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| 7 | [[TheInverseLawOfFandomLevity Despite being a dark and serious program]], ''Series/BreakingBad'' and its spin-offs ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' and ''Film/ElCamino'' have inspired their fair share of comedic goodness. '''There will be spoilers below.''' |
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| 9 | !!Please add entries in the following format: |
| 10 | * The meme. [=[[=]labelnote:Explanation[=]]=]The explanation behind the meme, if necessary.[=[[/=]labelnote[=]]=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Like this.[[/labelnote]] |
| 11 | ** Further mutations and successor memes, if any. |
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| 15 | [[folder:Shared Memes]] |
| 16 | * "This is the moment where [character name] became [character pseudonym]." [[labelnote:Explanation]] A popular Youtube comment during the run of the series for any clip where characters crossed the [[MoralEventHorizon moral event horizon]], arising from amateur attempts to suss out Walt's CharacterDevelopment ("This is the exact moment Walt became Heisenberg"). Since characters are constantly doing this, it became a common comment on many Breaking Bad clips, leading to parodies being posted on more irrelevant clips such as "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E13FullMeasure The moment Saul made a Nescafe]]" and "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E5Shotgun The moment Jesse didn't become The Guy]]". [[/labelnote]] |
| 17 | * Mikeposting[[labelnote:Explanation]] A type of meme which involves editing in images of Mike to replace random panels from a pre-existing meme, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddychicanery/comments/tdflx1/i_took_some_of_those_terrible_memes_from/ usually anime related.]][[/labelnote]] |
| 18 | ** Kid named Finger:[[labelnote:Explanation]] Originally from an edit of a [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/kid-named-x "Kid Named [X]"]] joke. A [[https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddychicanery/comments/tjv268/kid_named_finger/ particular offshoot]] of Mikeposting that suddenly became popular on its own, mainly due to being a NonSequitur as a standalone image without the preceding caption. The phrase and "Finger" have both since become recurring joke nicknames for Mike.[[/labelnote]] |
| 19 | *** Creator/FlyingKitty later made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At0kaXY36Xc a Better Call Saul-themed YTP]] titled "Better Call Finger". |
| 20 | * "Now here's what you're gonna do/here's what's gonna happen."[[labelnote:Explanation]]Since Mike has a habit of giving other characters extremely precise, detailed instructions on how to get themselves out of a jam or just giving them specific marching orders (usually from Gus), using footage of Mike giving instructions is often snowcloned into Mike giving them about something extremely silly, like using a VPN to watch content not available in your country or looking at furry porn without Google sharing the data.[[/labelnote]] |
| 21 | * "[[BeamMeUpScotty We are not the same]]."[[labelnote:Explanation]]An image of Gus with subtitles explaining how the original poster and someone else in particular are NotSoSimilar has proven to be quite exploitable, to say the very least.[[/labelnote]] |
| 22 | * "[[EstablishingCharacterMoment Hi, I'm Saul Goodman]]. [[CaptainObvious Did you know that you have rights? The Constitution says you do]]."[[labelnote:Explanation]]An excerpt from Saul Goodman's [[IncomingHam very first ad]] seen in ''Breaking Bad'', which has him say the quote and his own backing. Framing it to sound like having rights is an obscure fact, it's become popular to sync the soundbyte with [[https://youtu.be/cTPWRTJpo8U clips of other characters delivering the line]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 23 | * "BRAVO VINCE"[[labelnote:Explanation]]An offshoot of "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/bravo-nolan Bravo Nolan]]" used to mock the fandom's CreatorWorship of Vince Gilligan, which is applied to ironically praise him for just about everything that happens in both ''Breaking Bad'' or ''Better Call Saul'', even if it's completely nonsensical or things that he would have no control over. Sometimes this even extends for praising him for things that happen in other works.[[/labelnote]] |
| 24 | ** "Who's Peter Gould?"[[labelnote:Explanation]]This ironic praise has also led to Peter Gould, the head writer of ''Breaking Bad'' and co-creator of ''Better Call Saul'', becoming a ButtMonkey among the fandom. Everything he does, even if they're unrelated to the show, gets jokingly attributed to Vince Gilligan instead.[[/labelnote]] |
| 25 | ** "What did Vince mean by this?"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A variant of the "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/what-did-he-mean-by-this what did he mean by this?]]", usually used ironically trying to find some supposed subtext for random out-of-context screenshots, show clips or interviews. Sometimes "Vince" is replaced with a random character or actor from either show.[[/labelnote]] |
| 26 | ** "Unbravo Vince"[[labelnote:Explanation]]The inverse of the "Bravo Vince" meme, used to jokingly chastise Gilligan and the creators for things like not debunking InsaneTrollLogic theories, not explaining something that was very clearly shown on screen, or not clarifiying the exact fates of extremely minor characters.[[/labelnote]] |
| 27 | * 3D Saul: [[labelnote:Explanation]]After a video of a, well, 3D rendition of Saul set to ''Better Call Saul'' theme tune emerged on the internet, people have been captioning it with absurd situations. [[https://img.ifunny.co/videos/d508d0eabcda1f7ef65bb4a7f79d07c2e3b7f7229f078e8ff6710d46dfc0a9fb_1.mp4 For example...]][[/labelnote]] |
| 28 | * The cast singing "Feliz Navidad"[[labelnote:Explanation]]In 2022, many fans started editing images of the characters faces singing "Feliz Navidad", which began making its way around the internet due to its sheer absurdity.[[/labelnote]] |
| 29 | * Creator/KevinCostner[[labelnote:Explanation]]In ''Breaking Bad'' Saul tells Walt that he once convinced a woman he was Kevin Costner, "and it worked because I believed it". ''Better Call Saul'' reveals that it was in order to sleep with her, and he also suggests using Costner's identity to pull a scam with Kim. There is a degree of [[CelebrityResemblance physical resemblance]] between Creator/BobOdenkirk and Kevin Costner, and fans often pretend to confuse the two when commenting on photographs of them.[[/labelnote]] |
| 30 | * Yellow Mexico.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Scenes in ''Breaking Bad'' and ''Better Call Saul'' that take place in UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} are [[WarmPlaceWarmLighting washed out with a noticeable yellow filter]], leading to the joke that everything in Mexico is yellow, any presence of yellow means Mexico is involved, or that yellow-tinted glasses are "portable Mexico".[[/labelnote]] |
| 31 | * The Breaking Bad Cinematic Universe[[labelnote:Explanation]]Following the success of ''Better Call Saul'' and the welcome reception of ''El Camino'', fans have been jokingly suggesting more shows and movies based on the franchise similar in concept to the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. Examples include "Better Fuck Chuck", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8domW4NwpBQ Huell's Rules]]", as well as "Hermanos" and a "Breaking Bad 2".[[/labelnote]] |
| 32 | * Saul's Billboard[[labelnote:Explanation]]The advertising style of Saul Goodman follows a trend that many lawyers before him have been doing: [[https://bmr.unm.edu/better-not-call-a-curated-tour-of-albuquerques-attorney-billboards/ purchasing all kinds of spaces and plastering their faces onto it, next to their slogans and numbers]]. After the popularity of ''Breaking Bad'' and the arrival of a spin-off featuring him, [[{{Defictionalization}} many lawyers have come to mimic the garish style]] and rhyming scheme for recognition. While Saul didn't ''invent'' the idea of advertising himself on billboards and bus benches, he certainly popularized it, leading to many cases where it becomes hard to tell whether people are intentionally referencing the Criminal Lawyer or not.[[/labelnote]] |
| 33 | ** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddychicanery/comments/v6pi2m/what_did_jacob_mean_by_this/ Bro think he Saul😭😭☠️☠️☠️☠️]][[labelnote:Explanation]] A billboard for a Los Angeles-based law firm, [=CallJacob=].com, that looks oddly similar to Saul Goodman's billboards. Needless to say, the comparisons were inevitable.[[/labelnote]] |
