Breaking Bad: 16 Examples Of Obnoxious Behaviour That Didn’t Involve Murder Or Cooking Meth

6. How's Saul?

Bettercallsaul There were moments when Walt's phoney-baloney demeanor was almost unbearable to watch. In the second part of Season 5, after Jesse soaks the White house in gasoline, Walt moves the family into a hotel and then meets with Saul and Kuby in a car in the parking lot to talk about what to do about Jesse. Walt returns to the hotel room and gives Skyler some bullshit story about his room key not working on the ice machine and that he had to go all the way to the lobby for ice. Skyler nodded and then asks Walt, "How's Saul?" Walt plays dumb (of course) and says he has no idea. Skyler then hits him with the fact that she knows he was just talking to him in the parking lot. And that's when Walt turns on his most obnoxious skill: faux outrage. "I'm sorry," he says. "Were you spying on me?" with an implicit subtext of "How dare you spy on me! I'm the Great Heisenberg!" To her credit, she admits that she was spying on him and adds, in a tone dripping with sarcasm, that she feels "just awful about it." (Bravo Skysenberg!) After what Walt's done and said, to pretend to be offended by what Skyler did is the most obnoxious and hypocritical of behavior.
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