Breaking Bad Season 3 Episode 9 'Kafkaesque' REACTION!!
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- Skyler hatches a plan as Hank's hospital bills stack up. Meanwhile, Walt and Gus come to a better understanding as Jesse, looking for more independence, pursues a new opportunity. Here's our reaction to season 3, episode 9 of Breaking Bad.
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Damn right Gus is taking in the majority of the cash. He owns the infrastructure and territory.
I agree. He has to pay for equipment, production, overhead, etc...costs. Just like any business. :-)
And he has to pay politicians, crooked cops, criminal lawyers, and make his business charity donations like how he met Hank. It's all very complex.
I get that Jesse probably shouldn't complain about the drug lord who's basically a sociopath, but Walter and Jesse are the ENTIRE operation. Without them, Gus has nothing but mediocre product from mediocre cooks. So I definitely think that Jesse has a point. I'd say they deserve what they're making X2, and that's generous, because, like I said, without the cooks, the business would fail.
@@-hasamastersdegreeinwumbol8565 Jesse should know better, the larger the amount you are selling, the less you get per unit. The people down the line have to make their money too. Like when he was doing all the slinging himself, he would get 2500 an ounce. When he brought in his crew, he was only getting 2000 for an ounce and they were making 500. Now factor in the scale in which they are working, with equipment they didn't have to buy or set up. They can get hundreds of pounds for the same effort as their previous setup where they were getting 5-10 pounds per cook. Plus they aren't having to acquire their own precursors. Plus they dont have to risk driving miles into the desert for days at a time in an RV that may or may not start back up. It's now like a 9-5 job. Plus they have ZERO exposure in distributing their product. Jesse is an idiot for thinking he deserves ounce prices for hundreds of pounds of product. You say Jesse and Walt are the ENTIRE operation. Without Gus's infrastructure they could have hundreds of pounds of prime product with no way to sell it without being arrested by the cops or killed by the cartel.
@@-hasamastersdegreeinwumbol8565 without the business the cooks would be sitting on their hands, or in the case of this show, most likely dead. Seeing walter and jesse as the "entire" operation is surface thinking. everything else that goes into a expansive operation like that (already lay out by other comments) is being managed by the "higher ups" (gus). What they "deserve" means nothing. What they accepted "contractually" is what they should be paid.
You two are my favorite reactors. It honestly feels like I’m rewatching my favorite shows with friends.
thank you Stephania... that's a huge compliment and we really appreciate it!!!
You may like Skyler, you may not, but that gambling story was amazing
I love how Walt was listening just as fascinated - if not more - than Marie :D
@@SETHthegodofchaos I was just disappointed Steven cut off the moment where Marie & Walt both lean in to hear what happens next as Skyler tells the story.
Walt makes this scene hilarious
She's always been very smart about things. People unreasonably dislike her because she's not falling for Walt's bullshit and acts "bitchy" and distant, which she has every right to.
People started to hate Skyler when she broke up with Walt. And this Gambling story was the time when people slowly started to like her again
"Kafkaesque" is taken after the Czech writer Franz Kafka. His stories often involved a structure of heavy bureaucracy that made it so that most characters didn't even understand who was giving orders from above or why; creating a world where people just blindly follow orders and the structure of their lives sap all meaning from them.
I thought of his book Metamorphosis where the main character morphs into an insect because he was being worked to death and his family ended up rejecting him because of what he had become like Walter funnily.
That los pollos commercial made me hungry
No one gives a fuck
FOR METH
PyroSquirrel The first time I watched this episode I was definitely believing it was a genuine advertisement!
No moment is wasted in this amazing show.
PS I died when I read your screen name and fell over when I saw your avatar. Jealous.
And kudos! 💜
Made me want some Pollo Loco.
@@bettygreenhansen definitely you on drugs
14:35 Jessie doesn't know what he is talking about. He and Walt walk away free and clear with 1.5 million each.
Gustavo incurs all the risk of distribution, the tremendous overhead of not only the lab, but the two businesses fronting said lab. There is also paid Intel, increased security, and hundreds of people under his employ.
@@LeviAckerman-cb5ji you watching this Breaking Bad reaction vid + your username = amazing taste 🤌
You should've included the scene transition where Jesse says "What's more important than money?" and then cuts to showing Hank surrounded by his family.
Feels like forever since we had ourselves some Nikki & Steven + Breaking Bad time, let's go 💖
i was thinking the same thing.
Elisabeth Larsen leeeeeetsgoooooo yooooo!!!
