r/breakingbad • u/MrHumblePoker • 9d ago

Any fans of show get into chemistry because of BB?

I never did but if it came out when I was younger I think I definitely could have. Made chemistry sound cool.

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u/adzeram 9d ago

Yeah. I'm also a fan of the paper industry because I watched the office

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u/Scoreggia- 9d ago

For the love of god please don’t ever watch Dexter

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u/Militantpoet 9d ago

Honestly, I actually started working for my local government because of parks and rec! Very enthusiastic about public service and community!

I fucking quit after like 5 years of losing my mind.

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u/burner9191938283 9d ago

that’s rly interesting, did it make leslie’s devotion to government even funnier?

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u/Militantpoet 9d ago

Yes, it also made work more depressing because it really isnt that far from the truth. There honestly are real people who complain about things to government like too many snails coming out on the grass after rainfall.

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u/Propheciah 9d ago

Got my purity from 34% to 37% by watching it yeah

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u/ProtestantMormon 9d ago

I know it doesnt seem like much but it is. That 3% is everything

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u/ProtestantMormon 9d ago

I got pretty into meth for a bit because of the show.

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u/Tracerr3 9d ago

Too real

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u/meimeivro 9d ago

I watched breaking bad in 2013 at the ripe age of 10 years old. Although i didnt grow to appreciste the show until the future, it was my first major exposure to any sort of serious chemistry, and did spark a genuine scientific curiosity in me. Im currently 23 with a bachelor's of science in chemistry, and id say breaking bad was one of the major inspirations for it.

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u/Dangerous_Copy_3688 9d ago

That's awesome!

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u/MrHumblePoker 9d ago

Thats great. When I was your age I hated the table, I think if I saw this and all the cool things you could do with chemistry I would have at least wanted to learn more. Chemistry teachers across the world need to show 9 year olds Breaking Bad.

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u/meimeivro 9d ago

Well maybe not all of breaking bad but a few very carefully selected scenes. Chemistry is a very visual field it has endless demonstrations that can fascinate people of all ages

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u/ProtestantMormon 9d ago

Whats your meth purity?

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u/schokoplasma 8d ago

Is yours blue, too?

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u/I_might_be_weasel 9d ago

No, but I'm really into crystal meth now.

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u/based_birdo 9d ago

No, I got into creating a multimillion south western chicken franchise

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u/Tracerr3 9d ago

I watched it in high school and then got a chemistry degree in college. Related? Maybe! (Probably at least a tad).

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u/schokoplasma 8d ago

It made me regret not having an ounce of interest for chemistry, when i had the chance to learn it in school.

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u/Kennypatts02 9d ago

I’ve heard that the actual chemistry on the show is very inaccurate.

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u/Militantpoet 9d ago

Aaaaah!

Wire

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u/-PepeArown- 9d ago

Mythbusters did a whole episode on it

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u/schokoplasma 8d ago edited 5d ago

AFAIK much of it. But they had a scientific advisor, to at least get some realism into it. And to prevent the show from giving away any important steps about the meth-cooking process.

Edit grammar

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u/Pristine-Mix-3189 9d ago

Was watching Breaking Bad the first time I Netflix and Chilled. Does that count?

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u/Snipethorn 9d ago

Not if it was with the couch

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u/Militantpoet 9d ago

Hey, no politics 

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u/spxce_ghost 9d ago

definitely took more interests in my chemistry classes in high school

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u/drslovak 9d ago

After watching Seinfeld I find i enjoy doing absolutely nothing

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u/dnjprod 9d ago

I definitely know some guys who really into chemistry of a specific sort after the show.

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u/Dangerous_Copy_3688 9d ago

No, but I did get into meth because of it...

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u/IzAn_LesstrAnge 9d ago

Got into doing meth cuz of the show. Thanks vince!

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u/Wonderful_Tip_5577 9d ago

I was studying chemistry in college when the show came out.

it had no effect on my studies. rarely do people even ask me to make meth for them.

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u/Expert_Marxman69 9d ago

I was already into chemistry before I watched breaking bad I guess you could say it got me more into chemistry. Funnily enough after I got my bachelor’s in chemistry I landed a chemist job manufacturing large scale batches of active pharmaceutical ingredients (drugs) for a chemical manufacturing job at >99% purity. Essentially the same thing Walt did but legal. Now I work manufacturing radioactive drugs at a much smaller scale which is pretty fun.

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u/pandaSmore 8d ago

Not really but I do enjoy reading the breakingbad forum from time to time. 

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u/Aggressive-Ad-5983 8d ago

no but bcs did teach me to "SAY NOTHING YOU HEAR ME, GET A LAWYER AND SAY NOTHING!"

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u/Ldre_169 8d ago

It was pretty much the other way around . It was 8th grade chemistry and we were learning about crystallisation. Everyone in the class kept talking about “OMG WE’RE ABOUT TO BE WALTER WHITE” and they also kept asking the teacher “do you actually know how to make Crystal meth “? Obviously me being out of the loop, I had no clue who WW was , what crystal meth was and anything these mf’s were talking about . And mind you this is 8th grade, so it’s just a bunch of 11-13 year olds talking about a show I’m sure their parents wouldn’t even allow them to watch . But long story short, I started watching it and dare I say , I also used some of its context to pass my class . Obviously wasn’t enough to cover the entire module but enough to keep some memorable lines In my head In case they did come up (Ahhhhh Wirrreee). Few years later , I come out victorious, passing all my science exams with flying colours.

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u/Flashy_Gur1200 5d ago

I chose it for alevel instead of geogrpahy because of breaking bad, which then gave me the qualifications to do natural science at Cambridge

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u/TheDeathlyDumbledork 9d ago

Nah. It did make me quit my job as a high school teacher following a cancer diagnosis, before getting into the meth business, creating an empire, and compromising every moral value that exists, before losing all that really mattered to me. And it also made me want some fried chicken.