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Despite being a dark and serious program, Breaking Bad and its spin-offs Better Call Saul and El Camino have inspired their fair share of comedic goodness. There will be spoilers below.
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Shared Memes
- "This is the moment where [character name] became [character pseudonym]." Explanation A popular Youtube comment during the run of the series for any clip where characters crossed the moral event horizon, arising from amateur attempts to suss out Walt's Character Development ("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 "The moment Saul made a Nescafe" and "The moment Jesse didn't become The Guy".
- MikepostingExplanation A type of meme which involves editing in images of Mike to replace random panels from a pre-existing meme, usually anime related.
- Kid named Finger:Explanation Originally from an edit of a "Kid Named [X]" joke. A particular offshoot of Mikeposting that suddenly became popular on its own, mainly due to being a Non Sequitur as a standalone image without the preceding caption. The phrase and "Finger" have both since become recurring joke nicknames for Mike.
- "We are not the same."Explanation An image of Gus with subtitles explaining how the original poster and someone else in particular are Not So Similar has proven to be quite exploitable, to say the very least.
- "Hi, I'm Saul Goodman. Did you know that you have rights? The Constitution says you do."Explanation An excerpt from Saul Goodman's 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 clips of other characters delivering the line.
- "BRAVO VINCE"Explanation A phrase used to mock the fandom's Creator Worship 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.
- This ironic praise has also led to Peter Gould, the head writer of Breaking Bad and co-creator of Better Call Saul, becoming a Butt-Monkey among the fandom, with everything he does, even if they're unrelated to the show, being jokingly attributed to Vince Gilligan.
- "What did Vince mean by this?"Explanation A variant of the "what did he mean by this?", usually used ironically trying to find some supposed subtext for a random out-of-context screenshots or show clips. Sometimes "Vince" is replaced with a random character or actor from either show.
- 3D Saul: 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. For example...
- Kevin CostnerExplanation 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 physical resemblance between Bob Odenkirk and Kevin Costner, and fans often pretend to confuse the two when commenting on photographs of them.
- Yellow Mexico.Explanation Scenes in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul that take place in Mexico are 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".
- The Breaking Bad Cinematic UniverseExplanation 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 Marvel Cinematic Universe. Examples include "Better Fuck Chuck", "Huell's Rules", as well as "Hermanos" and a "Breaking Bad 2".
- Saul's BillboardExplanation The advertising style of Saul Goodman follows a trend that many lawyers before him have been doing: 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, 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.
- Bro think he Saul😭😭☠️☠️☠️☠️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.
- Bro think he [X]😭😭☠️☠️☠️☠️Explanation A snowclone of the above phrases, made in response to characters resembling the appearances or arcs of other characters.
- Saul Goodman vs. Sol Badguy Explanation The two characters sport similarly patterned names, to the point where if you only know these names, one could assume Sol Badguy is an Evil Counterpart to Saul Goodman. For added irony, Sol Badguy is a 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 from wildly-different series being arch-nemeses.
- Did you know that [X] was improvised?Explanation (Spoilers) Due to the well-documented amount of Writing by the Seat of Your Pants, Serendipity Writes the Plot, and Throw It In 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, Jesse Plemons murdering a child who happened to be nearby, or Michael Mando actually shooting himself in the head. It's almost always followed by a declaration of how dedicated the cast and crew were to making a good show.
Memes from Breaking Bad
- As a general note, Walt's lines of badassery get repeated often by fans:
- "I said 'Fuck you!' And your eyebrows!" Explanation Walt's reaction to Bogdan telling him to wipe down cars at the car wash.
- "I've got your restraining order right here!" *grabs crotch* "Restrain this!" Explanation Walt's reaction to Skyler threatening to get him a restraining order after the pizza throw scene.
- "You got one part of that wrong. This... is not meth." 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.
- "Stay out of my territory." 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 similar scene in Isle of Dogs.
- "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!"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.
- "You're goddamn right." 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.
- "If that's true... if you don't know who I am... then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly." Explanation (spoilers) Walt's threat to Hank when the latter confronts Walt over being Heisenberg.
- Jesse, we need to cook.
- "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." Explanation Mike's rant at Jesse in Shotgun after Jesse annoys him during their pickup runs.
- "I fucked Ted." Explanation Skyler has an affair with Ted and tells Walt this as an attempt to get Walt out of the house.
- Breaking Bad Comics: a series of fan created comics using Flanderisations of the characters. Breaking Bad meets Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff. Original here◊.
- Jesse: [Insert sentence], Bitch. Explanation Jesse has a tendency to say "yo" and "bitch" frequently, especially in the earlier seasons.
- With "YEAH, BITCH! MAGNETS!" seemingly gliding over all.
