Breaking Bad is an AMC series which ran from 2008 to 2013, about a high school chemistry teacher who begins cooking meth after being diagnosed with cancer.
Muppet Mentions[]
- In the pilot episode, the camera pans over a number of items acquired for Walter and Skyler White's expectant baby, including a diaper bag with the baby versions of Big Bird and Elmo.
- In the third season episode "Más" (2010), when Jesse is at a strip club, the song "Rocket Scientist" plays including the lyric "See me on Sesame Street coolin' in a cold chillin tee."
References[]
- In the Sesame Street episode of The Nerdist Writer's Panel podcast, the Sesame writers acknowledge that Breaking Bad is a TV show that they would be unable to parody (although one writer throws out the phrase "math lab").[1]
- "Breaking Bread" is one of several shows that Fozzie Bear pitches to Scooter in the Muppets Now episode "Fever Pitch."
Connections[]
- Jere Burns played Jesse's rehab group leader (4 episodes, 2010-2011)
- Julie Dretzin played Pamela (3 episodes, 2010)
- Giancarlo Esposito played Gus Fring (2009-2011)
- Sam McMurray played Dr. Victor Bravenec in "Mandala" and "ABQ" (both 2009)
- Charlie Rose played himself in "Granite State" (2013)
- Danny Trejo played Tortuga in "Negro Y Azul" (2009) and "I.F.T." (2010)