Gene the pretzel guy
Cinnabon! Cinnabon!
― clemenza, Monday, 22 November 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
Ooof, you got me there
― frogbs, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 00:38 (two years ago) link
I only mention it because of this Breaking Bad scene--perfect set-up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM_5_vQ7nek
― clemenza, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 00:41 (two years ago) link
Walter requested to vacuum man to have exactly that done with him then, right? or else the showrunners are just being way too cute.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 00:45 (two years ago) link
vacuum me. I'm ready.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 00:51 (two years ago) link
Taxi driver from Albuquerque delivers Cinnabon Gene to Kim---
― dow, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 03:32 (two years ago) link
I thought this might be tied into new season starting but sadly no. I guess we've had a pandemic and a heart attack since the last one so not yet still. Shame coulda done with some more around now.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 07:40 (two years ago) link
#BetterCallSaul returns for its final season. Mark your calendar. pic.twitter.com/xX7Rsb3qmK— Better Call Saul (@BetterCallSaul) February 7, 2022
Mark your calendars... but not date given. Speculation is that the 'D' and 'R' evidence tags means April 18th (4/18).
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 February 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
:D
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 February 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
Momentary timeline confusion when I saw the two brothers.
― clemenza, Monday, 7 February 2022 21:54 (two years ago) link
Hell yeah. Hope you're right Jon, it's been a long wait
― hrep (H.P), Monday, 7 February 2022 22:43 (two years ago) link
It has been, long enough that it just hit me that we currently don't have a way to stream AMC shows. Since Season 5 ended, we got rid of Sling. Guess we're gonna have to pony up for AMC+ before April.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 February 2022 22:58 (two years ago) link
Can’t wait to find out what happens to Mark Prokschs character
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:37 (two years ago) link
I am excited but they're doing that thing again where they split the final season into two parts. So we're probably getting like 6 or 7 episodes upfront, then another wait...
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 01:26 (two years ago) link
Damn I forgot what Mark Proksch was up to in this show. Last I remember he was complaining about his missing baseball cards? (classic!)
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 03:18 (two years ago) link
omg i forgot he was THAT guyhe’s so great
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 03:21 (two years ago) link
I love how on both this show and What We Do in the Shadows they were like "we love this guy but he doesn't fit into the show at all, we're gonna make some weird little character for him"
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 03:29 (two years ago) link
Thanks for letting me know he is in What We Do In The Shadows. Saying goodbye to the next week of weeknights.
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 03:31 (two years ago) link
Didn't watch the U.S. office post Steve Carrel, but did enjoy some good YouTube comps of all Mark's scenes. He is so good in everything he touches
― hrep (H.P), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 03:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/better-call-saul-premiere-date-final-season-1297994/
― that's not my post, Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link
My hope: Pt. 1 wraps up the pre-BB years and Pt. 2 deals with Gene in Omaha.
― Everybody Loves Ramen (WmC), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:10 (two years ago) link
that makes a lot of sense from a structure standpoint. we haven't seen any of the other characters in omaha ... would be sad if all they all go away in the arizona component
― that's not my post, Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:19 (two years ago) link
could also be some stuff concurrent with BB, particularly what happened with Kim while all that was taking place
as much as I like the idea of doing a half-season in Omaha (and iirc they've revealed that he got recognized in the last season so there's obviously something there) you're kind of abandoning nearly your entire cast in doing that
I thought in BB Gus mentions something about wiping out the last of the Salamancas which imples that Lalo dies at some point. Or maybe he survives and Gus just thinks he's dead. idk. I was not expecting them to end the last season the way they did
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:30 (two years ago) link
Yeah lalo is dead by bb season 4 guaranteed iirc the thing with the taxi driver recognising gene was he was about to go to Robert Forster again but at the last second got a steely look & was like “forget it, I’ll deal with it myself”
― chang.eng partition (wins), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:38 (two years ago) link
ok yeah I'm trying to remember this I thought they implied the driver was from Albuquerque and recognized him because he was on TV all the time. I guess it's not really clear if people from there might've known that he was connected to the thing that was going on with Walter White at the end of BB
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:43 (two years ago) link
Yeah he had some kind of New Mexico themed air freshener or something in the car, which was the cliffhanger reveal like 2 seasons ago I think lol
― chang.eng partition (wins), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:47 (two years ago) link
Right I guess the question is if it’s someone specifically looking for him who hung that up to let him know the jig is up or if it’s just some coincidence, but that Saul is a known fugitive
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
If you recall in the last season the guy was like “hey you’re that guy!” & then showed up at the mall next day - I think (although it’s fuzzy) it was heavily implied he was putting on some kind of squeeze but kept just this side of ambiguous
― chang.eng partition (wins), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:53 (two years ago) link
Man I need to rewatch this seriesI would love a lot of gene stuff. The most interesting things in the other stories imo are Kim breaking bad, nacho & lalo but I love the milieu so much, give me more howard, give me fring and hector, give me all the Mike
― chang.eng partition (wins), Thursday, 10 February 2022 17:58 (two years ago) link
lol I forgot it was in New Mexico not Arizona. Too long between seasons.
