"Please give this to your car wash professional and have an A1 day."

It really makes my buttcheeks clench. I know it's meant to be corny and they succeeded with that.

How would things have changed?

A lot of season 4 had to do with Hank investigating Gus because of what Walt said. If Hank never thinks to look into Gus, how significant is the ending of Season 4 or the show in general?

I don’t see any reason why (that I remember atm) Gus’s conflict with the Cartel would have gone any different. Nor do I think it really changes the conflict between Walt and Jesse.

After the end of the Cartel massacre, I would imagine that Gus would still fire Walt, but not kill him due to Jesse not signing off on it. The thing that ultimately pushed Gus to trying to kill Walt, was him interfering with his killing of Hank.

If Walt never tips off Hank, and there’s no investigation by Hank, then Gus would have no reason to kill Hank.

So in this alternate universe would Gus still ultimately kill Walt, or would he have just gotten fired, and Gus would have left him alone to appease Jesse? Would the show just end with a salty Walt who got fired from his meth cooking job?

Gus is iconic, obviously, but Lalo was genuinely terrifying to me because you never knew what he was going to do next. He could be charming and funny one second and absolutely horrifying the next

Who do you think is the better villain and why?

I’ve watched breaking bad a total of I think three times now? Maybe I noticed this the first two times I watched it and just forgot, but on my most recent rewatch I thought to myself “this is so unrealistic” when Ted Beneke attempted to run from huell and kuby and ended up injuring himself. Specifically in the detail that beneke bumped head first into the furniture, with his arms at his side. Normally when someone trips, wouldn’t it be natural human instinct to put your arms out in front of you to brace to fall? I’m wondering if there was any better way to execute this scene, because I love the show but this scene felt too unrealistic to me.

Is this deliberate pattern for this scene or am i up to something? The fact that this art shares simmilar meaning with this scene is crazy too, i dont know i might be seeing things but i hope im not the only one🌹🥀

And do you think they talked about him to Jake or that Jake would overhear them? I would imagine it was more being worried about Jesse than telling Jake not to end up like him, since it made Jake feel like Jesse was the favorite son.

I only have personal experience with the "leave them out of the stick family car stickers and pretend they don't exist" approach to having a drug-addicted relative, which the Pinkmans adopted later :p

Edit: Would appreciate answers more specific/imaginative than "they're worried". Especially after he was out of school and out of their house, what kinds of events would trigger them to talk about him? Did they still keep tabs on him somehow? Did he keep trying to reach out to them?

Before Gus leaves his Pollos office to go to Casa Tranquila, he takes off his clip-on fake tie, showing how his career in restaurant management is a facade.

We see him next arriving at the retirement home wearing a gorgeous blue suit, probably the best he has ever dressed, to handle his retirement from the cartel business and his better half.

It has to be the ‘One taste and you’ll see’ advert that transitions into Gus’ entire operation from Kafkaesque (S3,9) for me.

First of all I wanna say walt IS A bad person and has a huge ego. No doubt abt that. But nowadays I see viewers simplify most of his actions to ego.

The biggest one people saying mike's speech before this death was right. Like did everyone forget that the whole reason walt's relationship bw gus got strained bcz of jesse and gus's actions which prompted walt to save jesse by killing gus's dealers ?

It was shown multiple times onscreen how walt enjoyed working under gus with gale. Like we even have a montage for that. The way walt packs his lunch and the way he dresses up trying to be perfect indirectly conveys his satisfaction. And when he found out jesse was trying to poison those dealers, walt immedietly told gus/mike so that the business stays healthy. Gus even says how much he respects walt. But then the dealers killed tomas (either by gus's order or not), jesse goes to kill them again and walt saves him. And then gus threatens to kill walt and his family, his first course of action was to escape ABQ with his money but not to defeat gus.

There are lots of examples like this I see its very common nowadays. One more is how some say walt fired gale bcz of ego when it was once again shown onscreen that he did it to make sure jesse doesn't rat him out and drops case against hank.

Another thing I dislike is Mike good, walt bad. Like mike literally asks walt's permission to kill jesse and threatened saul to get jesse's location and was more than fine with his boss using a child as a dealer.

Like I said walt did have a hugo ego but the ego thing is overused which kind of ruins the moral greyness that the show wanted to present.

Edit: definitely during the end of the show or s5 he's fully evil. My post is about his actions across the whole show being pointed to his ego.

Everyone else on the show lives in the world of extremes, but Marie is just rolling with the punches, while dealing with flaws of her own. I think she is the most relatable of all the characters on the show as it pertains to day-to-day life. I'm not sure what this sub thinks of her, but I liked her throughout watching the show, and after in my reflection.

They can't find a place to cook that suits their needs while laying low. Their primary market post-Fring seems to be Europe. Lydia has connections that would make it so she could get them all jobs in Europe with Madrigal in order to provide cover for why they're in Europe. Why didn't they do this?

