History YMMV / BreakingBad

* HarsherInHindsight:
** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E10Over Over]]", Jesse tries to surprise Jane by cooking breakfast while she sleeps in. She gets up before he finishes, however, which causes Jesse to say "You weren't supposed to get up." Jane jokingly asks "What, ever?" A few episodes later, Jane dies in her sleep.
** Skyler warning Jesse to stay away from Walt in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS1E2TheCatsInTheBag The Cat's in the Bag]]" was a comedic scene, though rewatching the series, her telling him to stay away or else he'll be "one sorry individual" is a lot less funny considering most of Jesse's pains are a direct result of Walt's actions.
** Several events in this show become this after watching ''Series/BetterCallSaul'':
*** In general, when watching ''Better Call Saul'', it's hard watching scenes with multiple characters from this show since the audience is left knowing what exactly will happen to them once [[DoomMagnet Walter White]] enters their lives.
*** Also, just try watching any scenes with Saul the same way knowing full well about his efforts to be a legitimate lawyer, and the self-sabotage as well as sabotage from Chuck that led to him becoming the AmoralAttorney we see here - especially when it's made clear that the main reason the "Saul Goodman" persona even exists is because of Jimmy's own blistering self-hatred.
*** All the scenes with Mike and his granddaughter became a bit harder to watch after ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' revealed exactly why he's so devoted to her - for one thing, [[spoiler:her mother isn't his daughter, but rather, his daughter-in-law and late son's wife.]]
*** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E11Abiquiu Abiquiu]]", Skyler skeptically looks over Saul's degree from the University of American Samoa, which is PlayedForLaughs, a way of emphasizing what a tacky and fraudulent lawyer Saul is. Knowing the struggle, the heartache, and the eventual betrayal related to that degree from ''Better Call Saul'' will undoubtedly make that scene much less funny in future viewings.
*** Similarly, we have Saul's FreakOut during Jesse and Walt's plan to scare him in [[Recap/BreakingBadS2E8BetterCallSaul his introductory episode]], once you take the ordeal he went through involving the skateboarding twins and Tuco in the ''Better Call Saul'' episode "[[Recap/BetterCallSaulS1E2Mijo Mijo]]" into account. What at first seemed like Saul simply fearing for his life is actually Saul thinking Tuco or Lalo have decided to finally kill him, especially after he says that whatever they think he did, Ignacio (Nacho Varga) was the real one to blame.
---->'''Saul:''' Oh, thank God! Oh, Christ! Oh, I thought... ''[hyperventilating]'' What can I do for you, gentlemen?
*** Saul's fear of Lalo becomes a lot less funny after "[[Recap/BetterCallSaulS6E7PlanAndExecution Plan & Execution]]" where it's revealed that [[spoiler:not only did he not know Lalo was alive until he showed up in his apartment, but within minutes of getting there, Lalo murdered Howard Hamlin right before him.]] There's also "[[Recap/BetterCallSaulS6E8PointAndShoot Point and Shoot]]", where [[spoiler: he's held hostage by Lalo, and repeats the same plea that he hasn't done anything before a gag is shoved in his mouth.]]
*** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E2Madrigal Madrigal]]", Hank offhandedly points out while interrogating Mike that the Philadelphia PD told him that Mike's tenure as a cop with them ended under, ahem, ''dramatic'' circumstances. Mike says "Not particularly," to which Hank agrees as he's more interested in probing Mike for any evidence of off-the-books work he performed for Gus. It's a bit harder to hear that line from Hank when you know that he's talking about the death of Mike's son Matthew.
*** The end of Gus and Hector's rivalry gets an extra sour note with the reveal in ''Better Call Saul'' that [[spoiler:Gus saved Hector's life during the stroke that paralyzed him...then interfered in his hospital treatment, simply because he wanted Hector to suffer Gus' own revenge.]] Suddenly, the face Hector makes right before blowing himself and Gus up makes an awful lot of sense.
