# Is anyone else besides me watching Breaking Bad on AMC? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 13, 2009, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909 "2009-04-13T02:34:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/21 "2009-04-13T16:23:05Z")
> [@niblet\_head](#): > > I don’t remember why Walt didn’t go with Elliot in the past and make big bucks. Did he break with him because he thought science should be used for science’s sake and not to make millions? IIRC, it was some relationship angst. Elliot’s wife was Walt’s ex or something. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/22 "2009-04-13T17:07:24Z")
> [@Ataraxy](#): > > IIRC, it was some relationship angst. Elliot’s wife was Walt’s ex or something. That’s part of it, but the more I see of Walt, the more I think that if things don’t go exactly the way he wants, he won’t play. He has a huge ego, he doesn’t listen to anybody, and he’s extremely competitive. He could have told Gretchen that he mortgaged the house or was putting his medical bills on credit cards and that he didn’t want Skylar to know. How long before Skylar does some checking and finds out that Gray Matter’s finances are just fine? ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/23 "2009-04-13T17:47:58Z")
Also it was a pity gesture, secured by his wife. It’s completely genuine, but there’s pride-swallowing involved on Walt’s part. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/24 "2009-04-13T20:36:38Z")
> [@singular1](#): > > Also it was a pity gesture, secured by his wife. It’s completely genuine, but there’s pride-swallowing involved on Walt’s part. That’s one reason why Walt didn’t want to get his med bills paid, but the original question was basically why Walt was a teacher and not working for Grey Matters. If he worked for them, this wouldn’t the same show. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2009, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/25 "2009-04-13T23:30:35Z")
Am I the only one who giggled like a school girl when Patty the Daytime Hooker tipped that ATM onto that dude’s head? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/26 "2009-04-14T00:17:55Z")
**friedo** , no, you weren’t. I was almost ashamed of myself, but the moron was asking for it. The set designers need an Emmy. How do you make a place that grody? ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/27 "2009-04-14T00:35:59Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Was the skank Patty the Daytime Hooker from Earl? Yup. And both her and her meth-head BF did a fantastic job as being drugged out losers. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/28 "2009-04-14T03:28:38Z")
I thought that was Patty the Daytime Hooker. She’s got a mug that will keep her employed until the meth epidemic is over. I think that Walt was genuinely pissed off at Elliot and Walt’s ex because he at least thinks he did the mental heavy lifting for their discoveries and got cut out of it. I think he was being genuine. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/29 "2009-04-14T04:12:37Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > **friedo** , no, you weren’t. I was almost ashamed of myself, but the moron was asking for it. > > The set designers need an Emmy. How do you make a place that grody? Rent it out to crack/meth heads for a few months 🙂 I know this unfortunately ☹ Those set designers were NOT exaggerating on what such a house would look like. Ever rebuild a whole house inside from the wall studs up pretty much by yourself? Back to the topic, I think some of the scenes are ungodly funny, in a pulp fiction kind of way, particularly the first few epsisodes. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/30 "2009-04-14T13:14:03Z")
Good Episode. It certainly passed my “holy cow, it’s over already?” test. I see a lot more trouble brewing with Jesse’s idiot friends. from the previews of next week it looks like Walt and Jesse are getting ready to expand their meth territory. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/31 "2009-04-14T13:23:18Z")
I’m rooting for Jesse. I cringed when Jesse had to hit the pipe to get the courage up to confront the meth heads. ---
**Author:** ![hellpaso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@hellpaso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hellpaso)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909/32 "2009-04-14T18:15:42Z")
We’ve watched this show from the beginning. This season’s episode 3 (?)–the one where they were in the house in the desert–is now in my top 5 tv episodes of all time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-besides-me-watching-breaking-bad-on-amc/492909.md?page=1)