- Yo, gatorade me bitch! Explanation Jesse complaining about needing assistants in the meth lab to do the grunt work for him and Walt.
- An image of him captioned "Yeah, science bitch!"◊note Actually a case of Beam Me Up, Scotty!, since the actual quote is: "Yeah, Mr. White! Yeah, science!" is a popular reaction meme to scientific discoveries.
- Walter Jr.'s love of breakfast, which has been immortalized in a song and a rap on Robot Chicken.
- "No... no, no, no no no, no, not now. Not now, not now!"Explanation "Mandala" sees Walt get a text message from Skyler that the baby is coming soon. At first, he's shocked and happy, and then the realization dawns on him that 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 Bait-and-Switch meme.
- "They're not rocks, they're minerals." 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.
- Jesus Christ, Marie.Explanation Hank's aforementioned annoyed response to Marie's ignorance of the difference between rocks and minerals.
- Bmineral Explanation Due to the insistence on correcting any instance of "rock" as minerals, many fans sarcastically correct anyone saying "Brock" as "Bmineral".
- "I've got dipping sticks."
- Peter Schuler's One-Scene Wonder 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.
- "Tight, tight, tight! Yeah!" 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.
- "IS CHARACTER/OBJECT X GAY?" Explanation The copious degree of speculation concerning 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.
- [MUFFLED RAP MUSIC PLAYING IN THE DISTANCE]
- [REVVING INTENSIFIES]
- [WALT JR. VOMITING]
- [SADLY GO-KARTS]
- During the airing of the first part of season 5, IMDB took to calling Hank, "Honk". For no apparent reason. This has stuck around.
- "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." Explanation This is from a bizarre comment on a Breaking Bad fan video on YouTube by a user named Gitfacehal.
- Walt's off-hand threat to Saul, where he tells him "I'll send you to Belize", seemed to become one overnight.
- Belize◊ being used as a Deadly Euphemism is one straight after the episode. Bonus points for finding YouTube videos on Belize with a Breaking Bad reference in the comments.
- And on reddit, a redditor misheard the quote and asked "who is billy" on Breaking Bad's section, believing that Saul wanted to send Hank to Billy's.
- Hank and Marie, staring in horror/disgust/disbelief at their TV screen, replacing Walt's fake confession pinning Hank as Heisenberg with things like the VMAs or Hal's rollerdancing skills. Also literally sprang up overnight.
- Don't make Mike beatcha 'till yer legs don't work.explanation Mike threatens to break Saul's legs to coerce him into giving up Jesse
- "Cow house?" 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.
- "Better Call Saul!" 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.
- "Have an A1 day!"explanation The slogan of the car wash where Walt once worked, and which he and Skyler later purchase to launder his drug money
- Walt throwing a pizza on the roof. Or, "Roof Pizza"!
- This meme has gotten so well known that 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.
- "Huell, you happy?" "Reasonably." "What would make you unhappy?" "This little motherfucker not doing what he's told." 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".
- Huell is still sitting around waiting.Explanation (spoilers) Hank tricks Huell into hiding in a safehouse under false pretense; as Hank dies shortly afterwards, Huell is presumably still afraid for his life and waiting for his return.
- Badger and Skinny Pete's Star Trek Fan Fic conversation.
- Stop trying to make Low Winter Sun happen. It's not going to happen. Explanation Typical BB fan's response to AMC's constant promotion of Low Winter Sun.
- Meth Damon Explanation Todd Alquist bears quite the resemblance to Matt Damon, and the uninitated could easily think that Todd's name is actually Meth Damon, because the two are almost interchangable.
- Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace.Explanation (spoilers) Mike's dying words.
- "No more half measures." Explanation Mike's cautionary tale to Walt about dealing with Jesse has become popular.
- "Mexico, all's I'm sayin'." "Heh. Guy hit 10 guys in jail a two minute window. All's I'm sayin'." 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.
- "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Explanation Skyler's Big "SHUT UP!" to Marie.
- Jesse has a Need for Speed. 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.
- In a similar vein, that the series is a sequel to Malcolm in the Middle, after a possible Noodle Incident. Plenty of jokes about Malcolm being a sequel to Breaking Bad have also been made.
- There's also juxtapositions of Walt's dramatic scenes in BB with silly things from Malcolm.
- Walter looks like a live-action version of Ned Flanders early in the series. Fans have responded to this with numerous fanart of crossovers with The Simpsons.
- "Blood, Meth, and Tears"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.
- Turning Mr. Chips into Scarface. Explanation Vince Gilligan's original pitch for the series has become so famous that it is often used to sum it up to newcomers.
- The Evil "[insert noun here]". 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.
- Many people have parodied Walt's appearance in 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 Adventure Time◊, Bob's Burgers◊, The Smurfs◊, and even Pinky and the Brain.
