Bob Odenkirk not being available for this episode has gotta be the BEST ACCIDENT in the history of television

@staringintotheabyss1769

Жыл бұрын

Please share context

@cyplex206

Жыл бұрын

@@staringintotheabyss1769 originally Saul was the one who was supposed to clean up the scene after Jane's death but Sauls actor couldn’t make it the day it was filmed due to a scheduling problem and so they created Mike instead

@They_Call_Me_HeartFace

Жыл бұрын

@@cyplex206 dang, i feel bad for being thankful that accident happened because, since i don't know what happened, it could be actually a bad accident for Bob.

@Pwilliams4000

Жыл бұрын

@@cyplex206 it would be so weird having Saul do a clean up over a dead body

@vitalityfox

Жыл бұрын

@@cyplex206 where did you get this information from?

“Saul Goodman sent me. You don’t have enough stickers”

@hotmanngrayman9059

Жыл бұрын

"You're light on dicks"

@egggamer1800

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@teck2002

Жыл бұрын

BuT ThEy tOoK my BaSeBaLL cArDs

@qinshihuang8414

Жыл бұрын

"Jesse you're light on stickers either you pay the 5 $ or you get an additional sticker the choice is yours"

@TheKpa11

Жыл бұрын

?????

Rewatching this, it’s a really nice detail that Mike is sent for the cleanup knowing that he is a former cop. He knows firsthand where the average officer would snoop around, and he knows how to outsmart them.

@red2977

10 ай бұрын

He was soo careful to wear the gloves and then he takes them off right before he goes to open the door to leave the apartment leaving his fingerprints behind at the scene. I guess he isn't wearing gloves to prevent leaving behind fingerprints but instead that he is wiping down surfaces that had drugs on them and he didn't want the stuff on his skin.

@goldcanyon340.

7 ай бұрын

Truer words were never spoken.

@susieq360

7 ай бұрын

Well...yeah. Ironic that Mike mentions stating the obvious. 😅

@RTU130

6 ай бұрын

Right

@toprak3479

5 ай бұрын

@@red2977 There's absolutely nothing to connect Mike to Jane's death. Doorknobs have a bajillion of prints on them by nature. The police don't go identifying every single print, especially not if there's little to suspect faul play like in this case.

Besides introducing us to Mike, it's hard to picture Saul getting hands-on in cleaning up a crime scene. I'm glad Bob Odenkirk was unavailable to film this scene!

@Breedo

Жыл бұрын

yeah also saul is too funny for the serious feel of this scene.

@Pwilliams4000

Жыл бұрын

@@Breedo It would be so weird seeing him acting all serious in this scene and going back to how he is in the next episode

@BlackCheckrdVans

Жыл бұрын

Saul would have probably put his own spin on it. Maybe make some jokes while cleaning up

@michaelgualtieri651

11 ай бұрын

​@@BlackCheckrdVansEh maybe. Wouldn't really feel like Saul though. He can be arrogant at times, but he's not heartless.

@fubukichiba

10 ай бұрын

I can picture it with the forgery and illegal activity Jimmy does in BCS.

"Saul Goodman sent me. In a few months I'm going to be a fatherly figure for you, believe it or not"

@josiahgonzalez942

Жыл бұрын

Isn't it a year or so when they get more Friendly? I could be wrong

@paullol7852

2 ай бұрын

@@josiahgonzalez942 This scene is in March 2009. When Mike takes Jesse for the dropoffs, it is June 2009. So only 3 months

@alexmartin3143

Ай бұрын

Dude it’s raining father figures on Jesse

@michaelgualtieri651

29 күн бұрын

​@@paullol7852 It's still pretty insane how the majority of the series takes place within a span of a year.

@paullol7852

28 күн бұрын

@@michaelgualtieri651 Yeah fr, and this episode alone is about 6 weeks long.

It’s genuinely kind of crazy to realise that Mike, one of the most important and beloved characters in this whole series, wouldn’t have existed if Bob had just turned up to set that day and they didn’t need to bring Jonathan in to fill that role.

