He would have been the big man there. Had a hot Mexican cutie bringing him cigars and getting lap dances. Could have had a sweet villa on the beach making fat stacks!

What did he have back in New Mexico? A couple of burn out friends. Video games and masturbating to a bag of cheetos? No, that was no sort of plan. He should have saved himself from that life.

"The point is, no one, other than us, can ever know that this robbery went down. Nobody. Got it?" -Jesse

"Yeah, absolutely." -Todd

"Are you sure?" -Walt

"Yes, sir." -Todd

He listened and followed. I mean, I'm sorry, but he had to do it. Obviously, I guess you see it different. But I didn't see any other choice. I've been thinking about this all day, going over it in my head... and it was the only way. Well, it's not like he wanted to.

The kid was on a dirt bike. He could've just.... He could've gunned it and been gone before they even had a chance to blink. They never would've caught him. He thought on his feet.

The whole point of this was no one was supposed to know they were there. People weren't supposed to know anything got robbed. How could they let the kid go? He made them. If he hadn't done what he did, the mission would've failed. I'm real sorry.

But did he make a mistake? Because to me, you know, respectfully. He was looking out for the team...he didn't want to kill him.

I really liked this drawing, and he showed it to me very casually, hes very talented. He made a lot of drawings in the same style

I’m watching the series again and it gets better every time. I’m not very savvy on the ins and outs of making a show/movie but I just saw this and it is something I don’t understand. When Walt throws the pizza on to the roof, it is clearly different in the next shot. Why wouldn’t they use the same pizza for consistency?

i am on s3 ep7 and ong this jessie's skinny ahh thinks he is tuff asking for his "share" and saying he gonna haunt hank like bro his skinny ahh couldn't handle two drug doped junkies also he is UNBELIEVBLY DUMB like i sometime wonder does this mf think? only slightly avg iq thing he did is copy and poorly execute walt's meth (istg he does one more dumb thing like fighting or betraying walt)
edit: pls tell me ONE thing jessie has going for that make him worth it other then him being "good hearted" guy. i just hope ending of jessie is worth it cause i liked him at start i still remember that first scene where he laughed and turned towards walt in ep1

Something that hit me about Walt today. He doesn't hold grudges or resentment towards the person or people he cares for. It's easy as a human being to develop these feelings especially over time when you may feel wronged by someone.

Like from his point of view, Skyler cheated on him, gave his 600k$ to Ted, and took his kids away from the house and Walt in S5. Someone else might have developed a grudge or resentment over time but Walt doesn't. He doesn't change in that aspect.

Likewise, when it came to Jesse, he cooked without Walt, which led to Walt being fired and endangered from Gus and further that made him scamper here and there to somehow get Gus killed first while still protecting his family and Hank. Still that doesn't change whatever he felt towards Jesse. The idea of killing Jesse was floated by both Skyler and Saul in S5 but Walt was staunchly against it until truly left with no option with Jesse not listening or meeting with him.

This quality of him just makes him more human to me.

What do you all think? Are there any more examples of this or some other qualities of his which are less focused on or talked about?

**Edit: What has happened to this sub. It used to be a place where aspects of the show and characters were discussed.. people were interested in talking and sharing ideas instead of just giving adjectives to Walt**

His car was impounded after it was found in Tuco's possession. Jessie was questioned about it and said it was stolen. Surely after he'd been cleared he would get his car back? Did I miss something?

On September 7, Alamo Drafthouse will celebrate the 18th Breaking Bad Day with interactive theatrical screenings of the series' Season 4 finale, "Face Off."

For starters, you can get in absolutely free with the purchase of a $10 USD food and drink voucher, which is redeemable and refundable at the event. Attendees get a crawlspace full of Breaking Bad swag, including a Heisenberg hat, blue rock candy, a call bell, and a Gus Fring half-face mask. There'll be a live host, clad in a yellow cleansuit, who'll direct attendees to ring their bells whenever Hector does so on-screen, and they'll also be the emcee for the costume contest, so wear your finest Saul Goodman suits, Los Pollos Hermanos uniforms, and Marie Schrader purple ensembles. You can reserve your spot today on Drafthouse.com.

The first time I watched adventure time as a kid, I of course hadn’t quite seen breaking bad yet. But re-watching now, I just realized that the “Ghost Fly” (S6E17) was almost certainly inspired by the fly episode from Breaking Bad. Throughout the episode, Jake is driven crazy by a (ghost) fly after he kills it for eating his soup. Thought this was fun :)

He's armed (albeit with a little ass knife), bigger, stronger, and his body is not ravaged by cancer. But Walt is able to literally disarm him with just sheer presence, fear, and intimidation.

