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'''''Breaking Bad''''' -- [[AMC]]'s first substantial success with original programming -- debuted in 2008 with a seven-episode season (shortened because of the writers' strike) and soon found itself renewed for a second, full season. The show's fifth and final season, consisting of sixteen episodes, will debut in 2012 -- and it will be split into two eight-episode halves.

* [[Confess to a Lesser Crime]]:

** In the first season, Skyler confronts Walt about his odd behavior and consorting with Jesse Pinkman. He tells her he's been buying pot from Pinkman. She immediately confronts Pinkman at his house.

'''Walt:''' "Because somehow it seemed preferable to admitting that I cook crystal meth and killed a man." }}

** Skyler explains away all of Walt's bizarre behavior and sudden, inexplicable funds with an elaborate lie about a card counting spree in underground casinos.

* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: [[Drugs Are Bad]], m'kay... but a guy in a gas mask pouring a beaker of pure [[Mad Science]] into a bubbling flask of [[Technicolor Science]] with thick white clouds of [[Deadly Gas]] pouring over the sides, all mixed into a [[Hard Work Montage]] set to funky music... that's pretty damn cool.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: When Hank asks Walt to {{spoiler|place a tracking bug on Gus's vehicle}}, he utters this remark:

* [[Dramatic Irony]]: The show is absolutely ''filled'' with dramatic irony. It's difficult to count the number of times a major drug dealer or manufacturer has a casual, friendly chat with a DEA agent or someone they intend to kill.

* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] {{spoiler|Ted}} receives an exceptionally anticlimactic and hilarious death when two of Saul's [[Mook|Mooks]] confront him in his home and he runs away only to {{spoiler|trip on a rug, bang his head on a table and die}} much to the Mooks' dismay.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Subverted. Gus acts insulted when Walt accuses him of murdering a child, then later reveals that he's quite willing to such a thing, and more, if it suits his purposes.

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: In-Universe.

'''Jesse:''' [[Deadpan Snarker|Guys drive on ice.]] }}

* [[Face Framed in Shadow]]: ''Very'' often; numerous important conversations have the lighting do this for both characters, switching back and forth between shots of their faces.

** People that only know of Saul Goodman's public persona as a sleazy ambulance chaser tend to rather underestimate his competence in serious matters. Badger getting arrested and Jesse buying his house back are just two examples.

* [[Oblivious to His Own Description]]: In "Cat's In The Bag..." [[Hot Mom]] Skyler inadvertently enters a "certain" website.

* [[Obstructive Vigilantism]]: Hector Salamanca goes in to testify against Jesse, but he doesn't actually tell the cops anything.

* [[Oh Crap]]:

* [[True Companions]]:

** Walt and Jesse.

** {{spoiler|Jesse and Mike}} seem to have potential for this, {{spoiler|assuming Mike survives his gunshot wound.}}

** Tuco, Tio and The Cousins make up an evil version.

** With the {{spoiler|deaths of Gus, Tyrus, and Hector}} and [[The Reveal]] that {{spoiler|not Gus but Walter poisoned Brock thus finally making the jump to [[Villain Protagonist]]}} the season 4 finale "Face Off" is the latest and perhaps whammiest of all.

* [[Wham! Line]]:

'''Walt''': {{spoiler|{While high} Which one?}} }}

 

 

** It's not spoken aloud, but:

* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]?: The fly falling to the ground dead at Jesse's feet in [[Slow Motion Fall|slo-mo]].

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Walt's entire life has become this trope.

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: {{spoiler|Seconds before his death, Gus's face resembles the picture on the [[Two-Faced]] page}}.

* [[Who Watches the Watchmen?]]:

* [[Women's Mysteries]]: When Skyler is detained by a jeweler on suspicion of shoplifting, she fakes going into labor to scare them into letting her go. Or possibly just to get her to stop Lamaze-ing at them.

* [[Worst Aid]]: Walt just let {{spoiler|Jane choke on her own vomit}}, even when he had a chance to prevent it from happening. Especially subtle since he dealt with the same problem just prior with his own daughter and prevented it.

** {{spoiler|For Gus}} this happens only halfway.

* [[Your Mom]]: In "Better Call Saul":

'''Saul:''' Is that like the one your mom works at? Is she still offering the two for one discount? }}