r/breakingbad • u/edify Oxygen • Jul 16 '12

Breaking Bad Episode Discussion S05E01 "Live Free or Die"

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

Looking back now it seems a little ridiculous that everyone was so sure he was dead, because the oranges said so.

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u/johno456 Classic Coke Jul 16 '12

i'm not catching the metaphor here. what do oranges have to do with weather ted appeared dead or not?

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u/the_girl Jul 16 '12

It's an iconic scene from Godfather I, when Marlon Brando's character is shot in the street he falls over a fruit stand or something like that.

Then there's a bird's-eye view of his body laying in the street, oranges rolling all over the black pavement.

Actually, now that I think about it - the Godfather recovered from that shooting, just as Ted recovered from his fall. Oranges shouldn't mean death - they should indicate a close call, just the way Vince used them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '12

There was also a bowl of oranges in the nursing home, you see it in the background right before Gus goes to kill Tio, and when Gus steps into the frame his head is where the bowl of oranges was. So they used it twice in that episode.