50 Facts You Didn't Know About Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad follows the descent of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman into the criminal world the show itself was groundbreaking and received multiple Guinness World Records for being the highest-rated TV show of all time today I'll be revisiting this iconic series by bringing you 50 facts you didn't know about Breaking Bad one during a fight scene between Jesse and Tuco Aaron Paul ended up getting knocked unconscious and actually got a concussion for which he needed medical attention too Aaron Paul has never taken any acting classes during your edit asked me anything he said I always just thought hey pretend like you're being someone else and that's all there is to it 3 due to the success of the show some drug dealers have actually started adding blue dye to their crystal meth in an effort to brand their product for additionally the blue crystal meth scene in the show is just raw candy 5 Bryan Cranston knows the exact process for cooking meth because DEA chemists taught him how to cook it for some of the scenes 6 Vince Gilligan produced the x-files which had episodes featuring Bryan Cranston Dean Norris and Aaron Paul 7 John Cusack and Matthew Broderick both turned down the role of Walter White then Vince Gilligan showed AMC execs Bryan Cranston in an episode of x-files and they were sold hey Mythbusters has shown that no amount of hydrofluoric acid could have ever eaten through that tub 9 Aaron Paul spent hours with addicts and ex-addicts when researching the role of Jesse he said it enabled him to see a very different side of people 10 there was a Spanish remake of the show called metastasis Walter White became Walter Blanco Jesse was turned into Jose and Haake turned into Henry needless to say the show was terribly reviewed as they managed to cram all 62 episodes into only a timeframe of three months 11 on the last day of shooting Bryan Cranston stripped down and walked around the set nude Aaron Paul said about the situation any time he can have the opportunity to show me his ass he does 12 Walter White's underwear sold for almost ten thousand dollars also a copy of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass went for 65,000 five hundred dollars and hector salamanca spell made nineteen thousand seven hundred fifty dollars thirteen James death was foreshadowed a lot in the script fourteen Dean Norris or Hank was offered a role on a comedy sitcom during the filming of the first half of Breaking Bad season five Norris suggested to creator Vince Gilligan that perhaps killing Hank within the first eight episodes would be a great ending but Gilligan politely denied his request fifteen the plane crash at the end of season two is very much like the 1986 Cerritos mid-air collision in fact the name of the junior air-traffic controller who was guiding the plane prior to the crash was also named Walter White 16 in the final episode the camera focuses on a New Hampshire license plate which is branded with the state's motto live free or die not only is this the name of the season five premiere it also speaks to both the fate of Jesse and Walt 17 this scene is very reminiscent of an iconic moment in quitting Tarantino's film Reservoir Dogs Walton Jesse's positions are the same as the characters in the 1992 movie and the names bears some striking similarities Steve Buscemi's name is mr. pink and Reservoir Dogs and Harvey Keitel's is mr. white sound familiar 18 color symbolism was present throughout all of Breaking Bad Walter White's clothes got darker throughout the seasons just like his character did in the beginning of the series he wore lighter clothes such as whites and yellows but towards the end his attire consisted of black and blues symbolizing the monster he had become 19 Breaking Bad ended up being 62 episodes for a reason on the periodic table the 60 second element is samarium which is essential in helping to treat lung cancer 24 the season 4 finale face off Vince Gilligan recruited the prosthetic effects team behind the Walking Dead to make a model of Gustavo Fring mutilated head the model was then digitally blended with Jean Carlos real head a process which took months 21 Walter White's house in making bad has been the real-life home of a woman called Fran since 1973 she admits that a lot of artistic license was taken with the property's interior by the production designer and that Gilligan originally wanted to cover the pool up and she doesn't mind the hundreds of cars that slowed down in front of her house every month 22 the sage neuroscience Center in Albuquerque is using Breaking Bad to help get New Mexicans off drugs the state has the highest rate of addiction in the u.s. by sharing the stories of addiction entrants have the chance to win one of two breaking addiction scholarships which entitle them to 12 weeks of free rehabilitation treatment worth thousands of dollars 23 the cast and crew ended up shooting the los Pollos hermanos scenes in a real restaurant called twisters the show's art department painted the fictional logo inside the building Gilligan said I believe it stayed up there for months on end for all I know it might still be there to this day it isn't he's still in place probably because twisters has become quite the tourist attraction 24 costume designer kathleen de toro admitted that the original reason cranston started wearing the Heisenberg hat is because he needed to shade his bald head from the Sun 25 Raymond cruise or Tuco was meant to be the main antagonist all the way through season 2 he met his end in season 1 because he became a regular on the closer and can no longer appear in Breaking Bad when Gilligan realized there was only one way to go story could go he remembered mr. Roberts the Henry Fonda movie in which Jack lemons character is always blowing up things on this old navy ship with mercury fulminate Gilligan explains in Breaking Bad the official book that he was relieved to find out that mercury fulminate kinda sorta looked like crystal meth and with that one of the formative Heisenberg moments was created 26 last year Vince Gilligan was contacted by the parents a 16 year old Kevin cordis Co who is terminally ill with cancer