*** In "Sunset" Saul has Francesca call Hank and pose as a member of the hospital staff, telling him Marie has been seriously injured in a car crash. Saul looks uncharacteristically guilty afterward as if he feels his actions have crossed a line. This seems more understandable after watching the ''Better Call Saul'' episode "Fall", where we learn that [[spoiler:the love of his life almost died in a car crash]].
*** In "Caballo Sin Nombre", Saul handles the purchase of Jesse's house with his trademark charm and sarcasm, right up until their lawyer says that his offer is a "joke", at which point his tone gets significantly angrier and he takes almost sadistic glee in not just shortchanging them for the house but rubbing the other lawyer's nose in his failure. After hearing Chuck's rant on the stand from "Chicanery", where he referred to the idea of Jimmy being a lawyer as a "sick joke", it's no wonder that such phrasing would affect him so severely. Said house Jesse buys back from his parents with Saul's help is also only a few blocks (both in canon and in real life, as the creators point out in the commentary for "Marco") away from Chuck's house, where he committed suicide.
*** In the same episode, he's notably uneasy when Walter complains about losing his whole family, still acting like a pig but uncomfortable and having to sit in his car for a minute before calling Mike, calling to mind Jimmy sobbing in his car during "Winner" after finally beginning to grieve [[spoiler:his brother's suicide]].
*** All of the scenes in the laundromat Superlab, even the funny ones like in "Fly", take on a whole extra layer of disturbing when you know that [[spoiler:they're standing over Lalo Salamanca and Howard Hamlin's corpses]]. Additionally, after seeing the sheer amount of blood, sweat, money, tears, and corpses that were required to build that Superlab, Walt [[spoiler:burning it down after killing Gus]] goes from being an awesome moment to a brutal kick in the teeth. This line from Mike when he angrily confronts Walt and Jesse about [[spoiler:the Superlab's destruction]] really drives this point home:
---->''"Do you even know?! Do you even '''know''' what you've done?!"''
*** In "Bug", one of Mike's guys is killed by Cartel hitmen with a sniper rifle. He's forced to take the body down to the Superlab to dispose of it, with Walter being indignant that he is expected to regularly dispose of corpses now and accuses Gus of having murdered the man himself [[ItsAllAboutMe just to send Walt another message]]. With the knowledge that Mike had known and worked with that man (Nick) for many years before he even met Walter, his anger at Walt's arrogance and callousness becomes even more understandable.
*** In "Confessions", Walt brings Saul out into the desert for his talk with Jesse, leading to Saul standing off to the side clearly scared for his life while the two talk. After seeing the multiple traumatic events Jimmy endured in the desert, including Tuco almost murdering him in "Mijo" and having to be bait for a sniper in "Bagman", it's no wonder he's so terrified: he's clearly having traumatic flashbacks.
*** Saul's frequent MurderIsTheBestSolution references become more disturbing when [[spoiler: he and Kim indirectly got Howard Hamlin killed, he was tied down and ended up lying beside the man's corpse, and it broke him and Kim up]], the latter of which was the final straw to push him to becoming Saul full-time in the first place.
*** Even Saul's "greatest lawyer" mug gets made tragic, as [[spoiler: everybody including him knew that Kim was a better lawyer than he was, and he gets said mug as soon as she quits practicing law]].
*** Knowing that Saul got attached to Walt because he reminded him of Chuck [[note]] as well as wanting a distraction from Lalo/Kim/Howard trauma, and greed[[/note]], and eventually realised he'd recreated his broken childhood relationship with his brother, makes that dynamic extremely uncomfortable rather than just funny. Especially this line in "Problem Dog":
---->'''Saul:''' I've been working magic here. I could at least get an "attaboy".
