Live Studio Audience Era
Shortly into the second season, Cheap Seats slightly changed its format by giving Randy and Jason a live studio audience and virtual "laugh track." The first episode of this particular format focused on the 1980 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. Fans of the show had by then already considered this particular moment as the period where Cheap Seats came the closest to "jumping the shark". Only six episodes were produced this way, and the studio audience was gone by the premiere of the third season on September 19, 2005. The Sklars' opening segment joked on the fact that they had removed the audience and acknowledged complaints from the fans.
The episodes with the live audience have since been re-edited in the sound department so that they cannot be heard, or minimally heard, during the regular segments of the show. Repeat telecasts of episodes produced prior to and during this period still contain a graphic instructing viewers to go to the Cheap Seats website to obtain tickets for the show.
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