Can't wait until "Buried"...Lol. Far off but wow does this thing get great.
Jesses monologue about the box is one of my favorite moments of the series. He’s such a mess but you want him to get a happy ending so bad.
Friendly reminder that Skyler used to write short stories on the side. ;) Turns out she's a great storyteller by nature.
Walter should have immediately correct Skyler, when she was saying that crap to Marie. Walter should have said: "Wait, wait Skyler, not "we have money", I have money, I earned those money, not you. And we are divorced at this point, remember, I signed divorce papers you so much wanted me to sign, and I left house.
But yes, I will pay for Hank's medical bills, while he isn't my family anymore, if you ask very well"
@@ДжонТаргариен-с7б um no
Kafkaesque: characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world... 👍🃏💵💵 couldn’t find fingernail 😬
@Evelyn Youngdeer It's broader than that though. Some of Kafka's short stories are more dreamlike than nightmarish. Real but not quite real. Unsettling. He explores existentialism and absurdism.
The next episode, Fly, is *very* Kafkaesque.
Kafka was a writer. He wrote about the absurdity of the human condition, the mundane yet significant importance of small things becoming anxiety producing and dilemma creating in every day life. Situations that are bizarre not for the occurrence itself necessarily, but for the collective in whole and our response to it. His style in the telling was very matter of fact, kind of how Jesse is in the meeting when explaining his job at the “laundry” 😂 I have to agree with the counselor. Kafkaesque indeed. In fact this whole show is Kafkaesque. 👍 Probably one reason I love it so much.
@23:48, PLOT TWIST, Steve never played poker, he was out watching Breaking Bad with his buddies!
In "The Castle", K. is hired as a surveyor, but after arriving to the village where he is supposed to work, he can't, no matter how he tries, access the castle of the count, his boss, even the castle's minions are nightmarishly unreachable. In "The Trial", another K. discovers he is on trial for something he doesn't know what is, for they don't inform him. "The Metamorphosis" narrates the strange tale of a guy who awakes suddenly transformed into a giant bug, most likely a roach... Those are the lovely kind of stories somber genius Kafka used to write.
The part where Walt says “you’re a millionaire and you’re complaining?”
Me: see? HE gets it!
When Walt starts to make sense, thigs are a little fucked, eh
the way, the roles switch by season 5 lol, Jesse asks Walt how 5 million dollars is nothing, and Walt insists on his money cause that's The only thing he has left...this ep is kinda where Jesse is in his villain arc targeting recovering addicts cause he has nothing to lose and has nothing but money, whereas in s5 Walt has lost all his family so he eventually has nothing to lose except for his meth business and money
I don't think Hank was on the clock when he was attacked; I think he was suspended because he attacked Jesse in his home and that whole situation was still pending, so Hank's workplace wouldn't be responsible for covering his medical needs. U.S. health insurance is pretty garbage, whether you are covered or not. This series wouldn't have started if we had decent health insurance because Walt's treatments would have been covered from the start. XD
In this case, the large out-of-pocket expenses for Hank's care came because Marie wanted the best rehab therapists as often as possible. Hank's insurance would have covered the therapists they had contracted for three or four sessions (didn't re-watch that scene before replying) per week. If Hank and Marie would have settled for what his insurance covered, the out-of-pocket costs would likely have stayed under $10K as opposed to the $170K it came to essentially paying for everything as self-pay.
As a teacher, remember, Walt has better healthcare than most, at taxpayer expense, even back then.
This is incorrect, Hank works for the DEA and is a federal employee. Even if he was suspended pending an investigation he would still be covered by his health insurance. Federal employees have GEHA for their health insurance and its better than most private sector insurance plans.
as a DEA agent Hank is a federal employee, they use GEHA as their health insurance and its better than most private sector health plans
From the Urban Dictionary: "Kafkaesque" comes from author Franz Kafka, and refers to the style with which he wrote his books. Basically it describes a nightmarish situation which most people can somehow relate to, although strongly surreal. With an ethereal, "evil", omnipotent power floating just beyond the senses.
When skyler is better liar than walt. I was really impressed back then. Prop to skyler.
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Walter should have immediately correct Skyler, when she was saying that crap to Marie. Walter should have said: "Wait, wait Skyler, not "we have money", I have money, I earned those money, not you. And we are divorced at this point, remember, I signed divorce papers you so much wanted me to sign, and I left house.
But yes, I will pay for Hank's medical bills, while he isn't my family anymore, if you ask very well"
“Jesse, you’re a horrible person.” Ironically he had the most humanity and genuine empathy on the inside out of most of the characters in the show.😅
That just shows how awful every person in this show is lmao.
