- Harsher in Hindsight: Walt Jr. angrily telling Walt "Why don't you just fucking die, already?" in this episode is meant to counter Walt's defeatist and suicidal attitude to his diagnosis, essentially being a verbal Get A Hold Of Yourself Man slap. The next time Flynn tells his father to die is in the penultimate episode of the series as he angrily rejects his monetary offer and lets him know in no uncertain terms how much he now hates him and wants nothing to do with him. It's bitterly ironic how despite Flynn's frustration towards his father in this episode, had Walt actually just given up and died, Flynn would likely have had a higher opinion of his father than he winds up having at his death.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The scene with Ken Wins, the asshole stock guy who got his car blown up by Walt, gets funnier knowing about the time that Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler tricked him into paying for an entire bottle of very expensive tequila.
- And, in another piece of Better Call Saul related trivia, hearing Hank mention Krazy-8's status as a narc becomes a bit funnier upon knowing the circumstances behind this. The DEA still never found out about Lalo's real plan, even though he's long dead.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Downplayed, because he's a middle-schooler, but it's hard to feel sorry for Jake about whatever alleged pressures he was under considering he's rather rude to Jesse, and, more importantly, the joint his parents find was in Jesse's room, meaning Jake hid it there knowing that if their parents were to find it, they'd blame their "problem child." Jesse's noble for taking the blame, but Jake set him up to begin with, and Jesse's relationship with his parents was even further damaged from the incident.
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