Questions to Ask If You Suspect You Might Be Living in an HGTV Show

Andrew Knott
3 min readOct 27, 2017

Have you noticed that your family and friends have inexplicably started using the word “space” to describe a room or other part of your house? For example, “Oh, what a lovely space! I really like the way the light from the window catches the cat dander dancing around the scratching post in the corner.”

If so, it is very possible that you are living in an HGTV show. Because, while people living in HGTV shows use “space” in this context on the regular, people not living in HGTV shows never do.

Have two very tall Canadian men that kind of look alike been lurking around your house? Does one look a little bit like the guy from Nickelback? Does the other look a little bit like the guy from Nickelback with a haircut and a suit?

If so, it is very likely that you are living in an HGTV show. Alternatively, you might be on tour with Nickelback. However, in that case, there would also be thousands of screaming fans engulfing your house and a sizable collection of internet memes from 2012 huddled in the corner shooting up heroin.

While completing home repairs or renovations have you been beset by a series of unforeseen calamities?

If so, it is possible that you are living in an HGTV show. While set-backs and obstacles are not uncommon in the…

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Andrew Knott

Essayist, humorist, novelist. Dad of three. Editor of Frazzled. Debut novel LOVE'S A DISASTER (May 21, 2024, Bayou Wolf Press). Website: AndrewKnottAuthor.com