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* [[Call Forward]]
** Jane in "Abiquiú". {{spoiler|"I think I just threw up in my mouth a little"}}
* [[Can't Kill You - Still Need You]]: The main plot of season 4. {{spoiler|Gus can't}} kill Walt and Jesse because he has no one else to cook meth for him. Enforced by Jesse in Season 3 when he {{spoiler|kills Gale so that Gus can't kill Walt}}.
* [[Car Fu]]:
** {{spoiler|Delivered by Walt to two child-murdering dealers}}
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* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: {{spoiler|Everything involving the midair collision in the season 2 finale.}}
* [[Cradle of Loneliness]]: After {{spoiler|Jane's death}} Jesse can be seen cradling his cell phone, then calling her number just to hear her speaking on her voice mail, until her line is finally disconnected.
* [[Crime
* [[Cross Referenced Titles]]: "The Cat's in the Bag..."/"...And the Bag's in the River", "No Mas"/"Mas", "Half-Measures"/"Full Measure". There's also the {{spoiler|"737"/"Down"/"Over"/"ABQ"}} foreshadowing.
** Extra props to the "737" title because within a few minutes of the episode, Walt has calculated that he'll need roughly $737,000 to support his family for up to ten years after he's gone.
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* [[Directed By Cast Member]]: As if being the best actor on TV wasn't enough, Cranston also directed the Season 2 and 3 premieres.
* [[Disposing of a Body]]: Walter and Jesse dispose of bodies with acid, to the point that Mike decides that it's their specialty.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: When Walt refuses some charity from an old friend out of pride and a lingering grudge, the friend can only react with shock and pity. This enfuriates Walt into delivering a [[Precision F-Strike]].
* [[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:
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* [[Filler]]: Walt and Jesse spend an entire episode trying to kill a fly. There's a lot of characterization going on, but this is probably the closest this series is ever going to get to a pure filler episode (and textbook [[Bottle Episode]]).
* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]: Walt and Jesse.
* [[Foot
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
** Several [[Cold Open|Cold Opens]] in season 2 reveal progressively more of a mysterious crime scene, the circumstances of which are not revealed until the finale. Moreover, the titles of the episodes spell out the impending disaster: {{spoiler|"737"/"Down"/"Over"/"ABQ"}}
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** After Marie's bet with Hank over whether he can still get erect after being hospitalized.
** Also in the season 4 finale, when Marie forbids Hank to leave the house and go to the DEA {{spoiler|after they receive a tip about an assassination planned on him.}}. Cue Hank in the DEA. Also doubles as an ironic echo for the previous situation.
* [["Glad to Be Alive" Sex]]:
** In the first episode, Walt with Skyler after just escaping two drug dealers who were about to kill him and a fire that one of them set accidentally. A few more times in later episodes as well.
** Subverted in the season 2 premiere, Walt returns home from a traumatic ordeal and needs some sexual healing from his wife. His abrupt and unwelcome advances escalate into a [[Near
* [[Gorn]]: Not every episode, but at least once or twice a season something mind-blowingly gruesome happens.
** {{spoiler|Several dissolved corpses over the course of the show}}.
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** After taking prescription pain medication, Walt calls his son by Jesse's name.
* [[It Got Worse]]: This is pretty much the show's M.O.
* [[
* [[It Will Never Catch On]]: When Gus and his brotherly friend pitch the idea of mass producing meth to a cartel don in Mexico in a flashback to the 1980s, the don and his associates laugh it off.
* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]:
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* [[Justified Criminal]]: The main crux of the series, though pride is a big factor too, showing justification really only exists in Walter's mind. The show is arguably a [[Deconstruction]] of this concept.
