Just in time for the new season of Mad Men, here's The Simpsons' Breaking Bad parody. It's the opening couch gag to this Sunday's episode and makes use of one of Breaking Bad's best meth-cooking montage songs, "Crystal Blue Persuasion." This could have easily been a full episode of the show, but it makes for an action-packed, super long couch gag.
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan dropped by The Colbert Report last night, and Stephen Colbert had the wisdom to point out that, after years of living in the head of the chemistry teacher-turned meth cook to write the show, he pretty much is Walter White now. Plus, they both have rad goatees. If Vince Gilligan is, in fact, running an unlawful meth manufacturing operation, he sure kept his cool during the interview, laughing the idea off… just like Walter White would do. Stephen Colbert's getting too close to the truth. If I were him, I'd be keeping an eye out for ricin.
Sadly, or not sadly, if Bob doesn't make a show about a zombie lawyer, someone else will. "Your honor, my client would like to sue Mrs. Nuttersbee for 60,000 brainssssssssss." Bob answered a bunch of tumblr questions for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon with varying degrees of enthusiasm. Below watch him talk about young comedians and shout out UCB sketch groups A Kiss From Daddy and the Birthday Boys, whom he's working with on a pilot. Also, he talks briefly about Arrested Development and Tim & Eric.
Hollywood Reporterand AV Club have exclusive photos from the first of tomorrow's three Community episode and they look super cool (the rest are after the jump). For obvious reasons, video games are such a perfect fit for Community that it's surprising they've never done it before. Apparently, in an attempt to save Pierce's inheritance, the gang plays this video game against Giancarlo Esposito (aka Breaking Bad's Gus Fring!). Sounds like the Community and the best.
In this new CollegeHumor video, Breaking Bad's Walter White is replaced with another science whiz, albeit one with a bit less menace about him: Bill Nye the Science Guy. Never before has cooking meth been so joyful and easy to understand!
With Breaking Bad set to end its run with an eight-episode final season this summer, the people behind the show are looking to extend one of its most popular characters beyond the season finale: Bob Odenkirk's sleazebag lawyer Saul Goodman. Deadline reports that AMC and Sony TV are working with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and writer Peter Gould, who wrote the Season 2 episode in which Saul first appeared, to develop a show based around Saul Goodman. Last year, Gilligan and Odenkirk each said they'd be interested in doing a spinoff, but this is the first official word on such a project. There's no [...]
For fans of Breaking Bad this is the greatest news of the week. For those nonfans, I'll cut to the chase real quick: This fella named Jonathan Banks is going to guest star on Parks as Ben's dad. Mike Schur explained the casting to HitFix: "We were working the character description of Ben's dad and I said aloud, 'He should act like Mike Ehrmantraut.' So somebody said, 'Well, why can't we just get Jonathan Banks?'" Great job, somebody. (Breaking Bad Spoiler Alert) Let's all just agree to imagine that Mike didn't get the chemical bucket treatment and instead hopped into a car and drove to Pawnee, Indiana to visit [...]
In a podcast interview earlier this year, Vince Gilligan described comedy and drama as "two muscles in the same arm." Few creators working in television have better coordination of those two muscles than Gilligan himself. His AMC drama Breaking Bad, which follows the bloody transformation of suburban science teacher Walter White (Bryan Cranston) into a meth dealer and starts its final season Sunday, shifts between comedy and drama so drastically — and yet so seamlessly — I've often found myself watching it as emotionally disoriented as a tearful Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) with a gun to Gale's head. Depending on what angle you're watching it from, Breaking Bad is [...]
Breaking Bad's Gus Fring Giancarlo Esposito is guest-starring on Community! He will play "a business associate of Pierce's late father, Cornelius Hawthorne." I can see it now: "What does a man do, Pierce? A man provides for his study group."
In honor of last night's brutal season premiere of Breaking Bad, here's Landline's latest video: Huff Land. You see, what they did was swap out meth specifics for…oh, nevermind, you get it.
Bob Odenkirk delivered an hour-long chat and Q&A session in his hometown Chicago last week, the Sun Times reports, and dropped some comedy bombshells. During his talk, Odenkirk revealed that he and Mr. Show collaborator David Cross are publishing some unproduced scripts they've written and that one of the scripts might actually be made into a Claymation movie. On top of that, he mentioned he's been developing a sketch show with delightful L.A.-based comedy group The Birthday Boys for IFC, which is something to look forward to should it make it to series. When asked if the rumors of a Breaking Bad spin-off based around his character [...]
This week on The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show – an appetizer of Expendables 2 chat, followed by an hour of discussing Breaking Bad season 5. I'm joined by Pat Cassels (who has written about the comedy of Breaking Bad for this very site) and Entertainment Weekly's Darren Franich. When we did this podcast at the end of season 4, Darren correctly predicted that season's final twist. What are we looking for this year?
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Bob Odenkirk's Saul Goodman is one the best characters on television like ever and it seems like Breaking Bad's creator Vince Gilligan understands that. "I would love to see a Saul Goodman spin-off show when it’s all said and done,” Gilligan told Entertainment Weekly. He continued:
“I think that would present itself pretty nicely, storywise. While Breaking Bad is by design a show that is finite and limited in its scope — it’s a story of transformation that cannot go on forever — I think a Saul Goodman show could have great legs. I love the idea of a lawyer who will do anything to avoid going to court. [...]
Bryan Cranston will direct an episode of Modern Family this season. Wouldn't it be amazing if they just went for a full Breaking Bad crossover, with Phil Dunphy cooking meth and hiding it from DEA agent Jay? (Mitch could play Saul Goodman! He's already a lawyer! It's PERFECT.)