*** Saul deadpan repeating a line Mike constantly heard from abused wives ("deep down, he really loves me") gets worse after learning how his emotionally abusive older brother Chuck really fucked him up, and one of the reasons why Mike hates Saul is because he knows Jimmy is trying to prove Chuck right by being his worst self.
*** Mike threatening to break Saul's legs and leave him in a hole in the desert becomes even worse with two key revelations: first, Mike and Saul have actually known each other even longer than Mike has known Gus and Jimmy genuinely considered themselves friends at one point, and that Mike is not only aware of Jimmy's trauma related to the desert, but was present for one of the worst trauma he endured there in "Bagman", so he's deliberately touching his PTSD to make him talk.
** "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E9BloodMoney Blood Money]]": Badger's ''Franchise/StarTrek'' script (which ends with Chekov [[BlackComedy getting brutally killed by a freak accident]]) loses all of its humor after his actor in the Creator/JJAbrams [[Film/StarTrek2009 films]], Creator/AntonYelchin's brutal death in a freak accident involving his car in 2016.
** A fan who got the chance to watch the finale with the cast was later found to have been operating an underground synthetic marijuana distribution [[http://www.watoday.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/breaking-bad-contest-winner-busted-on-drug-lab-charges-20140103-308gt.html scheme]].
** The second season features Jane Margolis's father, an air traffic controller, suffering from depression, showing up to work obviously unfit, and he causes a mid-air collision with numerous fatalities. In 2015, the clinically depressed pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 deliberately crashed his plane into the side of a mountain in France, killing 150 people -- although the ''Breaking Bad'' incident was an accident caused by a depressed air traffic controller, whereas the latter was intentionally done by a pilot.
*** There also exists some eerie similarities between Wayfarer 515 and the chain of events in January 2020 that led up to the crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752. What happened in that case was that President Donald Trump (Walter White) first caused the death of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani (Jane Margolis), who was a very important personnel to Iran's military (Donald Margolis), thus devastating them greatly. Yet, the latter party tried to do right by continuing their duties of protecting the sky. But in the process, they committed a fatal error, inadvertently downing a civilian aircraft, killing all on board. The main difference however is that UIA 752 was shot down due to the Iranian military misidentifying the airliner as a hostile US Force aircraft, whilst Wayfarer 515 collided with another plane in midair due to Donald Margolis' failure to deal with Jane's loss. Yet, disturbingly similar, both aircraft were Boeing 737s and the 167 occupants aboard both the Wayfarer and the other aircraft matched the exact number of the 167 passengers aboard UIA 752.
** Jesse's comparisons between Walt and the Nazis (including, but not limited to, his angrily shouting "Well, ''Heil Hitler'', bitch!" in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS1E3AndTheBagsInTheRiver ...And the Bag's in the River]]") become quite frightening on two levels. First, Walt's pseudonym of "Heisenberg" is the same name as Werner Karl Heisenberg, a Nazi scientist; something Hank picks up on. Second, late in the series, [[spoiler:Walt starts to work with ''actual'' neo-Nazis, going so far as to arrange for them to assassinate Jesse.]]
** Early on in the series, Walt Jr. creates the website "Save Walter White" to raise some extra money for Walt's medical bills. [[https://www.ft.com/content/b99a81be-f591-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00 More people are increasingly turning to crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe and others to get extra money for their expensive healthcare costs]].
** David House, the actor that plays Walt's oncologist Dr. Delcavoli, who managed Walt's cancer prognosis and recommended him chemotherapy, died of pneumonia in 2016 as a result of a bad reaction to chemotherapy, which was being used to treat a brain tumor.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Aaron Paul's next major TV role was as Eddie Lane in ''Series/ThePath''. Eddie, a convert to the Meyerist cult, still has a relatively ambiguous backstory with hints of illegal activity and drugs. That, combined with the fact that Eddie is portrayed to be at least 10 years older than Jesse Pinkman (older than Aaron Paul, who played far younger than his actual age with Jesse) has yielded several theories that "Eddie Lane" is the new identity assumed by fugitive Jesse.
