# Breaking Bad 5.01 "Live Free or Die" 7/15/12 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 15, 2012, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323 "2012-07-15T18:26:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2012, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/281 "2012-07-21T23:06:28Z")
Well, I guess that is good for watching “unrelated” stuff 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/282 "2012-07-22T17:09:00Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Okay guys and gals. I’ve got DISH. Am I screwed or is there some way to see the next episode? Yeah, you’re screwed. I haven’t heard any noise about them streaming any other episodes, so unless you have a friend that gets AMC you’re best option is to go to iTunes or some other service that allows you to download episodes the next day. On iTunes they don’t sell individual episodes, you have to subscribe to the whole season, but the SD version is less than $2 per episode… ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/283 "2012-07-22T19:44:04Z")
Damit! ☹ I am so mad I wanna go Tuco on somebodies ass 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/284 "2012-07-22T20:41:42Z")
“Tight tight tight!” ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/285 "2012-07-22T22:30:36Z")
I just watched “Live Free or Die” on AMC’s website (and loved it). Does anyone know if they will be streaming future episodes there as well? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/286 "2012-07-22T23:43:53Z")
I doubt it. But someone earlier in this thread said that they’ll be selling them on iTunes. ---
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/287 "2012-07-23T00:21:04Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > I just watched “Live Free or Die” on AMC’s website (and loved it). > > Does anyone know if they will be streaming future episodes there as well? iTunes has episodes available to download the day after they air; they may be available elsewhere, but that’s the only place I’m familiar with. But you have to subscribe to the entire season, you can’t just buy individual episodes. They’re charging $13.99 for the 8 episode half-season (in SD; $22.99 for HD). ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/288 "2012-07-23T00:33:35Z")
You can also purchase episodes on Amazon ---
**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/289 "2012-07-23T00:59:56Z")
> [@jrepka](#): > > iTunes has episodes available to download the day after they air; they may be available elsewhere, but that’s the only place I’m familiar with. But you have to subscribe to the entire season, you can’t just buy individual episodes. > > They’re charging $13.99 for the 8 episode half-season (in SD; $22.99 for HD). On iTunes, I see episode one available as an individual download. Are you sure you have to buy the whole season? Also, the HD season pass is US$21.99. ---
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2012, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/290 "2012-07-23T01:56:20Z")
zbuzz– I stand corrected on both counts… ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/291 "2012-07-24T00:32:15Z")
I just listened to the Breaking Pad Insider podcast for this episode, three things worth relating: (1) They had a discussion about how the magnet scene would make a great test for Mythbusters (which it really would). A Breaking Bad themed mythbusters could be the greatest ever… (2) They were discussing the question of how Mike encountered Jesse and Walt in their cars on that deserted stretch of road, and Vince Gilligan made the interesting point that he doesn’t mind coincidences as long as they don’t help the main character, although he acknowledges there was at least one big one of that type in the BB pilot, when Walt is about to shoot himself and then the sirens turn out to be fire engines, not cops. (3) Apparently the genesis of Breaking Bad was a combination of Vince and one of the writers/producers discussing a story about some idiot cooking meth in an apartment complex, and Colin Powell’s presentation to the UN about the supposed mobile WMD labs. (Which led to a joke in the podcast about Winnebagos of Meth Distribution.) ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/292 "2012-07-24T00:45:49Z")
Hilarious gifs of Aaron Paul on _The Price is Right_ 10 years ago, [here](http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/aaron-paul-the-best-the-price-is-right-contesta). ---
**Author:** ![Erdosain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/erdosain/32/7284_2.png) [@Erdosain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erdosain)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/293 "2012-07-24T02:14:40Z")
> [@Alice\_The\_Goon](#): > > Hilarious gifs of Aaron Paul on _The Price is Right_ 10 years ago, [here](http://www.buzzfeed.com/whitneyjefferson/aaron-paul-the-best-the-price-is-right-contesta). So _that’s_ where Bob Barker got the line, “the price is wrong, bitch.” ---
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/294 "2012-07-24T04:32:49Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > I just listened to the Breaking Pad Insider podcast for this episode, three things worth relating: > (1) They had a discussion about how the magnet scene would make a great test for Mythbusters (which it really would). A Breaking Bad themed mythbusters could be the greatest ever… I can’t wait to see them dissolve a whole hog in a barrel of hydrofluoric acid… ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/295 "2012-07-24T13:41:35Z")
> [@jrepka](#): > > I can’t wait to see them dissolve a whole hog in a barrel of hydrofluoric acid… … in their family bathtub. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2012, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/296 "2012-07-24T14:35:08Z")
They have to do it in: A: A polystyrene barrel (or whatever the plastic was that Walt required). B: A bathtub over a wooden floor. They also have to figure out a way to cause an explosion using hydrofluoric acid. There always has to be an explosion. ---
**Author:** ![Concrete\_Slab\_Foundation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Concrete\_Slab\_Foundation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Concrete_Slab_Foundation)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/297 "2012-07-26T03:36:11Z")
> [@Flang\_Dang](#): > > It was in the future. Didn’t anyone catch that the “Denny’s” is a former “Pollos Hermanos”? Maybe even the old meeeting place with Gus. How can you tell? I just watched the scene again and didn’t spot any Los Pollos Hermanos-shaped fixtures. Then again, I’m not sure what would be a giveaway. ---
**Author:** ![jrepka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jrepka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jrepka)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/298 "2012-07-26T04:37:32Z")
> [@Flang\_Dang](#): > > It was in the future. Didn’t anyone catch that the “Denny’s” is a former “Pollos Hermanos”? Maybe even the old meeeting place with Gus, No, they used that same Denny’s in 401. It was where Walt and Jesse went to talk after Gus killed Victor… ---
**Author:** ![Concrete\_Slab\_Foundation](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Concrete\_Slab\_Foundation](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Concrete_Slab_Foundation)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323/299 "2012-08-01T03:20:49Z")
> [@jrepka](#): > > No, they used that same Denny’s in 401. It was where Walt and Jesse went to talk after Gus killed Victor… Thanks. That’s one fewer potential clue I need to carry around in my head. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-5-01-live-free-or-die-7-15-12/628323.md?page=14)