* [[Kick the Son of A Bitch]]: Normally the [[Big Bad]] poisoning an about a dozen unarmed people in one sitting would be harrowing, but when it's {{spoiler|the governing body of the Mexican cartel}} its hard not to give him a pass.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Any characters that die on the show stay dead though some return in flashbacks. As of season 4 that list includes: {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lamb|Krazy 8]], [[Big Damn Heroes|Tuco]], [[Death By Cameo|Tortuga]], [[Dropped a Bridge On Him|Combo]], [[Worst Aid|Jane]], [[Boom! Headshot!|The]] [[Sickbed Slaying|Cousins]], [[Kick the Dog|Gale]], [[Blofeld Ploy|Victor]], [[Anticlimax Boss|the]] [[Perfect Poison|Cartel]] [[Kill'Em All|bosses]], [[Too Dumb to Live|Ted]], [[Dying Moment of Awesome|Hector]] [[Suicide Attack|Salamanca]], [[C List Fodder|Tyrus]] and [[Out
* [[Kitschy Local Commercial]]: Saul Goodman's ads. "Better Call Saul!"
* [[The Last of These Is Not Like the Others]]: In "Fly," Walt tellingly adds the birth of his daughter as an after-thought, seeming to place more importance on the first million he made as a reason to have not dropped dead.
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* [[My Rule Fu Is Stronger Than Yours]]: Hank gets into a legal debate with the junkyard owner while Hank is trying to break into the RV, which contains Walt, Jesse and their meth lab.
* [[Naked Apron]]: Walt wears a lab apron over his tighty whities in the pilot. He still gets confused for being a nudist, though.
* [[No
** Tuco is very fond of this.
** In season 3, Hank does this to Jesse.
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** In "Peekaboo", Walt says "fuck you" to Gretchen.
* [[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.
* [[Protagonist Journey to Villain]]
* [[Punch Clock Villain]]:
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* [[Series Fauxnale]]: The fourth season's ending.
* [[Serious Business]]: You can't have a fly in your meth lab, it taints the product.
* [[Shouldn't You Stop Stealing?]]: Thoroughly explored with Walt. Once he achieves his original goal, he attempts to make good on his initial promise to get out of the business. Of course, his cancer temporarily going into remission means he's not going to die when he expected to (a rare case where somebody gets ''upset'' that they're not dying of cancer) and Skyler doesn't just accept the "I did it for my family" motive at face value. He goes back to cooking at one point because being the world's best meth cook is the only thing he still has pride in.
* [[Shout
** Juan Bolsa: Juan is Spanish for John. Bolsa means "bag" in Spanish. [[The Sopranos|Johnny Sack]].
** The name of the last episode of season one is "A No-Rough-Stuff-Type Deal", after a line from ''[[Fargo]]''.
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** {{spoiler|Posthumously, Gale. Hank seems to believe Gale was Heisenberg.}}
* [[Taking You With Me]]: {{spoiler|Hector's final confrontation with Gus. }}
* [[Teeth
* [[Tempting Fate]]:
** When she says, "Call me a [[Berserk Button|skank]] one more time," it is ''not'' an invitation.
** Jesse building a contraption to reach the ceiling in the lab and standing on top of it trying to swat a fly.
* [[Tension
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Walt is forced to see one after his fugue state incident, but it wasn't a psychological problem to begin with. On the other hand, Hank clearly suffers physchological trauma from his many violence job incidents, yet is never seen getting therapy. He'd probably pretend to be fine anyway.
* [[Title Drop]]:
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* [[Watering Down]]: Jesse initially spiked his meth with chili powder before Walt put a stop to that.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?]]: The juxtaposition with meth and other class A drugs only makes Skyler's horror at Walt smoking pot look even more naive. On the other hand, that could be the point - emphasizing the rift between her own and her husband's worlds.
* [[Wham! Episode]]: "Crazy Handful of Nothing", "Phoenix"
** The endings to "One Minute", "Half-Measures" and "Full-Measure" respectively.
** "Salud"-after four seasons of build up and some flashbacks we finally get to see some of the main characters in Mexico interacting with the cartel {{spoiler|right before Gus [[Kill'Em All|wipes out the Don and all his captains in one fell swoop]] [[Anticlimax Boss|with some poison.]]}}
** Followed immediately by another, ''even more terrifying'' [[Wham! Episode]], "Crawl Space".
** 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]]:
{{quote| '''Skyler''': Walt, where's your cell phone, did you bring your cell phone?<br />
'''Walt''': {{spoiler|{While high} Which one?}} }}
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* [[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?|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
* [[Who Watches the Watchmen?]]:
{{quote| '''Skyler''': Someone has to protect this family from the man who protects this family.}}
* [[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.
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