting off of the audiences laughter and could not hold a straight face anymore, so in the final episode they cut away from him quickly. That is also why they film sitcoms in front of an audience, the actors respond better to the immediate feedback. As to the 100the episode, they

[@drkknh]

which episode is this?

[@angeliquerossouw6215]

@@drkknh Season 5 Episode 13 if I'm not mistaken

[@shagoosty]

Either the creators think that the audience at home is too stupid to know when to laugh, and adds in the laughter. Or the audience in the studio is a bunch of mouth breathers.

[@BeepingMetal]

Someone obviously read the rules before setting up the board, but had no experience playing. -Wood/Sheep instead of Wool/Lumber -Three players, but only two represented on the board -No player built anything, but two development cards are on show Maybe thinking too much about this.

[@Nomoreidsleft]

I can't hear the laugh track, because I'm laughing so hard.

[@namelessarm6273]

Sarcasm?

[@namelessarm6273]

Oop that was 8 years ago nvm

[@dmastermanga]

well, i'm not exactly sure about this episode, but to my knowledge, they actually perform 80 or even perhaps 90 percent of their material in front of a live audience. So it leaves it to uncertainty if you are displeasured by the show, or simply the audience present at the recording who choose to express their amusement through laughter. Also if you're wondering, lol yes, those audience actually sit through their cuts as well, they can be watching in the studio for the entire day if they choose

[@Duncan_Idaho_Potato]

The show is in fact recorded in front of a live audience, like most sitcoms. If you were so inclined, you could buy tickets to a live taping yourself online. 15 seconds on Google can confirm this for you, assuming you're not Google-stupid. The laughter is edited for the final episode to more closely match what is happening on the screen because audiences are inherently unpredictable and don't laugh, cheer and "awww" on cue. Just in case you've never been in an actual audience before.

[@LennoxLewis86]

At first I thought the joke was that Sheldon offering sheep for wood is laughable because wood is a more valuable resource than sheep early on. Guess the dick joke flew over my head.

[@sntzksworld]

Well not really . Most people place their starting settlements near 8 and 6 and in the default none of them are adjacent to wool. So wool is more important in my opinion since everyone gets wood easily .

[@LennoxLewis86]

+Krishang Kagzi It depends on what your strategy is; expansion or development strategy. Whether you get wood easily depends on the board and your position of placing settlements. However, no matter the set-up, wood is mostly an early game resource and sheep is more of an endgame resource. So I value wood over sheep when everyone is still trying to expand.

[@Ryoth135]

but they cant trade with each other they have no trade roots and they also have the board set up wrong i see a number on the desert, god you think Sheldon wouldn't play the game on beginner settings

[@joetheeskimo8885]

Trade route? You mean you need to have roads connected to other players? There is nothing in the rules about that.

[@rocky99949]

Oh boy Sheldon, you really didn't know what the word wood meant in this case. LOL

[@Jonohobs]

That joke is made every 5 seconds when i play this game.

[@Sungawakan]

In German the translation fits the laughter: Sheldon asks for Latte, which means both wood or a hard prick.

[@ReligiousAnarchist]

Even though there is a live audience they will still use laugh tracks, if you been to a show you will notice they will ask you to make certain noises to a certain reaction in certain tones before the show starts. They do this so they can manipulate the tone of, e.g the laughter or the shock to the way they want . Also the laughter track can be used to show the audience what they are meant to laugh at, and where the jokes are. They use the noise track for the tv audience.

[@por22ito]

I bet Leonard had purposely imagined this. I don't think this could've happened in real life.

[@alijeal]

Leonard softly shut that door but it made an almighty noise

[@DeaconTaylor]

for example check out red dwarf when they lost the audience. such a different feel. when its live you see the actors waiting for the laughs to die down before continuing to talk. series x is back in front of an audience.

[@blackwolf91000]

Howard: "Oh 8:30, you and Penny decide to go out and paint the town beige?" Leonard: "You're thirty years old and you live with your mother." Howard: "...touche"

[@ozzynut79]

Can u plz make this video clip available for mobile KZbin users? Thanks in advance

[@Ihaveafork]

It's recorded in front of a studio audience. It's not a laugh track. Just watching any of the special features shows there is an actual audience.