@algordo1997

Жыл бұрын

This is the way

@lavatacoburrito9410

Жыл бұрын

Bob was also brought in to replace Hank as the comic relief after Hank's experience with Tortuga and the tortoise made his character understandably more traumatized.

@nguyenngo7661

Жыл бұрын

It’s a great idea because I don’t see Saul doing this dirty work himself and it opens up the opportunity for him to be a softer character in BSC

@joevictor53

Жыл бұрын

You make it sound like Bob just chose not to turn up for work one day

@rhysioeren3203

Жыл бұрын

In either case, can you imagine saul dealing with this? Dragging Jane's body with huell 😂.

Amazing introduction to an amazing character. Crazy to think Mike was created as a substitute for Saul.

@SaturnineXTS

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, especially considering that Saul is good for a lot of things but he's definitely no cleaner

@grateful86

Жыл бұрын

THANK GOD!!

@UnclePhil1112

Жыл бұрын

nearly the entire show was written on a whim and it worked well

@extremeking425

Жыл бұрын

And someone had the nerve to call Mike boring 🙄

@Pwilliams4000

Жыл бұрын

It’s funny because If you watch bcs you’d know Saul’s not good at this kinda thing

Jesse: breaking down over the sudden death of the person he loved most Mike: *SLAP*

@HatredInTheFlesh

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but to be fair his life would have only gotten worse if he didn’t nail the recited lines and got sent to prison

@norcalroamer5774

Жыл бұрын

@@HatredInTheFlesh (SPOILER WARNING) Well it would beat being enslaved by Nazis for six months.

@filipposerra4208

Жыл бұрын

Improvised too ♥️

@averageobserver1001

11 ай бұрын

Mike is evil, none can say otherwise.

@andrewh5136

10 ай бұрын

Mike was basically trying to get a point across to him, to pull it together. He was actually more being kind to Jesse by smacking some sense into him.

"Hang tough. You're in the home stretch." The last line in the scene hints at kindness and affection that would eventually develop a bond between Mike and J.

@notmyname9261

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps a line they had originally intended for Saul.

@Sciolist

6 ай бұрын

Mike was literally wanted to kill Jesse in next season, so I'm not sure about the kindness part.

@taterds7858

6 ай бұрын

​@@SciolistWell in BCS he killed Werner even thought he never wanted to, but orders are orders, you gotta keep your feelings to yourself if you're working for cartel leaders

@MilkyNep

5 ай бұрын

@@Sciolist Mike does his job no matter what, but he isn't a heartless man. He did empathize with Jesse, but a job's a job. When the order to kill Jesse is called off and they start working together, you do see that Mike is kinda fond of him, especially in Season 5.

@mr.rufasi2729

5 ай бұрын

Idk that’s a pretty terrible thing to say to someone who lost a loved one

Mike is one of the coolest characters ever written into a TV series.

@Matthew-oq1hx

Жыл бұрын

How he’s jus a boring old man

@orangeman3505

Жыл бұрын

​@@Matthew-oq1hxYOU're a boring old man

@ericdravenashecorven

Жыл бұрын

Mike and Darryl Dixon have got to be two of the best examples of this happening.

@monstar3626

Жыл бұрын

​@@Matthew-oq1hxhave you watched all of BB ?

@ameybagal4441

Жыл бұрын

Most badass as well 😈

It’s cool how BCS lets us know that Mike actually knew who Jesse was and pretty much everything about him before this scene even takes place

@pablohorgiy2377

4 ай бұрын

What, how, when?

@danielmorrison4060

4 ай бұрын

@@pablohorgiy2377after Saul gets kidnapped by Jesse and Walt, he hires Mike to investigate who both Igor and Heisenberg really are.

@asharora8785

2 ай бұрын

@@danielmorrison4060Vince added so many layers to the story in BCS, it’s unbelievable.

@Zephirite.

2 ай бұрын

@@asharora8785Peter Gould, technically. Vince himself admits he was barely involved after the first few seasons.

@talk-supersix-seven6021

20 сағат бұрын

It becomes a bit ridiculous at times, look I can suspend disbelief but adding so much stuff and then when you get to breaking bad the reactions and conversations are so incongruent it can be silly at times.

