Saint Croix wrote: Serious question: can I skip season 1? Season 2?
I Am Afraid Of Commitment.
You can, but the show is very serialized. So, if you do misss the first season you might be wondering who the various characters are. Each season does have an arc though so you can start with the first episode of that season and then follow the arc to it's conclusion.
So I'm sitting in my room in my parents' basement, just hangin' out in my sweatpants and working on my self-loathing (laughter) -- come on, self-loathing is a great way to spend the empty post-masturbation hours... Anyway -- I'm working on my self-loathing and it starts where it always starts, with me shitting my pants in the classroom in first grade (laughter). Like that didn't happen to all of us. It didn't? Really? (laughter) Is it to late to say I meant that metaphorically? (applause) No? Well. So I do what any proper self-loathing person does when they are in a shame spiral: I go upstairs to ask my parents if they are sad because they don't have any grand-children (laughter). 'Cause I don't see it happening. I can't come to terms with crapping my pants in the first grade and I'm going to change a kid's diapers day after day? My shame shovel isn't big enough (laughter). Plus there is that whole thing about a woman needing to be involved: thousands of years of evolutionary biology has taught women to successfully evaluate my failures over a single sip of a frappuccino. Seriously: I can't even make eye contact with my barista (laughter). But then, she WAS in my first grade class (applause). So -- where was I? Oh, yeah: I go upstairs to see the parents and what are they doing? They're watching a 'Breaking Bad' marathon (laughter). Really: this is something old people do now? They're sitting together on the couch eating their microwave popcorn -- Orville Redenbacher, because, well, they're old -- and they are SO into it. They have the meth-world down pat, I can already picture my dad at the drug store buying decongestants and plastic gloves (laughter). What happened to reruns of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show?" They now have to get down with MY show? Then my Mom asks me if I knew anyone who ever did crystal meth, 'cause those would be the kind of people I would associate with, evidently (laughter). I tell her 'not that I know of' and I say this because if my friends were doing meth all of my friends would be a lot less fat. Thank you very much....
So I catch my parents watching "Breaking Bad" and I'm like: what's next? They're going to be watching HBO and discussing 'felching'? You can Google that on your smart phone, I'll wait (laughter). I'm not sure I want my parents exposed to the world I know -- I feel like I should protect them: "Now Dad, look both ways when crossing the internet and -- Dad! You're at a porn site! turn that off!" (laughter) "Mom, those vibrate, but they are NOT kitchen appliances -- here, let me click you over to WalMart." (laughter) I can see it now: my Mom in the kitchen beating eggs with a Waterproof Jack Rabbit Vibrator while my Dad is in the living room watching German porn like it was 'Hogan's Heroes' reruns. I mean, I know some old people probably have sex -- wrinkly, saggy sex -- but do they have to rub it in our faces? Can't they just be -- you know -- old? Crocheting, whittling a stick, driving slow in the fast lane? (laughter) With the left signal still going on and on? (applause). I think I liked the world better when old men had to wear rain-coats and go into filthy theatres to masturbate -- now that's just seems 'quaint,' like tea cozies and PeeWee Herman (applause). Thank you, you've been wonderful...
So my parents finish watching all the episodes of "Breaking Bad" and they ask me is there another show like that that they could see? And I say I don't think you'd like the shows I watch,' and -- this is where it begins to hurt (laughter) --my Mom says "we might surprise you." We. Might. Surprise You. And that's just it: I don't WANT my parents to surprise me! No! I don't want to see them naked, and I don't want any surprises! (laughter) By this point in our lives they should have no surprises left for me -- none! (applause) My slut Aunt Betty was really my mother? They took me in as a baby while Betty was sent off to some Girl's School in Nebraska? Do I really want to know that, now? Uncle Frank was a pedophile? Really? Oh, man -- then why did you let him babysit me?! (laughter) That time when I was twelve and all my friends got together -- that was so the parents could have a 'key party'? My friends and I played on that shag carpet -- its amazing we all didn't show up to school with cold sores on our knees. (laughter) At least that explains waking up the next morning with my Dad's friend Jerry walking around the kitchen with no pants: Good God, it all makes sense, now (applause). Dad: let's just say that I know about Santa and the Tooth Fairy and we'll leave it at that, okay?Now go watch some reruns of "The Jeffersons"... Thank you, it's been great to be here...
"So Althouse, what finally pulled you into Breaking Bad?"
My son Chris loved it and talked about it in a way that made me want to give it another shot. Then we got into watching an episode a day. Watched straight thru 60 episodes in 60 days.
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That was good. Still haven't watched the show yet.
I might have to get started,..
If you liked it without watching the show… you need to watch the show!
That was seasons 3-5.
Here's one for seasons 1-2.
That was good, too, but not as good.
It's like Jimmy Fallon's newscaster raps - lots of so-so one's before they nailed it.
Good stuff, though. I'll be checking it out,...
Almost Pogo level.
okay I totally got to watch this show
you win America
Just another case of rapicious White men stealing the culture of the Black man and exploiting it.
Serious question: can I skip season 1? Season 2?
I Am Afraid Of Commitment.
Which is worse, black race baiters or white race baiters? I can't decide.
is=are. Even my verbs don't agree.
