No Mike, no Nacho, no Gus, no Hector, no Twins, no Krazy-8, no Bolsa, no Eladio, no Victor, no Tyrus, no action scenes... and still a 10/10 episode from beginning to end. That's how magnificent BCS is! By the way, your faces when you saw Huell added at least three years to my life. UwU.
Idk I've always found it to be very cathartic after several seasons of Chuck undermining Jimmy and getting away with it. Especially after Chuck used his brother's heart and conscience against him I really wanted to see that backfire on him spectacularly
Chuck was actually having the kitchen components INSTALLED, not removed. He already had the kitchen removed before. He was creating a facade of a working kitchen for Rebecca. This is why he told the workers not to hook it all up.
I think people forget Bob Odenkirk and Michael McKean are both known for their comedic performances and kill it in the bar hearing scenes with their acting.
Michael McKean (Chuck) had said that something he imagined internally is that Chuck would always make their mother proud, but Jimmy always made her laugh. I think like with Rebecca, at the core Chuck hates no matter how much better he is Jimmy is just more likable as a person
Yeah. Upon reflection, it seems clear to me, Chuck's condition is rooted in this. He's so much of a better person than Jimmy, but Jimmy gets all the praise from others. His "condition" actually started soon after Jimmy passed the bar exam, and had nothing to do with Rebecca directly. As long has Jimmy was stuck in the mail room, and Chuck was one to "save" him from jail, that was fine. But once Jimmy was getting praise for being a lawyer, and being regarded as an honest citizen, Chuck couldn't cope.
There are a ton of clues leading up to this moment. Chuck creates the condition subconsciously as a way to keep himself in a state of need, knowing Jimmy will be the one to help and that will hold him back from making a name for himself as a lawyer. That's why he refused to tell Rebecca, because then she would offer to help out and give Jimmy more time for himself.
To me, this episode signifies everything perfect with BCS and this episode shows that patience has rewards. Pretty much the entire episode is around this court case and it may seem boring... until it isn't. First: such a GREAT way to bring Huell into BCS and to think that Huell indirectly helped Jimmy to break Chuck, and that's their first time ever working together. 2nd: Chuck is the parallel of Jimmy. While Jimmy does awful actions but sells it at something noble, Chuck does noble action while being absolutely vindictive. He, literally, it's the same as Jimmy. Sure, he isn't breaking the law and helping criminals but he's absolutely willing to destroy the only person who was there in his darkest time.
A lot of people realize as the episode goes on that the flashback sets up Rebecca's arrival and ultimately Chuck's revelation that he had been hiding his sickness from her; however, what most people glance over is the fact that the beginning of the episode completely sets up how it ends as Jimmy realized how Rebecca's cellphone revelation effected his brother and used the same technique against him. Ultimately, a cell phone led to Chuck's downfall TWICE... once with his ex-wife and again at court.
I never realized that Chuck's excuse of the power company getting the house numbers wrong rhymes with getting the numbers of mesa verde location mixed up.
One has to wonder if Jimmy subconsciously switched the address knowing that Chuck did that trick with Rebecca in the past [OR] whether Chuck caught on to Jimmy's scheme so easily because he had done it once himself.
My understanding of Chuck's situation is that he started developing an anxiety over things he couldn't control, like how caught up his wife would get in her own career, probably repeatedly answering phone calls from work that would take her across the world away from him. He probably started misattributing the anxiety he felt seeing his wife on the phone with a sensitivity to electromagnetism.
For what it's worth in case you didn't know, old pre-digital landline phones didn't require electricity. If your power was out your phone still worked, unless the phone lines were knocked out as well.
They still used electricity, just not ADDITIONAL electricity from the mains. There'll be between 3-48VDC on a phone line (at a small amperage) supplied over the line by the phone company to power the speaker, ringer, and pickup coils. So, Chuck would still not have wanted any phone in the house to aggravate his (albeit psychosomatic) condition.
@@MRHEY OK, I looked him up, since apparently you have to know that guy and I noticed, he played in "Nyphomaniac", which is the most pretentious movie I ever saw made by Lars von Trier. I really hate it. Also he played in Tansformers.. So, OK. Broadened my horizon, I guess =)
I've never hated AND Loved AND wanted Good Health for anyone quite like Chuck. Oh Chuck oh Chuck oh Chuck. This show means more to me than most I think. I myself had a very real and very physical and very painful brain disease develop BEFORE ANOTHER Psycho-Somatic Disease evolved right in it's wake. My doctors genuinely didn't know which was which for a good 12 years. So all the family drama, friends drama, relationship drama, and societal stigma shown in this show hit really close to home. I guess all I'm really trying to say is "BE KIND" no matter what. Even if someone seems cray, please be kind. In my case, everyone was right and everyone was wrong at the same time. I had both! ☆ITS CHAOS ~ BE KIND☆
@@chasechapman9302 damn that's accurate af. I personally think Chuck and Jimmy's relationship is one of the most nuanced relationships in television history, it's not nearly as black and white as most people make it out to be. I can understand and empathize with both of their perspectives honestly
Regarding the legality of planting something on a person without their knowledge or consent ... I'm fairly certain it is NOT legal. Legal Eagle did an entire video about it -- he called 3x5 "the battery episode" because Huell _committed_ battery by placing something Chuck would have found objectionable upon his person.
