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** Season 5, on the other hand, has something of a [[Big Bad]] pileup. There's Hank by way of being the [[Hero Antagonist]] who manages to pick up Heisenberg's scent, then there's the duo of {{spoiler|Jack Welker and his nephew Todd}}, both of which being very personal villains to Walt and Jesse for different reasons. And finally, Walt himself is responsible for a good deal of the season's conflict due to being too arrogant and greedy to know when to walk away from the meth business.
* [[Big No]]: Jesse delivers an impressive one the second he realizes that {{spoiler|Todd is going to shoot a kid.}}
* [[Big Ol' Eyebrows]]: Bogdan, as pointed out by Walt in the pilot. "Fuck you! ''And'' your eyebrows!"
* [[Black and Grey Morality]]: "Heisenberg" vs the Cartel. The Cartel is pure evil, there's no question about it, but Walt's far from a saint himself.
* [[Black Comedy]]: Comedy so black, ''no light can escape it.''
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** {{spoiler|Several dissolved corpses over the course of the show}}.
** {{spoiler|Gus Fring's death.}}
* [[Hate Sink]]: While most of the show's big villains are cool or have something resembling a redeeming quality, that isn't the case for these guys.
** Tuco is the first big example, being a terrifying nutcase who brutalizes people at the drop of a hat and spends most of his screentime terrorizing Jesse and generally acting like a standoffish dick ''at best''. {{spoiler|Try not to cheer when Jesse finally fights back and shoots him in the gut. Or when Hank pumps him full of lead.}}
** "Spooge" and "Skank" are psychotic meth heads who horribly neglect their very young son, and care far more about bickering with each other, getting high, and ripping off ATM's than they do about making sure his needs are met. When Jesse is forced to break into their house and make them give up the meth they stole, they spend every second acting as obnoxious and crude as humanly possible, culminating in {{spoiler|Skank crushing Spooge's head with an ATM after he called her "skank" one too many times}}.
** Gus and Mike's henchmen Victor and Tyrus lack their bosses' many cool or likeable traits, and are cold, creepy dickheads who love belittling and antagonizing Walt and Jesse.
** While he's a white-collar criminal who never physically hurts people, Ted Beneke makes up for it by being spineless, cowardly, and moronic to ludicrous extremes. Whether it's hiding from Walt when he has an affair with Skyler, nearly destroying their lives as a consequence of being audited, or [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|being responsible for Skyler's cringeworthy "Happy Birthday" scene]], you will absolutely want to reach through the screen and ''strangle'' this idiot for making everyone's lives worse with his bullheaded stupidity.
* [[Heroic Blue Screen of Death]]:
** {{spoiler|Jesse when he finds Jane dead. He has to be slapped out of it by Mike who wants him to tell police that he "woke up, he found her, that's all he knows."}}
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** But then played straight in Season 4.
* [[In-Joke]]: In the pilot, Hank's irresponsible and unsafe demonstration of the .40 caliber Glock 22, followed by his interview on Channel 3, is a reference to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeGD7r6s-zU this video.]
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Hank
* [[In Vino Veritas]]:
** Walt lets it slip that {{spoiler|he has a second cell phone}} whilst under the influence of anesthetics prior to his cancer surgery, thus beginning the unraveling of his [[Fawlty Towers Plot|web of lies]].
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* [[Oblivious to His Own Description]]: In "Cat's In The Bag..." [[Hot Mom]] Skyler inadvertently enters a "certain" website.
{{quote|''MILFs? What the hell is a MILF?''}}
* [[Obstructive Vigilantism]]: Hector Salamanca goes in to testify against Jesse, but he doesn't actually tell the cops anything. [[Troll|He takes a nasty shit in the interrogation room and immediately leaves.]]
* [[Oh Crap]]:
** Walt and Jesse when they discover that {{spoiler|Krazy-8 wasn't killed by the fluorine gas.}}
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Walt and his relationship with Jesse. Jesse has a few moments too.
* [[Playing Sick]]: Walt's fugue state.
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: When Gonzo gets himself killed (funny story), the DEA raid Tuco's headquarters. Walt and Jesse incorrectly believe that Tuco is killing any witness to No Doze's murder and Tuco believed Gonzo disappeared and sold him out. As a result, Walt and Jesse make a plan to kill Tuco, Tuco kidnaps Walt and Jesse and wants them to go to Mexico with him to cook
* [[Precision F-Strike]]: Occasionally used despite being blanked out for broadcast on basic cable.
** {{spoiler|"I fucked Ted."}}
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** Also, way back in the pilot, Walt delivers one to Bogdan when he quits the car wash "Fuck you ''and'' your eyebrows!"
** In "Peekaboo", Walt says "fuck you" to Gretchen.
** Mike delivers two impressive ones in Season 5. In "Buyoff", he tricks the DEA agents tailing him into thinking he left a dead drop, only for them to be left with a note saying "FUCK YOU". Then there's the end of "Say My Name"...
{{quote|{{spoiler|"Shut the fuck up and let me die in peace".}}}}
* [[Pretty Little Headshots]]: Averted; use a hollow point and it gets messy.
* [["Previously On..."]]: Used to recap events seen in previous episodes, as well as give us brief events that are never seen in the show.
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** In the first episode, Jesse uses the expression "break bad," and it also appears in one of the webisodes.
** Plenty of the episodes have title drops. See, for example, Season 4, Episode 10 - "Salud".
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Ted
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]
* [[Trailers Always Lie]]: The season 4 trailer ends with the narrator claiming that "Walter White is not in danger. He is the danger", echoing his speech in "Cornered". It's obvious since the season premiere that in this season Walt is totally, totally in danger.
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