Welcome to the weekly TV thread.

Every Original TV Score Selection of the Week this month is a hip-hop instrumental that was composed for Samurai Champloo because it’s New Dimension November. I named it after “New Dimension,” which Force of Nature—the Japanese duo of KZA and DJ Kent—composed for Champloo, one of several Shinichiro Watanabe shows that were built around trios. Eight of Cowboy Bebop’s 26 episodes were centered on the trio of Spike, Jet, and Faye. Space Dandy followed the madcap adventures of Dandy the bounty hunter, QT the robot, and Meow the feline alien. Carole & Tuesday juxtaposed its prescient storylines about the soullessness of AI-generated content in the pop music industry with the titular duo’s more old-fashioned experiences of busking, trying to write songs together, and breaking into the recording industry with the help of their loyal manager, an ex-drummer named Gus.

Meanwhile, Champloo centered on Mugen the outlaw, Jin the ronin, and Fuu the tea waitress and their quest to find Fuu’s father, a samurai who smells of sunflowers. I first watched Champloo on Netflix in 2014, while many of its American fans first discovered it on Adult Swim in 2005. Champloo ruled.

The Original TV Score Selection of the Week is Force of Nature’s “Sneak Chamber.” The badass instrumental surfaces during the battle between Mugen and Jin in Champloo’s first episode, “Shippū dotō (Storm and Stress),” which was retitled “Tempestuous Temperaments” for English-speaking countries, and again during Mugen and Jin’s rematch in a brothel at the start of “Ishindenshin sono ni (Tacit Understanding 2),” which was retitled “Hellhounds for Hire (Part 2).”

Today’s prompt is: Because the word “chamber” is in the track title, which era of Cheers do you prefer? The Diane Chambers era or the Rebecca Howe era?