I think it happened because the writers had to find something emotionally resonant to do with the famous unused ricin capsule, but I'd like to hear Vince Gilligan's actual explanation.

I thought maybe it was his trachea being crushed

There's got to be a seam somewhere, right?  And it's feasible you could pry that apart with steam and or pressure.  I think gluing it back together would be the easy part.  A tiny bit of super glue and no one would be the wiser.

Saul told Walt that there's a fence around the house and some kids have vandalized it.  So that's pretty much the way we saw it in earlier episodes I believe.

Says a guy who hasn't seen Lena Dunham naked.

You could have put all these ideas of yours in one neat and tidy thread you know.  Like a trash compactor for your thoughts.

He's the rare case of a guy who got older and fatter and balder and probably looks better for it.

Did they ever say what happened to the TV Club calender?   Was it theorized by someone to reduce overall page views?  Because for me it's the opposite, I visit fewer reviews and use TV club less now that it's gone.

And Krysten Ritter topless in her underwear.  We'd still be tearing up and getting hard just thinking about it.

I guess that's one benefit to you being something other than presumably, a straight male.  That is NOT an option available to me in a viewing party of ~20 people.

I'm kind of worried about this guy.  Pretty dangerous to carry around weight like that at 44.  Hope he's living a relatively clean life otherwise as far as drinking, smoking and drugs go.

Well, they are saying "prequel", technically.  My guess is that it will take place after the events of Breaking Bad, but they are just saying prequel to maintain ambiguity about Saul's ultimate fate.

But wouldn't that be a slow painful death?

It's been 5 years since the TV show aired on HBO and of course being an HBO property it has never been on Netflix.  A lot of those people, if their parents even had HBO, were in middle school at the time.

Or it's just a discombobulation of the world 'finale'

Too late. It wouldn't be as much fun now that his TV show has been cancelled and his movie career is dead. 

Aziz, Natasha Leggero, Andy Samberg, Nick Kroll?  These are comedy no names?   With few exceptions, most comedians do it a couple of times and move on.

What I at first thought was album art on the CD turned out to be lines of white powder which they showed him snorting in a later revisiting of the scene.

I think you are comparing Conan's current numbers to the night the show premiered.  Totally irrelevant.

I totally disagree about DLM.  Thought that was fantastic ep. Everybody was on and that bit with Olympus "…" and White House "…" was one of my favorite show moments in a while.