| 34 | *** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/196/comments/vdk245/bro_think_he_jacob/ Bro think he Jacob😭😭☠️☠️☠️☠️]][[labelnote:Explanation]] Inverse of the above, this time comparing Saul's billboard to Jacob's.[[/labelnote]] |
| 35 | ** Bro think he [X]😭😭☠️☠️☠️☠️[[labelnote:Explanation]]A snowclone of the above phrases, made in response to characters resembling the appearances or arcs of other characters.[[/labelnote]] |
| 36 | * "Look at me, Hector."/Buff Gus[[labelnote:explanation]] A video of Brazilian muscle man Fabio Franca Araujo (who can at a glance be easily mistaken for Creator/GiancarloEsposito) ripping his shirt open and flexing his pecs. This video is often used [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiarvndKeIQ in conjunction with the scene where Gus tries to make Hector Salamanca look at him or other interactions between them]], to make it seem like Hector is looking away because he'd otherwise be intimidated or [[HoYay aroused]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 37 | * "You unzip, you go to the urinal and you touch yourself!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A clip from "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8LAdKlad-g Pet Peeves with Giancarlo Esposito and Gus Fring]]" taken completely out of context, which hilariously makes the clip sounds like Gus is instructing someone to go masturbate.[[/labelnote]] |
| 38 | * Saul Goodman vs. [[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Sol Badguy]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]The two characters sport [[StevenUlyssesPerhero similarly]] [[LukeNounverber patterned]] names, to the point where if you only know these names, one could assume Sol Badguy is an EvilCounterpart to Saul Goodman. For added irony, Sol Badguy is a ''[[IronicName heroic]]'' protagonist of his franchise while Saul Goodman is an Anti-Villain Protagonist, making both of them the opposite case of having what's called an "aptronym". This leads to jokes about the two characters [[WeirdCrossover from wildly-different series]] being arch-nemeses.[[/labelnote]] |
| 39 | * Did you know that [X] was improvised?[[labelnote:Explanation (franchise-wide spoilers)]]Due to the well-documented amount of WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants, SerendipityWritesThePlot, and ThrowItIn on both shows, fans started claiming absolutely everything on the show actually happened in real life or was improvised, such as Jeremiah Bitsui supposedly jumping in an acid vat in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E1BoxCutter Box Cutter]]", Jesse Plemons murdering a child who happened to be nearby while filming "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E5DeadFreight Dead Freight]]", or Michael Mando actually shooting himself in the head during "[[Recap/BetterCallSaulS6E3RockAndHardPlace Rock and Hard Place]]". It's almost always followed by a declaration of how dedicated the cast and crew were to making a good show, often tying in to the above-mentioned "Bravo Vince!" CreatorWorship mocking.[[/labelnote]] |
| 40 | * Howard and Lalo's cameos in ''Breaking Bad''[[labelnote:Explanation (''Better Call Saul'' spoilers)]] In the ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' episode "[[Recap/BetterCallSaulS6E8PointAndShoot Point and Shoot]]", Lalo Salamanca and Howard Hamlin's bodies are buried in the ground of the superlab's construction site by Mike. This means that all this time, Walt and Jesse have been unknowingly cooking crystal meth over the corpses of these two major characters for two entire seasons of ''Series/BreakingBad''. As such, fans gleefully began to point out the FridgeHorror in various scenes where the superlab appears in the original show, particularly when [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E8ISeeYou Jesse is goofing around when waiting for Walter]]. They also jokingly praise Creator/PatrickFabian and Creator/TonyDalton for their performances in those scenes. The entirety of "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E10Fly Fly]]" also tends to be spoofed, with many fans pretending that the titular housefly is either Howard or Lalo reincarnated, as them haunting Walt and Jesse during the episode's events.[[/labelnote]] |
| 41 | * "Is he stupid?" [[labelnote:Explanation]] A meme where people jokingly complain about a plot detail by questioning a character's action or decision ending up with bad consequences in the form of "Why did(n't) [Character] do [action]? Is he/she stupid?" The phrase is often used for trivial actions or things the characters have no control over, making the poster appear either oblivious or ridiculously petty (in a similar vein to the "Unbravo Vince" meme). It's notable that while this format technically started with a May 2022 meme on r/okbuddychicanery (A ''Breaking Bad'' meme subreddit), this format was popularized by r/{{Franchise/BatmanArkham|Series}} before spreading to other subreddits in early 2023, where it ''then'' made a comeback on r/okbuddychicanery.[[/labelnote]] |
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| 44 | [[folder:Memes from ''Breaking Bad'']] |
| 45 | * As a general note, Walt's lines of badassery get repeated often by fans: |
| 46 | %%** "I said 'Fuck you!' And your eyebrows!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Walt's reaction to Bogdan telling him to wipe down cars at the car wash.[[/labelnote]] |
| 47 | %%** "I've got your restraining order right here!" *grabs crotch* "Restrain this!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Walt's reaction to Skyler threatening to get him a restraining order after the pizza throw scene.[[/labelnote]] |
| 48 | %%** "You got one part of that wrong. This... [[WhamLine is not meth]]." [[labelnote:Explanation]]When Walt confronts Tuco in his new Heisenberg persona, Tuco more or less calls Walt an idiot for walking into his office with more meth after Tuco had beaten Jesse earlier. Walt quickly proves him wrong by picking up one of the supposed rocks of meth (actually mercury fulminate) and throwing it down, which causes a large explosion.[[/labelnote]] |
| 49 | %%** "Stay out of my territory." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Walt says this to two unassuming meth cooks outside of a parking lot. He manages to intimidate them. It became even more popular thanks to a [[ActorAllusion similar scene]] in ''WesternAnimation/IsleOfDogs''.[[/labelnote]] |
| 50 | ** '''"I am ''not'' in danger, Skyler. I ''am'' the danger!''' A guy opens his door and gets shot and you think that of me? No. '''I am the one who knocks'''!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Walt's rebuking Skyler's plea for him to get to the police, and simultaneously insisting that he has everything under control and that he will not be the one gunned down while opening the front door, but the one who knocks on it. One of ''the'' most iconic lines on the show, it's a ripe subject for parodic {{Snowclones}}.[[/labelnote]] |
| 51 | ** "You're goddamn right." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Walt forces Declan to say his moniker while cutting up a deal with him. Declan says it and Walter replies with the aforementioned quote. Often used as a reaction to something someone agrees with.[[/labelnote]] |
| 52 | %%** "If that's true... if you don't know who I am... then maybe your best course would be to ''tread lightly''." [[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]Walt's threat to Hank when the latter confronts Walt over being Heisenberg.[[/labelnote]] |
| 53 | ** "Jesse, we need to cook."[[labelnote:explanation]]A catch-all quote poking fun at how often Walt is practically ''begging'' Jesse to cook with him or otherwise ordering Jesse around. This one gets a lot HarsherInHindsight when the laters seasons start exploring how Walt is [[ManipulativeBastard completely emotionally manipulating Jesse]] and how Jesse starts to finally fight back in Season 5a.[[/labelnote]] |
| 54 | ** "Someone cooked here."[[labelnote:explanation]]Said by Walt in "Crawl Space" when he arrives at the Superlab only to find the equipment still warm, despite not having been there in days. A popular reaction image in the vein of the "let him cook" meme that became popular in 2022.[[/labelnote]] |
| 55 | %%** "We're done when ''I say'' we're done." [[labelnote:explanation]]Walt threatens Saul this way when the latter attempts to terminate their partnership as things start going off the rails in Season 5.[[/labelnote]] |
