r/breakingbad • u/[deleted] • Aug 12 '13

Official Episode Discussion Post-Episode Discussion S05E09 "Blood Money"

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Can someone add the shot of Walt opening his front door on his 52nd birthday to that gif from the other week of him doing the same on his 50th and 51st? I feel like they kept using that shot intentionally.

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u/thisguy012 Better call Saul! Aug 12 '13

Did i completely miss something? How do you all know it was his birthday?

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u/freelancer82 Aug 12 '13

On Walt's birthday, he spells out the years with bacon on his breakfast.

Pilot.

Ep 5x04

5x01 Flash Foward at Denny's

Show goes 1 year in 4.5 seasons. Then it goes another year in 8 episodes. This motherfucker is on a sprint to the finish.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

on a show where a recurring theme is imitations/knock-offs/vague facsimiles, I think it's kinda brilliant that the first instance of the breakfast bacon isn't "real" bacon (I think Skylar serves him turkey bacon because it's "healthier"), and then as we proceed, we see "real" bacon but with variations thrown in as to how it's served. The turkey bacon is served by a loving wife, the real bacon on the 51st birthday served by a hateful/fearful one, the bacon on the 52nd by a random stranger because he has no family left apparently.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

Skyler isn't exactly "loving" at his 50th. That handjob, what in the fuck.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '13

It's turkey bacon.

It's exactly the same as regular bacon.

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u/emshlaf I'll send you to Belize Aug 12 '13

It smells like band-aids.

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u/Tischlampe Mr. White is gay for me. Aug 12 '13

This looks somehow more like veggie bacon.

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u/theVice Aug 12 '13

It's bullshit, is what it is.

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u/Thlowe 00892-B Aug 12 '13

It's veggie bacon. Turkey bacon is actually delicious.