The cold open of your sitcom pilot may be the most important two pages you will ever write in your life, unless you write a long ransom note for yourself or jot down an ancient family recipe to pass on. You have so much work to do in those two pages: you have to introduce us to a world we will want to inhabit, introduce us to characters we're going to want to spend time with, and you have to hook us with hard, funny jokes (it's a sitcom- it needs com). In this episode I talk about two of my favorite-ever cold opens (I have about a hundred), both of which coincidentally (seriously, I chose them first then realized it) use punk rock at the top of the show- AP Bio and Reservation Dogs.