** Aaron Paul previously auditioned for ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' as one of [[Creator/BryanCranston Hal's]] children (presumably Francis, the oldest, as he was 20 when ''Malcolm'' premiered). The WhatCouldHaveBeen fan works basically write themselves with that one.
** On August 16th, 2012, the Tuscaloosa County, Alabama Sheriff's Office announced its new Most Wanted Fugitive as [[http://crime.blogs.tuscaloosanews.com/12950/walter-white-wanted-for-making-methamphetamine/?tc=ar a meth cook named Walter Eddie White]]. This sort of crime would ordinarily be local news had it not been for the coincidence of the schmuck's name. Ironically, the Walter Eddie White's blue collar operation was a lot less sophisticated than the show's Walter White.
** Another real meth cook [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/billingsgazette.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/walter-white-gets-years-for-dealing-meth/article_e5e37663-f610-55b3-9f90-e3b1c21bd9ec.amp.html named Walter Jack White]], was arrested in Montana for possession and firearms charges. In contrast to the fictional Walter White's son being an uninvolved innocent, this Walter White's son was very much involved in the business, even shooting his dad in a dispute over a debt.
** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS1E7ANoRoughStuffTypeDeal A-No-Rough-Stuff-Type-Deal]]", Hank and Walt have a discussion about the arbitrary nature of narcotics prohibition. Hank makes a joke on the basis of cannabis being illegal. Except, New Mexico decriminalized cannabis for medicinal use in 2007, a year before the show first went on the air.
** A few years after ''Breaking Bad'', Aaron Paul would play another stoner burnout beanie-lover who shares a first name with Jesse's Nazi captor. [[WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman Dammit Todd!]]
** Fans of ''Series/FridayNightLights'' get to see [[spoiler:Landry killing Epyck.]]
** [[spoiler:Jesse drives away at top speed in a car at the end of "Felina." Guess what Aaron Paul's next major role was in? ''Film/NeedForSpeed.'' May also double as an ActorAllusion, and triples as a pun in that ''Breaking Bad'' is about a different kind of speed.]]
** In the 2006 movie ''Film/LittleMissSunshine'', Bryan Cranston and Dean Norris have brief, unrelated appearances where Cranston plays an obnoxious businessman while Norris plays a cop.
** In 1999, Aaron Paul was in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kt6JI9gzECo&feature=kp Corn Pops commercial]] where his parents were trying to talk to him about acting responsibly and being a functioning member of society, but he's too distracted by a drug-like obsession with the cereal to listen. It plays oddly like an in-canon prequel to the show.
** After this show, Creator/AnnaGunn starred in ''Series/{{Gracepoint}}'', a remake of the British series ''Series/{{Broadchurch}}''. The fun comes from the fact that [[spoiler:in the original series, her character discovers her husband is a murderer, which is ''not'' the case in the remake (though he's still a horrible person)]].
** During "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E10Over Over]]", Jesse shows off several superhero ideas he had drawn as a kid, and asks Jane if she would ever want superpowers. One heated argument later, she later draws a picture of herself as a superhero that she self-deprecatingly calls "Apology Girl". Come late 2014, Creator/KrystenRitter would end up being cast in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse as the title role of [[ComicBook/JessicaJones Jessica Jones]] for their Creator/{{Netflix}} lineup.
** In "Fly", Jesse gets annoyed at Walt for calling the titular insect in their lab a "contamination" he tells Walt he thought it was something more serious like an Ebola virus. Walt finds Jesse's example to be absurd and asks "what would a West African virus be doing in [the] lab?" There actually was a minor Ebola outbreak in the United States in 2014; very few people were affected but it got a lot of media coverage and generated a lot of fear and paranoia.
** Gus Fring operates his meth network using his fast food chicken restaurant Los Pollos Hermanos as a front. In August 2015, [[http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-arrested-running-meth-lab-out-iowa-taco-bell-n404301 two people in Cedar Rapids, Iowa were arrested for operating a meth lab out of a Taco Bell]].