ASAC Shra-der
Saint Croix wrote:
Serious question: can I skip season 1? Season 2?
I Am Afraid Of Commitment.
You can, but the show is very serialized. So, if you do misss the first season you might be wondering who the various characters are.
Each season does have an arc though so you can start with the first episode of that season and then follow the arc to it's conclusion.
Comedy Stage Open Mic Night Comic says:
So I'm sitting in my room in my parents' basement, just hangin' out in my sweatpants and working on my self-loathing (laughter) -- come on, self-loathing is a great way to spend the empty post-masturbation hours... Anyway -- I'm working on my self-loathing and it starts where it always starts, with me shitting my pants in the classroom in first grade (laughter). Like that didn't happen to all of us. It didn't? Really? (laughter) Is it to late to say I meant that metaphorically? (applause) No? Well. So I do what any proper self-loathing person does when they are in a shame spiral: I go upstairs to ask my parents if they are sad because they don't have any grand-children (laughter). 'Cause I don't see it happening. I can't come to terms with crapping my pants in the first grade and I'm going to change a kid's diapers day after day? My shame shovel isn't big enough (laughter). Plus there is that whole thing about a woman needing to be involved: thousands of years of evolutionary biology has taught women to successfully evaluate my failures over a single sip of a frappuccino. Seriously: I can't even make eye contact with my barista (laughter). But then, she WAS in my first grade class (applause). So -- where was I? Oh, yeah: I go upstairs to see the parents and what are they doing? They're watching a 'Breaking Bad' marathon (laughter). Really: this is something old people do now? They're sitting together on the couch eating their microwave popcorn -- Orville Redenbacher, because, well, they're old -- and they are SO into it. They have the meth-world down pat, I can already picture my dad at the drug store buying decongestants and plastic gloves (laughter). What happened to reruns of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show?" They now have to get down with MY show? Then my Mom asks me if I knew anyone who ever did crystal meth, 'cause those would be the kind of people I would associate with, evidently (laughter). I tell her 'not that I know of' and I say this because if my friends were doing meth all of my friends would be a lot less fat. Thank you very much....
thanks JR
Honestly I hate drug dealers and science teachers. But I kinda wanna watch it anyway.
What's the best season?
Comedy Stage Open Mic Night Comic says:
So I catch my parents watching "Breaking Bad" and I'm like: what's next? They're going to be watching HBO and discussing 'felching'? You can Google that on your smart phone, I'll wait (laughter). I'm not sure I want my parents exposed to the world I know -- I feel like I should protect them: "Now Dad, look both ways when crossing the internet and -- Dad! You're at a porn site! turn that off!" (laughter) "Mom, those vibrate, but they are NOT kitchen appliances -- here, let me click you over to WalMart." (laughter) I can see it now: my Mom in the kitchen beating eggs with a Waterproof Jack Rabbit Vibrator while my Dad is in the living room watching German porn like it was 'Hogan's Heroes' reruns. I mean, I know some old people probably have sex -- wrinkly, saggy sex -- but do they have to rub it in our faces? Can't they just be -- you know -- old? Crocheting, whittling a stick, driving slow in the fast lane? (laughter) With the left signal still going on and on? (applause). I think I liked the world better when old men had to wear rain-coats and go into filthy theatres to masturbate -- now that's just seems 'quaint,' like tea cozies and PeeWee Herman (applause). Thank you, you've been wonderful...
Comedy Stage Open Mic Night Comic says:
So my parents finish watching all the episodes of "Breaking Bad" and they ask me is there another show like that that they could see? And I say I don't think you'd like the shows I watch,' and -- this is where it begins to hurt (laughter) --my Mom says "we might surprise you." We. Might. Surprise You. And that's just it: I don't WANT my parents to surprise me! No! I don't want to see them naked, and I don't want any surprises! (laughter) By this point in our lives they should have no surprises left for me -- none! (applause) My slut Aunt Betty was really my mother? They took me in as a baby while Betty was sent off to some Girl's School in Nebraska? Do I really want to know that, now? Uncle Frank was a pedophile? Really? Oh, man -- then why did you let him babysit me?! (laughter) That time when I was twelve and all my friends got together -- that was so the parents could have a 'key party'? My friends and I played on that shag carpet -- its amazing we all didn't show up to school with cold sores on our knees. (laughter) At least that explains waking up the next morning with my Dad's friend Jerry walking around the kitchen with no pants: Good God, it all makes sense, now (applause). Dad: let's just say that I know about Santa and the Tooth Fairy and we'll leave it at that, okay?Now go watch some reruns of "The Jeffersons"... Thank you, it's been great to be here...
Saint Croix asked:
"What's the best season?"
Probably season 4, but you're not going to want to stop there.
So Althouse, what finally pulled you into Breaking Bad?
When Jesse said, "We don't want a criminal lawyer. We want a criminal lawyer!"?
Wikked pissa.
"So Althouse, what finally pulled you into Breaking Bad?"
My son Chris loved it and talked about it in a way that made me want to give it another shot. Then we got into watching an episode a day. Watched straight thru 60 episodes in 60 days.
Beta makes it look easy
St. Croix,
Please don't skip any of it. It's an album, not a 45.
I prefer "Justified".
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