History Recap / BreakingBadS2E6Peekaboo

* DirtyCoward: Spooge's girlfriend shamelessly uses her little boy as a shield between her and Jesse during the tense hold-up. Whether or not she is the boy's biological mother is yet to be confirmed though.

* MissingStepsPlan: Spooge and his girlfriend decide to steal an [=ATM=] and empty out all its cash so they can buy more drugs. And just ''how'' were they going to get the cash out of it, they didn't even think of that. Only when Jesse arrives and holds them at gunpoint do they get serious about emptying it, so Spooge resorts to breaking it open with a sledgehammer - which proves to be futile due to the door being secured too well.

** Jesse freaking out as Spooge's girl crushes Spooge's head with the ATM

* DirtyCoward: Spooge's girlfriend shamelessly uses her [[SarcasmMode precious little boy]] as a shield between her and Jesse during the tense hold-up. Whether or not she is the boy's biological mother is yet to be confirmed though.

* BookDumb: When Skinny Pete writes down Spooge's address for Jesse, he writes "street" as "streat". Jesse calls him out on it.

* TheDogBitesBack: Spooge constantly insults his woman nastily, driving her insane to no end. Until the end of the episode, when he once again calls her a “skank”. She, having been high on drugs, can’t take it anymore, and tips over an ATM machine that was above Spooge’s head, squishing his head and killing him.

* FriendToAllChildren: Jesse's BigBrotherInstinct kicks in when he sees Spooge and his girlfriend's undernourished, dirty child just walking around all alone in the house. He goes to great lengths to make sure that the boy doesn't see any violence (though his parents don't seem to care), and makes sure the kid gets picked up by the police before he takes off.

* TooDumbToLive: Spooge should've known better than to call his girlfriend a skank, pushing her BerserkButton, while his head was under a heavy ATM. Instead, he proceeded to call her a skank eighteen times in under a minute. Not his smartest idea, but his final idea.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Spooge's son doesn't react at all to Jesse breaking into the house. Though he could be too violence-addled and malnourished to care.

Directed by Peter Medak

* AtrociousAlias: Jessie is amazed to find that one of the addicts who stole from Pete willingly calls himself "Spooge."

** The episode opens with Skinny Pete stomping out a beetle. Later, Spooge's head gets crushed by an ATM. Both were done without second thoughts and with the same aloof amount of ease.

* AbusiveParents: Spooge and his girlfriend leave their little son all alone in the house and neglect feeding, bathing or nursing him while outside they go out looting [=ATMs=] or searching for more drugs (preferably cocaine and heroin).

* BerserkButton: Spooge's girlfriend really, really hates being called a "skank".

* ExactWords: Gretchen employs a lot of this to simultaneously avoid taking credit for Walt's treatment and deny that that she and Elliot have been doing it.

** During a lesson on carbon, Walt recounts the story of the man who invented synthetic diamonds, H. Tracy Hall, and how he was rewarded for his breakthrough invention with a ten-dollar savings bond. Walt, similarly, made several breakthroughs for Grey Matter, but had sold his share of the company for pennies on the dollar after breaking up with Gretchen, as he would tell Jesse late in the final season.
** The episode opens with Skinny Pete stomping out a beetle. Later, Spooge's head gets crushed by an ATM. Both were done without second thoughts and the same aloof amount of ease.

* HiddenDepths: When Spooge complains about Jesse hitting him, he uses accurate medical terminology to describe the risk of a simple hit to the head turning into a concussion or subdural hematoma. David Ury, who portrayed him, has speculated that Spooge may have been a health care professional at one point before falling into drug use.

* InsaneTrollLogic: Spooge claims that since every ATM has a weakness of some kind, logically the manufacturer must have placed it on the bottom, since that's where it'd be hardest to access and exploit said weakness. His girlfriend, drugged out of her mind as she is, instantly points out how dumb this logic is, since weaknesses aren't usually ''intentionally'' designed into anything. Possibly subverted since the door does pop open after he spends a while tinkering with the bottom, but it's not clear if this is a direct result of said tinkering, or the door finally giving out due to repeated sledgehammer whacks combined with a sudden, sharp bump courtesy of it landing on Spooge's head.

-->'''Gretchen:''' Let me just get this straight: Elliott and I offered to pay for your treatment, no strings attached – an offer which still stands by the way – and you turn us down out of pride, whatever. And then you tell your wife that in fact we are paying for your treatment. Without our knowledge, against our will, you involve us in your lie, and you sit here and tell me that that is none of my business?\\

* PetTheDog: Jesse calls the cops in the hopes they'll bring the neglected child to social services where he could have a better life.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"''I ain't no skank.''"]]

-->-- '''Spooge’s Woman'''

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: Jesse practices saying "Where's my money Bitch!?" outside of Spooge's house. He only says it for real onscreen once.

* FriendToAllChildren: Jesse's BigBrotherInstinct kicks in when he sees Spooge and girlfriend's undernourished, dirty child just walking around all alone in the house. He goes to great lengths to make sure that the boy doesn't see any violence (though his parents don't seem to care), and makes sure the kid gets picked up by the police before he takes off.

->''"You have a good rest of your life, kid"''