History Recap / BetterCallSaulS3E6OffBrand

* WhamLine: "Call me, Saul Goodman!"
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Paige praises Kim for the tag team job she and Jimmy did on Chuck. But Kim stirs uncomfortably as [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone she's anything but proud]] [[KickTheDog about what they did to an old man suffering from mental health problems, and who remains Jimmy's brother no less]].

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Paige praises Kim for the tag team job she and Jimmy did on Chuck. But Kim stirs uncomfortably as [[MyGodWhatIDone she's anything but proud]] [[KickTheDog about what they did to an old man suffering from mental health problems, and remains Jimmy's brother no less]].

* MedalOfDishonor: Paige praises Kim for the tag team job she and Jimmy did on Chuck. But Kim stirs uncomfortably as [[MyGodWhatIDone she's anything but proud]] [[KickTheDog about what they did to an old man suffering from mental health problems, and remains Jimmy's brother no less]].

* WhamLine: "Call me, Saul Goodman!"

* Irony: The UNM film crew's attempts to match Jimmy's advertising flair. The drama girl is wooden; the sound guy can't remember the lines; the camera guy never even gets a shot.

-->'''Arturo:''' Luneta talked to our guy in Los Lunas. Looks like Tuco knifed a guy. But he definitely broke a guard's jaw, they got him in solitary.

* {{Irony}}: Rebecca asks with complete sincerity what is Jimmy's "excuse" not to go and help his brother out of his reclusion and depression. She has no idea that 1) Jimmy is not a shining example of mental health himself 2) some of the shit her ex-husband has done.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When Jimmy disowns Chuck and refuses to help him, Rebecca replies that Chuck was right about him all along. Not that it would mean anything since Chuck is practically dead to him the moment he revealed his true nature.

** Rebecca telling Jimmy to do what's right. Aww, are Jimmy's heartstrings tugged and he now rushes to the aid of his stricken brother? Nope, Jimmy has finally learned that lesson good and hard, and tells Rebecca no.

* WhamLine: "Call me, Saul Goodman!"
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Averted by Jimmy, who just plain doesn't want to help Chuck when Rebecca asks him to. Chuck had pretended to go off the deep end before to entrap him. Although quite what Rebecca thought Jimmy could achieve, after hearing Chuck's rant, is unclear, it ''is'' clear that Chuck certainly won't be opening the door for Jimmy if Rebecca tried for an hour and failed.

Stacey takes Mike to a grief support group, explaining how their family is adjusting to [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS1E6FiveO Matt's death]]. Stacey volunteers Mike to build a church playground, explaining that Matt always told her about how Mike let him pour concrete for their garage. Meanwhile, Chuck allows Howard in for some fine wine and harsh advice: leave Jimmy to his own devices and focus on rebuilding himself. What would Clarence Darrow have done if he wasted his talents on babysitting wayward siblings? Chuck agrees: "To new beginnings." Later, he forces himself to remove and then hold the [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS3E1Mabel battery from his tape recorder]] in his hand.

Jimmy pitches a commercial to the owners of a carpet store, produced for cheap and broadcasted for free. While interested, they balk when he explains that they must film immediately as the air time is about two hours away. Jimmy gives his film crew the bad news. When the make-up girl suggests they make a commercial for himself, he gets an idea. He drives to a satellite dish array to film his ad, but hesitates when he realizes that going into marketing after making his name as a lawyer would seem "off-brand" (to say the least). He asks for the make-up artist's satchel; he's going to "Karloff this shit."

Nacho tells Hector about his standoff. Arturo takes a sudden phone call, prompting Hector to privately ask Nacho where his father gets his upholstery. When he warily replies with Jalisco, Hector tells him that he wants to circumvent Gus by using the upholstery shop as his new front business. Nacho explains that his father has no prior involvement with crime, but Hector "reassures" him that he can be taught and will be well-compensated. Arturo comes back in to report that Tuco got in a fight with a guard and another inmate and extended [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS2E4GlovesOff his prison sentence]], provoking Hector into flipping tables. When he suddenly has a coughing fit, Arturo brings him some pills that he spills in his rage. Nacho makes sure to cover an unnoticed pill with his foot as Hector leaves.

** Despite Hector getting Mike to say that the gun was his in order for him to have a shorter prison sentence, Tuco just had to up and attack several prisoners and a guard, thus extending it.

* BigWhat: Hector screams this trope when he finds out that Tuco just extended his own prison sentence thanks to severely injuring a prison guard.

* {{Jerkass}}: Tyrus shows to be true to his ''Breaking Bad'' self when stopping Nacho from getting the sixth chunk of money in a blunt, sarcastic manner.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Nacho seems to be thinking of getting out from under Hector's thumb after an episode of humiliations. Hector makes him beat Krazy-8 for being late with a payment, uses him as a pawn in his rivalry with Gus (and doesn't seem to care about Victor and Tyrus holding him at gunpoint), then expects him to turn his father's car upholstery business into a front for drug-running. The way he studies the pill that Hector dropped is revealing, as if he was thinking of swapping them out for placebos after finding out what they are for.
* MovingTheGoalposts: Hector asks Nacho to take six pallets of drugs instead of the original five solely to piss off Gus. It doesn't work, as Gus simply let him have it while working on his bigger project.

