1. Boss Bogdan Gets Bested
Walt's car wash boss was the worst of the worst when it came to bosses. He was a sexist, a bully, and he took a masochistic delight in making clerks wipe down cars. "What am I to do?" he would ask with a repugant, feigned innocence when a clerk resisted having to grab a towel and get on his or her knees to scrub tires. There were two instances of Bogdan's world-class obnoxious behavior worth noting. The first was when he disrespected Skyler when she went in to talk to him about buying the car wash. And the second was his smarmy, condescending speech to Walt about a boss needing to be "tough." Many of us hated him the first time he opened his mouth, many of us hated even more his eyebrows, and we were all very glad when Walt refused to give Bogdan his framed first dollar and instead, broke the frame and bought a soda with the money. How's that for tough, Eyebrows? "As is," remember?
And One Example Of Obnoxious Behavior That Did Involve Murder: Vamanos, Victor
Gustavo Fring supposedly survived the Pinochet death squads back in Chile, and he may or may not have been gay. But he had a dream to be a drug kingpin, so he came to America, opened up fried chicken franchises, and created the biggest network of meth distribution in history. He was a calm, hide-in-plain-sight kind of guy who donated money to the Drug Enforcement Agency, sponsored DEA fundraising events, and fed cops and DEA agents fried chicken and mashed potatoes for free. He made so much money selling meth that he could, without even breathing heavy, offer the Mexican drug cartel a lump sump payment of $50 million to give up their north-of-the-border share of the business. Legal and moral issues notwithstanding, he sounds like a pretty savvy guy, right? And he was. But he was also an unabashed psychopath and no incident illustrated this more dramatically than his unnecessary slaughter of one of his best men, Victor, just to prove to Walter that no one was indispensable. Okay, yes, Victor was seen at the site of Gale's murder. But was that reason enough to slit his throat? This was epic arrogance and showed just how crazy Fring was. What was he thinking? "I'll kill my right hand man. That'll show Walter who's boss!" If he had been thinking logically, he would have killed Jesse, but he had to take Walter at his word that he wouldn't cook without Jesse. So we have to assume he went to the lab that night thinking, "Someone's gotta die tonight. It might as well be one of my best men." Nutjob. Good thing they had an empty barrel and a hefty supply of acid, right?