2:24 "Think hard, your freedom depends on it." I don't know why, but when I rewatched the series that line made me chuckle. It's just such a Mike thing to say. I know Saul was originally supposed to be in this scene and he could've said any of this dialogue just the same, but Jonathan Banks really made this small role his own. I'm so glad Vince made Mike a main character after this.

@dinohunter3467

11 ай бұрын

You are the dimmary guy

@lobardodelainternet4253

9 ай бұрын

Personally, I don't think these dialogues would fit as well with Saul, because he's a bit too silly for a scene where we got a traumatized and depressed Jesse. Mike's way of handling things feels more serious, so it doesn't come as a detriment to Jesse's feels.

@henrypeters5291

8 ай бұрын

@@lobardodelainternet4253 Yeah, a lot of time they write or change dialogue to fit the character. That said, Vince has said that when Saul would have gone down a much darker path had Bob Odenkirk been available for this scene.

@EncryptedLiberty

Ай бұрын

I think orignally this scene was more in keeping with the earlier episodes' tone. The juxtaposition of silliness with the darkness of the criminal underworld. One could imagine a frantic, energetic, slightly exasperated Saul running around hastily grabbing stuff and shoving it in a bag. Finally turning to Jesse to do the part he's good at--telling him what to say and what not to say. Becoming flustered that Jesse is basically shut down, giving him a goofy and well-meaning, but generally inappropriate speech to console him/pep him up. Then giving up when Jesse only returns a baffled expression, making Jesse say the line he's supposed to say, and leaving just as quick as he came. Banks, of course, has a wildly different tone that is more respectful of the gravity of the moment for Jesse. It gives the whole show a different tone, and may have been a major turning point for the show to veer even deeper into drama and away from dark comedy.

I know this scene was the introduction of Mike, but Arron Paul's acting, as always, is so spot on, and it makes the scene what it is

@The-Deadite

Жыл бұрын

Is crazy he never got any formal training. He's a natural.

@danielevans9379

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. His “instincts” as an actor are absolutely impeccable. Never too much, never too little. The producers caught lightning in a bottle when they cast him.

@Widembois

Жыл бұрын

@@danielevans9379 yeah, but it’s such a shame he gave such hamfisted performances in every post-breaking bad appearance of Jesse we got

@danielevans9379

Жыл бұрын

@@Widembois he definitely was on point during those original 5 seasons. I don’t think I’ve seen him in anything else. 🤔

@MerrStudio

Жыл бұрын

@@Widembois absolutely, I have the same exact issue with his performance. I get a feeling that Aaron kind of evolved with Jesse and that's why his acting is so good in Breaking Bad, because he kind of got lucky with this. He cannot replicate early Jesse, he's like a weird version of Season 5 Jesse at best all time.

And to think Mike was a last minute replacement for Saul

@GreasySenpai

Жыл бұрын

Vravo Bince

@wolverinefangowings

Жыл бұрын

​@@GreasySenpailmao

@budtrom

Жыл бұрын

Best character in any of the shows/movie

@MrRyan-wu4jx

Жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as a last minute replacement in a tv series like this. That claim is severely overstated. They didn’t just wake Jonathan Banks up one morning and make him to do Saul Goodman lines. There’s auditions, screenwrites, re writes. Maybe Bob Odenkirk was not gonna be available for a bit but the process of creating this is not as spontaneous as they like you to believe.

@guillermosierracuellar9812

Жыл бұрын

@@MrRyan-wu4jx i was referring to that since Bob, was busy they has to create a new one

2:47 That quick glance at the camera 🤣🤣

@GrebboGaming

Жыл бұрын

That glance is everything lol it's such a good fourth wall break but it also really fits Mike's character. He may be a hardened criminal, but he's a nice guy deep down. He probably doesn't want to hurt Jesse at all, I'm sure he can tell that he's already hurting bad enough given the situation, but he needs Jesse to get the story straight so he doesn't get in further trouble. He gives us that frustrated "I don't wanna do this but I have to" type look

@marcjohn9404

Жыл бұрын

That's an old Hollywood thing, to look at the camera and do a soft 4th wall break. Oliver Hardy from Laurel & Hardy used to do it when Laurel was doing something really stupid, and Skipper from Gilligan's Island would do it when Gilligan acted stupid.