** Los Pollos Hermanos smuggles drugs inside marked buckets of fry batter. [[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/drugs-hidden-in-nacho-cheese_n_1143879.html?ncid=txtlnkushuff00000001 While it's not fry batter, some smugglers have been caught trying to use nacho cheese to the same effect.]]
** Tortuga, played by Creator/DannyTrejo, meets his end when he's decapitated with a machete. [[Film/{{Machete}} Come 2010...]]
*** Though it's worth noting that the original ''Machete'' concept was popularized by a fake trailer in the 2007 film ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', although that was originally conceptualized in the 90s, which led to writer-director Robert Rodriguez putting the character in Film/SpyKids first. In that sense, it amounts to more of a ShoutOut.
** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS3E8ISeeYou I See You]]", Walt Jr. reveals that Hank gave him a book about the agents who caught Pablo Escobar, everyone knows about Escobar but not the agents who helped bring him down. Come 2015, ''Series/{{Narcos}}'' would air on Netflix (the same service responsible for greatly raising BB's profile).
** The scene in "[[Recap/BreakingBadS1E4CancerMan Cancer Man]]" with Ken Wins, the asshole stock guy who got his car blown up by Walt, gets funnier knowing about the time that Jimmy and Kim Wexler tricked him into paying for an entire bottle of very expensive tequila.
** Badger's actor, Matt Jones, would go on to voice Wedge in the VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake, who is part of the same group as another character named Jessie. Doubly funny since Jesse's actor, Creator/AaronPaul, would also go on to play a [[Anime/KingsglaiveFinalFantasyXV Final Fantasy character]].
** After Walt shaves his head, Walt Jr. claims that he looks like ComicBook/LexLuthor. In ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019,'' Lex Luthor is voiced by Gustavo's actor, Creator/GiancarloEsposito
** At one point we get a flashback to Walt and Gretchen discussing the chemical composition of the human body. Their numbers do not equal 100%, leading to [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist them wondering what they're missing.]]
** Gus Fring is heavily implied to have a high ranking military officer in UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet's regime and is called "[[TheGeneralissimo Gran Generalissimo]]" by Hector Salamanca. In ''VideoGame/FarCry6'', Esposito plays a Caribbean military dictator.
** BlackComedy, but Walt constantly using Saul as a free venting machine becomes funny once you realise at this point Jimmy/Saul has refused to go to therapy, not dealt with a single issue in his life and became someone else to try and cope with his TraumaCongaLine.
** The reason the writers chose to have Saul's fail-safe plot to [[spoiler: relocate to Omaha and be a manager of a Cinnabon]] was to avoid conflict of interest for their first idea which was for him to [[spoiler: manage a Hot Topic]] due to the fact that they were selling merchandise of the show at the time and didn't want to seem as if they were cross-promoting. However, by the time of BCS, Cinnabon did end up doing cross-promotion with the show, to the point where they even gave out free cinnamon buns on the day of BCS' finale.
** In "IFT", Saul tells Jesse that he's not the biggest fan of minimalism. Upon seeing his house in Season 6 of ''Better Call Saul'', that was an understatement.
** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E9BloodMoney Blood Money]]", Jesse drives around a residential neighborhood throwing his drug money out of the window out of guilt from [[spoiler: the death of Drew Sharp]], causing him to get accosted by the DEA. In April 2023, a man made headlines for throwing his family's life savings out of his car window on the interstate, causing several people to humorously point out the comparisons.
** In "[[Recap/BreakingBadS2E8BetterCallSaul Better Call Saul]]", Saul told Walt and Jesse that if shanking Badger in prison was off the table, one of them would go to jail regardless of the solution they take to free Badger. Ironically, ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' ends with [[spoiler:[[Recap/BetterCallSaulS6E13SaulGone Jimmy going to jail though with]] WordOfGod [[Recap/BetterCallSaulS6E13SaulGone that he'll get out on good behavior,]] [[Recap/BreakingBadS5E16Felina in contrast to Walt dying from a stray gunshot]] [[Film/ElCamino and Jesse successfully fleeing to Alaska]]]].

