Breaking Bad/Awesome

Season 1
"This... is not meth."
 * In the first episode, Walter, upon seeing three men, stronger than him, teasing his son in a store, left the store, walked around it, reentered it, and kicked one of them in the back of the leg. He then proceeded to face the three down, and get them to back off.
 * Blows up an asshole lawyer's car with a squeegee across the battery.
 * Blows up Tuco's den with a few crystals of fulminated mercury, aka mercury (II) fulminate, aka the stuff that makes some types of gunpowder in a cartridge go "boom!"


 * The Pilot made me fall in love with Out of Time Man
 * Raymond Cruz gets a real life one for stubbing out a cigarette on his tongue. The commentary on the episode confirms that he did it for real, and it was entirely his idea which no one knew was coming.
 * And who could forget episode 3, where Walter has to decide
 * "Helicopter, bitch!"

Season 2

 * It's a pretty grim moment of awesome, but the season two finale, when the tragic ending that's been foreshadowed all season turns out to be a brilliant piece of misdirection by the writers. Also Skylar's exit speech. Wow.
 * Walt's badass stroll out into the parking lot in Over as TV on the Radio's "DLZ" plays in the background, culminating in the coldly delivered line, "Stay out of my territory".
 * "What's the matter Schrader? You act like you've never seen before!"
 * Jesse vs Tuco and later Hank vs Tuco.

Season 3

 * The Cousins walking away from an exploding truck without flinching. One of them even starts smoking a cigarette.
 * In the season 3 finale.
 * Hank's little "bet" with Marie late in Season 3. The faces as they walk out cements it as one of the funniest things in the known universe.
 * The pizza toss. Made more awesome by the fact that Bryan Cranston nailed it on the first take.
 * "Restrain this!"
 * Gus pushing exactly the right buttons to get Walt back to cooking, talking about how a man provides for his family no matter how little they appreciate it.
 * Hank vs. . Holy Shit.
 * Jesse buying his house back at less than half market value by blackmailing his parents about his own meth lab.
 * His The Reason You Suck Speech after Walt tries to hire him back as a partner, about how his life has been systematically destroyed ever since Walt came into it. A fantastic acting moment and something Walt really had coming.
 * Gus' Xanatos Gambit to Especially impressive in how fast he was able to put such a complex plan together, and have it work perfectly.
 * Skylar coming up with a complex cover story on the spot about how she and Walt are in a position to pay Hank's medical bills, even integrating Walt's "fugue state" ploy.
 * "Everyone knows it's Windy!"
 * OH MY GOD!
 * YEAH...
 * Fly. Bottle Episode or not, don't you dare say that the titular fly falling dead at Jesse's feet isn't awesome.

Season 4

 * Gus' first non-flashback appearance in the premiere. Every. Single. Second. Of it.
 * Jesse also has to be recognized here: As Walt is struggling not to vomit, Jesse, who's been catatonic for the whole episode after, looks at Gus with an unflinching "bring it on" gaze. Badass.
 * Mike calmly listening to Walt's case that they should team up to kill Gus, and then walloping him right in the middle of the bar without a word.
 * Skylar swindling away the car wash Walt used to work at to use to launder their drug money, for less money than she originally offered and telling the owner straight out it's because she doesn't like him.
 * Mike killing two Cartel gunmen who attack a shipment, followed by simply acting slightly annoyed when he realizes part of his ear was shot off.
 * The Cartel gets theirs back when they try again; this time the hitmen pump the truck's exhaust into the trailer and wait for the guards to die, munching on sandwiches.
 * Walt demands his old boss leave behind the first dollar the car wash earned ("As is"). He cracks open the frame, takes the dollar and uses it to buy a Coke.
 * Hank figuring out Gus' role in things by following a seemingly ridiculous hunch and tricking Gus into pretty much giving him his fingerprints.
 * "I AM THE ONE WHO KNOCKS!"
 * Gus' Unflinching Walk through a hail of bullets, and daring the Cartel sniper to kill him.
 * Preceded by Mike pushing Jesse away from a bullet at the last instant.
 * Gus He's pretty much becoming a bigger Magnificent Bastard with every new scene by now.
 * The scene also includes
 * Jesse talking down to a Cartel cook who could very well kill him at any moment, lambasting him for having a filthy lab and inadequate preparation for Walt's and his meth. While Gus and Mike allow themselves the slightest of grins.
 * Walt's Kansas City Shuffle over the season's final two episodes, It's not often that crossing the Moral Event Horizon intersects with a CMOA, but there it is.
 * Even more awesome with elaboration: . When Walt declare "I won", he frigging means it.
 * When Tio is about to it first looks like he's trying to smile and then he gives a look of pure rage to Gus seconds before.
 * Walt talking to another man about being diagnosed with cancer:
 * Walt: To hell with your cancer. I've been living with cancer for the better part of a year. Right from the start, it's a death sentence. That's what they keep telling me. Well, guess what? Every life comes with a death sentence, so every few months I come in here for my regular scan, knowing full well that one of these times - hell, maybe even today - I'm gonna hear some bad news. But until then, who's in charge? Me. That's how I live my life.
 * YMMV. Walt is trying to convince the guy as much as he tries to convince himself. At the point in his life he says that, NOTHING is in his control.
 * YMMV. Walt is trying to convince the guy as much as he tries to convince himself. At the point in his life he says that, NOTHING is in his control.