# Breaking Bad = Best Show In The History of The World {open SPOILERS} **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 17, 2011, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663 "2011-02-17T03:25:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/101 "2011-03-19T05:59:18Z")
So has anybody else tried figuring their name in Breaking Bad Periodic Table credits? I go by Jon which really has limited possibilities- J **O** n or Jo **N** or J **ON**. Jonathan would give me Jo **Na\*\*\*\*Th** an for sodium and thorium. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/102 "2011-03-19T14:30:43Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > So has anybody else tried figuring their name in Breaking Bad Periodic Table credits? > > I go by Jon which really has limited possibilities- > J **O** n > or > Jo **N** > or > J **ON**. > > Jonathan would give me > Jo **Na\*\*\*\*Th** an > for sodium and thorium. More like JONaThaN: Oxygen, Sodium, Thorium, Nitrogen ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/103 "2011-03-19T14:45:36Z")
Arsenic, Sulfur, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Lithium, Europium Thats not my legal name. But that is what people call me. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/104 "2011-03-19T18:18:26Z")
Erbium, sulpher, helium ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/105 "2011-03-19T18:54:52Z")
Argon and Potassium is about it. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2011, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/106 "2011-03-19T19:36:46Z")
Fun word game. You should make a whole new thread of it. I am made of Rhenium, Beryllium, Carbon, and Calcium. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/107 "2011-03-19T21:06:21Z")
My spouse is composed of Yttrium and Neon. She does have a glow about her. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/108 "2011-03-21T21:25:41Z")
> [@blwalker72](#): > > what kind of boots where those two mexicans wearing Consider my mind [blown](http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-40-most-ridiculous-pairs-of-really-pointy-mexi). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2011, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/109 "2011-03-21T21:28:12Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Consider my mind [blown](http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-40-most-ridiculous-pairs-of-really-pointy-mexi). Do you think they realize how stupid they look? ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/110 "2011-03-22T21:00:28Z")
Certainly a novel approach to feelings of penis inadequacy. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/111 "2011-03-23T01:56:55Z")
I noted an error in one episode. When Hank is hunting for the meth lab, he describes the motorhome as a “Class C” RV. It is, in fact, a Class ‘A’ Winnebago Bounder. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/112 "2011-03-23T02:16:07Z")
Well, damn, you just ruined the show for me. It’s not authentic at all. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/113 "2011-03-23T03:49:52Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Well, damn, you just ruined the show for me. It’s not authentic at all. I know. I was devastated after watching so many episodes. But now I can never go back. I can’t. I won’t. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/114 "2011-03-23T03:55:01Z")
Wait, maybe it was an error made by the character rather than the show, reflecting the gritty realism that not everyone has the exact nomenclature of RVs thoroughly memorized! Faith restored! ---
**Author:** ![clarkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@clarkstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clarkstar)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/115 "2011-03-23T15:17:57Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Well, we’re finally caught up, in a backwards sort of way. We got season two from the library and watched it, interspersed with the ongoing season three eps on AMC. Then season one came in, so we just watched all seven of those eps in a marathon yesterday. I’m glad that the show found itself early on, as they seemed to be playing things for laughs somewhat in the early eps, and Sky was a vapid character who has now thankfully come into her own. > > Question/comment: I didn’t think that AMC showed nudity or allowed cursing to go unedited, but in the pilot show there are bare breasts and the f-bomb (among others) is dropped several times. I prefer that people talk like they do in real life, but was surprised by this. What gives? Is my memory faulty? Doesn’t AMC actively censor movies? Later eps drop an occasional “shit”, which they also do in \*Mad Men \*, but “fuck” seems to have disappeared after season one in BB. i dont see why youre waiting for dvd’s from the library when you have a computer and they are available on the internet ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/116 "2011-03-23T15:28:45Z")
> [@clarkstar](#): > > i dont see why youre waiting for dvd’s from the library when you have a computer and they are available on the internet Three main reasons: \*Both of us watch the show, so a laptop screen ain’t going to hack it. \*I have no desire to subscribe to Netflix, nor to invest the money in a Roku or gaming console \*I’ve learned to be patient about things. It’s only a TV show. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/117 "2011-03-23T16:23:16Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Out of curiosity: > > Vince Gilligan said the title “Breaking Bad” comes from an old southern expression. I’m middle aged and southern but I’ve never heard the expression. Has anybody else heard it before? Not I, and I know LOTS of old Southerners. The show is amazing, but I spend it wanting to crack Walt’s skull the whole time for being such a douche to Jesse. Every damned time a small portion of kindness is called for, he never comes up with it and it always, always bites somebody in the ass. ETA - and how the hell did Hank suddenly get to be one of my favorite characters? I find myself… rooting for Marie now? I feel a little betrayed, as I did so used to love to hate her. ---
**Author:** ![clarkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@clarkstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clarkstar)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/118 "2011-03-23T16:48:43Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Three main reasons: > \*Both of us watch the show, so a laptop screen ain’t going to hack it. > \*I have no desire to subscribe to Netflix, nor to invest the money in a Roku or gaming console > \*I’ve learned to be patient about things. It’s only a TV show. ok then. i watch on my pc with 24" screen. big enuff for me ---
**Author:** ![clarkstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@clarkstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clarkstar)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/119 "2011-03-23T17:28:27Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Not I, and I know LOTS of old Southerners. > > The show is amazing, but I spend it wanting to crack Walt’s skull the whole time for being such a douche to Jesse. Every damned time a small portion of kindness is called for, he never comes up with it and it always, always bites somebody in the ass. > > ETA - and how the hell did Hank suddenly get to be one of my favorite characters? I find myself… rooting for Marie now? I feel a little betrayed, as I did so used to love to hate her. yeah i like hank and pretty much despise walt. i think the guy that plays jessie is a great actor, but if he’s on meth, they need to dirty up his teeth ---
**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:** [March 23, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/breaking-bad-best-show-in-the-history-of-the-world-open-spoilers/571663/120 "2011-03-23T19:21:33Z")
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