and one of the biggest fans of Breaking Bad there was something about the Walter White character explained his father the way took control of his illness in his life that really resonated with Kevin Gilligan and the cast visited Kevin at his home and in the hospital and during one of these visits he was asked by Gilligan what he felt was missing from the show he said you know what I want to know more about Gretchen and Elliott I want to know more about Walt's backstory with them I want to know what happened this was how Walters former gray matter business partners ended up with a pivotal role in the final series Gilligan even offered to tell him how the show would end Kevin declined saying he'd rather find out along with the rest of the world Kevin cordis Coe died soon after in the ninth episode of season five is dedicated to him 27 Breaking Bad was originally supposed to be shot in Riverside California but the location was ultimately changed to Albuquerque New Mexico that change of setting has certainly been a boon for the New Mexico tourism industry local businesses have taken advantage of the hit shows worldwide popularity and cashed in by producing all manner of Breaking Bad related products these include blue meth candy blue meth doughnuts locally brewed Heisenberg dark beer and even custom-made Heisenberg Pez dispensers 28 methylamine the chemical that led to the Train Robbery isn't really that hard to make in fact some chemists have suggested that it could be synthesized in a kitchen sink without too much difficulty but that would make for good TV 29 Jonathan banks had a much smaller part but was given a bigger role in mic when another actor was unavailable to work 30 Vince Gilligan didn't want to continue with Breaking Bad when he found out that the show Weeds had a similar premise he said later if he had known earlier about the show he wouldn't have even created Breaking Bad 31 while filming a scene featuring 1d the prostitute filming was interrupted by a person who thought she was a real hooker and tried to pick a rug 32 when Dean Norris auditioned for Breaking Bad he thought it was a comedy this led to him portraying a deeper version of the character than the writers had intended 33 a total of 269 people have died throughout Breaking Bad including the plane crash 34 after watching season 5 episode 14 awesome andy is george RR martin called walter white a bigger monster than anyone in Game of Thrones and vowed to do something about that in his next book 35 nearly two decades before landing the role of Walter White Bryan Cranston was in the Power Rangers thirty-six the first fourth 10th and 13th episodes of season two all have black and white teaser intros and when you combine the episode titles you get 737 down over Albuquerque foreshadowing the plane crash at the end of the season 37 in the scene that Vince Gilligan called a one-in-a-million shot Bryan Cranston managed to throw the pizza onto the roof in the very first take 38 while filming the episode during which Walt kills Mike the entire crew were black armbands to mark Jonathan banks final episode 39 while junior actor RJ Mitte does have cerebral palsy but not as severely as his character and can walk without crutches in fact he needed to learn how to walk with crutches for the show 40 Marius Stan Walt's boss at the carwash has a PhD in chemistry he decided to go into acting in his 40s with Breaking Bad being his first role 41 Walt Jr is the only major character that Jesse never meets 42 as Walt drives back to New Mexico in the final episode he listens to a song called El Paso by Marty Robbins it tells of a guy who returns to the town where he is a wanted man to find the woman he loves Felina which is where the episode gets its name 43 as well as being an anagram of finale some have pointed out that Felina can be split up into Fe Li Na the chemical symbols for iron lithium and sodium or in other words blood meth and tears 44 Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston got Breaking Bad tattoos to commemorate their time on the show Paul's tattoo says no half measures which is the name of an episode from season 3 and a reference to a moment between Walt and Mike and as you can see Cranston got a very tiny tattoo of the show's logo 45 unlike most dramas which tend to decrease in popularity as they go on Breaking Bad only got bigger through most of its run the show is bringing in a steady viewership of 1.5 million which is still pretty impressive but as it entered its last season things began to pick up the first half of season five saw audience numbers jumped by a million and once it entered its final run the series was easily breaking five million with a finale bringing in a whopping ten point two eight million 46 the Breaking Bad casting team actively tried to insert comedy people into the show talking about it Gilligan said it wasn't like we went looking to hire comedians it's just that I've got a theory that if you can do comedy first of all you have to be able to act and there are plenty of stand-up comedians who are not actors but if you are an actor at heart and you're also a comedian you can do drama Bryan Cranston bill burr Lavelle Crawford and Bob Odenkirk are some of the notable comedians cast in Breaking Bad 47 Jonathan banks was so good during his audition that the casting note read doesn't get any better so good 48 each episode except the pilot had eight days of shooting the pilot had 14 and eventually was extended to 15 because Vince Gilligan got the flu 49 Saul Goodman is named after the phrase it's all good man 50 the very last scene shot for Breaking Bad with a flashback in the van during the opening of Aussie mandaeans thank you so much for watching the video guys please leave a like that would be awesome and let me know in the comments what TV show you would like me to do next

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Published: Sun Aug 21 2016

Reddit Comments

[u/MightyWonton]

I met Fran, she is very nice. But said that she does hate it that people throw pizzas on her roof all the time

[u/CTRL_ALT_NOPE]

I hate these shit titles that content makers use. "50 things you didn't know about Breaking Bad" winds up being "44 things everyone knows about Breaking Bad."