Jimmy gets his law license and Chuck gets a space blanket. The better Jimmy does, the more space blankets Chuck needs. The worst Jimmy’s doing the fewer blankets Chuck needs.
That ending was so well done everyone thought Jimmy was trying to manipulate Chuck but Jimmy was working on the emotions of everyone else. Jimmy knew he couldn't trigger Chuck's rant on his own so he had to get someone on Chuck's team to speak up to trigger the rant. You can see it in Howard's alarmed reaction when he first pulls out the phone then you can se he tries to calm down when there is no battery but he looks a little puzzled because he knows jimmy is smarter than that then when the battery comes out you can see a look of terror on his face then out of panic the other lawyer called chuck crazy. Jimmy needed someone else to call Chuck crazy to trigger the rant.
I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!
You guys really over think certain things. Chuck's place looks like a dump after he took out all the things that triggered him. So to make it appear like things are normal he had stuff like lighting fixtures and phones put back, but never actually wired to work. The contractors even said they need to get into the attic to hook up the electricity and they refused them and said not to.
Key moment is BOTH are lying. One played up a condition that’s all in his head to mess with his brother’s head, and the other is lying about NOT lying and using his brother’s condition to discredit the truth… It’s genius.
@@pencil6965 I know, I mean in the GRAND total of their relationship, this sums up their relationship. I'm meaning more personal than legally. Both brothers playing each other to get one over the other. Lying to do so. THAT'S what I mean.
If Jimmy knew his brother was suffering from mental illness and could prove it so easily, why hasn't he previously committed Chuck to a mental facility for proper treatment ?? We know Jimmy is his legal guardian. Why has he been going along with his delusions and enabling Chuck for so long?? Just bringing in groceries doesn't make someone a great brother. Both of them are terrible brothers to each other.
Remember when Chuck said about Jimmy “He's hoping this will break me down. Split me apart at the seams, like a murderer confessing on an episode of Perry Mason." Having seen a few classic Perry Mason episodes that was a nice piece of foreshadowing. Recommend watching 2-5 episodes of Perry Mason for the sake of cultural enhancement. 7x4, 5x16, 4x09 to start
Yes, that is the same Rebecca at the beginning from the episode Rebecca where Jimmy wins her over by making the lawyer jokes. You guys asked, in that video, if we'd ever get the origin of Chuck's illness. While a scene was playing out that was a clue as to what the origin was 😂 I'm back. Don't have to bite my tongue anymore lol. Jimmy is the cause. The show never overtly comes out and says it, but all the little pieces show you. Chuck is fine when Jimmy is in the mail room. Chuck gets annoyed by Jimmy's lawyer jokes because it shows he doesn't take the law as seriously as Chuck. Chuck clearly fakes his enthusiasm when Jimmy tells him he passed the bar. Chuck gets sick once Jimmy is out on his own trying to make a name for himself, because that scares Chuck. So his subconscious creates a condition that keeps him in a constant state of need, knowing Jimmy, feeling indebted to Chuck for bailing him out constantly in life, will be the one to rush to take care of Chuck. Thereby limiting Jimmy's ability to get his name out there. That's why Chuck refuses to tell Rebecca about his condition, because then she would offer to chip in and help out, freeing Jimmy up. Chuck's meltdown is sort of a final clue and shows, it is, and always has been about Jimmy. Not consciously. Subconsciously creating his psychosomatic condition out of his twisted sense of justice and the greater good, protecting the law from Jimmy. And fear and jealousy.
Last one lol, Chuck assumed the reason Jimmy brought Rebecca to the hearing was to break Chuck down. It wasn't. It was to show that Rebecca had nothing to do with anything.