My interpretation of Walt's "letting go" and "zoning out" on the highway is that he was subconsciously surrendering to the worst possible thing that might come next, even death. It is that unbearable feeling of losing control and then gaining control (at least the illusion of control) by choosing to accept the worst possible consequences. So, yes, surrendering to the universe, in a way. I think everything was piling on his psyche at once. Too much.
I interpreted it similarly. It happened directly after Gus said that Walt could work for him forever if he wished, which then triggered his deathwish to retain control and not be bound into a "kafkaesque" situation again.
Doc Creed This is a great interpretation of Walt’s current (damned if I do, damned if I don’t) situation he finds himself in; I feel the same applies to a later scene with Skyler and the pool
Nuk4Cola Triggered his inner Heisenberg on a whole ‘nother frightening level
Thanks. And, yeah, I agree with your last comment. @@celeste1737
I think Jesse's story about that high school project is one of the saddest things in the series.
The sad thing I find about it is, that if Jesse was encouraged by his parents to "create", instead of trying to mold him into what THEY wanted/expected from him, he might have turned out to be a totally different - happier - Jesse.
@@angie-tq4ew maybe. Maybe not. It's hard to say, since we never see flashbacks to his early life, what pressures they put on him exactly and what they did / didn't encourage. They definitely made some missteps but I don't know that we know that they pushed him away from his creative side. People can get tempted into bad shit for a lot of reasons, even if they have everything that might make them happy in reach.
@@TheJokerAkaCirque Yes. I understand what you're saying. It's true. We only have the example of his brother, but since everyone is different, we can't really know. It just makes me sad, because he obviously have artful talents that might have been encouraged. :-)
@@angie-tq4ew yeah, even if the fault was squarely on himself it wouldn't be any less sad that he threw it all away.
When you can say "My current offer is $12 million a year, lets up it to $15 million' flippantly, the revenues are insane.
These bb reactions are the highlight of my week. I love em.
beside game of thrones this is my fav reaction series you make! Keep up the awesome reactions, cant wait till the last season of GoT.
Breaking bad is the better show but anyway
kobe eleftheriadis just stop
@@chriseleftheriadis9379 Different genres and both are the best in their respective genres. Would be great if people with little to no understanding would learn to stop comparing these two shows whenever they could even though no one asked for it.
💅 💵♠️I loved Walt’s expressions when Skyler was spinning the gambling story. That was so funny. I wish Walt would have involved her from the beginning. She’s such a natural. I would have like to see the same dynamic that Carmela and Tony soprano had.
Walter should have immediately correct Skyler, when she was saying that crap to Marie. Walter should have said: "Wait, wait Skyler, not "we have money", I have money, I earned those money, not you. And we are divorced at this point, remember, I signed divorce papers you so much wanted me to sign, and I left house.
But yes, I will pay for Hank's medical bills, while he isn't my family anymore, if you ask very well"
@@ДжонТаргариен-с7б Stop spamming your hate towards Skyler in the comments, we get it, you don't like her.
I dont know if this has been commented before but Steve looks like the punisher lol
Omg. It's here.
I knew today was gonna be a good day, nay, a great day.
It's like I'm excited about this show all over again, even though I've seen it like...27 times.
haha.. kafkaesque is when your car breaks down, your dog dies and you trip, fall and break your nose all in the same day kind of thing 😆
Kafkaeske comes from Kafka, a german writer of fantasy and realism. It comes to mean "something unbelieable". Among ohter stuff, Kafka wrote "The Metamorphosis", an story in which a man turns into an bug.
When Skylar started her fantastic lying about Walt's money, I thought about Tyrion Lannister's quote to Daenerys, "You're in the great game now" 💅🏻🃏💰
Walter should have immediately correct Skyler, when she was saying that crap to Marie. Walter should have said: "Wait, wait Skyler, not "we have money", I have money, I earned those money, not you. And we are divorced at this point, remember, I signed divorce papers you so much wanted me to sign, and I left house.
But yes, I will pay for Hank's medical bills, while he isn't my family anymore, if you ask very well"
Just a tiny heads-up: In case you get curious about what your Breaking Bad reaction contemporaries are up to, be careful about searching on TH-cam. Some joker has uploaded some of his reaction clips with some MAJOR spoilers in the title, so...
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I believe “Kafkaesque” refers to a situation where a person is stuck in such an oppressive & soul crushing system that he cannot escape to the point where he begins to loose his touch with reality and his humanity.