* DracoInLeatherPants:
** Some fans still regard Walter as a hero who does everything for his family even when his actions say otherwise [[spoiler:and he himself confesses in the finale that he has been making drugs because he enjoyed it and was good at it]]. Vince Gilligan himself lampshaded this, saying in a 2022 interview that the more time passes since the show's conclusion, the more he doesn't understand why Walt was ever considered a sympathetic character or why some fans don't realize that Walt brought most of his misfortune down on himself.
** Skyler mostly got the RonTheDeathEater treatment during the original run of the show, but over the years she's undergone CharacterPerceptionEvolution, with many newer fans and even fans during the series' original run coming to sympathize more with her... and to make up for the infamous hatred she (and her actress) used to receive, now many fans see her as an innocent saint who suffers from an abusive husband and blatantly ignore her obvious flaws like her hypocrisy and greed.
** Jesse also gets a good deal of DracoInLeatherPants from people -- apparently, realizing that you're a bad guy but continuing to cook meth and doing bad things that aren't as bad as the other criminals you work with makes you a good person. Actually discussed in-episode: when Jesse wants out of the operation with his cut of the money, Walt points out that it's still drug money he'd be taking and asks why he would want it if he's [[LampshadeHanging "so pure, with such emotional depth"]]. To Jesse's credit though, after he gets the money he actually takes what Walt said at face value and he tries to rid himself of it. Peter Gould confessed in the "Gloves Off" podcast that this tendency crossed over to the writer's room as well, as they liked Jesse so much they were mentally absolving him of everything he did.
** Even Gus gets this treatment to some extent, with some fans seeing him as a BrokenBird who was driven to evil by the Cartel's [[spoiler:murdering his business partner, who is also loosely implied to have been his lover]], ignoring the fact that he was shown to already be a meth dealer even before this happened, and is implied to have had a dark past of some kind in Chile (though the latter one's never actually elaborated on, probably contributing to Gus being seen this way). Even after revealing [[Series/BetterCallSaul in the prequel]] that he had sociopathic tendencies as a child (torturing an animal to death for eating his fruit), people still defend him and blame all his faults on the Cartel. Some fans even blame Walt for ruining their business relationship, even though Gus basically forced him into it and was clearly planning on getting rid of Walt as soon as he could be replaced. They also seem to forget that Gus started their feud by having a child ''murdered'' and not understanding Walt's decision to save Jesse when he tried avenging that child.
** A few people actually admire [[spoiler:Todd]], despite the fact that he's a ruthless killer with a total LackOfEmpathy, mainly due to his [[AffablyEvil dorky charm]].
** Many fans like to forget that Mike technically is a villain even if he's largely one of the [[PunchClockVillain punch-clock variety]]. It ranges from those who may downplay his villainy and those who go as far as to say that he doesn't even count as a villain at all based solely on his goal of leaving his granddaughter a nest egg, despite the fact that he is still ultimately a [[ProfessionalKiller cold-blooded murderer]] working for a drug lord and, as ''Better Call Saul'' revealed, a former DirtyCop who only left after [[spoiler:his activities inadvertently got his son killed]], which makes it hard to argue for why he actually would be any less villainous than any other characters.
** Many try to paint Saul as a victim who only did terrible things because he was afraid of Walt, ignoring that he tried to convince Walt to come back to cooking when he had quit and repeatedly suggested Walt kill people so he could save himself from going to prison. This tendency got more pronounced after ''Series/BetterCallSaul'' detailed how "Saul" is a mask for a very traumatized, self-loathing man, so people will forget all the sleaze and cowardice.
** While Hank isn't evil, many fans like to ignore his flaws such as his hypocritical behavior, like when he thought Hugo the janitor was a scumbag for smoking weed but was perfectly fine smoking illegal Cuban cigars. His poor treatment of Marie in Season 4 is often forgotten, ignored, or justified due to his mental state. This is especially true in Season 5 where he tries to force Skyler into a confession and shows no concern over Jesse's possible death. Regardless of his methods, it's questionable whether we should side with him in his investigation as his primary motive seems to be spite against Walt. While Walt should be punished for his actions, it doesn't seem like any lives would be improved by Hank catching him after he retired. By going solo in his quest to bring down Walt, then later roping in Gomez but not involving the DEA, [[spoiler:he got Gomez and himself killed.]] He was aware of whom Walt had killed and that he must still have allies, yet took Gomez into a deadly situation without arranging any backup, entirely because he personally wanted to take Walt down. He is also shown taking advantage of his power to bully Wendy the prostitute for no other reason than he can. He's also an unrepentant casual racist. All the way back in the pilot, his mean spirited mocking of Walt and disdain for his life is part of what pushed Walt into Heisenberg in the first place. Despite all of this, many ''Breaking Bad'' fans will tell you that Hank's some kind of saint.

