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VinylGuy wrote:Maybe this is just his life now, making this little crimes and keeping the cinnabon facade, away from everyone and away from Kim.
Nah, he wants back all the money that the feds seized.
As evidenced by the foot massager purchase; a very Saul luxury item. Francesca telling him the feds seized his nest eggs set him on a bad choice road and he immediately makes a bad choice trying to contact Kim.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Holy cow, the cab driver / gambler is Buzz from Home Alone
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Should have left Kevin that last piece of pizza, Buzz.
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Didn't see the Home Alone connection, but I did recognize that the same actor was in Alexander Payne's Nebraska (Bob Odenkirk is in it too), also shot in B&W and takes place in, well, Nebraska.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Speaking of Home Alone, I feel like Mitch Murphy:

Did he actually talk to Kim?
Or did he get rebuffed and flip out on someone else?
Or was he flipping out at somebody else completely unrelated to Kim?
Do we eventually hear the conversation?
Will the show ever go back to color?
What will that mean?
Are the cops at the house where Jimmy is inside?
Or at Jeffy's mom's house?
Or at the 3rd man's, the one with the dog, house?
Who else will be picking up soda/beer can tabs whenever they're lying around in the sand?
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elliseamos wrote:Speaking of Home Alone, I feel like Mitch Murphy:

Did he actually talk to Kim?
Or did he get rebuffed and flip out on someone else?
Or was he flipping out at somebody else completely unrelated to Kim?
Do we eventually hear the conversation?
Will the show ever go back to color?
What will that mean?
Are the cops at the house where Jimmy is inside?
Or at Jeffy's mom's house?
Or at the 3rd man's, the one with the dog, house?
Who else will be picking up soda/beer can tabs whenever they're lying around in the sand?
I think the show stays black and white, but Saul is in color after he and Kim rekindle sexually.
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On a serious note, I get why everyone is excited to see Walt and Jesse, but I’d be 100 times more interested in a memory with Chuck.
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daft twat wrote:On a serious note, I get why everyone is excited to see Walt and Jesse, but I’d be 100 times more interested in a memory with Chuck.
When does Walt Jr. get his own show?

The adventures of Flynn & Louis.

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elliseamos wrote:
daft twat wrote:On a serious note, I get why everyone is excited to see Walt and Jesse, but I’d be 100 times more interested in a memory with Chuck.
When does Walt Jr. get his own show?

The adventures of Flynn & Louis.

Living large with that trust fund money.
That money definitely got turned over to the Feds before Walt Jr ever saw a dime of it. BB is a show about Walt failing up over and over again. No way that silly plan of his worked out
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The money from Grey Matter? Feds would have no cause to take that.
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He was 100% talking to Kim. He hoped she would be happy to hear from him directly because Francesca mentioned she called. Kim probably wanted him to turn himself in and he lost it because he likely thought he could rekindle that love.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:I don’t think he spoke with her solely because his body language conveyed anger and frustration, but not longing or remorse. I got the sense he was met by a gatekeeper of some sort who wouldn’t let him through.
I agree. When did Jimmy ever display anger at Kim?
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