It comes from the writings of German author Franz Kafka who often wrote stories about characters dealing with surreal and nightmarish scenarios and oppressive bureaucracies.
I could totally be wrong though and I’d appreciate it if any one could correct me please.
Biggest problem with Jesse stealing the extra is that the math of what is going in doesn't equal what is coming out and since Gus is providing all of the supplies eventually he is going to work it out.
😂
“I was told there was no math and that’s a lot of numbers”
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*sorry I know I already commented on this video but I was re-watching and just caught that!
Damn, how good was Anna Gunn in that scene? Skyler learned from the best!
Walter should have immediately correct Skyler, when she was saying that crap to Marie. Walter should have said: "Wait, wait Skyler, not "we have money", I have money, I earned those money, not you. And we are divorced at this point, remember, I signed divorce papers you so much wanted me to sign, and I left house.
But yes, I will pay for Hank's medical bills, while he isn't my family anymore, if you ask very well"
When you're too early you can't find Jessica's podcast note.
White Rabbit Yess lol
It's been 15 hours and I still cant find the comment from Jessica, have you seen it? 😮
Elisabeth Larsen nope. She said she was excited to do this one
No, Gus is not a 'drug dealer', he's a multinational intercontinental multi-billion-dollar drug MONARCH, Not even a drug lord.
💅 💵♠️ I love how during the end of Skylar's story, Walter gets this look on his face like ".....and then what happened?" lol
💅🏼🃏💰 that support group move at the end with Jesse is soooo messed up. I remember watching this and thinking, JESSE NO!!!!! Do better!!! As Tyra Banks said, “I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU, WE WERE ALL ROOTING FOR YOU!!”
Gus is a dealer of meth, to multiple states and dealing several pounds a week. Nobody should be doubting he is dangerous. Just HOW dangerous might be another story.
Gus definitely deserves the lion's share of the money, but I kind of agree with Jesse here.
If you own a car company and hire someone that designs cars so well people are willing to pay more for them, even though your cost remains the same. I think that deserves some profit sharing, rather than a flat (albeit large) wage.
20:34 Walter's expression the entire time was priceless!!
I'm vacationing in Hawaii and stopped everything to watch this!
Hawaii is the best!!!! Enjoy your vacation.
Me too. Although it IS raining outside so I have somewhat of an excuse. lol
I think both Jesse & Walter resent being strapped to Gus’ operation with no real ‘control’ over the situation. The only difference is Jesse decides to deal with it by defying orders and stealing meth to sell to AA members. (And Nikki is right its a terrible thing to do though I don’t think it makes a Jesse a terrible person. Good people do bad things after all) And Walter can’t really defy in the same way but it makes him try that death stunt. As always a pleasure you guys! 💕
And ignore the naysayers, next episode is NOT skipworthy as no episode of Breaking Bad is, though it will help alleviate some tension before the end of season. Enjoy 😉
Bruh AA is Alcoholics Anonymous. He’s at NA narcotics anonymous
Next episode is the best one lol
Ehhh, it's pretty damn evil to take advantage of people who are actively trying to better themselves by showing up at these meetings. Then again, it can be argued that Jesse doesn't realize that and is only concerned with defying Gus (which would make him ignorant, as opposed to heartless).
Peter olds totally right thanks for the correction
Hunter Lee i def enjoy it
it wasn't re-fried beans, it was fry batter for the chicken. not that it really makes a difference lol but yea
Just thought I'd leave a little bit of trivia info for you. The guy that plays "skinny Pete" is actually a we'll known concert pianist
This was the episode where I first realized skyler is actually smart
Walter should have immediately correct Skyler, when she was saying that crap to Marie. Walter should have said: "Wait, wait Skyler, not "we have money", I have money, I earned those money, not you. And we are divorced at this point, remember, I signed divorce papers you so much wanted me to sign, and I left house.
But yes, I will pay for Hank's medical bills, while he isn't my family anymore, if you ask very well"
@@ДжонТаргариен-с7б walt is putting skylar and their kids in mortal danger. She deserves some cash.
@@KaylaMarie_ F off
@@ДжонТаргариен-с7б 😳😬🤣
@@KaylaMarie_ )
I'm a hardcore Jesse stan but.... yeah lol. Not a good idea. Skimming from such a dangerous person and selling it.. I get why he's doing it; he wants the feeling of control and his lack of regard for his own safety causes him to seek out risky behavior. I wouldn't come close to comparing it to Walt letting Jane die but.. still dumb/dangerous if you get caught.