'Nother great reaction :) So much to say... First thing: I love that you, Eric, know the actor who plays Paige here from another show (Mass Effect?). She's killer, and has one of my favorite lines from the series in this episode: "That's pretty baroque." Not certain why, but her saying that in that context has lodged in my mind and will be there for the duration. Second, Eric: You commenting about Jimmy, when he & Kim are in the hall on break from the hearing and talking about the fact that Rebecca's gonna hate him after this, "He's burning it all to the ground." Don't know if it was intentional, but that line/language is something of a theme in the show. In the scene where Jimmy breaks in and steals the tape, it may have been his last line of the episode. I believe he says, "I'll burn this place to the ground." And the Deep Purple classic Smoke on the Water, about a concert arena burning down, is used extensively in the show (scoring the last shot of season 1, Marco sings it, Jimmy plays it on guitar, Deep Purple is referenced in the scene in the music store, etc... a couple o' these happen later but they're not spoilers at all...). And the song has the line, "But some stupid with a flare gun, Burned the place to the ground." There's no way the writers of this show weren't aware of all this. Jimmy burning bridges. Thirdly, you two talking about the legality/ethical-ness of Jimmy having Huell plant the battery on Chuck. I'll just say this, if you're at all into it, there are at least a few channels here on TH-cam where real-life lawyers react to BCS and have as part of their reactions talking about how the show does in terms of representing how law practices work in real life. ie: Whether or not things that Jiimy & Kim do in their cases would actually happen, or how they'd actually play out. Fun. And here's a clue: This show does a way, way better job of researching actual law practice than, say, Suits LMFAO. Last thing: This particular episode... There are maybe 6-7 episodes that I'd pick from the entire series to represent the level of brilliance that's happening here. And this is certainly one of those. Maybe THE one. And of course we love Kim/Rhea Seehorn, and of course we love Jimmy/Bob Odenkirk, and they're about as perfect as they can be in the show. But this performance, in this episode from Michal McKean is completely off the charts. What is there to say? It's beyond. Rock on, you two...
@@nerdymarriedcouple Yes but they were already aware of the number changing since it’s the whole reason Jimmy destroyed the tape. They also played the recording where Jimmy admits to swapping them
@@yersiniapestis5237 In fact, for a real Bar hearing, they got it exactly backward. The Bar would be more concerned with the switching the numbers and screwing the client than with the felony assault on his brother. They also would have cared about what Howard mentioned, that Chuck was negligent with the files and still handling clients despite his mental illness.
Yes, not only did they play the raisin court where Jimmy admits to swapping the numbers, Chuck also says “I had a suspicion my brother had tampered with documents in a case I was working on”
In a real court the planting of the battery would have been a problem, but because it wasn't in court and instead in a board of review for the Bar Association of NM the same rules don't apply
That's what made this so brilliant: we knew he wouldn't get disbarred because he's still got his licence in the BrBa days, so what we had to learn was *how* they pulled off a scam on such a clever mark. It reminded me of The Mentalist, but perhaps even better written if that's even possible.
Great episode and great reaction. The problem I have is that Chuck admits that he is sensitive to electrical *current*. But a free standing battery has no current. It has voltage, but no current. The battery would need to be in use for there to be current so a battery sitting next to Chuck’s skin would have no effect on him. I guess I should have been his lawyer. 😉
But that just further discredits him since he has shown that cellphones affect him just as badly as other electrical devices. And he can't hide it since he has had several meetings with dozens of other lawyers who witnessed this. Not to mention that at the moment he realized the battery was in his hand he immediately started feeling his symptoms.
Right, but Jimmy then inserted the battery in the phone and showed it working in Chuck's face. He didn't show any special increased agitation from that. Remember, the doctor revealed a long time ago, that the condition is fake. Jimmy has been keeping that piece of knowledge in his back pocket until just this moment. He *knew* Chuck would not react physically to the phone being turned on in front of his face. Since Chuck made the mistake of thinking an inert battery "has electrical flow" his reaction appears according to how his mind perceives the sources of electricity, not how electricity actually works.
Yea I remember someone explaining it in another comments section as essentially "If Chuck thought apples carried an electrical current, he would react the same way to apples as he does to cell phones, since the condition is in his head. He thought the battery had a current in it so he reacted by pulling away from it"
What you should take away from this is that Chuck is mentally ill, and that should temper your view of him and his opinion of Jimmy. Up until this trial, Jimmy refused to accept this, which is why he wouldn't sign commital papers so Chuck coud be treated, but he was prepared to use this fact about his brother in the trial for his own ends. Not that that justifies what Chuck did, but neither of them is blameless. But only one of them is mentally ill.
I AM NOT CRAZY! I am not crazy... I know he put his name in the Goblet of Fire! I know he bypassed the aging spell I cast on it. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never! NEVER! I just couldn't prove it! and he covered his tracks, he got that idiot Ronald Weasley to lie for him! You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This pottery? He's done worse! That Quidditch match! Are you telling me a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Harry! HE CRASHED A CAR INTO THE WHOMPING WILLOW! A GOBLET CREDIT CARD?! And I saved him! I shouldn't have... took him into my own school! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll NEVER change! Ever since he was 11. Always the same! COULDN'T KEEP HIMSELF OUT OF THE THIRD FLOOR CORRIDOR! "But not our Harry! Couldn't be precious Harry!" Ruining his aunt and uncles' lives... AND HE GETS TO BE A TRI-WIZARD CHAMPION?! WHAT A SICK JOKE! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you, you HAVE to stop him...