*** In "Bug", one of Mike's guys is killed by Cartel hitmen with a sniper rifle. He's forced to take the body down to the Superlab to dispose of it, with Walter being indignant that he is expected to regularly dispose of corpses now and accuses Gus of having murdered the man himself [[ItsAllAboutMe just to send Walt another message]]. With the knowledge that Mike had known and worked with that man (Nick) for many years before he ever met Walter, his anger at Walt's arrogance and callousness becomes even more understandable.

* CommonKnowledge: Jesse is often described as a TragicDropout by some fans despite the fact that the show never mentions that to be the case and ''Film/ElCamino'' ended up [[{{Jossed}} jossing]] the idea by revealing he has already graduated from high school when Walt proposes him the idea to get a GED.

** [=CDs=] are still common as are hifi stack style stereos. Jesse's is even given a lot of focus in one episode. Neither of these have vanished entirely, but these days sound systems are all about streaming music and being as invisible as possible if people bother with them at all outside of vinyl fanatics. Listening to music via smart phones with wireless speakers or headphones is now the norm.

** Tuco, for being so terrifyingly insane and hammy it loops back around to entertainingly awesome. His return in ''[[Series/BetterCallSaul Better Call Saul]]'' was met with open arms.

** A few years after Breaking Bad, Aaron Paul would play another stoner burnout beanie-lover who shares a first name with Jesse’s Nazi captor. [[WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman Dammit Todd!]]

** Most sacred of sacred cows is the series antepenultimate episode "Ozymandias". It is considered by many to be not only the best episode of the series, but '''''THE''' single best episode of any TV series in all of TV history''. If you're a fan of Breaking Bad, it's expected of you to have it in at least your top three favorite episodes of the series (and if it is third, the series finale "Felina", only slightly lesser of a sacred cow, is expected to be one of the two above it) less you be roasted by fans.

** Most sacred of sacred cows is the series antepenultimate episode "Ozymandias". It is considered by many to be not only the best episode of the series, but '''THE"' single best episode of any TV series in all of TV history. If you're a fan of ''Breaking Bad'', it's expected of you to have it in at least your top three favorite episodes of the series (and if it is third, the series finale "Felina", only slightly lesser of a sacred cow, is expected to be one of the two above it) less you be roasted by fans.

** While one-sided, Walt is only really interested in Saul in terms of how he can use the guy, but Saul will chase after and whore himself out for Walt whenever he thinks money is sliding out of his grip, or he might not get the headpat he's after.
* HypeBacklash: Being one of the most critically acclaimed TV shows of all time, this type of reaction was inevitable. Part of it is because of overexposure, as pretty much any show that's critically acclaimed would be inevitably compared with ''Breaking Bad'' leading to any viewer who doesn't consider it the greatest show of all time to take shade to it or point to one aspect that his preferred show did better.

* HypeBacklash: Being one of the most critically acclaimed TV shows of all time, this type of reaction was inevitable. Part of it is because of overexposure, as pretty much any show that's critically acclaimed would be inevitably compared with ''Breaking Bad'' leading to any viewer who doesn't consider it the greatest show of all time to take shade to it or point to one aspect that his prefered show did better. ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' and ''Series/GameOfThrones'' fans in particular tend to despise the show for how constantly it gets compared to their favorite show.
** "Ozymandias" is notable for being the only episode to keep an perfect score of "10.0" in ''Website/{{IMDb}}'', so you can expect any fanbase with an episode that briefly got the score before falling back to 9.9 to feel frustrated towards the episode.
** There's also some viewers who would argue that the most acclaimed portions of the show (particulary you will rarely find anyone disliking Season 5B) are every bit as great as everyone say they are but would consider the rest of the show SoOKItsAverage

* InformedWrongness: Jesse’s parents evicting him from the house made perfect sense since Jesse WAS running a Meth Lab in the basement and had he been arrested the DEA would’ve been able to seize the house and possibly many other of the family’s assets.