― that's not my post, Thursday, 10 February 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
I don't know what I'm hoping for specifically, but, as I've mentioned in other contexts, I like the a-ha moment that many people don't. There's no mystery proper here (like in Zodiac, for instance), so I don't know if that's possible, but some moment where the Saul you meet in Breaking Bad makes perfect sense--which means, among other things, the Saul that never so much as alludes to Kim.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 February 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
This was a good a-ha moment--this is what I mean.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HgdHzoWqgc
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 February 2022 22:48 (two years ago) link
new trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meb8ksPgJ5M
lol @ Mike "it's not gonna go how you think it will go", wink wink wink **WINK**
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 March 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
Just saw Odenkirk on his book tour. Seems like a nice dude, but he was definitely filibustering over the interviewer with pre-canned stories, etc.
― DJI, Thursday, 10 March 2022 21:08 (two years ago) link
Oh man, that trailer has me hyped up. So many gorgeous shots.
― DJI, Thursday, 10 March 2022 21:10 (two years ago) link
The uploader has not made this video available in your country
>:(
― kinder, Thursday, 10 March 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
looks great. can't wait for more Kim. if kim doesn't die I want a kim spin off.
― akm, Thursday, 10 March 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
I thought that might have been Walter White walking away from the camera at the 40-second mark, but that probably makes no sense at all.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 March 2022 22:12 (two years ago) link
wonder who's the dude at the end
hope Walter White shows up for some little bit, maybe that's too fanservicey but I'm not against them showing parts of the story that weren't in BB
― frogbs, Thursday, 10 March 2022 22:13 (two years ago) link
I hope the whole thing turns out to be a dream of Stevie Grant's from Larry Sanders, then they can work in Hank Kingsley.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 March 2022 22:18 (two years ago) link
Hype
― that's not my post, Thursday, 10 March 2022 23:31 (two years ago) link
someone pointed out that the dude from Breaking Bad who got his head crushed by the ATM appears in the trailer. I forgot, what was that guy's deal
― frogbs, Friday, 11 March 2022 03:33 (two years ago) link
That was the deranged couple who stole the meth from Skinny Pete...They had a 4- or 5-year-old kid living in total neglect; sad episode.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 March 2022 03:46 (two years ago) link
he wasn't connected to Saul then was he?
― frogbs, Friday, 11 March 2022 03:59 (two years ago) link
Not at all...though I think maybe Saul makes reference to what happened with the ATM.
― clemenza, Friday, 11 March 2022 04:05 (two years ago) link
Great oral history of the series herehttps://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/4/12/23021122/better-call-saul-goodman-oral-history-breaking-bad-bob-odenkirk(there’s also a podcast version of it on Prestige TV https://www.theringer.com/2022/4/14/23024596/oral-history-of-better-call-saul )
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 April 2022 17:00 (two years ago) link
(the Ringer don’t do podcasts anymore, they’re spotify-exclusive)
― beepy fridges (sic), Friday, 15 April 2022 17:31 (two years ago) link
it’s still a podcast if it’s on spotify but whatever
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 April 2022 17:59 (two years ago) link
how can I cast it to my pod?(my annotation was merely meant to be helpful to anyone who did not know this fact, to save them potential frustration on clicking.)
― beepy fridges (sic), Saturday, 16 April 2022 01:29 (two years ago) link
Didn't realize till today this was tomorrow night. I'm rewatching the last episode in advance.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 April 2022 01:22 (two years ago) link