@Nemenis

Жыл бұрын

2:48 He looked at the camera and thought “look at this goober eh?” *SLAP*

@CrossoverFan4life

Жыл бұрын

Only time it happens

@H.K.5

9 ай бұрын

Wasn’t a fourth wall break. In Mike’s POV, he was looking at the wall.

At this point in the show, Mike was like a mysterious boogeyman, so much suspense about who he is and what he does. Fantastic!

MIKE : "You woke up you found her that's all you know" say it Jesse : "You woke up you found her that's all you know" 👋

@devanov3103

Жыл бұрын

lmfao 😂😂😂

@chasm671

Жыл бұрын

Cop: "So, what happened here?" Jesse: "You woke up, you found her, that's all you know."

@luillierstephane1463

11 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂 Mike : SLAP ! SLAP !

@dariuslewis7745

11 ай бұрын

2:48

@irisdaniels2318

10 ай бұрын

​@@chasm671💀

He goes through all the effort of making sure not to leave a trace that he was there, then he proceeds to take off the gloves, and open the door with his bare hands. XD

@mountainguyed67

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that.

@Asianprivlege11

Жыл бұрын

He also opened the front door without gloves as well

@will_it_work

Жыл бұрын

Like Mike said, ODs don't prompt much attention, let along fingerprinting.

@morahSDG

Жыл бұрын

@@will_it_work So were the gloves more so just for sanitary purposes then?

@digital_gravity

Жыл бұрын

Anyone can touch a doorknob. But walking outside with gloves on would draw attention to Mike. It makes sense.

I must've watch BB back to back at least 5 or 6 times and there's plenty of sad and horrific moments in the series. However: Jane's death still gets me every time.

@SupComRaiden2

Жыл бұрын

Honestly, Jane's death is the only thing that kept Jesse alive. Had she lived they both would have died of an OD eventually.

@michaelgualtieri651

10 ай бұрын

​@@SupComRaiden2I guess that's what makes it even more tragic in away. This is a kind of scenario/situation that no matter what doesn't end well.

@IwinMahWay

9 ай бұрын

Ikr. It was satisfying

Everyone knows this already, but thank you How I Met Your Mother for casting Bob Odenkirk to make him unavailable for this chapter

@TheMasterQuests

Жыл бұрын

That show was good for something after all

@wrestlinginfodude2644

Жыл бұрын

@@TheMasterQuests c'mon that was also was pretty good show

@tiernancregan1924

Жыл бұрын

@@wrestlinginfodude2644 I thought it was absolutely awful and you couldn’t pay me to watch it… but I still respect how people would think otherwise

@piccolo5346

Жыл бұрын

​@@wrestlinginfodude2644 Breaking Bad is levels above that show lol

@mkultra2456

Жыл бұрын

@@wrestlinginfodude2644 STEAK SAUCE

"What about stickers. You got any more stickers in the house? Think hard. Your freedom depends on it."

Mr. Wolf, it was a real honor watching you work.

I always found Mike to be a complex character. He was as tough as a nail, yet at the same time he came across as a Gentle Giant. Kudos to Jonathan Banks. He honestly did such a superb job in this role. Breaking Bad would not have been the same without him.

@goldcanyon340.

7 ай бұрын

Truer words were never spoken.

@c8753sy

3 ай бұрын

gentle giant reference?????????????

Really nice little acting touch there, 1:02 Banks plays a good balance, he's not completely unaffected by seeing a very young woman dead at the end of a sad, self-destructive road with her boyfriend weeping in the next room, he isn't gonna weep about it, but you can tell he's sad to see it, Banks does a great job of giving us just that little morsel without stepping over into making Mike too soft and/or sympathetic, hardened, but still ultimately human.

@AlkalineGamingHD

7 ай бұрын

The way he looks back at her two or three times was a nice move

@grace_josipovic

6 ай бұрын

Exactly.

