Breaking Bad Memes Are The Fandom At Its Absurdist Best
“Waltuh... Put your dick away, Waltuh. I’m not having sex with you right now.”
This cursed phrase is burned into my memory, and it might be one of the funniest things I’ve heard in years. It comes from a ridiculous Breaking Bad meme - specifically a low quality video of Mike Ehrmantraut telling Walter White that he isn’t willing to engage in forbidden sexual intercourse at this specific moment in time. It doesn’t align with the show’s narrative, nor does it make any sense for these characters, but the fandom has somehow made it work. The Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul communities are well and truly broken.
I’m still unsure what spawned this resurgence in weird internet memes and head canons for one of the greatest television dramas ever created. It went off the air almost ten years ago, but the recent conclusion of Better Call Saul has ensured it remained in the zeitgeist. I can’t scroll through TikTok for five minutes without seeing a video of Walt and Jesse arguing about harvesting diamonds in Minecraft or Saul Goodman engaging in a raucous round of gangsta beatboxing. None of it makes sense, but it’s so ridiculous that it’s almost always hilarious.
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Breaking Bad is a very serious show. It follows a man with terminal cancer building a drug empire to provide for his family, walking a path of death, betrayal, criminal politics, and so much more as he evolves from a timid high school teacher to a feared kingpin. Very little compares, with fans and critics alike praising it as a timeless masterpiece. Like so many shows with a peerless reputation, new generations of fans keep coming to interact with it.
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