That is a really well made commercial that segues into the underground lab with a remix of the SCARFACE music when Tony goes down to Columbia. The Chicken Brothers!!!
Feels like forever since we last got a Breaking Bad reaction.
(Yes I know it's only been 5 days but still feels like it was ages ago)
Also, Gus catching Walt on his lies. "I see you."
7:05 I think meth is WAYYY too valuable to waste on putting on your refried beans 😂
Coming off watching your BCS reaction, the scene with Bolsa and Gus hits so much harder. It's another ICU pun as well because Bolsa finally sees Gus for who he is, albeit too late. Which we had no idea about at the time of BB.
My husband racked up over $800,000 in medical bills after his accident. Luckily we only had to pay $3,000 out of pocket.
I think they just make up some of the charges, lol. My dad had to spend a month in a skilled nursing facility after a hospital stay, $30,000/MONTH in that place, how? Luckily the VA covers every penny, but how? How are they graping the system with crazy pricing like that?
It was a real genuine panic when I got those Medicare statements until I saw zero balances.
Saul is the best lawyer in the universe. I want him on my side if I ever become the evil mastermind that I want to...
Time to get my Nikki and Steven fix!
I just love your reaction videos! All those discussions are fun to hear! ❤️
Yeah, I agree with Nikki on this one and I think Walt was feeling a little suicidal in that moment on the road. I think he's coping with the fact that he feels in over his head and like he can't escape, but at the same time, he doesn't really _want_ to die. What he wants is to escape his situation, because it feels like a runaway train with people other people in control.
Which, by the way, is what Kafkaesque means. It's named after an author that wrote stories about how out of control and impersonal people feel in the modern world, and how they have a sense of everything being out of their hands and controlled by others in power that are beyond their reach.
So to me, yeah. That moment seems like him feeling briefly like suicide was his only escape from a situation that's now largely out of his control, and instead in the hands of powerful people that he can't really compete or argue against.
I'm just disappointed that nobody turned into a cockroach....
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Well, with his scheme of infiltrating NA meetings to sell meth to people in recovery, Jesse kinda comes close.
Definitely on drugs
The scene with Walter almost running into the truck relates to when Walt used fulminated mercury when he met Tuco the first time. Walt got his money and was sitting in his car. His hard work to provide for his family was beginning to pay off, and to put it lightly, he was pleased with himself. It was an intense adrenaline rush for him.
Now with Gus offering an annual salary of $15 million (with 7.5 actually going to Walt), you have a very similar situation at a higher level, and a similar scene directly afterwards with Walt in his car. A large part of Walt doing all this was to provide for his family, now and in the future. In that moment he had just made that security a reality. All that second-guessing he had been doing in season three was gone. This was the right choice. It was another adrenaline rush. That was why he began speeding. He wasn't trying to kill himself. It was an emotional release.
Has anyone pointed out the callback in episode 8 to episode 1? When we see the brothers dragging themselves across the desert floor, only to have one of them repeat it for 'real' later down the line. I thought that was very clever myself.
The opening was reminiscent of how cartels transport drugs and into the U.S. El Chapo was known for the different ways he would do it like using hollowed out trucks of legit businesses
I'm missing your delicious tears! It's time for something to happen in one of your reaction series! Hhahaha love you guys
you guys are great, so great that i'm rewatching your reactions
Okay so....
As someone who’s had a very colorful history with drugs (19 by the way) and my mom dying from Ovarian Cancer when I was 15, my dad a former gang member was talking care of me on his own.
It gets rough for people in those situations. Obviously there’s a very clear way to get out but at a young age we never had the proper guidance in life or we just got involved with the wrong crowd.
Same for Jesse, he’s literally a boy in a man’s world. Look at the way he dresses, large clothing makes him look like a boy in “grown ups” clothing.
My girlfriend who is now a teacher legit hates Walt. Every time when we watched this show she always kept saying how much she wants to punch Walt, and would always say “No not my baby Jesse!!”
the was they were smiling at the chicken ad at the beginning 😂 like “damn we gotta try that”
The phrase "Kafkaesque" is a reference to the works of writer Franz Kafka, whose stories take place in nightmarish and oppressive worlds, full of bureaucracy and nonsensical rules.
His characters usually have to deal with uncooperative authority figures, or circumstances beyond their control.
Kafkaesque is a situation that is almost surreal. It is often considered to be a difficult situation, likely resembling a nightmare.
