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Dyeing For Your Art: Bryan Cranston lost weight and shaved his head to play Walter.
Fake American: Laura Fraser (Scottish) as Lydia.
- Walt's former friend Elliot is played by British Adam Godley with a flawless accent.
Fake Nationality: Americans Giancarlo Esposito and Mark Margolis as Chilean and Mexican characters, respectively.
Hey, It's That Guy!: Apparently, Toby Loobenfeld is sick of playing �cousin Leo� and chose to become an undercover cop... pretending to be a drug addict.
- Walter's psychiatrist is the former mayor of Sunnydale. Who is also married to Ted's mother.
- Gretchen, Walter's former girlfriend and wife of his former business partner, used to be a lesbian named Susan in New York.
- Jesse might want to be careful about taking advice in rehab from Burn Notice's Anson Fullerton
- Walter buys a gun from Bobby Singer.
- Walter has a brief partnership with Doug.
- Hank was a warlock with a finger that can turn into a needle at will
Life Imitates Art: Meth being smuggled by way of hiding it in food shipments. It's not exactly fry batter, but nacho cheese is close.
- On Aug. 16, 2012, the Tuscaloosa County (Ala.) Sheriff's Office named a new Most Wanted Fugitive. That person? Accused meth cook Walter White. (Not the hero of this show, but this guy.)
Older Than He Looks: Raymond Cruz was almost 50 when he played Tuco.
Role Association:
- Walt White is Hal from Malcolm in the Middle (which is funny, considering that Malcolm... had one episode where Hal worries that he may have cancer, another where Hal is busted on drug charges, and a flashback where Hal is bald from a chemistry kit accident), if he left his wife and kids and took several levels in Badass.
- Jane's dad is Q.
  - He's also William Miles, another dad from a certain game franchise.
- Skyler is Mrs Bullock.
- The leader in Jesse's addiction recovery group is an Expy of Tobias Beecher. They both suffered from debilitating addictions that ended with an innocent girl run over by a car. Also, he's Justified's resident nutjob, Mr. Wynn Duffy!
- Another Justified regular is Tucker's friend - who is also resident idiot Dewey Crowe on that show.
- Gus is Buggin' Out, who after going to jail goes from Angry Black Man to The Chessmaster.
- Tortuga is Danny Trejo.
- Hector Salamanca and Don Eladio are played by Alberto and Manny, respectively.
- Landry now works for Walt. And he's killed again.
Tom Hanks Syndrome:
- While Bryan Cranston was not an exclusively comedic actor before the series, by far his most famous role was as the Bumbling Dad on Malcolm in the Middle. To put it mildly, Walter will be quite a departure for his fans from that show.
- Given that Hal was a similarly put-upon mid-life-crisis type character, see it as Hey, That Guy Took a Level in Badass!
- Apparently Cranston had specifically taken the role because it was so different from both Hal and every other bumbling dad role he'd been offered around the time. Read that how you will.
What Could Have Been: Learn anything about the issues this show has faced that caused radical plot rewrites, and marvel that it turned out so well. For starters, if the first season hadn't been cut short by the writers' strike, Jesse would have been killed at the end of it.
- Also, Vince Gilligan originally envisioned the show as being only four seasons long. Its possible that the actor playing Tuco deciding to leave earlier than expected made the writers have to build up to a new villain thus making the story longer than originally planned.
- Hector Salamanca was originally planned as the villain for Season 3, and Gus Fring would never have existed if Tuco's actor hadn't resigned.