[@huyked]

I didn't even realize there was an audience laughing until you mentioned it. I laughed on my own.

[@Quinntus79]

I love this game, but I hate the double entendre that follow it whenever you need a certain resource for a road or settlement

[@AvPrime]

Live audience, yes. However, the recordings from the audience are often edited in post production to emphasize or deemphasize particular sections. This is sometimes called "sweetening".

[@missycroc1]

I play this at college, one time my mother calls while playing with a friend Mom: What are you doing? Me: Playing Settlers of Catan Mom: Sounds really nerdy Me: It isn't, it's actually really fun! (Continues to describe game) Then this episode pops up... crap.

[@Eric_The_Cleric]

2:28 and 2:56 were honestly the only jokes that really landed for me. Even the first time they used the sheep and wood joke it just didn't work. I think it's because they had the actors start giggling while holding their hands over their mouths like children at a pretty mundane almost joke that made me cringe. The two jokes at the timestamps, though, felt genuine for the moment rather than shoehorning in 20 of the same wood for sheep joke. I, too, like Sheldon do not understand the laughter. Fun game, though. If you get a chance try it out. Make sure you build settlements on sheep and wood producing tiles so you don't have to beg for either.

[@spencerbowden2979]

Yeah i get wood for sheep a lot. I get so much wood that it gets hard to get wood later in the game. Other players get so jealous at the size of my wood they send the bandit to attack it which just makes it harder

[@667radiance]

its a joke on the phrase "Paint the town red" which means "To go out and enjoy yourself in the evening, often drinking a lot of alcohol and dancing" Penny and Leonard did´nt have the kind of evening. Beige is a pretty dull colour. Thats the joke.

[@Blacksquareable]

Wood for sheep! It's enough to make you weep.

[@1337Koios]

It becomes a laugh track when they record it in all the tv episodes

[@LuckyOwl2114]

You can't quite compare the two - one's a board game, the other is a television show.

[@nyc914]

"oh boy do i" LMAO

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

Maybe that's what they're called in the game rules. Sheldon, as we know, is very by the books.

[@itskelvinn]

Every time there is a line without a laugh track i know the next sentence is gonna be a cheap punchline

[@WeasleyDodds]

My friends do laugh, but when i ask for stones

[@samuraihei7]

it's funny that despite sheldon's high IQ words with double meanings go over his head.

[@samuraihei7]

i was being sarcastic.

[@Pheldagriff]

nothing goes over MY head. my reflexes are too fast

[@mcnab7182]

What's the episode is this ?

[@reneeholmes3679]

wat season an episide is this? tho I do find this episode funny cuz my bf has catan an it made me think of this episode lol

[@SyzygyNoon]

That's what I call a good Wednesday evening.

[@Gatzaandr]

Play the drink every time they laugh...its tough even if your drinking non-alcoholic beverages.

[@98malimal]

"Come on, I just want wood, Why you makin' it so hard"

[@quetch2]

no, but it is a noted phenomenon that people laugh more when there are others laughing. that’s why comedies are better when watched as a group; they're just trying to cut out the part where you actually have to have other people.

[@FrodeHauge]

That doesn't mean the producers couldn't tone the laughter down, either by recording less of it or handling it in post. Most episodes it's so prevalent it detracts noticeably from my enjoyment of the show. I'll laugh at funny, I don't need the laughter of others to try to prompt me. Why do they even have it? Has it been proven having audience laughter on a show increases the amount of viewers?

[@jennyjumbles]

@CakeFullOfLies it's a live audience (: it's a lot better than those recorded ones!

[@tjmcmahon8709]

Holy crap. 💡 Sheldon is Oh from Home, isn't he?

[@SuperTyson217]

what episode is this

[@BrookeFuncke]

@CakeFullOfLies TBBT is filmed in front of a live audience.

[@henrysimmons1291]

at 0:20 I also don't understand the laughter.

[@youmustcreateachanne]

Wool & sheep are not synonymous.

[@IthilanorStPete]

Everyone's made a wood for sheep joke; what amused me was how far they went with it, they just kept going and going...

