For some reason, Breaking Bad doesn’t seem to get much play on SDMB, at least in comparison to shows like The Office or 30 Rock. It’s a shame. Breaking Bad is one of the best shows on television right now.
Did anybody else see this episode? I thought it was the best of the season.
Isn’t it great?
I could do without the subplot of Skylar working for a guy who’s crushing on her. I’m gonna assume the writers will go somewhere else with that – otherwise it’s just too cliche for this show.
Walt and Jesse the Blowfish – Walt should be ashamed of himself for playing Jesse like that. 
The turtle was the creepiest thing I’ve seen for a long time, TV or movies. I’d have been puking too.
At least Hank got the last laugh (sort of). If he hadn’t been sickened by the sight of the severed-head-carrying tortoise, he would have been close enough to get killed by the explosion. And I liked the musical intro.
By the way, someone last week pointed out that Walt was being far more aggressive than Jesse, despite being the outwardly more upstanding citizen. Well they continued on that theme this week.
You couldn’t not empathize with Walt’s situation in the first season. It’s definitely harder to do it this season, and I’m glad to see the writers are taking the character in the less obvious direction. With the episode previous to this one, I think Jesse is starting to become the more sympathetic character, too. When everything finally blows up in Walt’s face, I think I’m going to feel sorrier for Jesse than I am for him.
So I guess Danny Trejo won’t have a recurring role?
Even when absolutely dead quiet, he is exploding all over the screen.
I don’t know how it is going to end, but I think Walt will escape the worst for himself the Ken Lay way. But not before it destroys everybody around him.
That was me who wrote that. This is by far the best show on tv right now. I thought last week’s episode was great, but this week’s even better. The script, the plot twists, the character development, the direction, the acting … all top-notched. The tortoise scene was fantastic! It does seem that Walt is slowly but surely descending into hell while Jesse is showing increasing humanity. But who knows? This show’s plot can twist on a dime.
That opening number was really annoying.
Huh, I thought it was the best part.
Well, maybe it’s just because I hate that kinda screeching mariachi crap to begin with. I also don’t like being made to read subtitles when there’s singing. (I have no problem doing it with normal dialog.)
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I thought the song was clever (if a bit too long). Walt and Jesse haven’t thought much about the competition. The song told us that they’ve been noticed.
So will Hank be a hero again? “Jingo Gringo saves lives of fellow officers!”
Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to call that mariachi music. It wasn’t quite tejano either. I guess I know just enough spanish to have found it very funny. The subtitles didn’t really do it justice.
I thought it was a great little narcocorrido. I wonder how many people not on the border or close to the border even know what that is, so I thought it was awesome. I love the realism of this show (I’m thinking of the ultra-opposite, the CSI’s of the world with perfect-breasted, high-heel wearing crime scene investigators). Everyone is so very, very flawed, yo. 
Man, the DEA agents sure were arrogant. Dude! The turtle says “Hola” on it! I’m thinking that’s a baaaaaad sign!
What else did it say? All I could make out was “demo”.
Ah, a new genre to check out. Thanks!
I think it was “Hola DEA.”
ROFLMAO–Your amiga down south! Anyway–this episode was fantastic!! Did you notice that the narcocorrida was co-written by Vince Gilligan? I pointed this out to my lil bro, and he thought I said “Vince Gill”–LOL!
I missed it - what happened with a turtle?
Hank was on his mission with the other DEA guys and some Mexican policia south of the border. They think they see their contact (the one they were negotiating with in the motel whose surname means turtle.) But when they get closer, it’s just his severed head stuck to a giant turtle walking across the desert. On the turtle’s shell is written “HOLA DEA.”
Hank walks away to barf while the others make fun of him, then the turtlebomb explodes, killing a number of agents and severing one dood’s leg.
Note that I don’t think the bomb exploded on its own. I think it exploded when one of the agents tried to lift the head off. So it was booby-trapped.
When I saw Danny Trejo in the opening credits I was hoping he would reprise the role of “Machete”. 
Jesse is becoming a much more sympathetic character this season, but also dumber than a box of rocks. I loved how he couldn’t figure out why his TV wasn’t getting a signal.