Shall we anticipate the FIFTH SEASON of the AMC series "Breaking Bad"? I think I may.

Are they going to make Odenkirk ten years younger somehow.

saw Odenkirk IRL a few weeks ago (he said hello to me in the queue for the men's room at UCB) and they're already younging him up plenty so

Bob and Dave hilarious on the Daily Show last night.

wait waht

yeah, i missed that

theres the movie alice doesnt live here anymore, def a drama, that was spun off into alice the sitcom

― johnny crunch, Thursday, September 12, 2013 1:16 PM (2 hours ago)

this is the example I was trying to remember

I was kind of hoping Saul and Huell would relocate to Panama Belize or somewhere for the spinoff. Prequel talk could be a smokescreen to avoid spoilering his fate.

fify

but prequel can have mike. sequel can't.

prequel can't have huell. maybe the prequel talk did spoil his fate? can't have a sequel if he dies.

man if they actually have a half-hour sitcom style show with gus fring prancing through...

"hi, audience, you might remember me with my face ripped off, but today i'm mad at saul for these dancing girls in my house!!!"

i really have a hard time imagining they're going to kill a character and then offer us his wacky hi-jinks before things got ugly

ha no that would be amazing come on

i mean, maybe he can narrate it from heaven.

"July 2004, a sweeter time...my first billboard was up and my pants were down"

Didn't Mike work for Saul at the beginning, as well as Gus? Hope it's set in pre-Heisenberg ABQ, with Saul and Mike in wacky hi-jinks situations with Gale and Wendy and Chow.

yes, more Wendy

"lemme tell ya, life may have been better before walter white showed up, but it certainly wasn't easier...remember Gale? The guy Jesse shot in the face and cried over for a season? Well he might have been a master of meth, but he was bupkus when it came...to blackjack."

*cut to roulette wheel*

narrated by Odenkirk as Robert Evsns

lol

that bit is favorite of mine

a favorite, I mean. Randomly saw an Evans-as-God thing flipping by Maher once

Hey baby I hear Huell a callin tossed salad and scrambled eggs

actually maybe they could have huell in there. he didn't work for saul yet but maybe they knew each other. maybe he was a client!

I wonder if it would be better off as an hour-long show with elements of BB than a 30-min comedy - a series-long story arc and some twists and turns. More laughs, but still really dark. Might make sense too if they approached it like Brit TV as built to last 1-2 seasons max and get out before it gets stale.

Feels like they're in trouble if it feels anything like a traditional sit-com - but maybe I'm wrong and need to make a clean break, and avoid comparisons to BB's structure as much as possible.

I am hoping for a theme song with slap bass like Seinfeld's

Might make sense too if they approached it like Brit TV as built to last 1-2 seasons max

american networks don't work this way

yeah american networks are about syndication syndication syndication

i know - wishful thinking

just seems that Breaking Bad's greatest strength is that it was always been building toward a defined end point - so follows to me that a minor, scaled back BB spinoff could share that and build momentum the same way, but not sure people are going to want to stick around for 5 or 6 seasons to get there.

If it's good enough they will.

fair enough - it totally could be

Obviously it has to be good in its own right and bring new ideas to the table, not just play on people's fondness for BB (cf Star Wars prequels).

a favorite, I mean. Randomly saw an Evans-as-God thing flipping by Maher once

― da croupier, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:25 (2 hours ago) Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWX5_XRpUn0

yeah i wonder if someone on staff remembered that mr show sketch and they asked him to reprise it or what

Can't immediately think of drama->sitcom, but sitcom->drama happened with "Lou Grant" iirc

^^ Trapper John MD (sorta)

'trapper john md' also. looking at wikipedia that's the only other one really unless you want to count the two attempts to reboot the brady bunch as family dramas. there are things that start on variety/sketch shows and then become sitcoms - simpsons, honeymooners, and things that start on sitcoms and then become variety/sketch shows (fernwood 2night, the bradys again). were ppl aware that project runway and top chef are spinoffs apparently of project greenlight? were ppl aware that jerry orbach starred in a spinoff from murder she wrote?

I'm on balls killfile list. Ask him for me what I did wrong.

lol

lol i didn't want to admit i spent twenty minutes on wikipedia reading about spinoffs

Will Saul have to set foot in a courtroom in the spin off? That doesn't seem to be his strength.

everyone complaining about aaron paul's acting on the phone call in this episode you realize that's supposed to be jesse pinkman himself acting in that scene

Maybe it will just be a straight courtroom drama parody

xp thank u

also better call saul will definitely be a night court situation

I guess I can see it working if there's a revolving assortment of funny/fucked-up clients and Saul is constantly putting out different fires. if they can maintain that balance of humor and "oh shit" moments that BB does best then it would be awesome, but I'm not really interested in learning more about Saul's backstory or personal life I don't think.

Saul interacting with women, on the rare occasions where he does so, is one of my favourite things about the character. Female clients would probably be funnier than romantic interests but the potential for giving him some kind of horrific ex-wife is there.

I think he's way more interested in $$s than women.

http://i.imgur.com/i55qMY5.png

hah

Love how Aaron looks totally traumatised.

wow