** Todd and his uncle, Jack. They're both so ''off'' that it's hard not to want to see more of them and try to figure out the puzzles that are their brains.

** Hector’s DeathGlare to Gus looks goofy and overexaggerated when taken on its own but its very effective in context, considering how much facial paralysis we’ve seen him working through throughout the show.

*** Even though Spanish in Breaking Bad is generally quite awful, it's still jarring that out of 3 founders of the cartel, only Juan Bolsa sounds at least remotely Mexican. Eladio's Spanish is good, but very much not Mexican, Hector's Spanish is horrible (although, considering Creator/MarkMargolis didn't speak Spanish and just learnt his lines phonetically, it could have been much worse), and while Bolsa speaks Mexican Spanish really well, Creator/JavierGrajeda either didn't bother or wasn't allowed to rewrite his lines to make them sound more natural, and as a result, they often sound like something an English scriptwriter just wrote and then ran through Google translate.

** Most sacred of sacred cows is the series antepenultimate episode "Ozymandias". It is considered by many to be not only the best episode of the series, but '''THE"' single best episode of any TV series in all of TV history. If you're a fan of Breaking Bad, it's expected of you to have it in at least your top three favorite episodes of the series (and if it is third, the series finale Felina, only slightly lesser of a sacred cow, is expected to be one of the two above it) less you be roasted by fans.
* SeasonalRot: A minor example. It's widely agreed that Season 4 is better than Season 5A because of its tense pacing and strong continuity (Season 4 centers on the development and climax of Gus Fring and The Cartel's story arcs which had been focal points over the previous two seasons, compared to the more slow-paced and less intense Season 5A). Most fans agree that Season 5B is the show GrowingTheBeard again and the best part of the whole series, but there are still a handful of fans who prefer Season 4.

** [[ThoseTwoGuys Huell and Kuby]]. Delightfully passive and humorous characters. Every time they open their mouths, [[DeadpanSnarker they make]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments it count]]. They hardly get any screen time together, unfortunately. Apart, Huell is pretty much TheQuietOne, while Kuby is passed over for drama's sake. Their best lines are as a pair.

* SacredCow: The show is more than not regarded as not one of, but ''the'' greatest TV show of all time. Any criticism of the series results in massive outcry from loyal fans.

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* HypeBacklash: Being one of the most critically acclaimed TV shows of all time, this type of reaction was inevitable. Part of it is because of overexposure, as pretty much any show that's critically acclaimed would inevitably being compared with Breaking Bad leading to any viewer who doesn't consider it the greatest show of all time to take shade to it or point to one aspect that his prefered show did better. ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' and ''Series/GameOfThrones'' fans in particular tend to despise the show for how constantly it gets compared to their favorite show.

** The HypeBacklash is so bad that even fans of *the same franchise* tend to take shade to it, as a lot of fans of Series/BetterCallSaul'' would often argue about the flaws of the show to explain why they consider BCS an EvenBetterSequel.

%% * HypeBacklash: Being one of the most critically acclaimed TV shows of all time, this type of reaction was inevitable.

** Heisenberg. If you paid attention in chemistry class, this would bring to mind the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. If you studied German history, Walt's similarities to Werner Heisenberg are incredible. Especially in Season 5, where Walt works with a group of Nazis.

** Also partially because of memes and this show being his breakthrough role, many people watch the slight reveal of Gustavo Fring knoging already he will be a big part of the show.

** [[spoiler: "I AM the Danger"/"I am the one who knocks", possibly the most quoted scene in TV history and easily of the entire series. "Say My Name" comes close.]]
** [[spoiler:Gus' death scene]] is considered one of the most iconic death scenes in pop culture history.

* CommonKnowledge: Jesse is often described as a TragicDropout by some fans despite the fact the show never mentions that to be the case and ''Film/ElCamino'' ended up [[{{Jossed}} jossing]] it by revealing he has already graduate it from high school when Walt proposes him the idea to get a GED.