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Top 13 Most Shocking Moments from Breaking Bad

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HUGE SPOILER ALERT!

When Joey and I first started watching Breaking Bad it was because everyone and their mom, dad, uncle and dog were watching it.  And more than that, they were talking about it.  Non-stop.  Everywhere.  Like it was the best show to ever grace television.

I’ll be honest, starting it, it didn’t really seem like the best show ever to me.  But this is coming from someone who watched Glee and Desperate Housewives far past the point where they stopped being “good.”  Still, we binge watched four and a half seasons, started saying “yo” at the end of every sentence and referring to beer brewing as “cooking a batch.”  In other words, the show really grew on me.  I’ve missed it since December when we finished the first part of Season 5 and now, with the return of the final half of the final season, what better time to recap all the best, most shocking moments, yo!

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Top 10 Most Shocking Moments from Breaking Bad

1.  Walt kills a guy and with Jesse, dissolves two bodies in acid – Season 1

Oh hey, welcome to the show, here’s murder by innocent-seeming high school chemistry teachers and a heavy dose of melty blood and guts to go with it.  Enjoy!

2. Walt watches Jesse’s girlfriend die of an overdose – Season 2

This scene was brutal.  Walt watching Jesse’s girlfriend die without stepping in to stop it was so shockingly heartless.  I’ve been waiting for that secret to come out for 4 seasons but I’m starting to think it’s never going to.

3. Walt’s hit and run…er, gun? – Season 3

Just when we all started to get really nervous that Jesse was about to get himself killed, Walt sweeps in and runs the two guys over, then finishes the one off by shooting him.  I’m pretty sure Joey and I’s immediate reaction to Walt’s very sudden appearance was hysterical laughter.  I know, murder isn’t funny, but watching those two guys fly in the air like a couple of bowling pins was the last thing we expected and we really couldn’t help ourselves.

4. Jesse kills Gale – Season 3

Ugh, didn’t you just feel so bad for Gale this whole season?  He was just this lonely chemist who got caught in a bad position.  This scene was also a shock because, for the first time, we saw Jesse kill someone.  At least he seemed pretty torn up about it (unlike another main character I know).  Don’t worry guys, Gale found himself a new home on AMC’s Low Winter Sun.  Let’s hope he has better luck over there.

5. The Twins come after Hank – Season 3

Ah, this scene!!  I know Hank is kind of an asshole, but you had to root for him in this scene.  I wouldn’t put it past the Breaking Bad crew to kill off a big main character like Hank so I was on the edge of my seat the entire time.  Also, how creepy were those twins and who uses an ax?!

6. Gus kills one of his own men – Season 4

The guy just seemed too damn professional to murder anyone, didn’t he?  Guess not.

7. Gus kills the Mexican Cartel – Season 4

How crazy was this scene?!  I always kinda liked Gus (so calm, cool and collected), but he was seriously badass in this scene.  Who just poisons themselves in order to take out an entire drug cartel and then actually pulls it off?

8. Walt poisons a kid – Season 4

So I guess it shouldn’t have been that shocking that Walt would sink so low — he’s already proved his heartlessness a billion other times — but I thought we were leaving kids out of this.  And no one likes when he jerks our beloved Jesse around!

9. Walt and Jesse blow Gus up – Season 4

And Season 4 goes out with a bang.  Literally.  I was so shocked to see his half blown off face that all I could say was “What just happened?!”  It wasn’t crazy that they killed him, it was just crazy how they killed him.

10. Todd kills a kid – Season 5

Again with the kids?  As if the whole train robbing heist wasn’t crazy enough, there has to be the unexpected death of a kid?  By some newcomer to the show?  What is going on?

11. Walt kills Mike

Mike was the unbeatable character for so long that I really did not expect him to meet his end at the hands of Walt.  Come on, he at least deserved to get murdered by someone as careful, professional and experienced as he was, right?  That “shut up and let me die in peace” line was so classic Mike though.

12. Killing spree of Gus’s men – Season 5

This scene was quick but it was insane.  Wait, didn’t they stab someone to death with pens at one point?  What the?

13. And finally…Hank realizes Walt is Heisenberg – Season 5

In the back of our minds, we all had to know this was coming, right?  Still shocking to see it actually happen though.  Guess we’ll just have to wait to see how that one plays out.

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Confessions

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I tried carrying four ears of corn in one hand on Sunday night.

Now would be a good time to mention that I have small hands.  Not suitable for four large ears of corn.  I was carrying said ears onto our patio to put them on the grill when one fell out of my hand, rolled across the patio and fell two stories into a pile of rocks.  If there was ever a time to be grateful that our downstairs neighbors keep their patio blinds closed, it was on Sunday night when I had to sneak into their “backyard” to retrieve that corn.  Oopsie!

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I love Kareem Abdul-Jabar.

Okay, career-wise, I know next to nothing about KAJ (basketball, right??) but a month ago I signed up for this little email project thing someone organized with a bunch of random celebrities — Every Monday I get an email that compiles a bunch of emails previously written by those celebrities.  Basically, there’s a topic and they all have to search their sent folder for a message that fits that topic — and he happens to be one of them.  I find it to be a totally intimate look into the life/personality of the participants and every single one of KAJ’s emails has been poised, intelligent and caring.  In other words, he seems like the definition of a stand up guy.  If you’re interested, the project is called “We Think Alone” and you can still sign up 🙂

We went to the Bruno Mars concert on Monday night at Red Rocks.

Someone had tee many martoonis.  Just kidding, no one drinks martinis at a concert.  But it may have been vodka lemonades instead.

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Anyways, Bruno sounded amazing and I most likely embarrassed everyone that was with me by dancing the entire time.  And another confession: I love going to concerts by performers who only have one or two CDs.  It means you’ll probably get to hear every single song and still be in bed by midnight, which is ideal for a Monday night concert.

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Psst, check out the light shining onto Denver in the background of this picture.  The promise land!

We put in our first offer on a house!

Unfortunately, the seller took a higher offer but it was exciting for a minute there.  I’ve decided to bounce back and move on instead of being disappointed.  We didn’t want that shitty house anyways! 😛

I just bought the new Civil Wars CD.

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I know, I just bought the old CD like two weeks ago but I’m already loving the new one.  There’s a cover of a Smashing Pumpkins song and I think I listened to it about 5 times before I even realized it was a cover — they have this knack for making covers sounds so completely different from the original — but I think my favorite is “Dust to Dust.”  Also, Adele tweeted about how good the album was and I fell even more in love with her.

I need one of these.

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We had dinner over at Joey’s aunt and uncle’s on Tuesday night and they pulled out S’mores and these pie irons for dessert.  The iron opens up so you can fill it with bread and pie filling, then you toast the whole thing over the fire.  It reminded me of the good old Toas-tite that my mom inherited from her dad.  We used to make some amazing breakfast flying saucer creations with that thing.  Ah, memories.

We’re going to “the cabin” this weekend and I might actually be excited.

Who else thinks this would be the perfect occasion to locate that aforementioned Toas-tite and make a campfire meal with it?

Happy Friday!