Kafkaesque comes from the last name of Franz Kafka. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was a Czech-born German-language writer whose surreal fiction vividly expressed the anxiety, alienation, and powerlessness of the individual in the 20th century. Kafka's work is characterized by nightmarish settings in which characters are crushed by nonsensical, blind authority. Thus, the word Kafkaesque is often applied to bizarre and impersonal administrative situations where the individual feels powerless to understand or control what is happening.
WHO ELSE IS PUMPED FOR FLY
I cant wait man. But im really worried about their opinion. I dont know if they'll like it
kobe eleftheriadis it’s impossible not to That’s one of the greatest Episodes of television of all time
Peter olds agreed. People don’t give it enough credit. There is a lot more going on than what it seems like
@@polds777 look the first time i saw it i was disappointed. But i have rewatched couple of times and i like it very much.I realized.that it was one of the most important episodes of the show. But many People think that it adds nothing.
It’s one of my favorite episodes
walt almost jax teller'd himself lol
I’m reposting as TH-cam decided to make my comment invisible!
Podcast Notes
Guests: Bob Odenkirk 😃😍 [Saul] [one of the funniest humans whom I’ve _loved_ since Mr. Show & I’m so happy he’s so successful...ummm...fair warning, this will get long. It looks like a lot of text, but it’s a fun read]; co-exec producer Michelle MacLaren
1. I just have to write this verbatim. “Hi you guys! I’m not Saul Goodman. I’m Bob Odenkirk, I play a character. ‘Are you like him,’ people ask me...somebody asked me the other day, ‘do people - have people been asking you for legal advice?’” Vince: “Have they?” Bob: “NO! I don’t..c’mon, man! Please, everyone! You understand, right? The TV is not real! We’re _pretending;_ it’s _pretend!_ Everything you see! The woman who plays Oprah Winfrey is a short, white lady, but she puts that outfit on, c’mon! The guy who plays Anderson Cooper - there’s 2 people who play Anderson Cooper! I can...if you watch enough, you can kinda tell which guy’s doin’ it, Rusty or Ted. Rusty’s always...he plays it like this is an important story. Ted always makes it more light, but anyways...the point is, all of tv is fake, all of it! Except for the President.”
2. Vince hired Bob because he was a huge fan of Mr. Show (👏👏👏), plus in his role on the Larry Sanders Show (also 👏👏👏), which was the closest he’s played to Saul.
3. Bob’s agent called him & told him he really should take it, this is the kind of role ppl win Emmys for. Bob hadn’t watched it, but had seen the billboards, so he called his friend/sometimes writing partner Reed Harrison, who said OMG that’s the best show on tv! You’ve gotta do it! So that was that.
4. When Vince told him the character’s name was Saul Goodman, he was like, but, Vince, I’ve gotta tell you, I’m not Jewish! My wife is, my kids are, but I’m not! Vince said “aw that’s alright, he’s not Jewish either! (Big laugh) he just took that name to impress the homeboys!” Bob said “I’m Irish, mostly.” And Vince said “He’s Irish, too!” Bob said pretty quickly he knew what the hair was - a combed over, cleaned up half-mullet, like he’s trying to pass as still young.
5. The same thing happened with Bryan - he had a specific image...he wanted him to be 179-180 lb, a little doughy, with a “dead caterpillar” on his face (I’ve heard him call it an impotent mustache).
6. Bob had never done a part where he focused so much on a character - most of the things he’s done have been fun or he’s running things - performing, writing, and thinking about where the camera is & where to cut, but here he funneled all that into preparing the character.
7. Saul is a magician, trying to get ppl distracted/go down the road he wants them to go down. Hence his hands moving a lot as he talks, etc. The editors mentioned how Bob’s hands match in every take, he’s so precise. Saul’s way of speaking is never monotonous, always a song. (Hahaha, im only 14 minutes into the 34 minute podcast and this is already so long. But BOB!)
8. Years ago when he was a writer on SNL & doing his own show at Second City, he was mistaken for someone else & got called in to host his own show. He was confused bc he’s pretty much just done theater. So he’s in a room in LA, him, these 2 guys he’s meeting with, & another table had Jack Nicholson & his 2 cronies, and that’s it in this room. So he talks to the 2 guys for an hour, then goes to read about what he’d be doing, then the meeting ends. he didn’t get it...years later, one of the guys sees him at a party & says “we screwed up! You weren’t the guy we’d seen & wanted!” - Bob was worried this was going to end up being a similar situation!
