If you want humor in Breaking Bad, watch the episode called “Fly”. The whole episode shows Walt trying to swat a fly that got into his meth lab. A lot of physical humor, I felt like Cranston was channeling his Hal character from Malcolm in the Middle.
That last one made me LOL when the guys got in the car later.
So a late followup from the OP - I recently finished watching Breaking Bad and El Camino. I’m really glad I did. It was in fact one of the best things I’ve ever seen on TV. I almost gave up once - Walt watching and doing nothing when Jane died was really hard to stomach - but it was definitely worth plowing through that.
And while incredibly dark, it was also a lot funnier than this thread led me to expect. Every scene with Badger & Skinny Pete, most of Hank, Marie’s “problem”, the Fly episode mentioned above, Huell, Bill Burr, Tuco, and of course Saul himself were all incredibly funny. So while not quite at the BCS level of humor, I did find myself laughing a lot.
Congrats, now you’ve been fully immersed in the Breaking Badiverse. What a long, strange , suspenseful (and funny) trip it’s been.
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I’m a little surprised by some of the responses in this thread.
BCS is definitely funnier than BB, but BB had humor and not only dark humor.
A lot of the interactions between Jesse and Walt were sarcastic and included jabs about age or fashion etc. There were occasional eruptions into somewhat comic freakouts (e.g. pizza-throwing).
And Hank landed some jokes…well, until his breakdown.
I’d say it was a dark series with a light sprinkling of humor. Rather than “dark comedy” which has a specific meaning for me (finding humor in misfortune).
The funny bits end up making BCS dark parts (and there are many) seem a lot worse. Also the BCS experience is simply incomplete without BB.
the funniest thing id ever seen was the only 10-20 minutes of breaking bad id ever seen it was where Walt and the kid were kidnapped or being held by a Hispanic tough guy who I now think was gus and he was taking care of what seemed to be a comatose old man (his dad I think) who could barely do anything by himself
Well what was funny was the various ways they tried to kill the guy that was holding them and the old guy stopping them and trying to gus to see what they were doing by acting out like a toddler
eventually, Walt and the kid realized he could hear them and knew what they were trying to do and gus caught on to them but the juxtaposition gus and the old man going about their scheduled day with two guys trying to kill him like they were all eating lunch or dinner and they did something to the food when gus left to go get the guys medicine … the old guy knocking the food off the table and gus being pissed and bewildered until he looked in the rice and seen what they added
what made the scene was the old guy was great being a stoned face stroke victim until no one was looking
But I didn’t get to see how it ended
@nightshadea That wasn’t Gus, that was Tuco Salamanca and his uncle Hector.
And sitting there doing nothing but ringing a bell and making contorted facial expressions won him an emmy.
(that’s not meant to be sarcastic, he pulled off something special in that role)
Seriously. Somehow Mark Margolis turned bell-ringing into a riveting performance. It was iconic. I think he deserved that Emmy.
I love me some Tuco though.
Am I the only one that thinks that the fact that BCS gave us a main character that is occasionally likeable and funny and you can some times root for him makes the show actually a lot darker? Walt was always a douche, Jimmy could have been something else.
I haven’t watched the last season yet, but the number of “dark” things that Saul does in the first 5 seasons is relatively small, at least compared to Walter’s career. The worst thing I can think of is ruining his brother’s life, but maybe I’m forgetting some stuff.
Don’t wanna spoiler anything, but oh boy. Also there is all that happened in BB.
It’s only as funny as Better Call Saul during the scenes that Saul’s in.
There’s a terrific interview moment with Bill Burr where he’s saying how at one point he was in a scene with Bob Odenkirk and Lavell Crawford, and he suddenly thought “Oh my God, we’re just three standup comedians, and somehow the three of us are acting out a scene in the greatest TV show of all time.”