| 56 | * "You are not the guy. You're not capable of being the guy. I had a guy, but now I don't. You are not the guy." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Mike's rant at Jesse in ''[[Recap/BreakingBadS4E5Shotgun Shotgun]]'' after Jesse annoys him during their pickup runs. Mike's rhythmic delivery of the lines makes it a popular subject for silly dance remixes.[[/labelnote]] |
| 57 | ** [[https://youtu.be/WzhW20hLp6M?t=105 "Augh!" *Forklift noises*]][[labelnote:Explanation]]The rant got mixed into a catchy VoiceClipSong, with Gus yelling and a forklift picking up a barrel being the "instruments" that follow the remixed rant.[[/labelnote]] |
| 58 | %%* "I fucked Ted." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Skyler has an affair with Ted and tells Walt this as an attempt to get Walt out of the house.[[/labelnote]] |
| 59 | * Breaking Bad Comics: a series of fan created comics using {{Main/Flanderisation}}s of the characters. ''Breaking Bad'' [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff''. [[http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/224/702/tumblr_lts8ejw42O1r5crhao1_500.jpg Original here]]. |
| 60 | * '''Jesse:''' [Insert sentence], [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch Bitch]]. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Jesse has a tendency to say "yo" and "bitch" frequently, especially in the earlier seasons. As such, it's a popular go-to for quick and dirty Jesse impressions.[[/labelnote]] |
| 61 | %%** With "[[ChewingTheScenery YEAH, BITCH! MAGNETS!]]" seemingly [[IncrediblyLamePun gliding over all]]. |
| 62 | %%** Yo, gatorade me bitch! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Jesse complaining about needing assistants in the meth lab to do the grunt work for him and Walt.[[/labelnote]] |
| 63 | ** An image of him captioned [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/517/111/fbd.jpg "Yeah, science bitch!"]][[note]]Actually a case of BeamMeUpScotty, since the actual quote is: "Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah, science!"[[/note]] is a popular reaction meme to scientific discoveries. |
| 64 | * Walter Jr.'s love of breakfast, which has been immortalized in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rnkB3Ec3w song]] and a rap on ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken''. |
| 65 | * "No... no, no, no no no, no, not now. Not now, not now!"[[labelnote:Explanation]][[Recap/BreakingBadS2E11Mandala "Mandala"]] sees Walt get a text message from Skyler that the baby is coming soon. At first, he's shocked and happy, and then [[OhCrap the realization dawns on him]] that [[SadisticChoice he either misses out on the birth of his daughter or misses out on the drug deal that'll net him a fortune]], at which point he starts saying this line. The phone has been photoshopped to depict Walt despairing over all kinds of other things, like losing a video game or falling for a BaitAndSwitch meme.[[/labelnote]] |
| 66 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKz4dm2w3w4 Hank stumbling out of his car]] in [=S5E09=] has been frequently used as a reaction gif to express astonishment or extreme fear. |
| 67 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1yYJBzf1VQ "They're not rocks, they're minerals."]] [[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]While bedridden from several gunshot wounds, Hank gained a hobby collecting minerals. Marie refers to them as rocks, which annoys Hank every time. Expect fans to quickly jump in with this humorous "correction" any time rocks are mentioned in an otherwise-unrelated context.[[/labelnote]] |
| 68 | ** Jesus Christ, Marie.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hank's aforementioned annoyed response to Marie's ignorance of the difference between rocks and minerals, also a popular quote in response to the above.[[/labelnote]] |
| 69 | ** Bmineral [[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to the insistence on correcting any instance of "rock" as minerals, many fans sarcastically correct anyone saying "Brock" as "Bmineral".[[/labelnote]] |
| 70 | %%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_480483&feature=iv&src_vid=r1yYJBzf1VQ&v=RU1UOp6dkbo "I've got dipping sticks."]] |
| 71 | %%* Peter Schuler's OneSceneWonder appearance in "Madrigal", in particular, his last meal of tater tots and "Franch" dipping sauce, accompanied by his BSOD demeanor, has earned quite a bit of love from the internet. |
| 72 | * "Tight, tight, tight! Yeah!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Tuco's reaction to Walt's blue meth has become instantly burned into people's mind whenever the word "tight" is mentioned or when someone snorts a substance. It's become Tuco's iconic catchphrase and one can expect to see it quoted any time he is brought up.[[/labelnote]] |
| 73 | * "IS CHARACTER/OBJECT X GAY?" [[labelnote:Explanation]] The copious degree of speculation concerning [[AmbiguouslyGay the exact nature of Gus's relationship with his deceased business partner Max]] prompted an influx of comedic posts on IMDB inquiring about the sexuality of numerous characters in the series, as well as several important intimate objects as well.[[/labelnote]] |
| 74 | * Many of the [[FunWithSubtitles transcribed stage directions]] sound extremely funny out of context and are thus extremely popular subjects for reaction images or for photoshopping the text into similar shots from other series. Some specific examples include: |
| 75 | ** [MUFFLED RAP MUSIC PLAYING IN THE DISTANCE] |
| 76 | ** [REVVING INTENSIFIES] |
| 77 | ** [WALT JR. VOMITING] |
| 78 | ** [SADLY GO-KARTS] |
| 79 | * During the airing of the first part of season 5, IMDB took to calling Hank, [[FanNickname "Honk"]]. For no apparent reason. This has stuck around. |
| 80 | * [[http://imgur.com/hbkaf "Josh Pankman isn't a murderer. He was driven to it by his best friend Wotter Wight. This man shaved his head and now people think he is bald. A beard confirms his masculinity."]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]A bizarre comment on a ''Breaking Bad'' fan video on Website/YouTube by a user named Gitfacehal.[[/labelnote]] |
| 81 | * Walt's off-hand threat to Saul, where he tells him "I'll send ''you'' to Belize", seemed to become one overnight. |
| 82 | ** [[http://jaleebcaru.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/belize2-print-sm.jpg Belize]] being used as a DeadlyEuphemism is one straight after the episode. Bonus points for finding Website/YouTube videos on Belize with a Breaking Bad reference in the comments. |
| 83 | ** And on reddit, a redditor misheard the quote and asked [[http://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/1lila6/who_is_billy/ "who is billy"]] on Breaking Bad's section, believing that Saul wanted to send Hank to Billy's. |
| 84 | * Hank and Marie, staring in horror/disgust/disbelief at their TV screen, replacing [[spoiler:Walt's fake confession pinning Hank as Heisenberg]] with things like [[http://t.co/wFTKh9YxUB the VMAs]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVq_4BA5DQ Hal's rollerdancing skills]]. Also literally sprang up overnight. |
| 85 | ** Here's them reacting to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzfWcCDaw9I Skyler singing "happy birthday" to Ted]], which is hilarious, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJFu-1tRqxo the reaction]] to [[Series/GameOfThrones the Red Wedding]] goes into CrossesTheLineTwice territory. |
| 86 | %%* Don't make Mike beatcha 'till yer legs don't work.[[labelnote:explanation]]Mike threatens to break Saul's legs to coerce him into giving up Jesse[[/labelnote]] |
| 87 | %%* "Cow house?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]On Walt and Jesse's first cook, Jesse yells to Walt that he's found a barn, but doesn't know what it's called, and refers to it as a "cow house". Walt's reaction is priceless.[[/labelnote]] |
| 88 | * "Better Call Saul!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Saul Goodman's catchphrase in his commercials and all over his advertising spots. It got so big, in fact, it is now the name of the spinoff.[[/labelnote]] |
| 89 | %%* "Have an A1 day!"[[labelnote:explanation]]The slogan of the car wash where Walt once worked, and which he and Skyler later purchase to launder his drug money[[/labelnote]] |
| 90 | * Walt throwing a pizza on the roof. Or, "Roof Pizza"! Many fans have attempted to recreate the scene since its airing. |