First time I saw this scene it immediately reminded me of Winston Wolf from Pulp Fiction. Just that hired gun contact who has the experience of working with messes big and small and knows how to professionally and cleanly get out of them. When Mike tells Jesse to think hard about any other contraband being in the house because his freedom depends on it, sounds just like something Winston Wolf would forewarn.

@JoCaTen

Жыл бұрын

The only difference being Mike went to work right away, searched the house and took the contraband then talked process. True time being a factor

Such a dark, depressing scene. Yet Jane's death does not deter Jesse from continuing along the path he's on with his former high school chemistry teacher. Little does Jesse know Walt made a brutal decision to let Jane die rather than call 911. Jane was one of many in the series who made the fatal mistake of crossing Walter.

Mike-a character who was never supposed to exist, to a one time character, to possibly the best character in the BB universe.

Fun fact: Vince Gilligan actually killed Janes actress on set to make Aaron's heartbreak more realistic. Bravo Vince!

@dark_mode

Жыл бұрын

It's little details like these that makes 🅱️reaking 🅱️ad the greatest TV show ever. 🅱️ravo Vince indeed.

@RSainman

Жыл бұрын

😂 😂 😂

@halfdanfiskerangen9025

Жыл бұрын

I mean, you can see her breathing at 1:15, so pretty impressive that she can do that while being dead

@RSainman

Жыл бұрын

@@halfdanfiskerangen9025 🤦

@GlassyDusty

Жыл бұрын

@@halfdanfiskerangen9025 that just shows her dedication to the craft

When Mike says to count down from 20, that is exactly how long it takes him to leave. Running everything like clockwork, as usual.

Crazy to think he handled howard hamlin's case before this

One of the most heartwrenching scenes of the show

@H.K.5

3 ай бұрын

It was way more heartwrenching when her dad showed up, I thought this particular scene was satisfying.

1:27 He knew someone else was there. It's a subtle detail, but it really shows how much attention to detail Mike was putting into the cleanup.

@llarmstrong783

10 ай бұрын

What makes you say that

@nukacolacompany2534

10 ай бұрын

he just made an observation cause it was odd that the cardboard was there. he doesnt know anyone else was there

@AnimalBlundetto-12

10 ай бұрын

​​​​@@nukacolacompany2534No, Mike knew. When he touches the cardboard, he notices that it got punched from the *outside*. Meaning someone must have entered the room at some point by forcing his way through the cardboard and opening the door (Walter). Mike was no dummy, but he didn't question it since his job was just to clean up. Questioning Jesse about it would have panicked him further and would have likely resulted in him alerting the cops.

@iimaginewagons632

9 ай бұрын

@@AnimalBlundetto-12I think that him knowing that someone broke in doesn’t tell him when they broke in. I feel like without more information there’s no reason for him to not just see it as a druggie having a broken door and not caring enough to fix it for weeks.

@AnimalBlundetto-12

9 ай бұрын

@@iimaginewagons632 He doesn't know when the intruder broke in, but he definetly knows there was a forced entry from the outside at some point in time based on the loose cardboard. You're right, it doesn't really mean much since it's just a pair of drug addicts but it was a curious find for him since he was covering up the scene. It just shows Mike's incredible attention to details and why he's Gus' top man.

Look at Mike rolling up in sunglasses like he has any need whatsoever to prove he’s a badass

It's crazy to think that you have an ex cop from Philly cleaning up a crime scene in Albuquerque.

@thomasomahony5973

Жыл бұрын

If I were crooked, I'd love a cop on the payroll. They know what to look for.

@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3

Жыл бұрын

Art imitates life. Truth is stranger than fiction.

If only the actor who played Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks) knew how important this would be for his career, good god...Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul made him a star.

@jeffreycogswell5839

8 ай бұрын

He played in Beverly hills cop

@stevedietrich8936

8 ай бұрын

@@jeffreycogswell5839 He played in the TV drama "Wiseguy" for 4 or 5 seasons as well. Mid 80s as I recall.

