# Was Breaking Bad a Walking Dead prequel (spoilers likely) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 28, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-breaking-bad-a-walking-dead-prequel-spoilers-likely/684775 "2014-03-28T17:21:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [March 28, 2014, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-breaking-bad-a-walking-dead-prequel-spoilers-likely/684775/1 "2014-03-28T17:21:48Z")
This is a fun but apparently tongue in cheek article. [http://www.hitfix.com/comedy/amc-has-secretly-been-warning-us-breaking-bad-is-the-walking-dead-prequel](http://www.hitfix.com/comedy/amc-has-secretly-been-warning-us-breaking-bad-is-the-walking-dead-prequel). > [@](#): > > It all started innocently enough. Way back in Season 2. In the second episode ‘Bloodletting’ we learn from Daryl that his brother was a drug dealer before the walkers came. Taking out a plastic bag with Merle’s stash to bring down T-Dog’s fever, viewers can clearly see Blue Sky just laying in the bottom of the bag. I didn’t notice the blue crystal at the bottom of the bag. Was it really there? ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-breaking-bad-a-walking-dead-prequel-spoilers-likely/684775/2 "2014-03-28T17:27:47Z")
I’ve heard that before, and since I started watching Walking Dead after I finished up Breaking Bad, yes, there is something in the bag that looks exactly like the blue meth Walt was making. So yes, it seems that Walter White basically started the zombie apocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![nevadaexile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb8c5e/32.png) [@nevadaexile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nevadaexile)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-breaking-bad-a-walking-dead-prequel-spoilers-likely/684775/3 "2014-03-28T17:29:42Z")
If it is it really would make the efforts that Walt undertook during the last episode rather pointless as his family STILL wouldn’t receive any money. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-breaking-bad-a-walking-dead-prequel-spoilers-likely/684775/4 "2014-03-28T17:33:33Z")
[This is claiming](http://www.cracked.com/article_21007_5-disturbing-details-you-didnt-notice-in-famous-video-games.html) (TiC) that Uncharted became the Last of Us (as if Indiana Jones became Mushroom Zombie Apocalypse). Man, people running from zombies don’t always pick the feasible cars, do they? But the only thing Will Smith fears more than ZomboVampMonkeys is the corporate sponsors. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2014, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-breaking-bad-a-walking-dead-prequel-spoilers-likely/684775/5 "2014-03-28T17:39:20Z")
How would pharmaceutical grade meth cause contagious zombieism? 😕 Maybe the meth fumes combined with the insecticide gases to cause some kind of mutant bugs? ---
**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:** [March 28, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-breaking-bad-a-walking-dead-prequel-spoilers-likely/684775/6 "2014-03-28T17:41:16Z")
Maybe Hank and Gomie got some kind of weird infection from the desert soil and when they were dug up they started the epidemic. ---
**Author:** ![Washoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecae2f/32.png) [@Washoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Washoe)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-breaking-bad-a-walking-dead-prequel-spoilers-likely/684775/7 "2014-03-28T18:44:38Z")
Gray Matter Technologies obviously had a hand in it. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-breaking-bad-a-walking-dead-prequel-spoilers-likely/684775/8 "2014-03-28T19:05:18Z")
> [@Washoe](#): > > Gray Matter Technologies obviously had a hand in it. I could see a storyline here. They use Walt’s money to fund some off-the-books research that creates the virus or whatever, perhaps after figuring out there was no actual hitman threat, or maybe because of desperation. ---
**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:** [March 28, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-breaking-bad-a-walking-dead-prequel-spoilers-likely/684775/9 "2014-03-28T20:12:40Z")
Have they ever said or implied what Gray Matter does; what kind of products they invent? Do they even manufacture anything, or do they just license inventions or discoveries to others? ---
**Author:** ![Reverse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@Reverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reverse)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2014, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-breaking-bad-a-walking-dead-prequel-spoilers-likely/684775/10 "2014-03-28T21:10:48Z")
It’s just a neat little easter egg, from one AMC show to another. There’s no actual story link. Even if there was, there’s no evidence that blue meth causes zombie-itis, so blaming that on Walter White seems a little overblown. Guy’s done plenty bad by himself to earn a reputation, no need to blame the end of the world on him.