| 91 | ** This meme has gotten so well known that [[http://www.ew.com/article/2015/03/12/vince-gilligan-fans-stop-throwing-pizzas-walter-whites-roof Vince Gilligan asked fans]] to stop throwing pizzas on the roof of the Walter White house because it's not cool for the actual resident who lives there. |
| 92 | %%* "Huell, you happy?" "Reasonably." "What would make you unhappy?" "This little motherfucker not doing what he's told." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Huell and Kuby's conversation about if Huell is or isn't happy with Ted at the moment. In particular, Huell's deadpan "Reasonably".[[/labelnote]] |
| 93 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HrmD_vIMIk Huell lying on Walt's money]] is often used as a representation of someone or something after they do something that would make them a lot of money, like a greedy company fleecing their customers. |
| 94 | * Huell is still sitting around waiting.[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]Hank tricks Huell into hiding in a safehouse under false pretense; as Hank dies shortly afterwards, fans have made many jokes of the fact that Huell is presumably still afraid for his life and waiting for his return, at least until ''Film/ElCamino'' confirmed that he eventually left.[[/labelnote]] |
| 95 | %%* Badger and Skinny Pete's ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' FanFic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZjMGd2b0M conversation]]. |
| 96 | * Stop trying to make ''[[Series/LowWinterSun Low Winter Sun]]'' happen. It's not going to happen. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Typical BB fan's response to AMC's constant promotion of ''Series/LowWinterSun''.[[/labelnote]] |
| 97 | * Meth Damon [[labelnote:Explanation]]Todd Alquist bears quite the resemblance to Creator/MattDamon, and the uninitated could easily think that Todd's name is actually Meth Damon, because the two are almost interchangable.[[/labelnote]] |
| 98 | %%* Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace.[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]Mike's dying words.[[/labelnote]] |
| 99 | * "No more half measures." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Mike's cautionary tale to Walt about dealing with Jesse has become popular. It's also sometimes combined with the "Get your dick out, Waltuh" joke and the accompanying image of Mike frisking Walt (see below) to make it sound like an UnusualEuphemism.[[/labelnote]] |
| 100 | * "Mexico, all's I'm sayin'." "Heh. Guy hit 10 guys in jail a two minute window. All's I'm sayin'." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Huell and Kuby while lying on all of Walt's cash. The image of the two itself is also popular as a way to represent someone's richness.[[/labelnote]] |
| 101 | * "[[BigShutUp Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!]]" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Skyler's BigShutUp to Marie. A popular response to things that elicit great disgust.[[/labelnote]] |
| 102 | * [[ActorAllusion Jesse]] has a ''Film/{{Need for Speed}}''. [[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]“Felina†has Jesse driving off at high speed in a car at the end, to a new life. One of Aaron Paul’s roles after the show is a part in the ''Need for Speed'' movie, and fans have joked that the entire show is a prequel to the film.[[/labelnote]] |
| 103 | ** In a similar vein, that the series is a sequel to ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'', after a possible NoodleIncident. Plenty of jokes about Malcolm being a sequel to Breaking Bad have also been made. |
| 104 | ** There's also juxtapositions of Walt's dramatic scenes in BB with silly things from ''Malcolm''. |
| 105 | * Walter looks like a live-action version of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Ned Flanders]] early in the series. Fans have responded to this with numerous fanart of crossovers with ''The Simpsons''. |
| 106 | %%* "Blood, Meth, and Tears"[[labelnote:Explanation]]The final episode is named "Felina", which can be divided into chemical symbols Fe (Iron) Li (Lithium) Na (Sodium). Iron, Lithium and Sodium are key ingredients in the respective substances.[[/labelnote]] |
| 107 | * Turning [[Film/GoodbyeMrChips Mr. Chips]] into Film/{{Scarface|1983}}. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Vince Gilligan's original pitch for the series has become so famous that it is often used to sum it up to newcomers.[[/labelnote]] |
| 108 | * The Evil "[insert noun here]". [[labelnote:Explanation]] During the Brazilian airing of the show, the name was translated as "A Quimica do Mal" (The Evil Chemistry). Since the original ''Breaking Bad'' had many fans in the country before it aired there on TV, they were displeased with this name. As a result, every time something Breaking Bad-related appears, they will make a joke about this title.[[/labelnote]] |
| 109 | * Many people have parodied Walt's appearance in [[http://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/season_1_amc_poster.jpg the "Change the Equation" season 1 poster]] (the one where he has no pants and white underwear), sometimes crossing it over with other shows like ''WesternAnimation/{{Adventure|Time}} [[http://37.media.tumblr.com/1035816d1ef51cce57f01f9c6fdd9887/tumblr_n3cw4mEqIP1t7b5qro1_1280.png Time]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers Bob's]] [[http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTYwMFgxMDgw/z/FyIAAOSwo8hTnB5t/$_35.JPG Burgers]]'', ''Franchise/{{The|Smurfs}} [[http://www.empireonline.com/images/image_index/upfiles/buffer/7C8EC7AE3E4842ABA60CDAD9137C6D14.jpg Smurfs]]'', and even ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinky and|TheBrain}} [[https://external-preview.redd.it/ZhDjiaCPXERMrpAwnUfRdzYxC4N5y-E0tqod4Jj_Wi8.jpg?auto=webp&s=5184340dbb6aad0cef1cad2c87038504dc4a8892 the Brain]]''. |
| 110 | * "He can't keep getting away with it!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Screamed by Jesse after he realizes he's been played by Walter far too many times. When the clip is used, it's in referral to the poster being tricked or in reaction to the actions of a person or artist known well as a TrollingCreator. In the show's latter days, it was often directed at Vince Gilligan himself.[[/labelnote]] |
| 111 | * "Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gdndm0j1.jpg set of screenshots]] from the scene of Jesse and Walt eating after the start of [[Recap/BreakingBadS4E1BoxCutter Box Cutter]]. They tend to be edited to depict scenes of Jesse referencing modern internet slang and culture, much to the confusion of Walt, or Walt being a {{Technologically Blind Elder|s}} who doesn't understand things like Website/{{Twitch}} and Website/{{Twitter}}. Alternatively, Jesse talks about an obscure historical or scientific fact that sounds completely absurd or fictitious out of context, much to the confusion and frustration of Walt. Their flashback scene in ''Film/ElCamino'' is also used this way.[[/labelnote]] |
| 112 | * "[[https://youtu.be/YZ9WfnvcX5Y Breaking Good Episode 1]]"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A parody and essentially [[TheAbridgedSeries mini-abridged retelling]] of Breaking Bad and its characters' relationships, made from [[StylisticSuck quickly typed-out posts and equally hastily-made narration]]. It became popular enough to warrant [[https://youtu.be/bbS_HjEcq4Q some]] [[https://youtu.be/8kv_Bnicnr0 follow]]-[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBGiCyINbtQ ups]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 113 | ** Jesser[[labelnote:Explanation]]Many characters' names are [[RougeAnglesOfSatin corrupted]] and [[SpellMyNameWithAnS rewritten]] as part of the style, with "Jesser" being the most infamous case and "Mr Wahit" being another. Fans have taken to calling Jesse this following the spread of the video.[[/labelnote]] |
| 114 | ** methé[=/=]methér[=/=]"cocainer"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Similar to the above naming corruption, there's also misnaming of meth as these terms, pronounced "meth E" and "meth her" respectively, despite what the accented letters would otherwise imply. Sometimes altogether replaced with "cocainer" as the product that Walter and Jesse cook.[[/labelnote]] |
| 115 | %%** 20003 [[UnitConfusion km/h]] of methé [[labelnote:Explanation]] One of "Mr Gusto"'s lines, representing his request for Walter to cook him many pounds of meth. Alternatively, "448 kbps of metheŕ", what Walart White also describes as his "amount" of product.[[/labelnote]] |
| 116 | %%** "Jesee whre is the cocainer" "In my nose mr whiter" [[labelnote:Explanation]]One of the more recognizable and often-quoted lines from the video.[[/labelnote]] |
