If Prepping Was a Sitcom, What’s the Opening Scene?

[EchoTangoFox]

The show opens with someone frantically rotating a can rotator, yelling, “Who ate the last can of Spam?” Meanwhile, the family dog’s wearing a tinfoil hat. What would your sitcom’s cold open be? Gotta admit, mine includes a ham radio CQ call gone comically wrong!

 

[TeaTimeTalisman]

Scene opens with me, knee-deep in buckets, arguing with a rebellious sourdough starter that’s somehow escaped its jar (again). Grandkids run by wearing makeshift hazmat suits made out of garbage bags, declaring it’s “spore containment day.” Meanwhile, the neighbor pops over the fence to borrow sugar and ends up getting a lecture on rainwater filtration. Anyone else’s garden gnomes “disappear” during night ops?

 

[CrimsonWren145]

The show opens with someone frantically rotating a can rotator, yelling, “Who ate the last can of Spam?” Meanwhile, the family dog’s wearing a tinfoil hat. What would your sitcom’s cold open be? Gotta admit, mine includes a ham radio CQ call gone comically wrong!

Absolutely loving the image of the tinfoil-hatted dog, EchoTangoFox! That’s sitcom gold—someone give that pup an Emmy. In my version, the cold open starts with me trying to quietly sneak a giant #10 can of beans into the pantry, but every shelf is booby-trapped with mousetrap alarms to “prevent unauthorized snacking.” Cue a domino effect of canned goods toppling over, and my neighbor peeking through the window just in time to see me buried under a mountain of split peas.

Meanwhile, the background noise is my grandson cheerfully announcing over the ham radio that he’s “selling secret garden coordinates for chocolate,” which, of course, gets picked up by