It'd be one thing if Jimmy and Chucks dad was normal, and JImmy screwed over the business and hurt his father, but Jimmy was just a part of all the money his father would give away to all sorts of people. It's unfair for Chuck to place all of the blame on Jimmy for all sorts of issues his family had (and all the issues he has with being jealous of Jimmys charm).
Chuck really does think Jimmy stole all $13,000 or whatever the amount was. Chuck wasn't working at the store with his father like Jimmy was to see that his dad was giving so much money away to con artists. So Chuck interpreted the missing 13 grand as all Jimmy pilfering the till, but really their dad likely gave away way more over the years than Jimmy took from the register. So Jimmy's stealing did contribute to the closing of the store, but it wasn't the sole cause of it shutting down as Chuck believes. Plus Jimmy was only stealing in the first place because he saw how much of a sucker his dad was, and had his worldview badly influenced by that "Wolves and Sheep" guy from the flashback. If his dad ran his store normally and wasn't so easily taken in, Jimmy presumably never would have stolen a dime
I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him! You-
No Mike, no Nacho, no Gus, no Hector, no Twins, no Krazy-8, no Bolsa, no Eladio, no Victor, no Tyrus, no action scenes... and still a 10/10 episode from beginning to end. That's how magnificent BCS is!
By the way, your faces when you saw Huell added at least three years to my life. UwU.
Television of the highest caliber
@@josephsarto689 When television turned into poetry.
Idk I've always found it to be very cathartic after several seasons of Chuck undermining Jimmy and getting away with it. Especially after Chuck used his brother's heart and conscience against him I really wanted to see that backfire on him spectacularly
Sabrosito, with all its Cartel lore, and very few legal scenes, was there to balance the whole thing :)
Holy f
It had been centuries since t last time I saw UwU
Chuck was actually having the kitchen components INSTALLED, not removed. He already had the kitchen removed before. He was creating a facade of a working kitchen for Rebecca. This is why he told the workers not to hook it all up.
Yep, that's why they tell the guy not to actually hook up the electronics because they weren't going to use it.
I think people forget Bob Odenkirk and Michael McKean are both known for their comedic performances and kill
it in the bar hearing scenes with their acting.
every so often when i lay in bed unable to fall asleep, "HE DEFICATED THROUGH A SUNROOF" just floats through my mind and makes me smile hahah
"HE SQUATTED ON A COBBLER" oh wait, wrong guy 😆
Defecated*
For me it's: "You think this is bad? This.. this chicanery?!"
Michael McKean (Chuck) had said that something he imagined internally is that Chuck would always make their mother proud, but Jimmy always made her laugh. I think like with Rebecca, at the core Chuck hates no matter how much better he is Jimmy is just more likable as a person
Yeah. Upon reflection, it seems clear to me, Chuck's condition is rooted in this. He's so much of a better person than Jimmy, but Jimmy gets all the praise from others. His "condition" actually started soon after Jimmy passed the bar exam, and had nothing to do with Rebecca directly. As long has Jimmy was stuck in the mail room, and Chuck was one to "save" him from jail, that was fine. But once Jimmy was getting praise for being a lawyer, and being regarded as an honest citizen, Chuck couldn't cope.
What a perfect episode!! With 24 episodes worth of build-up, “Chicanery” can stand along side some of the best episodes in TV history!
":Chicanery” can stand along side some of the best episodes in TV history!" No. It can't. It stands above them ;)
one of the greatest episodes in television history
What a great performance of Michael McKean (Chuck) is spectacular.
yo howd you do that 😂
I believe they did show us the catalyzing moment for Chuck's illness: it was the scene when Jimmy told Chuck that he had passed the bar.
There are a ton of clues leading up to this moment. Chuck creates the condition subconsciously as a way to keep himself in a state of need, knowing Jimmy will be the one to help and that will hold him back from making a name for himself as a lawyer. That's why he refused to tell Rebecca, because then she would offer to help out and give Jimmy more time for himself.
Just like being bit by a radioactive spider, Jimmy gained the power to shoot lightning bolts from his fingertips by becoming a lawyer
I always thought it was the divorce. Something as traumatic as heartbreak, can cause the mind to snap. I doubt it was Jimmy being a lawyer
@@vincenthelm6362 I agree
OMG, I have been waiting for this. This is one peak episode
I always thought of the electricity just being a stand in for Jimmy's ''electric'' energy - a guy that can light up a whole room with a few words.