9. After he watched the show & saw how good it was, and knowing he had to work with Bryan, who is “such the real deal,”...you don’t want to get in the room with someone who is doing that and bring some kind of cheap half-assed version of a performance. There’s some kind of magic to what Bryan is doing - He’s been in a room with a few others doing that in his whole life/career...he’s been with a lot of great performers, but a lot are trying to sell their personality. But what Bryan is doing is pure acting. Vince says it’s the same with Bob as Saul.
10. They initially thought Saul might be on for 3-4 episodes, though Vince secretly hoped all along he’d be there long term.
11. Bob has mostly been a writer - if the script is good & the part is good, performing is a great activity. If not, “it’s not a great thing to spend your time doing, it’s kind of stupid. You’re like a prop that talks.”
12. Q: How much do you improvise as Saul? A: Not at all!
13. Q: What was it like the day they shot in the desert last season? It was the coldest night! And in the desert! A: “it was one of the favorite times of my life! It was _horrible,_ but, I’m sorry, but it really was just _the greatest._ Because, it’s 2am, you’re 46 years old, you have 2 kids, your life has been a drudgery for ten years of doing dishes & yelling at people to pick shit up, and now you find yourself in the desert at 2 am with these giant lights pretending you’re gonna be shot in the head & thrown into a grave - what could be better than that? Oh there’s a sandstorm, also, so sand is blowing in your eyes and your mouth and your ears, and it’s just great! It’s what you need!“
14. Re: fight with Bryan on s3e04 - Bob _loves_ fake fights. His last one was with Rip Torn on Larry Sanders. Also makes him think of when he played a p*rn actor on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and in the background of the dinner party you see a “p*rn” scene that he’d filmed with 2 women (with their underwear on). “Fake fighting is closer to real fighting than you want it to be, and fake sex is closer to real sex than you want it to be”
Hey Steven, fellow poker player here ! I play maybe 3-4 times a month. Just no limit Texas Hold'em. I love it, and love your channel too!
i LOVE no limit hold'em and I really miss playing... it's been a VERY long time.
Imagine Skyler entering the living room one day and finding Walt holding Holly while smoking.
Skyler: How could you?!
Walt: I learned from the best.
SmilingKnight that was fucking awesome. Thank you
@@hunterlee3353 Don't thank me. Thank Skyler and her best friend, hypocrisy.
@@snake0911 Man, it's just an amazing comment
Nikki is definitely right about Jesse steeling from Gus. He already knew that encroaching on another territory on the local level is dangerous. Steeling from someone that built a infrastructure capable of producing tons of crystal and distributing it on the NATIONAL level is obviously extremely dangerous.
ps When Skyler said "I learned it from the best" I couldn't help but laugh. Walt is a horrible liar 😂
Walter should have immediately correct Skyler, when she was saying that crap to Marie. Walter should have said: "Wait, wait Skyler, not "we have money", I have money, I earned those money, not you. And we are divorced at this point, remember, I signed divorce papers you so much wanted me to sign, and I left house.
But yes, I will pay for Hank's medical bills, while he isn't my family anymore, if you ask very well"
Franz Kafka. He made these ancient things called books.
Minor nitpick, they were putting the meth in fry batter, not beans :) 💅🃏💰
Breaking bad taught me about my job I do your taxes lol
did u see the way they shot the scene between walt and gostavo i love the writing of this show pay good attention
the light and dark? yeah, this show is brilliant when it comes to the way it's shot.
Kafkaesque means a corporate or bureaucratic political situation where subordinates have no power or no say in anything and the leader can take advantage of them and do as they please and there's nothing they can do about it, basically.
If Walt never blackmailed Jesse into cooking, then they wouldn't have killed Krazy-8, and they never would've met Tuco who killed No Doze, and sent Tuco on the run, kidnapping them in the process and sending Hank looking for Jesse's car in search of Walt, so he would've never shot Tuco while the twins were coming, and the event involving them would've never followed. And that's just a little tid bit of the events that's transpired all cuz Walt decided to start cooking meth 😬
I made a playlist of all of your favorite Breaking Bad reactions.😄
I mean 15 mil USD just for cooking makes sense, they don´t taking any risk. Also, who makes the most salary at mc donalds for instanc, the one flipping burgers or the owners?
This is a slower episode, but it still has several can't-miss, classic scenes like the cold open Los Pollos commercial, Jesse's monologue.....The first time I watched this, I thought the commercial was a real television commercial. I binge watched it on AMC and commercials were in between episodes so there was no telling where they ended....But it was brilliant. I loved the arty creativity and satire they used on this show dispersed within the drama and action, and they would always fit it in.