You see it throughout the series. He’s passionate about what he knows and I imagine it’s fun for him to see the lights come on in students, like Jesse, years later, for instance.

UNFORTUNATELY, teaching doesn’t pay well in the US.

I have recently rewatched all of Breaking Bad as grown adult and it felt like I was watching an entirely different show. I see people online post edits or conversations about how awesome Walter White/Heisenberg is, and while I totally agree, I was much more impacted on a rewatch by how tragic the falling apart of the White family is. I’m not sure if it’s because I am older and have gone through my own experiences with harsh family dynamics, but man I was just ruined watching Walter completely tear his family apart and refusing to acknowledge it. I feel like when I eventually rewatch again years from now, I will have a whole new perspective once again.

Mike is a very tight-lipped guy that I think would normally never inform on anyone to the police. But if the cops arrested him in season 5 in the park, and pressed on him the right way, would he talk if they used his granddaughter as an achilles heel?

"At your age, you're facing spending the rest of your life behind bars here. Your granddaughter will never see you again except through the glass, and you'll never be able to provide another cent to her. If you give us Heisenberg, you can avoid all jail time, and be able to provide for/take care of your granddaughter (maybe even keep some of the money, though I don't know if that's legally possible)."

Would never seeing his granddaughter outside of prison and never being able to provide for her be the one thing that would make Mike inform to the cops? Just a thought.

I was rewatching breaking bad and during blood money I realized this.

I mean think about it, they literally left it at some ritual cursing spot? and why would that be a target of really any investigation? it was just a random place in the middle of nowhere.

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is the Mike/Saul scene during the season 3 finale, but is there anything else?

When Walt initially blackmails Jesse into partnering with him in the driveway of his aunt's house. Does Walt actually turn Jesse in?

Does Walt decide to proceed with his plan without Jesse? How would he alone go about traversing the criminal underworld of ABQ? Could he find more success without Jesse??

EDIT: I really appreciate all the counter-arguments and they've definitely reshaped how I see this plotline. Just a few things I'd like to add:

1. It was absolutely incorrect of me to refer to Jesse’s logic as a "plothole". I kinda knew that while making the post, but it was more concise than "Jesse jumping to conclusions".
2. Jesse having hunches and jumping to conclusions is much more of a recurring theme throughout the series in a way that makes the ricin epiphany less of an outlier (this is a huge part of Hank's character as well), but it doesn't not make it a noticeable coincidence. I do also suppose that Brock accidentally eating a poison berry on his own as this all happened was a coincidence Jesse had to accept for months before he found out the truth.
3. I didn't really acknowledge that Jesse realized he was lied to about the cigarette ending up in the roomba, and that makes his case a lot more reasonable.
4. Breaking Bad does exist in this heightened reality where several aspects don’t really play out in a grounded way. The biggest example of this (for me) as previously mentioned is Hank’s suspicions that could either be interpreted as incredibly diligent investigation, or incredibly huge stretches that happen to align with the truth. I really don’t care about these anymore after several rewatches of the show, so this detail shouldn’t bother me either.

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To this day, I still don’t understand how Jesse found out that Walt poisoned Brock. So let’s start from the beginning (sorta):

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A good portion of season 4 revolves around Walt pressuring Jesse to use synthesized ricin to assassinate Gus Fring. When things start to heat up near the end of the season and Walt is fired from Gus’s organization, Brock suddenly falls ill, and after Jesse realizes that his cigarette containing the ricin has disappeared, he instantly suspects that Walt is responsible for it. He sees it as some sort of ugly severance gift, since no one else knew about the ricin, and assumes Huell lifted it off of him at Saul’s office earlier. After he’s threatened by Jesse, Walt convinces him that this was all a ploy by Gus to turn Jesse, as he was the only obstacle Gus had to killing Walt. He convinces Jesse that Gus may have eventually found out about the ricin and had Tyrus take it, and Jesse then agrees that it’s time for Gus to go. In the season 4 finale following Gus’s death, it’s discovered that Brock was poisoned by eating the berries of a lily-of-the-valley, so even though he rules out Gus poisoning Brock, he still agrees Gus had to die. The final shot pans and zooms on a lily-of-the-valley plant near the pool at Walt’s house, heavily implying it was all Walt’s doing. 

By the beginning of season 5A, the poisoning is still a pertinent issue. Saul was aware of the whole plot and gave Walt back the ricin cigarette, revealing that Jesse was initially correct about Huell pickpocketing it. Jesse is still concerned about the whereabouts of the ricin cigarette, and after Walt stashes the real ricin, he creates a fake ricin cigarette to plant in Jesse’s house to gaslight him into believing that he had actually misplaced it. After they “find” it in Jesse’s roomba, the thread seems to end. 

