Proper comeuppance for Kenny's lifetime of dickery is a long time coming, and EB&D's producers/writers will delight in making it so wretched Walter White's fate seems breezy by comparison.

I transcribed it last night as part of a broader comment re: this episode's excellent dialogue. Alas, it didn't meet mod approval. You gauged correctly.

The dialogue was so great that the tremendous, "George Washington didn't do shit. He can suck my dick. I fucking hate that faggot," line almost gets lost in the shuffle.

Rest assured it was absolutely a Double Dare parody.

Former University of Michigan running back and my first Halloween costume in 1990.

@avclub-c70044e2a75b836382fdcd39520ff0ab:disqus "I like to imagine (and I'm free to do so, since we haven't been told otherwise) that Todd's father is none too pleased that his son is spending so much time with his (the father's, not Todd's) brother-in-law."

The penultimate episode began with a Walt/Jesse flashback. Couldn't that happen in the finale?

Agreed. I'm just glad there are upstanding black market assault rifle dealers who will still do business, no questions asked, with an _alleged_ murderous meth kingpin on the lam.

Gretchen and Elliot might have offered to pay off Walt's posthumous debt, which Skyler would have accepted.

Which would poetically emphasize the Hell both were in, pleading for a painful, prolonged Ricin death instead of living another day. By now they're both pretty acclimated to medieval torture anyway.

You leave John Stamos out of this!

This isn't plausible but fun to think about maybe?

The ricin is for Jesse.

I was surprised Charlie Rose didn't include a statistic re: the increase in meth addiction spurred by Gray Matter's former partner's unmatched meth purity. It would have quantified Walt's destruction to society-at-large without taking time away from the main storyline.

@avclub-b9a8f4af85454f7c56c06f0a39e7ec23:disqus After days of torture being cut by barbed wire wouldn't seem intimidating and being sprayed by Nazi bullets would seem inviting. Can't understand why he stopped climbing.

Fruit Stripes? Gum and temporary tattoos in one?? Dream on.

The Saul spinoff is a prequel to Breaking Bad so he could still die in the finale, but I bet "it's over" is the last line we'll hear him say.

To duck.

It should relieve you all to know that The Atlantic pays its writers in Trident Layers. No but seriously, they pay next to nothing.

Walt will hear his phone call to Skyler replayed endlessly during 24/7 media coverage of the investigation into Skyler/worldwide manhunt for Walt. Eventually, even though his brains knows that staying away from his family is in their best interest, his pride forces his return to ABQ to perpetrate a seemingly selfless…