Welcome to the weekly TV thread.

The Original TV Score Selection of the Week is Stu Phillips and Glen A. Larson’s Knight Rider main title theme.

And no, the Knight Rider opening titles were never narrated by James Earl Jones. Someone once said in the Couch Avocados comments section that he narrated the opening titles. Nope. Richard Basehart—GPC the robot’s favorite actor and the guy who played dying billionaire Wilton Knight in Knight Rider‘s two-hour pilot—was the narrator who led NBC viewers on “a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist” in the badass opening titles.

Knight Rider has a surprisingly massive fanbase. I would love to see the reaction of one of the show’s fans to “Yo, did you know that was James Earl Jones when he said each week that Michael Knight is a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law?”

Sometimes I have to remember that the Avocado comments sections are full of people who assume Darth Vader did Knight Rider’s opening and closing voiceovers and think Rigby from Regular Show is a squirrel, which is what someone, in fact, once said in the Animation Time thread. Uh-uh, player, Rigby’s a raccoon.

Anyway, John Finn runs one of my favorite Bluesky accounts, Discontinued Foods, where he discusses the fascinating histories of snack food brands that don’t exist anymore and short-lived menu items at restaurant chains. For a while, Finn posted a “vintage lunchbox megathread” of snapshots of artwork from old lunchboxes.

I found out from Finn’s thread that Thermos released Star Trek: The Next Generation lunchboxes, which I didn’t know existed. Before I got into TNG, I was obsessed with Robotech, the American repackaging of Tatsunoko mecha anime like Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Genesis Climber Mospeada, when it first aired in syndication. That show was made into a Thermos lunchbox as well.

When I was a kid, I didn’t own any lunchboxes that tied into a TV series like the TNG and Robotech lunchboxes. The artwork on the Knight Rider metal lunchbox, which many of my second-grade classmates brought to school, looked fantastic. (And Bonnie, not April, was on the lunchbox, too. Knight Rider fans preferred Bonnie over April as KITT’s mechanic. So did I.)

My mom didn’t get me the Knight Rider lunchbox, whose uncredited artwork reminds me of the posters the legendary Bob Peak painted for Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The Peak-style artwork is why I would have bought the Knight Rider one from eBay if I still continued to use metal lunchboxes.

When I reached first grade, my mom got me a lunchbox that was a tie-in to the Peanuts comic strip. It was most likely because I was reading Fawcett’s paperback compilations of Peanuts all the time before I was in kindergarten, whereas I only casually watched Knight Rider—which Jaime Weinman happened to refer to in 2013 as “a quintessential lunchbox show,” as in a show that was “popular in merchandising and turned up on a lot of kids’ lunchboxes”—during its original run on NBC.

Thermos’s gold Peanuts lunchbox was the only lunchbox I used before I permanently switched from lunchboxes to lunch bags in second grade because the brown bag was much less cumbersome.

Today’s prompt is: Did you use a TV-related lunchbox when you were a kid, and if you did, what show was on the lunchbox? Was KITT on the lunchbox?

Next week: KingKat takes over Couch Avocados and discusses a short-lived but legendary live music series that premiered that week in 1988: Sunday Night, later known as Night Music.