* VillainousBreakdown: The disastrous outcome of his testimony before the bar causes Chuck to hole himself up in the house and refuse to answer the door. Rebecca spends an hour knocking on the door, and Howard only compels Chuck to let him in when he says he won't leave until they've had a chance to talk.

* AskAStupidQuestion: Rebecca asks with complete sincerity what is Jimmy's "excuse" not to go and help his brother out of his reclusion and depression. Well, let's just say there's plenty of reason for Jimmy ''not'' to help Chuck.

* [[IHaveNoSon I Have No Brother]]: Almost word for word by Jimmy ("not anymore, he's not" when Rebecca points out that Chuck is Jimmy's brother and should be helped), who has ''finally'' decided to cut the cord with Chuck.

** Subverted, though, as the question falls flat on the audience — that knows quite well how justified Jimmy's resentment is and that Chuck has been doing that before his mental illness showed up, although he is seen very hurt for the whole situation (either his brother's suffering or his backstabbing).

* RealityEnsues:
** Jimmy discredited Chuck's testimony and avoided getting disbarred for destroying evidence. However, he still committed a violent felony and has to face consequences for it by having his license suspended for a year. This wrecks his business, since he has to inform all his clients of what happened and is unlikely to regain most of them as clients in a year. He is not allowed to advertise, which means all the airtime he bought on the local TV station would go to waste.
** Nacho thought that he could keep his criminal and private lives separate, but he works for Hector, who does not respect such desires. If Hector can further his own interests by exploiting someone's family, he will do it.

** Gus inspects the industrial laundry that will eventually become the site of the superlab – and specifically has bought it for that purpose, instead of starting it as a legitimate business and then repurposing it later. He is also in contact with Lydia, establishing for the first time his partnership with Madrigal.
** The sequence of Victor and Tyrus offloading the drugs from the truck at the Los Pollos Hermanos distribution plant is very similar to the opening montage of Walt's meth being loaded ''onto'' trucks in "Kafkaesque", right down to having similar music.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Averted by Jimmy, who just plain doesn't want to help Chuck when Rebecca asks him to. Chuck had pretended to go off the deep end before to entrap him. Although quite what Rebecca thought Jimmy could achieve, after hearing Chuck's rant, is unclear, it ''is'' clear that Chuck certainly won't be opening the door for Jimmy if Rebecca tried for an hour and failed.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: Beginning to embrace ruthlessness, Jimmy tells a disappointed delivery man he could make his dollar tip a zero. A threat he picked up from his own cruel probation officer.

* You are what you Hate: Beginning to embrace ruthlessness, Jimmy tells a disappointed delivery man he could make his dollar tip a zero. A threat he picked up from his own cruel probation officer.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"''The guy at the station said he'd never seen so many star wipes in a row!''"]]

At the Los Pollos Hermanos chicken farm, Victor and Tyrus get cocaine from the false bottom of a supply truck. Nacho and Arturo arrive to collect Hector's share, but Nacho gets a gun pulled on him when he takes six kilos: Hector promised five. Nacho explains that Hector expects him to return with six kilos. Tyrus calls Gus, who approves the deal; he's got bigger plans in mind then Hector's petty games, as it is revealed that he's standing in an industrial laundromat for sale. Lydia is waiting for him in a car parked out front. "So?" "It could work," he responds.

* AskAStupidQuestion: Rebecca asks with complete sincerity what is Jimmy's "excuse" not to go and help his brother out of his reclusion and depression. Well let's just say there's plenty of reason for Jimmy NOT to help Chuck.

** Subverted though, the question falls flat on the audience that knows quite well how justified Jimmy's resentment is and that Chuck has been doing that before his mental illness showed up, although he is seen very hurt for the whole situation (either his brother's suffering or his backstabbing).

* BreatherEpisode: On the Jimmy front, at least. While spending most of the episode trying to figure out what to do with his year long suspension ''and'' his remaining commercial air time, he manages to come up with the idea of making commercials for other people. The only real conflict was with Kim and him arguing about the building they use and whether or not to get rid of Francesca.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Once again Hector takes pills and looks unwell, this time after the news Tuco has just increased his prison sentence with a prison attack – especially as one of the victims was a guard. Closer and closer does he approach to [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport what we all know is coming]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: Hector, who believes that 'la familia es todo' (the family is all), wants Nacho to jeopardize his father's business by converting it into a front for drug-running. Either that, or he truly believes this is a gift for Nacho's father.

* {{Jerkass}}: Tyrus shows to be true to his Breaking Bad self when stopping Nacho from getting the sixth chunk of money in a blunt, sarcastic manner.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Nacho shows little if any response to flaying his hand with the sewing machine.

