Breaking Bad Art Shows Walt Recreating Despicable Me’s Most Adorable Scene
Walter White loves the infamous one-eyed pink teddy bear in Breaking Bad fan-art inspired by Despicable Me. Viewers of AMC’s acclaimed drama about a chemistry teacher’s transformation into a drug kingpin first glimpsed the show’s symbolic pink teddy bear in a flash-forward before season 2’s debut episode. The full significance of the bear would later be revealed in Breaking Bad season 2’s shocking finale.
Fans didn’t realize it at the time but the titles of the four episodes featuring the pink teddy bear actually spelled out the single phrase “Seven Thirty-Seven Down Over ABQ.” In retrospect, it was realized that this clever title trick — and indeed the repeated appearances of the floating, charred teddy bear throughout season 2 — foreshadowed one of Breaking Bad’s most harrowing and traumatic moments: the mid-air collision of two planes over Albuquerque that led to a rain of debris – including the pink teddy bear — upon the homes of Walter White and others. Of course White himself was indirectly responsible for the plane crash, as his failure to save Jesse’s girlfriend Jane from choking to death led to her father, air traffic controller Donald, being distracted on the day of the accident. White would later symbolically carry around his guilt over this event in the form of a glass eyeball, the only remnant of the teddy bear after it was taken away by the police as evidence.
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Indeed Breaking Bad’s pink teddy bear is laden with darkly symbolic significance. But fan artist Zascanauta decided to lighten things up a little bit by creating an image in which Walter White incongruously embraces the mangled bear and symbol of his lost innocence with the glee of a
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