# Better Call Saul season 6 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [April 19, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063 "2022-04-19T17:04:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 66
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1301 "2022-08-11T08:52:02Z")
Speaking of youngsters (just because it’s fun): [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_SEL27xiJGQ/hqdefault.jpg "Breaking Bad Aaron Paul on The Price is Right - As A Contestant") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SEL27xiJGQ) ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1302 "2022-08-11T09:45:37Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Yeah, but Kaylie will still stay the same age again. You’ll notice that they conveniently left her out of this season. The only character who was younger in Breaking Bad than she was in the prequel. ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1303 "2022-08-11T09:54:29Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > Speaking of prequel spin-offs Skinny Pete and Badger: Lower Decks ---
**Author:** ![iamatractorboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iamatractorboy/32/21261_2.png) [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1304 "2022-08-11T12:06:22Z")
Badger Baiting? Skinny Dipping? Actually, forget that second one. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1305 "2022-08-11T12:22:04Z")
I’m not sure how interesting it would be since I think it would be very similar to Breaking Bad, but I could see a spin-off based on/in Madrigal. Shifting focus between Gus growing up and Madrigal getting bigger, it could also serve as Gus’ origin story. At some point in the series, we’d see the two story lines merge when Gus’ friend Peter gets a job at Madrigal. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1306 "2022-08-11T13:05:39Z")
Wasn’t she in the first half? The scene where Mike was pretending he was out of town and they were talking on the phone. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1307 "2022-08-11T13:41:56Z")
Kim’s atonement isn’t finished with the confession; she also feels responsible for what Jimmy became under her influence (and intensified by her leaving him). She created Saul as much as Jimmy did. She needs to either “fix” Jimmy/Gene or at least stop him from hurting more people. …or maybe she just cares more about punishing herself and goes back to Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1308 "2022-08-11T14:03:42Z")
Gene told Jeffie “Pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered”. Now, Gene has violated all of his own rules. He’s become a hog. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1309 "2022-08-11T14:03:44Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > You’ll notice that they conveniently left her out of this season. The only character who was younger in Breaking Bad than she was in the prequel. > [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > Wasn’t she in the first half? The scene where Mike was pretending he was out of town and they were talking on the phone. She was in this season, but her age is, even according to the showrunners, inconsistent. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1310 "2022-08-11T14:06:31Z")
> [@Crane](#): > > Gene told Jeffie “Pigs get fed, hogs get slaughtered”. Now, Gene has violated all of his own rules. He’s become a hog. That must be a more common phrase than I realized. I heard him say it, but the only other place I’ve heard it is from Jim Cramer who regularly says\* “bulls make money, bears make money but pigs get slaughtered”. \*or used to say, I haven’t watched that show in years ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1311 "2022-08-11T14:13:25Z")
Yeah, but it fits. He specifically told Jeffie not to steal anything when executing the scam. Gene’s becoming Walt. A final, grand, suicidal gesture. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1312 "2022-08-11T14:20:42Z")
One issue about his call to Vacuum Cleaner Guy: they’ve established that the Feds got all of Saul’s money, so how would he pay for it? Has he made enough from the identity theft thing to pay for what would have to be a ridiculously expensive extraction, given the level of heat? Unless Cinnabon pays way better than I expect, he may be out of luck. ---
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1313 "2022-08-11T14:22:55Z")
He just cashed in on the scam he’s been running. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1314 "2022-08-11T14:43:26Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > Unless Cinnabon pays way better than I expect, he may be out of luck. Looking online…it does not. It seems a Cinnabon manager is makes about 50k per year. A franchise owner (which he isn’t) might make closer to 100k. I thought that maybe he could just walk off with the cash coming in, as I was under the impression mall fast food places tend to bring in _a lot_ more than you’d think, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here. From the little I could find, the average sales income from a single store is about 10k/mo. He’d have to steal ALL the money for over a year to pay Ed. Probably 2 years because of credit cards (though I assume the data is recent so we’d have to look at pre-covid/more cash numbers from when this took place. If he’s paying Ed, either he made enough money from the robberies or he has cash hidden away somewhere. And, don’t forget, he doesn’t appear to be living a very expensive lifestyle. Someone socking away every nickel they could would be able to come up with that money after a few years anyway. Especially when supplemented with other, less than legal, income. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1315 "2022-08-11T14:43:34Z")
He’s still got the tin box full of diamonds too. ---
**Author:** ![CoolHandCox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coolhandcox/32/16233_2.png) [@CoolHandCox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CoolHandCox)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1316 "2022-08-11T15:00:34Z")
I watched the preview again because I didn’t even realize it had anything to do with vacuum guy when I first saw it. As far as I can tell, Saul is just repeating the extraction code words to himself (presumably) in anticipation of a call to vacuum guy. That may be all there is to it, just anxious repeating of the code, but no call ever happens, or it might actually play out and he gets in touch and gets extracted. I’d think if he actually pulled it off, it would have to be very early in the episode and ultimately unsuccessful to provide closure to the series. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1317 "2022-08-11T15:08:15Z")
Cinnabon has two basic franchise models: In-Mall and Convenience store locations. The median in-mall franchise earns $595,000 a year in revenue. Looks like royalties and shit come to about 15% (I’m eyeballing this, don’t hold me to it)… eh, $90k at minimum. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52278963799_4114bdc250_b.jpg "SmartSelect\_20220811-095839\_Drive") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/52278963799/) And it looks like they are churning through the franchisees, my God. They sold 47 franchises in 2021 and shuttered 44. [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52278963784_0bab1e1a0f.jpg "SmartSelect\_20220811-100433\_Drive") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/52278963784/) 3 year franchise growth is almost non-existent: [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52278963789_5bafa0cd89_z.jpg "SmartSelect\_20220811-100540\_Drive") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/68782016@N08/52278963789/) ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1318 "2022-08-11T15:26:37Z")
> [@Biffster](#): > > In the preview, that call to the vacuum guy after some kind of vehicle rollover seems to me to suggest that Kim’s and Jimmy’s last words will be a telephone call. The car in the preview is Jimmy’s old Suzuki Esteem that was shot up & left behind when he went to pick up the $7 mil to bail out Lalo. So it’s not a recent rollover. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1319 "2022-08-11T15:56:46Z")
> [@CoolHandCox](#): > > I watched the preview again because I didn’t even realize it had anything to do with vacuum guy when I first saw it. As far as I can tell, Saul is just repeating the extraction code words to himself (presumably) in anticipation of a call to vacuum guy. I didn’t watch the previews at all, I just read about the vacuum thing here. That would make more sense. I’d be surprised if they spoiled the ending of all this in a preview. > [@JohnT](#): > > And it looks like they are churning through the franchisees, my God. They sold 47 franchises in 2021 and shuttered 44. Presumably that’s due to the decline of malls, greatly accelerated by covid. OTOH, those numbers are so even, I wonder how much of those Opened/Closed numbers are simply due to either someone changing a location or possibly even selling the franchise to another person (if either of those transactions would be considered closing one store and opening another). > [@JohnT](#): > > The median in-mall franchise earns $595,000 a year in revenue Even if we run with, say, $600k, per year coming into a given store. That still only 50k a month and would take Gene 2+ months to come up with the money if he stole ALL of it\*, and that’s not considering all the credit card transactions which would require a lot of extra work. \*OTOH, if this is only reported to corporate on a quarterly basis…it could work. 600k per year is 150k per quarter. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/better-call-saul-season-6/963063/1320 "2022-08-11T15:59:20Z")
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