| 117 | * Walt's Breakdown. [[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]In [[Recap/BreakingBadS5E14Ozymandias "Ozymandias"]], Walter collapses in despair after seeing Hank get shot in the head. The utter shock on Walter's face has led to the sequence being used for various gifs, and the first few frames of the shot have also been used as reaction images. Remarkably, this clip has been taken out of context with surgical precision, so people who haven't seen the episode can enjoy the meme as well without fear of getting spoilered.[[/labelnote]] |
| 118 | * "Walt, I dunno man. Been pretty [[VideoGame/AmongUs sus]] lately."[=/=]Hank's Sussy Baka [[labelnote:Explanation]]As part of a charity drive, one of many [[https://youtu.be/Ru_j8oRi-rY Cameo videos]] included commissioning Dean Norris to portray Hank interrogating Walt as if they were playing a game of ''Among Us'', ending with him declaring Walt to be a "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sussy-baka Sussy Baka]]". The already memetic tendencies of ''Among Us'' subjected the video to spread and numerous edits.[[/labelnote]] |
| 119 | %%* "I heard you watch ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure''. What's really bizarre is the fact you get no bitches."[[labelnote:explanation]] Another Cameo meme, this time of Hank lambasting the viewer for watching ''Jojo''.[[/labelnote]] |
| 120 | * Hank's reaction[[labelnote:explanation]] Two juxtaposed images of Creator/DeanNorris smiling and frowing, commonly used to humorously remark on the extreme dichotomy between two situations.[[/labelnote]] |
| 121 | * Yo Mister White! Someone's at the door[[labelnote:Explanation]]A five-panel format depicting Jesse telling Walter to answer the door, only to discover the person knocking is a character from a completely different franchise, inviting Heisenberg to join their adventure. This results in a MassiveMultiplayerCrossover with ''Breaking Bad'' as the most unlikely series to be paired with anything and everything, with the payoff being a picture of Walt [[StylisticSuck poorly photoshopped]] into a photo of the cast in the last panel.[[/labelnote]] |
| 122 | * Walt: [confesses to being Heisenberg] Hank: Heh heh! Good one.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Walt and Hank's game of "Cat and Mouse" over the course of the series is one of the show's most famed aspects, and usually, Walt manages to slip away thanks to Hank always underestimating him. At times, it reaches absurd and comedic points, like when Hank notices the suspicious weight of Walt's duffel bag. Walt responds with a SarcasticConfession of it being his drug money and successfully gets Hank off his back. As a way of mocking how ''blind'' Hank tends to be, fans have joked that, even if Walt ever confessed to being Heisenberg to his face, Hank ''still'' wouldn't have believed him.[[/labelnote]] |
| 123 | ** Hank finds out early[[labelnote:Explanation]]Some jokes go in the opposite direction, with Hank finding out the truth earlier. They range from him just opening the duffel bag to somehow knowing what Walt's going to do the second he sees the drug bust on TV to even more absurd moments. Videos on this usually end a soundbyte of Dean Norris saying "''Walt...''" from the "pretty sus lately" clip above.[[/labelnote]] |
| 124 | * Walter White Cooking[=/=]"[X] carefully crafting the best[=/=]worst [Y] ever"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A GIF-captioning meme taking [[https://i.imgur.com/kZ5g0ZX.gif the cooking scene]] from [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E6Sunset Sunset]], specifically the part where Walt carefully administers droplets for the batch, and using it to depict the creation of certain things the poster likes or dislikes, done to level [[MedalOfDishonor criticism]] or [[SugarWiki/MoodOfWin praise]] at the effort needed to make what they are reacting to. Also used to help describe more outlandish situations in cases of absurdist or SurrealHumor.[[/labelnote]] |
| 125 | * {{Anime}} Memes Replaced With ''Breaking Bad'':[[labelnote:Explanation]]An extension of the Mikeposting trend, where people take anime fandom memes and replace the punchline with [[NonSequitur completely unrelated]] screenshots from ''Breaking Bad''.[[/labelnote]] |
| 126 | * "[X] but replaced with ''Breaking Bad'':[[labelnote:Explanation]]An extension of Mikeposting, in which images of the cast of ''Breaking Bad'' or scenes from the show are used to replace some or all panels of a regular meme.[[/labelnote]] |
| 127 | * "~[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myt9ybv0IaU Ahh~!]] [[TheImmodestOrgasm AAHHH! OOOH, HOLY MOTHER OF GOD]]!"[[labelnote:explanation]] An outtake of Creator/BryanCranston in character as Walt during the the scene where he reinserts his I.V. back into his arm, making some [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything questionable moaning sounds and exclamations]]. Cue the fleet of incoming jokes about Walt and Skyler's sex life or about Walt having sex with Mike (see above) using this sound bite.[[/labelnote]] |
| 128 | * "SEÑOR WHITE"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A meme from the Spanish community where Jesse asks Heisenberg about obtaining "Obo", which results in a dirty wordplay: "¿Qué es obo?" (which in Spanish sounds something like "What do I blow?").[[/labelnote]] |
| 129 | * "Just call, call anonymously." "You call anonymously!" "I can't! I can't! They know me! They know my voice!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]A conversation between Walter and Saul about calling the DEA office in "Crawl Space" can be used in some funny situations, such as an attempt to call a gay phone sex line or to get a membership.[[/labelnote]] |
| 130 | * "This is it. This is how it ends."[[labelnote:Explanation]]A quote from Mike's [[Recap/BreakingBadS3E12HalfMeasures "Half measures"]] speech which became prevalent when the series finale for Series/BetterCallSaul was about to be released.[[/labelnote]] |
| 131 | * "Jimmy moment!" [[labelnote:Explanation]] After all the context of Better Call Saul, which had the writers saying people will never look at Breaking Bad the same way again, the response to when there’s a peek of kindness, depression or fear beneath the Saul mask. Even an [[https://uproxx.com/tv/jimmy-mcgill-moments-breaking-bad-saul-goodman/ article]] on it. [[/labelnote]] |
| 132 | * Bitch wife. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Ironic nickname for Skyler referencing her RonTheDeathEater status. The meme or joke is often set up as overblowing relatively harmless things Skyler did while downplaying horrible crimes Walter have done, presented like a boomer joke about a nagging wife.[[/labelnote]] |
| 133 | * Walt screaming from inside a car.[[labelnote:Explanation (Season 5 spoilers)]]In [[Recap/BreakingBadS5E13Tohajiilee "To'hajiilee"]], Walt sees Jack's gang coming to slaughter everyone despite his calling off of Jesse's assassination. Kept in the car, he starts screaming Hank's name, a still of which became repurposed as a meme to describe a number of different silly situations, like children being left in a hot car during the summer or Walt attempting to yell at Hank that he got Walt's [=McDonald's=] order wrong. Alternatively, the meme is also used to indicate Walt warning other fictional characters or historical figures not to do the things that would lead to their doom.[[/labelnote]] |
| 134 | * Heisenbones[[labelnote:Explanation]]In mid-2022, ''Breaking Bad'' fans on Website/{{Reddit}} started making up a comic relief [[DemBones skeleton]] character who was a sidekick to Walter and Jesse, posting screenshots with a skeleton edited in as "proof" or sharing their favourite Heisenbones moments of the show.[[/labelnote]] |
| 135 | * ''Ese compa ya esta muerto'' / ''Nomás no le han avisado''[[labelnote:English]] ''That homie's already dead'' / ''Just that no one told him yet'' [[/labelnote]] [[labelnote: Explanation]] For Latin American fans in particular, this little verse from "Negro y Azul" is almost as iconic as the "Jesse we need to cook" memes mentioned above. Basically, take someone that's either TooDumbToLive or is totally screwed, and play the song for dramatic, humorous, or [[CrossesTheLineTwice darkly comedic effect]]. [[/labelnote]] |
| 136 | * Jesse Pinkman's shirt[[labelnote:Explanation]]Fans like to joke about the random "edgy" t-shirts Jesse tends to wear (which have images like skulls, dragons, lightning, or other gaudy pop art), and how they juxtapose his incredibly traumatic and horrifying experiences.[[/labelnote]] |