It was a cool callback in BCS when, in the scene where Mike tells Saul about Walter White, Mike walks into the room wearing sunglasses just like he does in this scene. He then conspicuously dropped them afterwards, presumably when they had a better idea of who Mike actually was and realised he didn’t need to wear sunglasses everywhere to be intimidating, but it is a nice bit of continuity to show he was wearing them until that the end of S2 regardless.

@poisonbonbons8684

Жыл бұрын

I loved that detail in BCS. The sunglasses are super conspicuous because Mike never wears them again, even in the desert at high bright.

@jacklee8467

Жыл бұрын

A lot of people wear sunglasses when they drive

@Longshanks1690

Жыл бұрын

@@jacklee8467 Mike doesn’t in any of the scenes where he’s driving.

@ChrisTX60

Жыл бұрын

you could also explain his glasses in this as him trynna conceal his identity a bit

Bob Odenkirk not being there for this honestly worked out so great. It created a whole new character who become (at least in my opinion) the best character in this series. Plus I could never imagine the comedic Saul Goodman coming in and trying to do this scene.

This is like the Winston Wolf scene, but dark.

@deathchronicles6960

Ай бұрын

Him being tell jesse the plan step by step and tell him to remove the needles mark is well written.. Mike have it all

after seeing this scene play out the way it did. It’s kind of hard to imagine Saul in this scene as originally intended.

I cannot put into words how much I enjoyed Breaking Bad. Every character was played to perfection. The writing was simply brilliant. I especially enjoyed the scenes with Mike. He brought knowledge, logic and calmness to all the chaos he was involved with. I applaud everyone involved with this creation. Without hesitation, the stars aligned with this series.

@cgore4

6 ай бұрын

Looks like you could put it into words. Sentences actually.

Felt so bad for Jesse. I was so happy when Todd became his friend.

@mkultra2456

Жыл бұрын

lol good ole Todd.

@minhducnguyen9276

Жыл бұрын

He gave him a house and a stable employment. It's not easy finding friend like that you know.

@mkultra2456

Жыл бұрын

@@minhducnguyen9276 That house was a nice basement apartment. Jesse be living in style. Todd even gave him a couple of beers to celebrate.

@ndhickson3599

11 ай бұрын

@@mkultra2456he also hung a picture of Jesse’s girlfriend and her son in the workplace, showing he values family as well 🙂

@mkultra2456

11 ай бұрын

@@ndhickson3599 Oh yeah I forgot about that. What a nice thing to do.

Mike went to the effort of wearing gloves inside, but his finger prints are on both door knobs of the front door.

@jacksonburnette207

Жыл бұрын

I think the gloves are for sanitary purposes, there's no reason the police would fingerprint even in the worst case scenario for a drug crime. They would just arrest Jesse.

Forever thankful that Bob Odenkirk was busy with another show (How I Met Your Mother, I believe) around the time this episode was filmed cuz that led to the creation of Mike Ehrmantraut.

Mike is best dad, not just to his own granddaughter, but to Jessie too.

Can't imagine what this series, and BCS, would look like if Odenkirk didn't have a scheduling conflict this day

The last view days I’ve been seeing these clips pop up in my subscriptions. I have got so many new shows to see but watching these clips makes me want to binge Breaking Bad and Saul again… for the third or fourth time. It so good!

@Ch4rlz_ThA_Princ3

Жыл бұрын

I rewatch both series every year. They're so good every time.

Mike and The Wolf are peers in their profession.

Crazy that this is all the screen time that Mike and Jane ever share

Fun fact: Vince Gilligan brought all the actors into a room before every season and had them professionally hypnotized to believe they were their respective characters, then let them free in a Truman-Show-type set to do whatever their characters would do. Not only did he save budget from having to hire writers, but also ensured realism. This was the moment Bravo truly Vinced.

@NEMA95

Жыл бұрын

😂

@zekeiwa5837

Жыл бұрын

Man, these jokes stopped being funny long before you discovered them

@RSainman

Жыл бұрын

Lmao

@Mr-M_M

Жыл бұрын

@@zekeiwa5837 It's still funny

@williamforsythe9180

Жыл бұрын

@@zekeiwa5837 why don’t you go Robin Williams yourself in your closet, bud

This programme was brilliant for many reasons. One of those reasons is that Mike, like Saul, is a criminal. However, even though he knows he's a criminal, he doesn't wish to lose all of what makes him a human. He empathizes with Jesse. He's doing the job of a criminal, and yet he still tries to maintain his humanity. With a nod to The Godfather, yes it's business, but it's also personal.

