10 Genius Ways TV Shows Fixed Their Own Mistakes

8. The Hilarious Explanation For The Infamous Uncut Pizza - Breaking Bad

One of Breaking Bad's most memorable moments isn't a shocking character death or a jaw-dropping plot twist, but a scene early in season three where, after Skyler (Anna Gunn) won't let Walter (Bryan Cranston) into their home, he angrily hurls the pizza he's holding into the air, causing it to land on the roof.

Almost immediately after the episode aired, fans began discussing how bizarre - and hilarious - the scene was, noting how odd it was that the pizza came unsliced, because who in their life has ever ordered a pizza that looked like that?

Breaking Bad creator eventually chimed in on the discussion, confirming that the pizza was left fully formed for entirely practical reasons, despite it making no sense whatsoever.

He said, "We had a long discussion before we shot the pizza on the roof scene about whether or not the pizza should be sliced—because, as all you physicists know, a thrown, sliced pizza would come apart due to centrifugal force or angular momentum (or something like that). And yet, you're right: no self-respecting pizza parlor sells an unsliced pizza."

But Gilligan brilliantly paid this off in the fourth season, when Jesse (Aaron Paul), Badger (Matt L. Jones) and Skinny Pete (Charles Baker) receive a pizza order, and of course, the pizzas are unsliced.

Badger suggests that the pizza company does this to save money and "pass the savings on" to the customer, even trying to calculate the man hours saved in doing so - through a haze of weed smoke, naturally.

Gillian added of the explanation, "We figured we needed to explain it, or else face our audience's righteous wrath!" Rule one of screenwriting: if you make a mistake, just make a joke out of it and you're all good.