| 137 | * "My name is Skyler White, '''yo'''. My husband is Walter White, '''yo'''?"[[labelnote:Explanation]]In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS1E2TheCatsInTheBag The Cat's In The Bag]]", Skyler confronts Jesse thinking that Walt is associating with him to buy weed. Her [[SpeakingLikeTotallyTeen incredibly awkward attempts to follow Jesse's speaking mannerisms]] and Jesse's prolonged OhCrap expression thinking that his methmaking operation got busted has led to the scene getting a ton of edits, usually portaying Skyler as a [[MemeticBadass master rap battler]] and adding loud, bassy explosions after each one of her lines.[[/labelnote]] |
| 138 | * [[Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower Sauron is about to cook meth]]. [[labelnote:Explanation]] The declaration of the ROP show runners that Sauron will be a character akin to Walter White in Season 2 spawned many memes and commentaries across both Tolkien and Breaking Bad fanbases.[[/labelnote]] |
| 139 | * Holy shit I think I accidentally joined a neo-nazi group[[labelnote:explanation]] An AntiHumor subversion image of the "every squad has the..." meme where all the images are replaced with 3D Saul Goodman(see above) and captioned "racist". At the bottom of the image is a promotional image of Walter White saying this phrase.[[/labelnote]] |
| 140 | * [[FunetikAksent Waltuh]]. [[labelnote:explanation]]Fans frequently have Mike addressing Walt as "Waltuh" due to his gravelly voice, especially when making impressions of him. [[/labelnote]] |
| 141 | ** "Waltuh. Put your dick away, Waltuh. I'm not having sex with you right now, Waltuh."[[labelnote:Explanation]]Lines taken from a [[https://twitter.com/BreakingBadIrny/status/1538899479394279424 Twitter video]] of someone making a Mike Ehrmantraut impression [[StylisticSuck deliberately compressed to low quality]]. It has since been reposted on [=YouTube=] and [=TikTok=] or done with different variants, such as "[[HoYay Get your dick out, Waltuh]]" superimposed over a screenshot of the scene where Mike frisks Walt in season 5, with the angle making it look like Mike is about to have sex with him. [[/labelnote]] |
| 142 | * "It was ''perfect!'' But no! YOU just had to BLOW IT UP!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Mike's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Walt in "Say My Name" is often used as a copypasta to express diappointment at someone else's EpicFail.[[/labelnote]] |
| 143 | * ''Breaking Bad'' [[WhatIf if [X] happened]][[labelnote:explanation]] Pretending that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovqM72em1dA a clip from the opening]] of "[[Series/PawnStars Barely Legal Pawn]]" (a sketch that Creator/BryanCranston and Creator/AaronPaul did with Creator/JuliaLouisDreyfus) is actually Walt and Jesse in a radically altered timeline, typically caused by something incredibly minor (like "if Walt went go-karting with Jesse" or "if Hank pissed instead of shitting").[[/labelnote]] |
| 144 | * "it is pride month, walter. you know what that means"[[note]][[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/20230601_083139.jpg From this fanmade comic]] in which Gus reminds Walt that it's Pride Month using the above line, to which Walt gets confused about the implication, asking what it means. [[NothingIsFunnier Gus doesn't explain]], only [[SmugSmiler smirks smugly]]. The comic's bizarre nature has led to multiple redraws of other series, such as [[https://twitter.com/ThatFlareon/status/1664857555644870656 this one]] based on ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'' or [[https://www.tumblr.com/agrimmora/719249489886609408?source=share this one]] of the ''Anime/{{Kirby|RightBackAtYa}}'' anime.[[/note]] |
| 145 | * Breaking Bad [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_flag Trans Flag]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Jokingly stating that the transgender pride flag is based on the show, with the blue symbolizing the '''blue''' meth, the pink for Jesse '''Pink'''man, and the white for Walter '''White'''.[[/labelnote]] |
| 146 | * She was a [X] girl, he was a [Y] boy[[labelnote:Explanation]]An image of Jane and Jesse as the "girl" and "boy", being a parody of OppositesAttract, with [Y] being a counterpart/alternative to [X], often with things perceived to be opposites.[[/labelnote]] |
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| 149 | [[folder:Memes from ''Better Call Saul'']] |
| 150 | * Having enough stickers.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Throughout the first few episodes, Jimmy has trouble getting past Mike's parking lot booth because he doesn't have the right number of parking validation stickers. Reflecting their respective personalities, Jimmy ends up fumbling said rules over and over again while Mike stands firm in making sure he follows the rules properly. Fans have taken to conflating all sorts of conflict with Mike as him seeking the right amount of stickers by any means necessary.[[/labelnote]] |
| 151 | * [[BlatantLies An actual scene in Better Call Saul]][=/=]'''"SOMEBODY STOP THOSE BARKING DOGS!"'''[[labelnote:Explanation]] A clip of an outtake of Jonathan Banks goofing off in character as Mike loudly complaining about some barking dogs and covering his ears, which fans love to claim is an actual scene from the show because of how out-of-character it is for Mike, in the vein of the "Walter White moaning" clip.[[/labelnote]] |
| 152 | * Tony the Toilet Buddy.[[labelnote:Explanation]]One of Jimmy's clients in "Alpine Shepherd Boy" is an inventor of a talking toilet that encourages those using it, meant to help with potty training but unfortunately being laden with adult innuendo. It has since become a subject of humor among fans.[[/labelnote]] |
| 153 | * Fuck Chuck [[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]Following TheReveal in "Pimento" that Chuck has been actively against Jimmy's attempts to become a lawyer, the fandom created this phrase in response to anytime Chuck's attempts to sabotage his brother's efforts are observed or discussed.[[/labelnote]] |
| 154 | %%* A Chicago Sunroof.[[labelnote:Explanation]]The act of defecating through an open sunroof, preferably when there are not children sitting the in back seat. Jimmy owes Chuck a favor for getting him out of criminal charges relating to doing this.[[/labelnote]] |
| 155 | %%* Squat Cobblers [[labelnote:explanation]]Jimmy's brought in by Mike because Daniel Wormald, a drug dealer Mike has been helping out, has gotten himself into trouble with the cops, who have found out about the hiding place where Daniel stashes his drugs and cash. To cover Daniel's end, Jimmy spins to the cops a bogus tale about Daniel stashing non-existent videos of himself sitting in pie while crying.[[/labelnote]] |
| 156 | %%** "It's when a man sits in pie! He sits in a pie! And he... he wiggles around. Maybe it's like Hellman's Mayonnaise. It has a different name west of the Rockies. I don't know. But, uh, technically, he does a crybaby squat, so there's tears, which makes it more specialized. Not all pie sitters cry. But I'm gonna tell you something: This guy? He's a regular Julianne Moore once he gets the waterworks cranked up." |
| 157 | * Howard's job offer.[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]Howard offers Jimmy a job at several points throughout season 5, which lead to a meme where several tense interactions or phone calls are replaced by Howard offering him a job again. As of season 6, it's now extended to the point of Howard transcending death to still ask Jimmy if he's interested in the offer.[[/labelnote]] |
| 158 | ** Jimmy's rant.[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]''[[Recap/BetterCallSaulS5E7JMM JMM]]'' has Jimmy [[RageBreakingPoint launch into an angry tirade at Howard]] after being offered a job again. Jimmy's over-the-top anger ([[AGodAmI "I'M LIKE A GOD IN HUMAN CLOTHING, LIGHTNING BOLTS SHOOT FROM MY FINGERTIPS!!!"]]) and Howard's [[SilentTreatment nonchalance]] in the scene have been repurposed for memes about trying to explain something to someone who refuses to listen, or ignoring someone who's [[{{Troll}} very obviously trying to get a rise out of someone else]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 159 | ** Jimmy's reflection face. [[labelnote:Explanation]] The same episode as the above also has a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fba5cc48_9f03_45c3_b0b8_904ca67dee93.jpeg memorable shot]] when Jimmy is sneaking a glance at Fred's family after the trial where Jimmy is ''supposed'' to look [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything literally two-faced]] in a sinister manner, but the angle of the mirror just makes him look very silly and ComicallyCrossEyed instead, which led itself to it being used as a reaction image portraying confusion. [[/labelnote]] |