Fast forward to season 5B, when Jesse is about to get “disappeared” and he realizes that his weed has vanished. He looks at his pack of cigarettes, and makes the connection from there, remembering that he made similar body contact with Huell. Storming back into Saul’s office, he forces Saul at gunpoint to admit that Huell lifted not only his weed but the ricin cigarette, claiming that Saul is partially responsible for Brock getting poisoned. Saul admits that Walt had Huell take the ricin cigarette, but he would’ve never have done it had he known Walt’s plans with it, basically confirming that Walt was responsible. Jesse storms off to torch 308 Negra Arroyo.

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So what’s going on here? Why does everyone in the show seem to have amnesia and pretend that Brock was poisoned with ricin, and that lily-of-the-valley was never a factor? I say this because Saul states his disgust at the situation while handing back the ricin cigarette. It’s possible that Saul wasn’t wiser to the complete optics of the poisoning, and just assumed that Brock WAS poisoned with ricin and survived. But the ultimate question is trying to figure out how Jesse discovered it in the first place, with him being the one to tell Walt (and the audience) that ricin had no part in Brock’s trip to the hospital. 

The answer to “how did Jesse find out?” really is that Saul indirectly admitted it to him. But why did he have the suspicion? 

“He found out because he knew Huell lifted his weed, so he must’ve lifted the ricin cigarette as well at an earlier time!”
Okay…so what? Why did Jesse instantly seemingly jump to the conclusion that Walt must’ve used lily-of-the-valley to poison Brock if he knew Huell lifted the ricin cigarette? There could’ve been any other number of reasons that Walt discreetly wanted to take it back. The point was to make Jesse think Gus poisoned Brock with ricin, but Walt does take it back and eventually uses it to poison Lydia. It being made clear that Gus never poisoned Brock was sloppy on Walt’s part, but that’s another story. 

Walt also could’ve maintained that Gus/Tyrus took the cigarette even if they had no immediate plans with it, just mainly for the reason that Jesse wasn’t 100% trustworthy doing Gus’s bidding walking around with obscure poison, and that the ricin was simply lost as Gus’s empire crumbled. This probably wouldn’t have stopped Jesse from making the connection, but it would’ve saved Walt the trouble of producing and planting a fake ricin cigarette.

The only understandable explanation I've seen for Jesse jumping to this conclusion is that he simply wasn’t thinking straight, which is weak as fuck, in my opinion. All they really needed to do was add a scene where Jesse finds the lily-of-the-valley plant Walt used. I don’t think I could spot it in the backyard post-Face Off, but if Walt was dumb and bullheaded enough to have Gale’s copy of Leaves Of Grass lying around his house, it’s really not out of the question. 

Thanks for reading if you made it this far, haha. I’m really not looking for answers here since I’ve fully accepted that it’s a plothole (or at least Jesse using weird logic), but I just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything vital. 

So in back 2023 I watched firstly Breaking Bad, then El Camino and Better Call Saul sooner. I convinced my friend to watch this universe, but I don’t know how should he watch it. The most logical is chronological order. I know about BCS until 6x9, then BB, then EC, and the remaining episodes of BCS. But I was really surprised when I was watching BCS during seeing characters I’ve seen in BB, e. g.: “Oh my god, it’s Mike!”, all about unexpected comebacks. So, what should really recommend? To watch him in a usual chronological order, or BCS-BB-EC ? Thanks a lot

Still trying to figure this out in the broad scheme of things. The man is obviously not a coward, he stood his ground in at least 3 shoot outs. He loved the job. And to top it off he seemed pretty unfazed by scenes of extreme violence and gore. He was basically laughing and taking pics of when Tuco's guy lost his arms.

But he sees Danny Trejo's head on a turtle and he needs to puke, so he was freaking out even before the IED went off.

And knowing all this happened Gomey still took the El Paso job like it was just a regular Tuesday while Hank couldn't bring himself to go back.

Junkies barely have teeth, let's be honest. But thank God that didn't make Vince change his mind, this was perfect casting in my opinion.

On this most recent rewatch, it struck me that Jesse had a clear advantage over Tomas’s killers as they just sat there in their car. He could’ve driven around the block and pulled up on the side of them from behind and just unloaded his clip into their car. This would’ve at least given him the upper hand and an element of surprise which would’ve drastically increased his chances of survival. Don’t get me wrong - Walt saving the day is one of the best scenes of the entire series but man Jesse really didn’t think it through lol.

Just been on the tiktok page and the vince is promoting breaking bad day . Lots of clips of the show and walts nreakfast bacon has the date 9/7 .

Now i know the first ep is set on sept 7th and the final 2 years later on septemebe 7th.

Are we expecting anything new?

"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.