- "He can't keep getting away with it!" 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 Trolling Creator.
- "Jesse what the fuck are you talking about?"Explanation A set of screenshots◊ from the scene of Jesse and Walt eating after the start of 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 who doesn't understand things like Twitch and 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 El Camino is also used this way.
- "Breaking Good Episode 1"Explanation A parody and essentially mini-abridged retelling of Breaking Bad and its characters' relationships, made from quickly typed-out posts and equally hastily-made narration. It became popular enough to warrant some follow-ups.
- JesserExplanation Many characters' names are corrupted and 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.
- methé/methér/"cocainer"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.
- 20003 km/h of methé 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.
- "Jesee whre is the cocainer" "In my nose mr whiter" Explanation One of the more recognizable and often-quoted lines from the video.
- Walt's Breakdown. Explanation (spoilers) In "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.
- "Walt, I dunno man. Been pretty sus lately."/Hank's Sussy Baka Explanation As part of a charity drive, one of many 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 "Sussy Baka". The already memetic tendencies of Among Us subjected the video to spread and numerous edits.
- Yo Mister White! Someone's at the doorExplanation 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 Massive Multiplayer Crossover with Breaking Bad as the most unlikely series to be paired with anything and everything, with the payoff being a picture of Walt poorly photoshopped into a photo of the cast in the last panel.
- Walt: [confesses to being Heisenberg] Hank: Heh heh! Good one.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 Sarcastic Confession 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.
- Walter White Cooking/"[X] carefully crafting the best/worst [Y] ever"Explanation A GIF-captioning meme taking the cooking scene◊ from 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 criticism or 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 Surreal Humor.
- Anime Memes Replaced With Breaking Bad:Explanation An extension of the Mikeposting trend, where people take anime fandom memes and replace the punchline with completely unrelated screenshots from Breaking Bad.
- "[X] but replaced with Breaking Bad: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.
- Put your dick away, Walter.:Explanation Taken from a Twitter video, which has been reposted on YouTube and TikTok with different variants.
- "SEÑOR WHITE"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?").
- "Just call, call anonymously." "You call anonymously!" "I can't! I can't! They know me! They know my voice!"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.
- "This is it. This is how it ends."Explanation A quote from Mike's "Half measures" speech which became prevalent when the series finale for Better Call Saul was about to be released.
- "Jimmy moment!" 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 article on it.
- Bitch wife. Explanation Ironic nickname for Skyler referencing her Ron the Death Eater 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.
- Walt screaming from inside a car.Explanation (Season 5 spoilers) In "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.
- HeisenbonesExplanation In mid-2022, Breaking Bad fans on Reddit started making up a comic relief 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.
- Ese compa ya esta muerto / Nomás no le han avisadoEnglish That homie's already dead / Just that no one told him yet 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 Too Dumb to Live or is totally screwed, and play the song for dramatic, humorous, or darkly comedic effect.
- Jesse Pinkman's shirtExplanation 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.
- "My name is Skyler White, yo."Explanation In The Cat's In The Bag, Skyler confronts Jesse thinking that Walt is associating with him to buy weed. Her incredibly awkward attempts to follow Jesse's speaking mannerisms and Jesse's prolonged Oh, Crap! expression thinking that his methmaking operation got busted has led to the scene getting a ton of edits, usually adding loud, bassy explosions after each one of Skyler's lines.
- Sauron is about to cook meth. 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.
- Waltuh. Explanation Fans frequently have Mike addressing Walt as "Waltuh" due to his gravelly voice.
Memes from Better Call Saul
- Having enough stickers.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.
- Tony the Toilet Buddy.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.
- Fuck Chuck Explanation (spoilers) Following The Reveal 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.
- A Chicago Sunroof.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.
- Squat Cobblers 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.
- "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."
- Howard's job offer.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.
- McGill BowlExplanation A common name for the clashes between Jimmy and Chuck, which became prominent in season 3.
- Ribs on a burgerExplanation Not from the show proper, but during the airing of season 3, a certain Carls Jr. commercial typically appeared in the commercial breaks, causing it to be the subject of mockery on Reddit.
- "[X] Huells until Season [y] comes out"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.
- "Your honor..." followed by Saul giving his "defense" to his client.Explanation A 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.
- "Hello, and welcome to the Los Pollos Hermanos family. My name is Gustavo, but you can call me Gus." Explanation A Twitter account by the handle of @mynamesgustavo goes around posting this short clip from the employee training video for Los Pollos Hermanos created to promote season 3 of the show.
- My name is Gustavo, but you can call me sus. Explanation 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 Among Us already prevalent, the fact that it helps highlight Gustavo's shady demeanor certainly helps.