| 160 | * [=McGill Bowl=][[labelnote:Explanation]]A common name for the clashes between Jimmy and Chuck, which became prominent in season 3.[[/labelnote]] |
| 161 | * Ribs on a burger[[labelnote:Explanation]]Not from the show proper, but during the airing of season 3, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBPQXWgAOO8 a certain Carls Jr. commercial]] typically appeared in the commercial breaks, causing it to be the subject of mockery on Reddit.[[/labelnote]] |
| 162 | * "[X] Huells until Season [y] comes out"[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]A "Huell" is a unit of time equal to 1 hour and 43 minutes, the amount of time that passed in "Chicanery" between when Huell planted the battery on Chuck, and Jimmy pointing it out to discredit Chuck.[[/labelnote]] |
| 163 | * "Your honor..." followed by Saul giving his "[[ChewbaccaDefense defense]]" to his client.[[labelnote:Explanation]]A [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/your-honor--2 larger and more general meme]], involving a lawyer giving their defense of a client in silly off-kilter arguments, such as "finders keepers." Screenshots from the show depicting Saul defending his clients in court happen to be the most popular and defining variants.[[/labelnote]] |
| 164 | * Saul's mugshot[[labelnote:Explanation]]The scene of Jimmy having his mugshot taken for breaking into Chuck's house is frequently used as an image in conjunction with memes about people getting incriminated, such as the "the groupchat got leaked" meme.[[/labelnote]] |
| 165 | * "Hello, and welcome to the Los Pollos Hermanos family. My name is Gustavo, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTedfgwSsd4 but you can call me Gus]]." [[labelnote:Explanation]] A Twitter account by the handle of @[[https://twitter.com/mynamesgustavo mynamesgustavo]] goes around posting this short clip from the employee training video for Los Pollos Hermanos created to promote season 3 of the show.[[/labelnote]] |
| 166 | ** My name is Gustavo, but you can call me sus. [[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwntOHwwZxA A fan online edited this clip]] to make it sound like Gustavo is saying "sus" instead of his own name in the employee training video. With the allusions to ''Videogame/AmongUs'' already prevalent, the fact that it helps highlight Gustavo's shady demeanor certainly helps.[[/labelnote]] |
| 167 | * Werner Zieeeeeegler.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Lalo becomes obsessed with figuring out what Werner was doing working for Gus, prompting him to say his name many, many times. His way of saying "Ziegler" has become especially memetic. |
| 168 | [[/labelnote]] |
| 169 | * Detective Juan Bolsa.[[labelnote:Explanation]]A meme template spread on [[https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddychicanery/ r/okbudddychicanery]] where Bolsa is on the phone outraged about something that's happened, completely oblivious the person he's talking to is the one who did it in the first place. It pokes fun at how Bolsa is constantly locked out of the conspiracies and infighting between his fellow Cartel members (particularly whenever Gus is involved) until it's much too late by ''Breaking Bad''.[[/labelnote]] |
| 170 | * Cliff Main's son.[[labelnote:Explanation]]In season 6, Cliff Main mentions he has a son with a drug problem. This has led not just to genuine speculation that his son is some plausible pre-established character from ''Breaking Bad'', but a ton of memes accusing literally everyone from Huell to Marie, to characters from other fandoms, of being the son.[[/labelnote]] |
| 171 | * Chuck's courtroom breakdown.[=/=]CHICANERY[[labelnote:Explanation]]Chuck's unhinged rant during the bar hearing is now a copypasta used for one person/character to accuse another of over the top wrongdoing.[[/labelnote]] |
| 172 | ** "HE DEFECATED THROUGH A SUNROOF!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]An [[SuddenlyShouting especially-loud statement]] made during the rant, punctuating the absurdity of Jimmy's crimes including the infamous "Chicago Sunroof" and how Chuck bailed him out of it.[[/labelnote]] |
| 173 | ** "WHAT A SICK JOKE" [[labelnote:Explanation]]After the conclusion of the 2022 Emmy's, wherein after [[AwardSnub 46 nominations over its 6 season run the show ended up netting zero wins]], outraged fans responded by going on Twitter and posting their own edited rants based on Chuck's breakdown.[[/labelnote]] |
| 174 | * "...How?!"[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]Replacing Lalo with a variety of other nonsensical characters via Photoshop to be standing behind Howard during his death scene in "Plan and Execution", with Jimmy still having the same horrified reaction to seeing them as he originally did to Lalo.[[/labelnote]] |
| 175 | * "The boss can suck me!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hector screams this during his rant at Bolsa and Gus right before he has a stroke. His accent generally has it repeated online more as something along the lines of, "Da bozss khan sock meee!!"[[/labelnote]] |
| 176 | * "I need to see your [[BallsGag balls]]."[[labelnote:Explanation]]A misheard line from a scene where Hector walks into Los Pollos Hermanos and tells Lyle "I need to see your boss." Due to Hector's aforementioned thick Mexican accent, "boss" can be misheard as "[[HehHehYouSaidX balls]]," which combined with Hector being a known womanizer lead to jokes about Hector being a DepravedBisexual or MemeticMolester. It's also frequently sentence mixed with Hector's "The boss can suck me!" line to make him say things like "Suck my balls" or "I need to suck your balls".[[/labelnote]] |
| 177 | ** "Not the manager, the balls."[[labelnote:Explanation]] Hector's next line in the above scene where he says "boss" with just as thick an accent, making it once again sound like "balls". This line is often used for doubling down on the above meme and making it seem like Hector is deadset on seeing Lyle's balls while Lyle desperately tries to ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject.[[/labelnote]] |
| 178 | * "It's Slippin' Time"[[labelnote:Explanation]] A made up catchphrase for the Slippin' Jimmy show similar to [[Memes/Morbius2022 Morbius]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 179 | * Kim Wexler's Feet[[labelnote:Explanation]]The show contains quite a few shots of Kim's feet, which fans quickly caught onto, with one fan even making a post of specific timestaps in episodes where one can see them. The writers' odd fascination for showing her feet has drawn comparisons to Creator/QuentinTarantino's infamous foot fetish, and has led Kim to gain the nickname of "Kim Sexler".[[/labelnote]] |
| 180 | ** Claiming Creator/BobOdenkirk was responsible for the feet shots[[labelnote:Explanation]]In mid-2022, fans saw that Bob Odenkirk had been following an [[Website/{{Facebook}} Instagram]] account [[https://old.reddit.com/r/okbuddychicanery/comments/wgwlhi/what_did_bob_odenkirk_mean_by_this/ dedicated to foot fetishes]]. Combined with the writers' penchant for showing feet in the show, many jokingly assumed it was all actually ''Bob's'' idea to include them. After Bob eventually un-followed the account, fans felt as though he was [[invoked]][[WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings humiliated from the resulting memes]] and took to his defense.[[/labelnote]] |
| 181 | ** Who was the evilest villain in the ''Breaking Bad'' universe? [[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]Following along with the above meme, a joking series of images comparing the most heinous acts of the villains from both shows (usually Walt, Gus, and/or Todd) and finishing with Lalo, concluding that he was the most evil of them all because in [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS6E8PointAndShoot Episode 6x8]] after killing Howard he told Kim [[FelonyMisdemeanor to put her shoes on]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 182 | * "I no longer want to call Saul." [[labelnote:Explanation]]A frequent joke about how the show made turning into funny lawyer man Saul Goodman a tragedy, and fans were dreading the day when Jimmy would become him.[[/labelnote]] |