Mike has got to be the best "Ive got a guy for this" ever

the amount of crime scene cleaning Mike did both in BB and BCS is unreal

"Stay tough you're in the home stretch" hits close to home

this is the moment mike ehrmantraut ehrmantrauted all over and jesse didnt know anything else than he woke up and found her, they both truly breaked the bad very well, bravo vince!

I always loved how quick and professional Mike was, no half measures and straight to the point, razor sharp.

Imagine for a moment being Jonathan Banks. A veteran actor hired to replace someone for just one episode and almost 10 years later, that character becomes one of the best in both series.

I woke up I found her that's all I know.

@Delightfully_Bitchy

Жыл бұрын

*Again.*

@andreyandrey125

Жыл бұрын

Do i need to state the obvious?

@kienpham2186

Жыл бұрын

I woke up I found her that's all I know

@ichbinteogerman3257

Жыл бұрын

lmao literally busted out laughing reading this comment. Lol thank you

I think Jonathan put A LOT in that small characther (in that time, Mike dont even had a name, was just a substitute because Bob cant go to the studio that day) So that slap, that look to the corpes of the girl, the description on how police works, made the character totally dimensional with a story to tell

1:38 you literally see her close her eyes I'm dead hahahah

2:10 hows nobody talking about how he put a filled bong into a bag like it was nothing??? The dirty water would've went all over the bag

@ips2124

7 ай бұрын

It's not filled it's just dirty

@joshfrey6315

7 ай бұрын

​@@ips2124wow that's hard to tell that it's just dirty. Idk if I've seen a bong like that irl but it is just a prop

Jane never had the makings of a varsity athlete

@starguy2718

5 ай бұрын

She's gonna miss her shift, down at the Bada Bing.

the death of one character begins the start of another

This is definitely one of the scenes from Breaking Bad

@klutchxking518

Жыл бұрын

Even.

@adamdesanti6713

Күн бұрын

Truly, one of the Shows of All Time.

Whether Bob Odenkirk was available at the time is not important. Saul was a sort of comic relief in the series to begin with, so he would of course have a "fixer" to handle the rough stuff. Saul wasn't supposed to be the guy to get his hands dirty. Thus, Mike. And we were blessed with the brilliance of Jonathan Banks.

@Loneadmin

Жыл бұрын

I can't imagine better call saul without mike, infact the only reason i saw BCS was because of a s1 clip of mike of bcs.

Amazing how this was the introduction to Mike in BB and one of the final scenes of Mike on BCS was him cleaning up another crime scene

2:57 tell me again…

This was the moment after Saul realized he better make a call

Considering Mike is an expert of security, it’s weird he forgot to lock his car.

@weirdshibainu

6 ай бұрын

That car wouldn't catch any attention Easier to just leave when he needs to.

1:14 you can see Jane breathing lol - subtle but noticeable

@MonkeyDIvan

4 ай бұрын

1:38 you can see her quickly close and reopen her eyes

@mireiyu6623

4 ай бұрын

how they did not noticed that. a little mistake but not big deal i guess

saul goodman sends his regards

This is the moment Saul Goodman became Mike Ehrmantraut

What didn't make much sense with Mike is why in the world would Gus allow him to freelance on jobs like this, which could easily get him in trouble with the law. Obviously, at this point in the show the writers were not considering him to essentially be second in command of a drug empire. But still. no way he'd be allowed to work two jobs.

@eyesears9748

Жыл бұрын

I see it more as a secret favor that Mike is doing for Saul. Gus doesn’t know Mike’s whereabouts at all times and Mike clearly knows how to shake anyone who might be watching him.