- Werner Zieeeeeegler.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.
- Detective Juan Bolsa.Explanation A meme template spread on 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.
- Cliff Main's son.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.
- Chuck's courtroom breakdown./CHICANERYExplanation 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.
- "...How?!"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.
- "The boss can suck me!"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!!"
- "I need to see your balls."Explanation A misheard line from a scene where Hector walks into Los Pollos Hermanos and tells an employee, "I need to see your boss." Due to Hector's aforementioned thick Mexican accent, "boss" can be misheard as "balls."
- "It's Slippin' Time"Explanation A made up catchphrase for the Slippin' Jimmy show similar to Morbius.
- Kim Wexler's FeetExplanation 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 Quentin Tarantino's infamous foot fetish, and has led Kim to gain the nickname of "Kim Sexler".
- Claiming Bob Odenkirk was responsible for the feet shotsExplanation In mid-2022, fans saw that Bob Odenkirk had been following an Instagram account 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 invokedhumiliated from the resulting memes and took to his defense.
- Who was the evilest villain in the Breaking Bad universe? 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 Episode 6x8 after killing Howard he told Kim to put her shoes on.
- “I no longer want to call Saul”. 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.
- Chuck asks [X] if they passed the bar.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.
- "You passed the bar?!"/"WHAT A SICK JOKE!"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.
- "These recasts are going too far."Explanation (spoilers) Jeff the cab driver was portrayed by Don Harvey 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' Body Double seen more clearly in Point and Shoot.
- "Why did they recast [X]?"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.
- "I can't believe they recast Mike!"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 Jonathan Banks himself being replaced with the computer, cracking jokes about comparing the "new actor" to Banks. Some take it even further by claiming Mike has always been an automated ticket machine.
- "Do you think that's me? Because it's not."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
- Mike tells you what to do.Explanation Mike has a unique speaking style when giving other people instructions, stating what should happen in a matter-of-fact-like tone. Following posts mimicking this, it became an easily-snowclonable template.
- "Alright, here's what you're gonna do..."Explanation The most notable of these is his instructions to Jimmy when tailing Gus' driver at his restaurant.
- "Here's what's gonna happen..."Explanation (spoilers) Mike's words preceding advice, like the orders he gives in Point and Shoot, coaching Jimmy and Kim on what they should do to help cover up Howard's death.
- Chuck hits his head on a tableExplanation 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.
- Huell Ate Kim/Better Fuel HuellExplanation A notorious Epileptic Trees 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: 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".
- "Greatest legal mind I ever knew."Explanation A quote from Howard describing Chuck which has a tendency to either be spammed in GIF form as a Non Sequitur, or twisted into a Overly Pre-Prepared Gag ending with a butchered wordplay of this phrase, such as with the following examples.
- The Saul Pose/Jimmy McGill's Anime Girl StanceExplanation During the montage in Mijo, Jimmy delivers his defense while bending over with his arms behind his back and his head held up. Recognized as the Coy, Girlish Flirt Pose quite often seen in anime, it became subject to numerous redraws and fanart.
- "Have some more chicken, have some more pie, it doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried."Explanation A quite memorable line said by Michael McKean, the actor of Chuck during the "We're All In This Together" "Weird Al" Yankovic Parody video. It caught on due to its sheer absurdity at how oddly-enunciated Michael says it, while being almost in-character as Chuck.
- "Just eat it eat it eat it eat it eat it eat it" Explanation Another line from the same video as above, said by Bob Odenkirk, 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.
- Howard Hamlin is the kind of guy to...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 Grand Theft Auto, saying "nice kitty" when falling into a lion enclosure, or to start floating in the air when he smells a delicious pie. It's adapted from similar jokes once made regarding Drake.
- Yassified Saul Goodman. explanation The affectionate tumblr joke on how Saul - when it hits his timeline - is obviously skinnier than how he was in Breaking Bad, with a nicer combover wig and fitted "lead actor now" suits.
- "Walt during Better Call Saul"Explanation Since BCS is a prequel to Breaking Bad, fans like to make jokes about Walter White living a relatively mundane life in contrast to whatever drama is going on with the BCS characters.
- "Taco Cabeza is just around the corner."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.
- The Bimbofication Of Jimmy McGill. 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 Obfuscating Stupidity, leading many to joke she's bimbofied him.
Memes from El Camino
- The bald cap.explanation When Walt reappears in a flashback, many viewers noticed that Bryan Cranston was wearing a 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.
- Pepperoni pizza.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 how out of place it is, yet managing to remain a powerful moment of acting.
- Fat Todd.explanation People noticed that Jesse Plemons had gained some weight since the finale of Breaking Bad, thus giving us another example of Bellisario's Maxim.