To me, this episode signifies everything perfect with BCS and this episode shows that patience has rewards.
Pretty much the entire episode is around this court case and it may seem boring... until it isn't.
First: such a GREAT way to bring Huell into BCS and to think that Huell indirectly helped Jimmy to break Chuck, and that's their first time ever working together.
2nd: Chuck is the parallel of Jimmy. While Jimmy does awful actions but sells it at something noble, Chuck does noble action while being absolutely vindictive.
He, literally, it's the same as Jimmy. Sure, he isn't breaking the law and helping criminals but he's absolutely willing to destroy the only person who was there in his darkest time.
Absolutely brilliant episode. Fantastic acting all around Wonderfully shot. Magnificent.
A lot of people realize as the episode goes on that the flashback sets up Rebecca's arrival and ultimately Chuck's revelation that he had been hiding his sickness from her; however, what most people glance over is the fact that the beginning of the episode completely sets up how it ends as Jimmy realized how Rebecca's cellphone revelation effected his brother and used the same technique against him. Ultimately, a cell phone led to Chuck's downfall TWICE... once with his ex-wife and again at court.
I never realized that Chuck's excuse of the power company getting the house numbers wrong rhymes with getting the numbers of mesa verde location mixed up.
One has to wonder if Jimmy subconsciously switched the address knowing that Chuck did that trick with Rebecca in the past [OR] whether Chuck caught on to Jimmy's scheme so easily because he had done it once himself.
Also the switching of the address numbers replecates Jimmy switching the addresses for mesa verde.
“You sat through an entire dinner next to someone with a cellphone and you felt NOTHING”
They were putting lights bulbs in, bringing the phone in, etc., to give the impression that everything was normal.
What tremendous acting. GOAT performance!
I know right! I always say they could have done 100 takes of that Chuck scene at the end and they wouldn't get another one more perfect than that
Michael McKeann put on an acting masterclass with that monologue. One of the best episodes of TV anything anywhere. That hearing is AWESOME!
it doesn't matter if Huell is allowed to testify or not. Chuck already looked crazy on the stand. Mission accomplished.
My understanding of Chuck's situation is that he started developing an anxiety over things he couldn't control, like how caught up his wife would get in her own career, probably repeatedly answering phone calls from work that would take her across the world away from him. He probably started misattributing the anxiety he felt seeing his wife on the phone with a sensitivity to electromagnetism.
I wish I was where you guys were at the start of this video: Getting to experience this for the first time.
Michael Mckean robbed of an emmy, what a performance
No Emmy for our Chuck? What a sick joke!
No Emmy for Michael McKean?! Now that's some chicanery.
Huell got a light touch. He's part of the A team.
THIS CHICANERY, HES DONE WORSE
For what it's worth in case you didn't know, old pre-digital landline phones didn't require electricity. If your power was out your phone still worked, unless the phone lines were knocked out as well.
They still used electricity, just not ADDITIONAL electricity from the mains. There'll be between 3-48VDC on a phone line (at a small amperage) supplied over the line by the phone company to power the speaker, ringer, and pickup coils. So, Chuck would still not have wanted any phone in the house to aggravate his (albeit psychosomatic) condition.
*When I saw this episode for the first time, I did the Shia Leboeuf clap when the end credits rolled*
citizen kane clap
I don´t kn0ow who these people are, but I had the same feeling
that was just insane!
@@stadthaus.7266 u dont know shia lebouf??
@@MRHEY I heard the name before, but no Idea who he or she is and what they are up to
@@MRHEY OK, I looked him up, since apparently you have to know that guy and I noticed, he played in "Nyphomaniac", which is the most pretentious movie I ever saw made by Lars von Trier. I really hate it.
Also he played in Tansformers..
So, OK. Broadened my horizon, I guess
=)
I've never hated AND Loved AND wanted Good Health for anyone quite like Chuck. Oh Chuck oh Chuck oh Chuck. This show means more to me than most I think. I myself had a very real and very physical and very painful brain disease develop BEFORE ANOTHER Psycho-Somatic Disease evolved right in it's wake. My doctors genuinely didn't know which was which for a good 12 years. So all the family drama, friends drama, relationship drama, and societal stigma shown in this show hit really close to home.
I guess all I'm really trying to say is "BE KIND" no matter what. Even if someone seems cray, please be kind. In my case, everyone was right and everyone was wrong at the same time. I had both!
☆ITS CHAOS ~ BE KIND☆
The catalyzing event/origin story for Chuck's issue is Jimmy getting his law license.
I cannot stand Chuck, but seeing him unraveling is always hard to watch.
Im stealing this take from someone else but someone once said Chuck is right for the wrong reasons and jimmy is wrong for the right reasons.
