Due to Lego's continued insistence on not teaching kids to use their growing assembly knowledge to construct a meth lab, we will almost certainly never see Breaking Bad join the Lego family of spin-off video games. But thanks to animator Brian Anderson, now you can see what such a hypothetical game would look like with this amazing video that Anderson calls a "parody" but is really just "this is exactly what that would be, no other answers acceptable."
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Hopefully you still sort of remember what's going on in Breaking Bad, because AMC today revealed that they're actually going to finish this thing.
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Continuing to show evidence that its writers might be pop culture nerds, The Simpsons is this week following up last year's Game of Thrones intro with a Springfield take on Breaking Bad, and you can take a look at it below. If you're wondering, it does not chronicle Flanders' descent from friendly, sweater-wearing suburban dad to Hey-Diddly-Heisenberg. But after this mash-up, it really seems like it should, right?
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Once just something Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan would bring up to toy with our emotions, a Saul Goodman spin-off series is now starting to sound like a thing that might actually happen somehow. Deadline cautions "there are no deals in place yet as the project is in its nascent stages," but they say Gilligan, AMC, and the creator of Goodman, writer-producer Peter Gould, are in talks to extend the life of Breaking Bad with a show centered on Bob Odenkirk's endearingly shit-headed lawyer. As the character is mostly a comic relief to all the show's soul-crushing violence and despair, his series would reportedly be a comedy, and it's not yet decided if it would be one-hour or half-hour format. And so AMC is aware, I would also be completely fine with it just being episodes of The Good Wife with Odenkirk doing Julianna Margulies's part.
The only thing that could make this more accurate would be replacing Bryan Cranston with Gerald McRaney.
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While we await the final half-season of Breaking Bad--which still isn't coming until summer, no matter how much we need it, man--find comfort in knowing that Jesse Pinkman still definitely thinks we're bitches with this all-inclusive "bitch!" supercut. You're welcome (bitch).
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Commissioned by Bryan Cranston's personal assistant to make the actor a unique custom Christmas gift, Boston artist Jon Defreest put together this: I'm Dreaming of a Walter White Christmas, a VHS clamshell mock-up of an animated Breaking Bad holiday special. Assumedly, Cranston liked this gift, because it's pretty good, and because it is not Bryan Cranston's 'Total Recall' Character Narrates: A Christmas Farrell, which would have been stupid.
Have a closer look and see the back panel below.
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With both Breaking Bad and Downton Abbey currently denying viewers any new shocking developments to express shock and disbelief over, The Colbert Report has eased mankind's desire for serialized melodrama with Breaking Abbey, combining the two series into one writhing mass of critical acclaim. And it turns out putting a "Heisenberg" hat and goatee on Downton's Hugh Bonneville turns him into Kelsey Grammer:
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This is better than the show's usual intro in pretty much every way but one: the lack of bongo drum. Breaking Bad just isn't Breaking Bad unless I've mimed ten seconds of soulful bongo-ing.
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Now that the penultimate season of Breaking Bad is over, take a look back and remember the grim, outright-awful decisions that brought Walt to his current shitty place with this bleak, eight-minute, up-to-date fan tribute, The Journey of Walter White. The road to Hell is indeed paved with restaurant-quality home breakfasts:
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As ridiculous as it is to, in 2012, still be making and watching Mentos commercial parodies, this Breaking Bad take on the once-thriving genre is too good to ignore. If you haven't yet started the most-recent season of the series, know that this does contain a very minor spoiler; if you haven't yet seen a Mentos commercial, know that this will also spoil whether or not Mentos is refreshing and capable of drastically improving real-life situations.
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In a classic case of case of depressing, substance-dependent life imitating art, currently at the top of Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office's Most Wanted List (via) is one Walter White, an Alabama man wanted for violating his parole after a 2008 conviction on the manufacturing of methamphetamine. As Breaking Bad fans will recognize, this is more than just another instance of pitiable cyclical criminality because, hey, Walter White is the name of Bryan Cranston's character on AMC's award-winning program! And he is also a 50-something white guy whose profession is meth cook! And it's just these kinds of happy coinkidinks that makes the whole rising meth epidemic so worth it in the end.
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(It's Bryan Cranston.)
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Artist Francesco Francavilla has recently caved to the pressure of finally getting through Breaking Bad before the new season, and as he goes through the DVR'ed shows he's been recording as they're rerun, he's been drawing these great little cover arts/mini-posters for each of the episodes. He's only up to the episode four right now--god, he doesn't even know about Gus or Krysten Ritter, or how REAL any of that gets--but you can see the rest of the current collection below.
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It's only 15 seconds, so try to draw it out by watching a few times, each time imagining the scene with a different, terrible way Walter White's breath probably smells. I found "burnt popcorn with falafel notes" to be most riveting.
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Though Walter White's student council campaign ads have made for a decent stopgap, new episodes of Breaking Bad are desperately needed, and we're finally going to get them starting July 15. Vulture has a new poster to assure us of that, and also assure us that Bryan Cranston is going to continue making the face he's always making. Phew.
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I don't know who Maxwell Ulin is, but we might as well just name him student body president right now. He somehow has the official endorsement of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman:
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Like Batman and Legos, Breaking Bad and animated gifs are pleasures best enjoyed together, on the internet (or through a video game based around collecting "studs," if that's an option). No one knows this better than comedian Paul Scheer. He's using his modest fame and apparently-ample animated gif resources to create and promote BreakingGifs.com, a website that has, in its brief existence, already become my go-to site for Breaking Bad animated gifs. I don't even bother with my old go-to Breaking Bad animated gif sites anymore.
Understand, these are not just animated gifs that repeat three frames of Bryan Cranston in his underwear ad infinitum. These are the animated gifs Bryan Cranston deserves. They are original; they are stylish; they are an endless network of smiling hot dogs erupting from Gus's pants. Look below for a video of Scheer sort of explaining this new project, then head to BreakingGifs to explore this limited but ever-growing resource of fluid movement and crystal meth. Let's make these the new "under construction" images on our personal HTTP pages.
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WHY ISN'T THE BREAKING BAD CREDITS SEQUENCE LONGER!? Oh, now it is. Thanks to a YouTube person, there's now this new, atmospheric, extended intro worthy of setting up the beloved AMC series. This is truly what mankind should be fast-forwarding past before seeing what kind of trouble Walter White has got himself into each week. (Not drugs again, Walt!)
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Combining the functionality and aesthetics of an old RPG with the harrowing plight of chemistry teacher-cum-meth maestro Walter White, CollegeHumor's Breaking Bad RPG imagines AMC's lauded series as a video game of our youth--one that would have surely left 11-year-old me shaken by many of the morally-questionable, often costly but ultimately well-intended decisions I was forced to click A on. It is pretty great.
For those not yet caught up on the series, don't worry: the video includes convenient chapter dividers, so you can stop at an appropriate point and wait until your Season is leveled up more.
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