Every Breaking Bad Easter Egg In The Walking Dead

5. The Drug Dealer

Merle The Walking Dead
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During Season 4's Still, when Daryl and Beth were going through their bonding period, Daryl tells Beth a story of when he and Merle were hanging out with the latter's drug dealer. A drug dealer he describes as:

"Merle had this dealer. This janky little white guy. A tweaker. One day we were over at his house watching TV. Wasn't even noon yet and we were all wasted. Merle was high. We were watching this show and Merle was talking all this dumb stuff about it. And he wouldn't let up. Merle never could. Turns out it was the tweaker's kids' favorite show. And he never sees his kids, so he felt guilty about it or something. So he punches Merle in the face. So I started hitting the tweaker, like, hard. As hard as I can. Then he pulls a gun, sticks it right here. He says, 'I'm gonna kill you, b*tch.' So Merle pulls his gun on him. Everyone's yelling. I'm yelling. I thought I was dead. Over a dumb cartoon about a talking dog."

There are a number of reasons why it's unlikely to have actually been Jesse - the locations and timelines don't match up, but also it's hard to imagine him being quite so violent - and yet, at the same time, it's unmistakably a reference to Aaron Paul's character. A janky little white guy who deals drugs and uses the word b*itch? Yeah, that all points back to Jesse Pinkman.

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