Interesting, because these are going up courtesy of Sony and showrunner Vance Gilligan, not like the TV Land statues that went up years ago in Salem, New York, Minneapolis, and elsewhere
Here are the TV Land statues
Other statues (not all by TV Land) are listed here
Guess it’s a sign of the times that Albuquerque is down with this. I remember reading about how the city council of New Caanan, CT, was very upset when they learned what the movie The Ice Storm was going to be about (or maybe just that it was going to include a key party) and they immediately withdrew their support for production.
There already is - Walter’s Breaking Bad ranch is a real home in Albuqeruque.
…the actual owners of Walter White’s home are sick of seeing pizzas on their roof.
“We’ve had pizzas on our roof. We’ve had pizzas on our driveway; pizzas until we’re sick of looking at pizzas,” Francis Padilla told NPR…
“I’ll sit outside with a shotgun in a rocking chair. You know, like Granny from Beverly Hillbillies,” she added.
Things got so bad that the family elected to begin construction of a six foot tall iron fence around their property in order to prevent additional pizza tossers. Unfortunately, the fence hasn’t been enough — people continue to try anyway.
“They still try to throw pizzas even though she’s got a gate, she’s got signage. We joke that it’s kind of military-hardened now. Pizza-hardened. Even to this day, people still try to do it.
I checked out one of the links above. I was hoping to see that there are statues of Frasier and Niles Crane somewhere in Seattle, but I didn’t see any.