@MaxLeach-ic3ll

10 ай бұрын

Mike, like Saul is a workaholic. Gus doesn't have need for him 24/7 and as we see in Better Call Saul, the two have a weird professional relationship where they constantly need the others services, so he keeps doing these things to maintain connection to Saul

He's like Jules, Vincent, and the Wolf all wrapped into one convenient package.

With how overworked the APD is in this day and age, I don't feel surprised when Mike tells Jesse that the police may not have arrived.

The debut of finger

I like how they make it very realistic

This is the exact moment when Mike becomes Winston Wolf and tells Jesse to pretty please, with sugar on top, repeat the f**ing alibi.

amazing thing to know that saul was a last minute replacement for mike

@draxthedestroyer3384

Жыл бұрын

Other way around.

@mrfox9090

10 ай бұрын

Better Call Mike

If Jane lived that day, Jessie might have been the one to die on the next OD

If you look closely at Jane's body as Mike is cleaning inside the bedroom, the body is still breathing. Guess it was hard for Krysten Ritter to hold her breath in real life while filming

Love how noones mentioning how mike tosses a bong full of water into the bag.😂

@TarantinoChick

7 ай бұрын

I had to scroll so far down for this comment! That dirty bong water being poured right into his bag lol

@ElChocoVids

6 ай бұрын

Yo i was looking for this exact comment

@grace_josipovic

6 ай бұрын

YESSS! It's so disgusting.

Once you finish watching better call saul, this line makes more sense "Saul goodman sent me." Now we know why

And that was the introduction of our last main character

I saw this episode, watching Walt watch her choke to death was very tough and nearly turned my stomach.

Mike was the Chris Partlow of Breaking Bad.

@Delightfully_Bitchy

Жыл бұрын

*Kinda?* Personally, my first gut instinct is to compare him to Cutty, but you have a point.

@theWn123

Жыл бұрын

I feel like the Cousins are more similar to Chris.

@aralmarpuc6886

Жыл бұрын

Chris was wayyy more ruthless than Mike almost in a psychopathic way. Whole Marlo crew was like that tho lol.

@MadguyWyleg

Жыл бұрын

Mike is Slim Charles mate

@Delightfully_Bitchy

Жыл бұрын

@@aralmarpuc6886 He didn't say Mike was *literally Chris.*

The audio is quiet for a few seconds when mike gets out of the car so that the audience can clap and cheer

The police were sure to notice those suspiciously clean nightstands.

This introduction of Mike has made me think he had very easy job here and he's just one of the goons. But once you watch BCS you realize he's an ex cop and a pretty sharp person so he knows exactly what the police will be looking for and how to cover it up in the simplest way possible.

honestly, it would be interesting to see Saul as a guy "for the job"

This is a contender for one of the best character introductions in fiction, and to think he was only created because Bob Odenkirk wasn’t available for this episode

The tweaker window.... freaking fantastic 👏 👏 ... lol

I love Mike. He’s the best character

One small detail that they missed was when Mike left the bedroom and grabbed the bong off of the countertop but there wasn't any water in there. In all of my years, I have NEVER seen a bong without water in it unless it was being cleaned. Even if it isn't being used daily, there is always water in there. I have a bong that hasn't seen any action in about a month but it still has that same, stale water sitting inside when I last used it. They took the time to make it look like it was used quite a bit.

@iDogtag

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that too, wondered why he'd be putting bong water in his bag before I saw it was empty haha.

The acting here and writing are top notch. Heavy scene ~ tragic, painful, real

to be honest this is probably my favorite scene of breaking bad, tied next to when heisenberg confronts tuco for the first time

Mike is the equivalent of Obi Wan and Gandalf if they had an intense malicious side without losing touch of their light. Wise, skilled, efficient, honest, and beneath all that rugged facade, absolutely human. He is my favorite character in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Nobody but Jonathan Banks could have pulled it off as he did.

@IDONTLIKETHATSHIT

9 ай бұрын

......get a hotel.

Vince actually sting jesse with all yhe needles to make his arms look all puntured dots. truly a Vravo Bince moment of all time

Mike really did hold everybody together in the same operation, no matter how divided they were.

I feel safe every time watching Breaking Bad, does not matter episode, folks I have to start again

Mike is my most favorite character on this entire show.