one of my friends had this lunch box

The fact that I can remember this episode is an indication that I was very disturbed too.

Officer Jim Reed's posture disturbs me.

now that Adam-12 and Emergency! run daily on one of the cable retro channels, I was able to consume a heck of a lot of it while stuck in a dumb bartending/hillbilly casino job for a year where TV watching was suddenly like...necessary. In addition to the absolutely wacky depictions of law enforcement and crime, the game of "where are we in Los Angeles now?" as a former Angeleno is extremely engaging.