10 Breaking Bad Mistakes Nobody Noticed
Jesse wasn't so stupid pouring acid in a bathtub after all.
The season one pilot episode of Breaking Bad first aired all the way back in January 2008, and Vince Gilligan's story of a terminally ill chemistry teacher and his former pupil teaming up for a life of crime would become one of the most acclaimed shows in television history.
As well as spawning a spin off series and a follow up film just at the time of writing, Breaking Bad scooped up sixteen PrimeTime Emmy Awards, eight Satellite Awards, two Golden Globes as well as PrimeTime Individual Awards for Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul and Anna Gunn. It entered the Guinness Book of World Records as history's most acclaimed and successful TV series in 2013, and its array of shocking sequences and collection of colourful characters remain memorable to this day.
However, nothing is ever truly perfect and that extends even to the world of Breaking Bad. Over the course of the show's five seasons and sixty-two episodes, there have been a couple of on-camera mistakes that audiences might not have picked up on the first time around. It's easily done when there is so much brilliance around them to be fair, but here are ten of Breaking Bad's biggest mistakes that audiences might not have noticed.
10. Walt's Trousers And Underwear
The opening scenes of the pilot episode of Breaking Bad are some of the most bizarre and memorable in the history of recent television. Just ten seconds in, the deep blue of the New Mexico sky is filled with a pair of beige trousers dropping lazily to the ground, only to be driven over by what would soon become the most famous RV in TV history.
Only problem is, when someone watching the scene actually stops to think about it, the entire sequence makes absolutely no sense. Not only does it make no sense that these trousers are flying forwards towards the camera and not backwards, but audiences are then shown a flashback of the day's events that do indeed show these trousers flying backwards!
A little bit further on in the sequence, Walter White is shown crashing his RV and, upon hearing some approaching police sirens, preparing for his final stand. He makes up a quick goodbye video to his family, and shoves a gun down his underwear. Again, only problem with this moment is the fact that there's no way a simple pair of undergarments would be able to support the weight of a handgun without falling down.
Obviously this opening sequence proved so compelling that audiences were able to overlook Vince Gilligan playing around with physics this time.