[@NewChiqueChloe]

It definitely makes it less awkward.

[@Galev12]

haha you said wood. haha... What never-before-seen subtlety of humour.

[@sylviaoconnell3622]

These jokes are honestly good! Just have a laugh and stop complaining.

[@Brad-vc9ht]

How about stop being a bitch? I don't know, somehow it works for everyone but you. Sad!

[@sylviaoconnell3622]

You're getting mad at me for enjoying comedy

[@Brad-vc9ht]

I'm getting mad at you for being a bitch. Like there's everyone else in the world who aren't being bitches and then there's you.

[@sylviaoconnell3622]

Bradley Burleson why are you even here? If you don't like it, just leave

[@SerahMusic]

They have it because laughter is contagious. Most viewers will think something is funny if they hear others laughing. I agree with you though, mostly if something has a laugh track, it's obviously not funny in itself. Worst is How I Met Your Mother, which isn't filmed in front of an audience, every laugh you hear is added in.

[@lisaaaarg01]

I don't understand the wood?

[@navtesha]

what is meaning of wood here?

[@lisasyella]

Could someone tell me why do they laugh about wood, please? TQ!

[@staniguchi123]

It's taped in front of a live audience, I don't think it's fake laughter.

[@dlighted8861]

Sandra Bullock and why does not compute.🤔 He must have wood for sheep.🤗

[@Spanyfish]

can someone explain the wood joke?

[@asaaqas]

i saw a video where chuck said they write stuff expecting a little chuckle and get raging laughter...and they showed this clip ....

[@shagoosty]

Sit through their cuts? You realize that it's a four camera sitcom right?

[@PhotonNyanKat]

They actually don't use a laugh track. They tape before a real life audience.

[@DoubleDipDelish]

Hey, you can't show your hand to other players like that!

[@EightThreeEight]

It seems like people aren't really getting the joke. The innuendo itself doesn't make this funny; it's the fact that Sheldon doesn't realise how easy it is to take what he's saying out of context.

[@dibert9]

Did anyone else notice long claw hanging on the wall?

[@whiteshadow1771]

How did he do this scene with a straight face?

[@rainbowjar3321]

110 seconds of laughter in a 3:00 minute clip

[@sarty]

@celticknotbrain They tape in front of a live audience and do not use a laugh track. Watch one of the blooper videos from the show if you want to hear:)

[@itskelvinn]

Of all the jokes they could use with catan... they choose to do the same joke 20 times in 3 minutes

[@AshAnneFirefly]

When I first watched this, I had no idea what they were laughing about. Then it hit me. Those pervs! Lol

[@sl796]

This might be the worst brand of comedy I've ever seen

[@horobirusakura999]

Maybe it's because you're too dumb to actually understand it.

[@artyhedgehog]

Bad humor is bad humor. Maybe you're just thinking you are too smart to actually understand it. Not that I haven't been the show's fan - it's just does have bad jokes aside from the good ones.

[@aandatv]

It’s not that they don’t get the joke, it’s that the joke sucks

[@miciso666]

@@aandatv some jokes are ok. its just the whole we made a joke LAUGH! *plays laugh track* creators: we are so good at this.

[@matteoviola5760]

@@miciso666 not a laugh track

[@MrElitesense]

This is common every time I play this game.... sheep + wood. Every time.

[@MMorangatang]

This is disappointing on many levels

[@worstteemona9277]

When beavis and butthead make wood jokes they are funny cuz they are being immauture, this is just aweful

[@joltkip7079]

I think they should of just had the laugh track play the whole scene

[@abhijithsebastiantips5465]

Why are they laughing when wood comes up

[@rowdy35967]

I'm torn - do I thumbs down because of the jokes in the clip, or thumbs up because the clip was uploaded?

[@dlucey123]

i don't get howard's joke "you're back early, did you and penny paint the town beige?", can somebody explain that to me?

[@matteoviola5760]

Paint the town red. Get it now?

[@imwatchingthetube]

The Big Bang Theory is filmed in front of a live audience.

[@SuperiorSwagon1]

I thought you got banned from KZbin, Sheldon?

[@thefilipskis]

What episode is this i forgot ??

[@cassiocabralgc]

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