One felt he could never do anything right, the other felt he was a saint. The way both characers were written and played was absolutely fascinating.
I agree it’s just sad
it's sad because he literally figured out EVERYTHING and no one believed him
@@chasechapman9302 damn that's accurate af. I personally think Chuck and Jimmy's relationship is one of the most nuanced relationships in television history, it's not nearly as black and white as most people make it out to be. I can understand and empathize with both of their perspectives honestly
Regarding the legality of planting something on a person without their knowledge or consent ... I'm fairly certain it is NOT legal. Legal Eagle did an entire video about it -- he called 3x5 "the battery episode" because Huell _committed_ battery by placing something Chuck would have found objectionable upon his person.
Excellent breakdown at the end, subbed
Oh, I bet you two can't wait to get to the memes after finishing this show
Legal eagle does a full breakdown of this episode. One of the most accurate depictions on TV of a court room scene (disciplinary board).
Jimmy gets his law license and Chuck gets a space blanket. The better Jimmy does, the more space blankets Chuck needs. The worst Jimmy’s doing the fewer blankets Chuck needs.
This is cinema
Vrabo Bince
CINEMA
This was the best episode of the show. Been waiting for it. Haha you were all "what did he take?" He nailed the bastard!
They played Chuck like a fiddle
That ending was so well done everyone thought Jimmy was trying to manipulate Chuck but Jimmy was working on the emotions of everyone else. Jimmy knew he couldn't trigger Chuck's rant on his own so he had to get someone on Chuck's team to speak up to trigger the rant. You can see it in Howard's alarmed reaction when he first pulls out the phone then you can se he tries to calm down when there is no battery but he looks a little puzzled because he knows jimmy is smarter than that then when the battery comes out you can see a look of terror on his face then out of panic the other lawyer called chuck crazy. Jimmy needed someone else to call Chuck crazy to trigger the rant.
I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!
All valid.
I apologize
28:54 That shot of Kim looking like "We're about to end this man"
You guys really over think certain things. Chuck's place looks like a dump after he took out all the things that triggered him. So to make it appear like things are normal he had stuff like lighting fixtures and phones put back, but never actually wired to work. The contractors even said they need to get into the attic to hook up the electricity and they refused them and said not to.
19:02 I need to prepare myself, peak is coming
"JUDGE, HE FUCKIN SHIT ON THE SUNROOF".
Perhaps the best episode of the series! I had to watch your reaction like 3 times 😁
The first time I seen this i jumped out of my seat seeing my boy Huell
Key moment is BOTH are lying. One played up a condition that’s all in his head to mess with his brother’s head, and the other is lying about NOT lying and using his brother’s condition to discredit the truth… It’s genius.
Well in the courtroom only jimmy is lying, Chuck straight up admitted that he exaggerated his illness on the tape
@@pencil6965 I know, I mean in the GRAND total of their relationship, this sums up their relationship. I'm meaning more personal than legally. Both brothers playing each other to get one over the other. Lying to do so. THAT'S what I mean.
Amazing reaction guys! 👏🏻
"HE DEFECATED THROUGH A SUNROOF!" kills me every single time.😂Also Michael McKean not winning an Emmy for that monologue is a crime.
It's a good thing this wasn't small claims court because Jimmy would have never fit Huell into that tight space.
If Jimmy knew his brother was suffering from mental illness and could prove it so easily, why hasn't he previously committed Chuck to a mental facility for proper treatment ?? We know Jimmy is his legal guardian. Why has he been going along with his delusions and enabling Chuck for so long?? Just bringing in groceries doesn't make someone a great brother.
Both of them are terrible brothers to each other.
Remember when Chuck said about Jimmy “He's hoping this will break me down. Split me apart at the seams, like a murderer confessing on an episode of Perry Mason." Having seen a few classic Perry Mason episodes that was a nice piece of foreshadowing. Recommend watching 2-5 episodes of Perry Mason for the sake of cultural enhancement. 7x4, 5x16, 4x09 to start
Yes, that is the same Rebecca at the beginning from the episode Rebecca where Jimmy wins her over by making the lawyer jokes. You guys asked, in that video, if we'd ever get the origin of Chuck's illness. While a scene was playing out that was a clue as to what the origin was 😂 I'm back. Don't have to bite my tongue anymore lol. Jimmy is the cause. The show never overtly comes out and says it, but all the little pieces show you. Chuck is fine when Jimmy is in the mail room. Chuck gets annoyed by Jimmy's lawyer jokes because it shows he doesn't take the law as seriously as Chuck. Chuck clearly fakes his enthusiasm when Jimmy tells him he passed the bar. Chuck gets sick once Jimmy is out on his own trying to make a name for himself, because that scares Chuck. So his subconscious creates a condition that keeps him in a constant state of need, knowing Jimmy, feeling indebted to Chuck for bailing him out constantly in life, will be the one to rush to take care of Chuck. Thereby limiting Jimmy's ability to get his name out there. That's why Chuck refuses to tell Rebecca about his condition, because then she would offer to chip in and help out, freeing Jimmy up. Chuck's meltdown is sort of a final clue and shows, it is, and always has been about Jimmy. Not consciously. Subconsciously creating his psychosomatic condition out of his twisted sense of justice and the greater good, protecting the law from Jimmy. And fear and jealousy.
