Better Call Saul Kills The Biggest Breaking Bad Meme
Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Better Call Saul season 6, episode 11, «Breaking Bad.»
A quick line in Better Call Saul season 6 puts an end to one of the biggest and longest-running Breaking Bad memes. Better Call Saul season 6, episode 11 is titled «Breaking Bad,» and fittingly provides a lot of connections to and reveals about its parent show. Most of these revolve around the return of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman (once again played by Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul, respectively), but the episode also finds room for some other name drops, references, and Easter eggs even outside of the meth-making duo's comeback.
A lot of the best Breaking Bad references come in the call from Gene Takovic (Bob Odenkirk) to Francesca Liddy (Tina Parker). This includes a whole bunch of Easter eggs, including a mention of Skyler White (Anna Gun), a nod to El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie via mention of Jesse's car, and brief updates on a wide array of minor supporting characters and plot points, ranging from Saul Goodman's Ice Station Zebra Associates to Lazer Base's Danny (Mark Proksch) and the status of Kuby (Bill Burr).
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Among these Gene and Francesca phone call Easter eggs is a reference to Huell Babineaux (Lavell Crawford), with Francesca revealing that he is «back home in New Orleans.» It's not a particularly notable mention for anyone who has only seen Better Call Saul, where Huell has been a fun recurring figure, but does kill off arguably the biggest Breaking Bad meme, which had stood for almost a decade. In that, Huell was last seen in a DEA safe house but, given audiences never saw the agents return for him, it was unclear what happened to him. This led to
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