* MovingTheGoalPosts: Hector asks Nacho to take six pallets of drugs instead of the original five solely to piss off Gus. It doesn't work as Gus simply let him have it while working on his bigger project.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Nacho tries to go easy on Krazy-8 but he is too merciful in front of Hector. When Nacho realizes that Hector thinks him to be weak, he has no choice but to deliver a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Krazy-8 or risk Hector thinking that he has no use for Nacho.

** Jimmy discredited Chuck's testimony and avoided getting disbarred for destroying evidence. However, he still committed a violent felony and has to face consequences for it by having his license suspended for a year. This wrecks his business since he has to inform all his clients of what happened and is unlikely to regain most of them as clients in a year. He is not allowed to advertise which means all the airtime he bought on the local TV station would go to waste.
** Nacho thought that he could keep his criminal and private lives separate but he works for Hector who does not respect such desires. If Hector can further his own interests by exploiting someone's family, he will do it.

** Hector pushing over the table he and Nacho are sat at – has Nacho offended him in some way? Well sort of, he did just resist the idea of using his father's business as a front for Hector's drug-pushing, but it was the news that Tuco has attacked people in prison (including a prison guard) and thus extended his sentence from its then six months, that causes his anger.

Jimmy and Francesca calls his clients to inform them of his "sabbatical". The last client on his list asks about his [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS2E8Fifi Fifi commercial]] specifically; Jimmy realizes he can't advertise his practice while he's suspended. Jimmy quickly calls a TV station to pull his commercials off the air, receiving a $4,000 fine for premature termination of his contract. Kim considers closing down the office and letting Francesca go, as Jimmy can no longer hold up his half of the rent. Jimmy refuses, but knows that he has to find some way to pay the bills.

Jimmy pitches a commercial to the owners of a carpet store, produced for cheap and broadcasted for free. While interested, they balk when he explains that they must film immediately as the air time is an hour away. Jimmy gives his film crew the bad news. When the make-up girl suggests they make a commercial for himself, he gets an idea. He drives to a satellite dish array to film his ad, but hesitates when he realizes that going into marketing after making his name as a lawyer would seem "off-brand" (to say the least). He asks for the make-up artist's satchel; he's going to "Karloff this shit."

Nacho tells Hector about his standoff. Arturo takes a sudden phone call, prompting Hector to privately ask Nacho where his father gets his upholstery. When he warily replies with Jalisco, Hector tells him that he wants to circumvent Gus by using the upholstery shop as his new front business. Nacho explains that his father has no involvement with crime, but Hector "reassures" him that he can be taught and will be well-compensated. Arturo comes back in to report that Tuco got in a fight with a guard and another inmate and extended [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS2E4GlovesOff his prison sentence]], provoking Hector into flipping tables. When he suddenly has a coughing fit, Arturo brings him some pills that he spills in his rage. Nacho makes sure to cover an unnoticed pill with his foot as Hector leaves.

Jimmy proudly tells Kim about his commercial for his new advertising business, selling his services to film commercials that he can run on the remaining airtime that "Gimme Jimmy" would've before. Jimmy plays the commercial for her: dressed like Steven Spielburg, he explains with tacky props and aggressive editing that business owners can combine their "natural charisma" with his expertise to attract customers normally glued to their [=TVs=]. With a promise that he can have their commercials on the air tomorrow, he signs off: "Call me, Saul Goodman!" A stunned Kim can only note: "That guy has a lot of energy." "It's just a name," Jimmy replies.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Nacho is the sole main cast member to appear in the teaser.

** Gus inspects the industrial laundry that will eventually become the site of the superlab - and specifically has bought it for that purpose, instead of starting it as a legitimate business and then repurposing it later. He is also in contact with Lydia, establishing for the first time his partnership with Madrigal.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Once again Hector takes pills and looks unwell, this time after the news Tuco has just increased his prison sentence with a prison attack - especially as one of the victims was a guard. Closer and closer does he approach to [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport what we all know is coming]].
* HardWorkMontage: Jimmy, as he is now suspended for a year from practicing law, has to phone round all his clients and tell them he's "on sabatical" - and these phone calls are shown as this.

** Hector pushing over the table he and Nacho are sat at - has Nacho offended him in some way? Well sort of, he did just resist the idea of using his father's business as a front for Hector's drug-pushing, but it was the news that Tuco has attacked people in prison (including a prison guard) and thus extended his sentence from its then six months, that causes his anger.
** Jimmy saying he can do for two people what he just did for himself - is he now becoming Saul, who can get people off when they are caught dead to rights? No, he can't practice law for a year and the two people are business owners who he is trying to sell spare advertising to.
** And Kim's mention of Saul Goodman - is the lawyer of ''Breaking Bad'' about to rise? Sort of, but not yet as a lawyer - he sells airtime on commercials at the moment due to the suspension of his law license.

* StylisticSuck: Jimmy's first commercial as Saul Goodman is incredibly terrible and cheesy, with an overreliance on jump-cuts and star wipes.

Wrapped in a space blanket, Chuck walks through downtown Albuquerque at night, braving the neon signs and traffic lights. Although his vision is bleary, he manages to make it to a payphone to call Dr. Cruz, who [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS1E5AlpineShepardBoy previously "treated" his EHS.]]