If you like cats but cat videos are a bit too difficult for you to follow, despair not, for there is Animal Planet’s Too Cute. With a helpful narrator and plunky music, you will never again have to worry about what you should be feeling or thinking when you watch a kitten fall on its face.
Canned laughter is a long standing crutch of the sitcom, serving as a cue for when people are supposed to find something funny. Is this in that tradition? Are there actually people who find goofy animal videos better with this kind of cuing? Or is this a television company pathetically trying to latch on to a phenomenon taking place outside its jurisdiction, in a manner that only highlights how the media landscape is slowly slipping away from their control?
Really hoping it’s not the former.