Last one lol, Chuck assumed the reason Jimmy brought Rebecca to the hearing was to break Chuck down. It wasn't. It was to show that Rebecca had nothing to do with anything.
This episode reminds of the movie To Kill A Mockingbird.
'Nother great reaction :) So much to say... First thing: I love that you, Eric, know the actor who plays Paige here from another show (Mass Effect?). She's killer, and has one of my favorite lines from the series in this episode: "That's pretty baroque." Not certain why, but her saying that in that context has lodged in my mind and will be there for the duration.
Second, Eric: You commenting about Jimmy, when he & Kim are in the hall on break from the hearing and talking about the fact that Rebecca's gonna hate him after this, "He's burning it all to the ground." Don't know if it was intentional, but that line/language is something of a theme in the show. In the scene where Jimmy breaks in and steals the tape, it may have been his last line of the episode. I believe he says, "I'll burn this place to the ground." And the Deep Purple classic Smoke on the Water, about a concert arena burning down, is used extensively in the show (scoring the last shot of season 1, Marco sings it, Jimmy plays it on guitar, Deep Purple is referenced in the scene in the music store, etc... a couple o' these happen later but they're not spoilers at all...). And the song has the line, "But some stupid with a flare gun, Burned the place to the ground." There's no way the writers of this show weren't aware of all this. Jimmy burning bridges.
Thirdly, you two talking about the legality/ethical-ness of Jimmy having Huell plant the battery on Chuck. I'll just say this, if you're at all into it, there are at least a few channels here on TH-cam where real-life lawyers react to BCS and have as part of their reactions talking about how the show does in terms of representing how law practices work in real life. ie: Whether or not things that Jiimy & Kim do in their cases would actually happen, or how they'd actually play out. Fun. And here's a clue: This show does a way, way better job of researching actual law practice than, say, Suits LMFAO.
Last thing: This particular episode... There are maybe 6-7 episodes that I'd pick from the entire series to represent the level of brilliance that's happening here. And this is certainly one of those. Maybe THE one. And of course we love Kim/Rhea Seehorn, and of course we love Jimmy/Bob Odenkirk, and they're about as perfect as they can be in the show. But this performance, in this episode from Michal McKean is completely off the charts. What is there to say? It's beyond. Rock on, you two...
Landline telephones get electricity from a separate line than the rest of the house.
29:53 bruh that’s the entire point of the hearing 😭
wasn't the breaking and enterting the key? they said repeatedly that the tape wasn't workable as it's own case in court
@@nerdymarriedcouple Yes but they were already aware of the number changing since it’s the whole reason Jimmy destroyed the tape. They also played the recording where Jimmy admits to swapping them
@@nerdymarriedcouple They do, but this isn't court. It's a bar hearing.
@@yersiniapestis5237 In fact, for a real Bar hearing, they got it exactly backward. The Bar would be more concerned with the switching the numbers and screwing the client than with the felony assault on his brother. They also would have cared about what Howard mentioned, that Chuck was negligent with the files and still handling clients despite his mental illness.
Yes, not only did they play the raisin court where Jimmy admits to swapping the numbers, Chuck also says “I had a suspicion my brother had tampered with documents in a case I was working on”
There is a pretty neat reaction by Legal Eagle a lawyer reacting to and breaking down this episode.
THE EPISODE.
In a real court the planting of the battery would have been a problem, but because it wasn't in court and instead in a board of review for the Bar Association of NM the same rules don't apply
Chuck is a pompous ass BUT everything he says about Jimmy is true.
We already know where Jimmy ends up in 'BB' and Chuck predicted it all.
That's what made this so brilliant: we knew he wouldn't get disbarred because he's still got his licence in the BrBa days, so what we had to learn was *how* they pulled off a scam on such a clever mark. It reminded me of The Mentalist, but perhaps even better written if that's even possible.
Because its a self fulfilling prophecy, their relationship made them spiral into worse people
love seeing your guys’ reactions :)
HERE WE GO!