| 183 | * Chuck asks [X] if they passed the bar.[[labelnote:Explanation]]There are a lot of videos of Chuck finding out various characters passed the bar exam and getting angry about it, exaggerating his fears of Jimmy becoming a lawyer by having ''everyone'' become one.[[/labelnote]] |
| 184 | ** "You passed the bar?!"[=/=]"WHAT A SICK JOKE!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]The formula for these edits start with a character approaching Chuck, him asking if they passed the bar, the character confirming somehow, and Chuck responding with this snippet from his "Chicanery" rant.[[/labelnote]] |
| 185 | * "These recasts are going too far."[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]Jeff the cab driver was portrayed by Creator/DonHarvey during his brief appearances in Seasons 4 and 5, but due to scheduling conflicts, had been recast for Pat Healy in Season 6. The fandom response was mixed, but eventually came to joke about how the show has constantly been replacing characters with new actors, such as Gus' BodyDouble seen more clearly in [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS6E8PointAndShoot Point and Shoot]]. [[/labelnote]] |
| 186 | ** "Why did they recast [X]?"[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]More extreme cases have the fictional "Nippy" recast as another dog, or the times where characters simply go under a new alias, leading to fans acting as if they were supposed to be a completely different character in the scene.[[/labelnote]] |
| 187 | ** "I can't believe they recast Mike!"[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]In "Waterworks", it's revealed that Mike's old position in the Albuquerque's courthouse ticket booth has been automated since his retirement (and subsequent death). Fans jokingly interpret this as ''Creator/JonathanBanks himself'' being replaced with the computer, cracking jokes about comparing the "new actor" to Banks. Some take it even further by [[BlatantLies claiming]] Mike has ''always'' been an automated ticket machine.[[/labelnote]] |
| 188 | * "Do you think that's me? Because it's not."[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]The scene where Gene catches Marion watching one of his old commercials as Saul Goodman, exposing his identity. The scene has been edited with other memes from the show or Bob Odenkirk's other TV appearances [[/labelnote]] |
| 189 | * Chuck hits his head on a table[[labelnote:Explanation]]A gif of the scene where Chuck hits his head on a table in "Nailed" during an EHS-induced fit became popular in 2021 and onwards, often as a reaction to something bad similar to Walter White collapsing in despair.[[/labelnote]] |
| 190 | * Huell Ate Kim[=/=]Better Fuel Huell[[labelnote:Explanation]]A notorious EpilepticTrees explanation for how Huell appears so much fatter in Breaking Bad than in Better Call Saul, combined with why we never saw Kim in Breaking Bad: [[EatenAlive Huell apparently swallowed Kim whole]]. This has led to various "leaks" of Huell doing the deed, or joking that Breaking Bad credits Rhea Seehorn as playing "Huell's Girth".[[/labelnote]] |
| 191 | * "Greatest legal mind I ever knew."[[labelnote:Explanation]]A quote from Howard describing Chuck which has a tendency to either be spammed in GIF form as a NonSequitur, or twisted into a [[{{Feghoot}} overly-long story just to end with a butchered wordplay of this phrase,]] such as with the [[https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddychicanery/comments/wly5zs/jesse_is_worried_about_howard/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share following]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/okbuddychicanery/comments/wmkmbv/kid_named_minecraft/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share examples]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 192 | * The Saul Pose[=/=]Jimmy [=McGill=]'s Anime Girl Stance[[labelnote:Explanation]]During the montage in [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS1E2Mijo Mijo]], Jimmy delivers his defense while [[https://twitter.com/JohnnySpittin/status/1561010630903095296 bending over with his arms behind his back and his head held up]]. Recognized as the CoyGirlishFlirtPose quite often seen in anime, it became subject to numerous redraws and fanart.[[/labelnote]] |
| 193 | * "Have some more chicken, have some more pie, it doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried."[[labelnote:Explanation]]A quite memorable line said by Creator/MichaelMcKean, the actor of Chuck during the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGCpqAvoCs "We're All In This Together"]] Music/WeirdAlYankovic Parody video. It caught on due to its sheer absurdity at how oddly-enunciated Michael says it, while being almost in-character as Chuck.[[/labelnote]] |
| 194 | ** "Just eat it eat it eat it eat it eat it eat it" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Another line from the same video as above, said by Creator/BobOdenkirk, Saul's actor. It blew up due to an above meme of Bob following a foot fetish account, along with the monotone way he says it.[[/labelnote]] |
| 195 | * Howard Hamlin is the kind of guy to...[[labelnote:Explanation]]To make fun of how milquetoast Howard is compared to the rest of the cast, people started saying hilariously awkward things Howard "would do", such as not being able to kill a civilian in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'', saying "nice kitty" when falling into a lion enclosure, or to [[FollowYourNose start floating in the air when he smells a delicious pie]]. It's adapted from similar jokes once made regarding Music/{{Drake}}.[[/labelnote]] |
| 196 | * Yassified Saul Goodman. [[labelnote:explanation]]The affectionate tumblr joke on how Saul - when it hits his timeline - is obviously skinnier than how he was in Series/BreakingBad, with a nicer combover wig and fitted "lead actor now" suits.[[/labelnote]] |
| 197 | * "Walt during ''Better Call Saul''"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Since ''BCS'' is a prequel to ''Breaking Bad'', fans like to make jokes about Walter White living a relatively mundane life during that timeframe in contrast to whatever drama is going on with the ''BCS'' characters.[[/labelnote]] |
| 198 | * "Taco Cabeza is just around the corner."[[labelnote:Explanation]]A throwaway piece of dialogue by Kim that exploded on r/okbuddychicanery, likely originating in a post asking what the most underrated line in the series was. Someone answered with a gif of this line, and it's been incorporated into memes and spammed in comments ever since.[[/labelnote]] |
| 199 | * The Bimbofication Of Jimmy [=McGill=]. [[labelnote:explanation]]Early season six revealed that at this point in her character arc, Kim finds creating Saul Goodman a turn-on (and as always, Jimmy is very keen on making her happy) and she lovingly encourages the flamboyant cars and clothes and office along with more attention-seeking and ObfuscatingStupidity, leading many to joke she's bimbofied him. [[/labelnote]] |
| 200 | * Fan-made Better Call Saul intros[[labelnote:explanation]] Many fans began making their own homages to the show's intro, which consists of a grainy VHS clip of a random area related to Saul Goodman. Most people tend to film random areas outside their place of residence and add the VHS effect to them, complete with music.[[/labelnote]] |
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| 203 | %%[[folder:Memes from ''El Camino'']] |
| 204 | %%* The bald cap.[[labelnote:explanation]]When Walt reappears in a flashback, many viewers noticed that Bryan Cranston was wearing a [[SpecialEffectsFailure very obvious bald cap]]. It's excused by the fact that Cranston was in a Broadway play, so he couldn't shave because of the role, and had Cranston actually shaved his head, then everyone would've known something was up.[[/labelnote]] |
| 205 | %%* Pepperoni pizza.[[labelnote:explanation]]When Jesse threatens to kill Todd out in the desert, Todd manages to dissuade him from doing so by offering him...pizza. His favorite pizza, to be exact, which is pepperoni. Todd's dissonance towards the whole thing, contrasted by Jesse's filthy appearance, emotionally drained, and overall depressing appearance makes it all the more memetic for [[NarmCharm how out of place it is, yet managing to remain a powerful moment of acting]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 206 | %%* Fat Todd.[[labelnote:explanation]]People noticed that Jesse Plemons had gained some weight since the finale of ''Breaking Bad'', thus giving us another example of BellisariosMaxim.[[/labelnote]] |
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