24 Facts About 'Breaking Bad' That Aren't Well Known
TV snobs rarely agree on ANYTHING. But one thing everyone agrees on is that Breaking Bad is a true masterpiece.
By now, you've probably rewatched the series a time or two. But do you think you really know the show? Here are some insane facts to prove you wrong!
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The fictional tequila Zafiro Añejo in Breaking Bad/BCS was created by the writers because they couldn’t get a real brand to do product placement due to a scene where several people die after drinking it.-u/Kanobe24
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Breaking Bad character Mike Ehrmantraut was created because Bob Odenkirk (Saul Goodman) was unavailable for one of the episodes of Breaking Bad as he had to shoot for How I Met Your Mother.-u/prasiptasp
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The Breaking Bad team was offered $75 million to produce three additional episodes after the final season. This much money was stated to be more than the profits they had made in five years. The team refused, saying that the final episodes did not lend themselves to additional installments.-deleted user
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Jonathan Banks of 'Breaking Bad' appears in '70s period PSA titled 'Linda’s Film on Menstruation.'-u/Buck_Thorn
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The people who own the housing Breaking Bad was filmed in had to construct a 6 ft. wrought iron fence to stop people from constantly throwing pizzas on their garage roof.-u/Bluest_waters
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Vince Gilligan strongly regretted introducing the machine gun to Breaking Bad's last season and found writing a convincing explanation for it so difficult that he nearly abandoned the plot device out of frustration.-u/SacKingsRS
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In the Breaking Bad episode “Ozymandias”, the show's producers secured special permission from the Hollywood guilds to delay the credits (which would normally appear after the main title sequence) until 19 minutes into the episode, in order to preserve the impact of the beginning scene.-u/kevoooandres
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4 months after Florida man Ryan Lee Carroll won a Breaking Bad contest to meet the cast, he was charged with running a drug distribution operation when he was found with $1M in synthetic marijuana. Also seized was a souvenir Hazmat suit signed by the Breaking Bad cast.-u/Miskatonica
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After Breaking Bad showed blue meth, real drug dealers made their meth blue to copy the show.-u/links-Shield632
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In the Breaking Bad episode Ozymandias, baby Holly crying "mama" in the gas station bathroom following her abduction by Walt was an unscripted fluke that Cranston just rolled with. In that moment, Walt was supposed to look at Holly and realize on his own that he should return her to Skyler.-u/hehyougotme
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In the episode of Breaking Bad where Walt throws a whole pizza onto the roof of his house in anger, the pizza was real and Bryan Cranston nailed it in one take.-u/Dan_Gleeballz
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There was a Breaking Bad Fan-Edit Film created by 2 dedicated fans of the series, simply titled Breaking Bad: The Movie, which condensed the entire series into a two-hour feature film.-deleted user
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Breaking Bad has a shot-for-shot Spanish remake titled "Metástasis" featuring Walter Blanco, a struggling high school chemistry teacher in Bogotá, Colombia, who teams up with his previous student José to cook methamphetamine.-u/Raischuu
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There really is a Schraderbrau Beer - the beer Hank Schrader brewed in the TV series Breaking Bad. Actor Dean Norris helped launch it in 2019.-u/RyanDanielst
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Albuquerque held a funeral for Walter White to celebrate the series finale of Breaking Bad.-u/mynameisarrgh
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After marathoning Breaking Bad, Anthony Hopkins wrote Bryan Cranston a fan letter, saying (among other things) "Your performance as Walter White was the best acting I have seen – ever."-u/DoctorSauce
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Rian Johnson directed both the much-maligned 'The Last Jedi' and the Breaking Bad episode 'Ozymandias' which is widely considered one of the best episodes in the best series in the history of television.-u/kdryan1
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George R. R. Martin, writer of ASOIAF (Game of Thrones) referred to Breaking Bad as ''Amazing'' and noted that "Walter White is a bigger monster than anyone in Westeros", then said it has influenced him to make an even worse character in future books to "fix this".-u/STOP-ENJOYING-THINGS
21.
Giancarlo Esposito, who portrayed the villain Gustavo Fring in Breaking Bad, has such a poor Spanish accent that some native speakers have described it as 'Nails on chalkboard'.-u/G_man252
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There is a Breaking Bad alternate ending of the series finale on the last season DVD. It involves Bryan Cranston playing the role of his Malcolm in the Middle character Hal waking up from a nightmare which happens to be the events of Breaking Bad.-u/xaxnxdxrxexax
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Breaking Bad executives were initially wary of casting Bryan Cranston as Walter White, and so offered the role to John Cusack and Matthew Broderick, who both turned it down.-u/Breeze_in_the_Trees
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