Great episode and great reaction. The problem I have is that Chuck admits that he is sensitive to electrical *current*. But a free standing battery has no current. It has voltage, but no current. The battery would need to be in use for there to be current so a battery sitting next to Chuck’s skin would have no effect on him. I guess I should have been his lawyer. 😉
jeah, i had that same thought
But that just further discredits him since he has shown that cellphones affect him just as badly as other electrical devices. And he can't hide it since he has had several meetings with dozens of other lawyers who witnessed this. Not to mention that at the moment he realized the battery was in his hand he immediately started feeling his symptoms.
Right, but Jimmy then inserted the battery in the phone and showed it working in Chuck's face. He didn't show any special increased agitation from that. Remember, the doctor revealed a long time ago, that the condition is fake. Jimmy has been keeping that piece of knowledge in his back pocket until just this moment. He *knew* Chuck would not react physically to the phone being turned on in front of his face. Since Chuck made the mistake of thinking an inert battery "has electrical flow" his reaction appears according to how his mind perceives the sources of electricity, not how electricity actually works.
@@websnarf You are correct. There are a lot of angles to this story which is why I’m a big fan of BCS.
Yea I remember someone explaining it in another comments section as essentially "If Chuck thought apples carried an electrical current, he would react the same way to apples as he does to cell phones, since the condition is in his head. He thought the battery had a current in it so he reacted by pulling away from it"
Now you gotta watch The Caine Mutiny, to see what they got that from.
11:55 famous last words hahaha
My favorite part was "He Defecated ...". Chuck just had to drop that.
See. Both right and wrong about each other.
What you should take away from this is that Chuck is mentally ill, and that should temper your view of him and his opinion of Jimmy. Up until this trial, Jimmy refused to accept this, which is why he wouldn't sign commital papers so Chuck coud be treated, but he was prepared to use this fact about his brother in the trial for his own ends. Not that that justifies what Chuck did, but neither of them is blameless. But only one of them is mentally ill.
Jimmy is arguably mentally ill in a different way lol. At the very least ASPD
@@pencil6965 I suspect you're right, but he's nowhere near as seriously impaired as his brother.
@@pencil6965 jimmys more like an addict than someone whos mentally ill
This is a top 5 Episode of the series
Top 3 IMO.
What an actor.
I AM NOT CRAZY! I am not crazy... I know he put his name in the Goblet of Fire! I know he bypassed the aging spell I cast on it. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never! NEVER! I just couldn't prove it! and he covered his tracks, he got that idiot Ronald Weasley to lie for him! You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This pottery? He's done worse! That Quidditch match! Are you telling me a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Harry! HE CRASHED A CAR INTO THE WHOMPING WILLOW! A GOBLET CREDIT CARD?! And I saved him! I shouldn't have... took him into my own school! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll NEVER change! Ever since he was 11. Always the same! COULDN'T KEEP HIMSELF OUT OF THE THIRD FLOOR CORRIDOR!
"But not our Harry! Couldn't be precious Harry!"
Ruining his aunt and uncles' lives... AND HE GETS TO BE A TRI-WIZARD CHAMPION?! WHAT A SICK JOKE! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you, you HAVE to stop him...
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the fact that BCS or the actor playing Chuck's character never got any awards is mind boggling.... CHICANERY at it's best.
What a sick joke!
@pvanukoff 😁
There are slightly different rules for disciplinary actions.
It'd be one thing if Jimmy and Chucks dad was normal, and JImmy screwed over the business and hurt his father, but Jimmy was just a part of all the money his father would give away to all sorts of people. It's unfair for Chuck to place all of the blame on Jimmy for all sorts of issues his family had (and all the issues he has with being jealous of Jimmys charm).
Chuck really does think Jimmy stole all $13,000 or whatever the amount was. Chuck wasn't working at the store with his father like Jimmy was to see that his dad was giving so much money away to con artists. So Chuck interpreted the missing 13 grand as all Jimmy pilfering the till, but really their dad likely gave away way more over the years than Jimmy took from the register. So Jimmy's stealing did contribute to the closing of the store, but it wasn't the sole cause of it shutting down as Chuck believes. Plus Jimmy was only stealing in the first place because he saw how much of a sucker his dad was, and had his worldview badly influenced by that "Wolves and Sheep" guy from the flashback. If his dad ran his store normally and wasn't so easily taken in, Jimmy presumably never would have stolen a dime
Chicanery
Spoken as chickcanery
Is eric a taurus?
I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer!? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him! You-
We bow to peoples' mental illnesses every day. Doesn't seem like "privilege" in those cases. That's all I have to say about that.
Keep it that way
It’s so clever and so cruel.. 😢😊
not only embarrassing. But sad 😕
JIMMY IS A LIAR
i could Never like Chuck
yall are a little slow lmao
Chuck is the best character of this show
Until a certain other character enters the picture later on...