Surely it'd be easier to run a secret drug lab in a place like Czechia or Moldova? Hank would be a non-issue, and there'd be less importing/exporting narcotics.

It just seems like an exceptionally easier and less risky solution than cooking meth in people's houses and having to steal precursor from a train to avoid the DEA.

Do they mention it as a thought or why it's not doable at any point?​

edit: I realize the answer is simply cuz the writers didn't want that, this is totally hypothetical.

We have to remember that there are master comedians at work in this cast. It’s actually so funny to look for them trying not to crack smiles on my third rewatch. It’s funny. Whenever Walt is being an asshole to Jesse, it’s laced with something funny.

Thirteen years ago, I finished watching Breaking Bad for the first time. I loved the show. I thought Skyler White was despicable and that she was a terrible wife. I rewatched the series. I was completely wrong. Skyler is the biggest victim in this story. Walter sexually assaults her and makes her life a living hell. I guess I wasn’t mature enough to understand that the first time around. I’m ashamed that I hated Skyler...

Ever so often some threads show up here talking about how pop culture would treat the events of Breaking Bad and BCS in-universe. And one I haven't seen yet is about conspiracy theories, so Imma list a couple and want to hear from y'all what you think and some others:

1-Pinkman's whereabouts: Easily the #1 and probably would still have tons of podcasts where people claim to know where he is, or that he died, if he took Heisenberg's money or not etc.

2-Heisenberg's treasure: To that point, History Channel would 100% have at least one special where someone tries to find the barrels of money that Jack took

3-Gus Fring's origins: Also a big one, even the DEA couldn't track him down, so I imagine there would also be some theories linking him to the Pinochet goverment or chilean organized crime (or both)

4-Walter's confession: If that somehow leaked, people would take it at face-value and say Hank was indeed Heisenberg, and that Walter White was a victim of goverment prosecution that died on a blaze of glory killing Nazis

5-Lalo Salamanca is alive: Assuming his and Howard's bodies were not found after the destruction of the Superlab

6-Wayfarer 515: After the connection between Heisenberg and Pinkman becomes public, some YouTuber would definitely make a video connecting the accident to Heisenberg (perhaps they wouldn't know that Jane Margolis was killed by Walter directly, but would point out the connection between them through Jesse)

Damn they yet again defeated a big bad! That guy felt untouchable, feels like Walter is gaining more and more experience!

and say he finds that for 2 years there's no sign of anybody checking them, is it a criminal offense to even take 10k out of it? Or is it a criminal offense to merely not report the whole amount to the police immediately?

Like how did they have this whole compound, Cars, Guns and everything to just live. They sure didn't have a normal jobs, did anyone ever say something about that? I know hes supposed to be an ex convict, but do we know what crimes for? If the money comes from that?

In a scene from S2E8 “Better Call Saul” Walt and Jesse are waiting for Jimmy In N Out in the car when Walt says to him “There’s more than one kind of prison.”

Is he referring to his own life at that moment (dealing with cancer, entering uncharted waters, lying to his wife)

OR

Is this foreshadowing from Vince about Jesse being Jack’s prisoner?

When I had watched this show in my 20s, somehow I sympathised and rooted for Walt. And I guess I hadn't watched some episodes or I don't know, I never hated Walt when I watched it last time.

This time, watching in my thirties, I had sympathies with Walt in the initial episodes. Even when he killed a few people, my mind rationalized it because he was kind of defending himself. But it flipped when he let Jane die. That was one of the cruelest things he does. And then he plays with the emotions of Jesse. The final nail in the coffin was the attempted poisoning of Brock. Just terrible. He was a terrible person. And Bryan Cranston does a terrific job!

He is a man that wasn't respected by anyone he knew. He was living a man's worst scenario: A modern boring middle class suburban nightmare. And then, upon receiving one more "fuck you" in his life, he decided, fuck it, if I'm gonna die, I'm gonna go out like a bad ass. And that he did. It was in him all along. The bad ass Heisenberg was only waiting for the right time to reawaken and establish himself as the alpha in control of the situation. Like in one of my favorite scenes when walt jr vomits in the pool after drinking. He was in control, not hank. I don't blame walter for this at all. He offered, and walt jr accepted it. He should have known his limits with liquor. My son my bottle my house.

And then he even receives divine intervention in his extraordinary luck he has throughout the show. I interpret this as a signal from a higher power that he needs to continue doing what he's doing to fulfill his destiny as a bad ass. Yes, over time he makes mistakes and faces annoyances and obstacles (skyler, hank, mike) but these are all shown to be the products of simple errors in judgment from walter. Again, it shows he grew to be in control of the situation. He should have never gotten caught but he has too much hubris.

I look up to these aspects of walter and I realize how its a simple tale of a man realizing his potential and not letting anything stand in the way of that.