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The episode that I picked was Laughter from February 22, 2008. The reason why I picked this episode is because for my BIG question I want to figure out what exactly is happiness? Therefore, I thought that this episode would go into the scientific aspects of laughter, which also goes hand and hand into happiness. In this case, this episode went into different aspects of the laughter. It started off as to when do you actually have your first laughter, and according to this episode the 40th day your existence is when you an experience your first laughter. I thought this was very interesting because I figured laughter was based upon your humor, but in reality that’s very far from. Not only did I learn about this, but also I learned that laughter has been evolved over time. The beginning of this episode went into depth on the idea of evolution. It has recorded an experiment with chimpanzees. That actually the way chimpanzees make certain noises, is just like “HA HA” except without the h’s, and increasing or decreasing the volume of the A sounding. This just struck me as interesting, that how could the way people laugh be transfered down generations. Which odd enough, my mom has always told me I would laugh like her aunt when she was young, which I just thought was bizarre. The episode went into depth on the sounding of each laugh, and the different types of pitches. I enjoyed the scientific field of laughter from this episode.