Worth noting: You either believe the Pollos story or not; I don't see why Gus would lie about its founding on a national commercial. His two uncles founded it, so when a question arises in the future about a certain character calling Gus and someone else "not looking like brothers to me", it doesn't have any ties to the relationship theory. Besides, it was just one cartel thug's opinion and contempt for SA's anyway.
What’s Up y’all first time commenting started following you two when you started thrones.. fun to see your reactions ... as far as breaking bad goes it Second favorite show ever for me you think you like it now every episode gets better and better
I think the Hound would kill some people for that chicken...
Definitely
he'll every fucking chicken there
I love how Walt is as interested and surprised by Skyler's story as Marie is, both of them leaning in like "Woah!"
Walter should have immediately correct Skyler, when she was saying that crap to Marie. Walter should have said: "Wait, wait Skyler, not "we have money", I have money, I earned those money, not you. And we are divorced at this point, remember, I signed divorce papers you so much wanted me to sign, and I left house.
But yes, I will pay for Hank's medical bills, while he isn't my family anymore, if you ask very well"
I believe that Walter was so terrified to speak to Gus, knowing his connections, that he snapped afterward. How many times can you look doom in the face without craving it to feel normal? Or ‘normal?’
To this day i still don't understand how people can defend Skyler no matter what she does. I am not saying that Walt is a saint, no, I get it, he is making drugs and that's fucked up but he started doing that to ensure the future of his family once he is gone. His intentions were noble when he decided to get into this business. He didn't do it because he wanted to make a ton of money for himself so that he could live like a King, he wanted to make enough money so that his wife and kids wouldn't have to worry about money after he dies. How is that evil? His actions such as: killing other drug dealers, deciding to not help Jane, accepting to work for Gus, yeah those were all bad decisions but he did all of that for good reasons. Crazy 8 and his cousin wanted to kill Walt and Jesse, so Walt killed them in self defense basically. Tuco kidnapped them and then tried to kill them, then Hank showed up and killed him. Again Walt didn't start that shit, Tuco was insane, he got what was coming to him. Skyler on the other hand decided to cheat on her husband ( who's got cancer btw ) as soon as she found out he is a drug dealer. I don't care if she did it in order to piss off Walt and make him decide to divorce her, it still makes her a cheating bitch. Cheating on your husband/wife is always a terrible, shitty thing to do. There is no excuse for what she did, period. Then she was all like "I don't want your drug money" but now she does want his drug money! She basically blackmailed Walt in this episode to pay for Hank's treatment. I thought she doesn't want anything to do with Walt and his blood money... but she is still a saint and Walt is still a monster for wanting to leave his family with a bloody fortune after he's gone. Again i am not saying that Walt is a good guy, he is a drug dealer, he kills people, he is working for a drug Kingpin. But at least he didn't cheat on his wife, at least he isn't trying to blackmail Skyler to stay with him, at least he actually gives a fuck about his family and their financial future. All in all Walt and Skyler are both bad people at this point of the story, but guess what, Walt is still a better person than Skyler when all is said and done. Cheers.
I've always thought that Jesse's scene about the wooden box is probably one of the saddest in the series.
I love how Walt was as facinated at Marie😂😂😂😂
It's worthy revisiting breaking bad, done it several times. But it's much worthier returning to it with you two. You will enjoy the rest, no doubt about it...
The best part about poker (at least Texas Hold’em) is that it’s always you vs other people. The house just gets a cut.
The house always wins. But game recognizes game.
Just subscribed to you guys channel like a week ago and I finally caught up to guys and all of you people watching them :)
Can’t wait for next video😬
7:42 Actually: 104 million dollars in three months, given that there are almost exactly 13 weeks in the 3-month period(even a day or two more). So 40 large a pound x 200 pounds/week x 13 weeks = 104 million dollars.
It's not even about the money to Jesse, it's the feeling of being ripped off, but Walt responds more logically saying getting paid 500 grand a month to work in that superlab is a deal. Talk about grass is always greener situation.
Kafkaesque- look up Franz Kafka Czech novelist and hid book the Trial guys.
The word Kafkaesque is often applied to bizarre and impersonal administrative situations where the individual feels powerless to understand or control what is happening.
That meth ad at the rehab was so messed up, it's like Jesse doesn't even remember that it was his fault that Jane got back into drugs...
There is apparently a restaurant in Albuquerque that has changed the store to look like Los Pollos Hermanos.
that's smart business.
I think at that moment Walt didn't care if he lived or died but I think he was hoping to be gone from the situation.