If you’ve been living in a cave and not watched Breaking Bad yet, SPOILER ALERT. Here are 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Breaking Bad :
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- The series has 62 Episodes. The 62nd element in the periodic table is Samarium, which is used to treat lung cancer.
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- The ‘Blue Meth’ used in Breaking Bad is just rock candy, and it gives a sugar rush when snorted.
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- Jesse Pinkman was initially supposed to be killed in Season 1. But Aaron Paul’s performance changed Vince’s mind enough to make him a major part of the series.
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- Car wash owner Bogdan is a prominent scientist. Eyebrows is also a renowned chemist who has worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and is currently a senior scientist at the Nuclear Engineering Division from the Argonne National Laboratory.
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- Walter White is a real person from Alabama. Check out Vice’s documentary here.
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- Walter White takes up the characteristics of people he kills. He starts cutting the crust off of his sandwiches after killing Krazy 8. He picks up the habit of drinking his Whiskey ‘on the rocks’ from Mike. He used to have it smooth until Season 4.
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- RJ Mitte , Walt Jr., has cerebral palsy in real life. He was diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy at age 3, though the character in the series suffers from a severe from of the same disease.
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- Vince Gilligan used colors of clothing to portray the state of mind of characters. Red represented Rage, Green Guilt/Greed and Blue, Purity/Security/Escape.
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- Gus Fring was to play a smaller role, spanning only about 3-4 episodes and Hector Salamanca was to be the main antagonist of Seasons 3 and 4. But the immense positive response Fring recieved made him play antagonist to both Hector and WW for an additional 22 episodes.
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- The GPS coordinates of the place where Walt buries his money ,(+34° 59′ 20.00″, -106° 36′ 52″) ,are actually of the recording studio where parts of Breaking Bad were filmed.
Saul Goodman. Uh, I mean S’all Good man. I see what you did there, Vince.
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