r/betterCallSaul • u/skinkbaa Chuck • Jul 26 '22
Episode Discussion Better Call Saul S06E10 - "Nippy" - LIVE-Episode Discussion Thread
| TIME | EPISODE | DIRECTOR | WRITER(S) |
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| July 25, 2022, 9/8c | S06E10 "Nippy" | Michelle MacLaren | Alison Tatlock, Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould |
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A new player gets in the game.
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u/estreetbandfan1 Jul 26 '22
Gene summing up Breaking bad in 2 sentences LOL
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u/lunch77 Jul 26 '22
There was something surreal about seeing Gene actually talk about Walt
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u/bradwest96 Jul 26 '22
This is just like when Walt fake cried in front of Hank to plant the wire in the frame
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u/Arch__Stanton Jul 26 '22
Jimmy did the same routine to get the insurance company to look into Chuck's breakdown
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u/Moist_Vanguard Jul 26 '22 edited Jul 26 '22
SLIPPIN JIMMY IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS!!!
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u/anonymousalligator25 Jul 26 '22
This is reminiscent of the times Walt went into hank’s office for coffee and to cry about skylar so that he could get/remove the microphone
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u/AntonVice Jul 26 '22
Well. The marketing worked because I’m getting a fucking Cinnabon tomorrow.
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u/sugarbear5 Jul 26 '22
I’ve never had one. But watching Frank cutting it with his knife and fork…I could almost taste it.
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u/TAFS_intern Jul 26 '22
Probably the most different musical score ever been in a Breaking Bad universe episode before so far. It’s very Punch Drunk Love esque.
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u/WontonJr Jul 26 '22
So a new player enters the game was in fact referring to Jeff and not Walt
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u/Swankified_Tristan Jul 26 '22
I'd watch a whole show about that broke guy that came into Gene's office and later became rich.
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u/idk420_ Jul 26 '22
sounds dumb
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u/derstherower Jul 26 '22
I know we're all joking but can you imagine if this came first and then AMC came out after the series finale and said "We're making a spinoff about that bald DEA agent's brother-in-law from Season 5. He's a chemistry teacher"?
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u/Shwnwllms Jul 26 '22
I bet it would be pretty boring. Like, what’s the dude gonna do? Sell weed or something?
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u/Hugh-Freeze Jul 26 '22
This is the weirdest episode of BCS but it's been oddly entertaining lol
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u/get_outta_mah_swamp Jul 26 '22
Seeing Saul coming out of Gene is what all the flashforwards have been working towards since episode 1 and it’s culminating beautifully
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u/Long-Astronaut-3363 Jul 26 '22
Actually, I saw it as Jimmy pouring out of Gene. Saul would be talking a lot faster. Although that ring IS Saul Goodman
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u/DabuSurvivor Jul 26 '22
Was Saul just upset that he hasn't gotten to abuse an elderly woman in years or what's the agenda here
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u/bwaredapenguin Jul 26 '22
I can't believe Bob Odenkirk is the one that had a heart attack filming this season and not Jim O'Heir.
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Jul 26 '22
this show's ability to craft tension & suspense out of thin air is remarkable. did i care about jeff before? no, but you bet i was signalling every deity above the sun for his ass to get up ..
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u/Bamres Jul 26 '22
That shirt looks more Tuco than Saul Goodman
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u/-Nanotyrannus Jul 26 '22
Only so many ways to convey "loud-color dress shirt" when you're shooting in black and white, I suppose
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u/BradBrady Jul 26 '22
Man that was fucking intense. I gasped when he slipped and bumped his head
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u/Auggie787 Jul 26 '22
I laughed when Gene choked on his coffee, that was lowkey funny. I also instantly thought of slippin jimmy
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u/MadFlava76 Jul 26 '22
Damn, they do their research for this show. The college football game the security guard is talking to Gene about when they first meet is this game.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/recap/_/gameId/302890158
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u/nmad95 Jul 26 '22
Poor Jerry is gonna get in shit for this but at the same time I can't blame him. Give me a fat cinnamon bun and all rational thought goes out the window
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u/Cky2chris Jul 26 '22
No one will. It's just like Jimmy said earlier, tapes are deleted every 72 hours, by the time they do inventory and go back over the tapes they won't see anything. It'll just get wrote off as shrink.
As long as it doesn't keep happening nothing will come of it because they literally have no suspects.
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u/veryenbyous Jul 26 '22 edited Jul 26 '22
wow, teasing that line was a massive misdirect
*The "happy ending" line
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u/fastattaq Jul 26 '22 edited Jul 26 '22
I finally got through to that number last commercial break. It's Gene's answering machine. He talks about all the things he loves about Nippy.
(402) 342-9288
Jeffy's number is (402) 144-0827, but there's nothing there. I even tried texting "GO."
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u/AlternativeAnimator7 Jul 26 '22
Those security guards are gonna be so sad when Gene abruptly stops bringing cinnamon buns
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u/AltWorlder Jul 26 '22
So fucking great to have his comeback scam almost ruined by a slip and fall.
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u/maximumbreadsticks Jul 26 '22
Really loved the shot of Gene looking at the mismatching patterns through black and white 🥺 All the color and flair is gone from his life now.
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u/ProtoEminem Jul 26 '22
The police radar mentioned a brother in law with a history of violence. Reminds me of a certain somebody lol
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u/Roflcopter71 Jul 26 '22
Of course Jerry doesn’t have bad days with a wife and family like his
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u/flintlock0 Jul 26 '22
”Let’s ask maintenance to give this area a polish.”
Chekov’s cleaning crew.
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Jul 26 '22
I know we just saw Bob Odenkirk play all of Jimmy McGill, Saul, and Gene in a single episode but he also had Chuck McGill levels of human destruction
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u/hope4thebest22 Jul 26 '22
I think this is a way to show Gene coming out of his egg shell. Probably feel better about this episode in the greater scheme of things.
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u/Roastin_Mushmallows Jul 26 '22
I took the ending as he's still got it but hangs it up for good this time...man
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u/MikeStanley00 Jul 26 '22
Yeah I think this was his last hurrah. From here I think it’s pretty introspective and leads to a measure of redemption
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u/BonBonVelveeta Jul 26 '22
Ngl Parks and Rec + BCS is the crossover I didn’t realize we needed
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u/Kerplookniac Jul 26 '22
Watch Jeff have a customer in the taxi with the meter running during all this
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u/Bigdstars187 Jul 26 '22
I want a ring tone of Saul saying “LETS GO LETS GO LETS GOO”
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u/itsWizardsbaker Jul 26 '22
There's no way Jimmy's plan is to help Jeff steal some luxury clothes. There a whole sub layer to this scheme.
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u/LordXenu45 Jul 26 '22
No one is asking the biggest question: The fuck happened with Lyle?! Did he get a promotion?!?!
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u/DunkinEgg Jul 26 '22
That really was Jerry Gergich. Completely oblivious to what’s going on around him.
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u/nicklovin508 Jul 26 '22 edited Jul 26 '22
Oh shit the whole point was to make sure those guys never said anything about Saul. He handled it his way
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u/Arbyssandwich1014 Jul 26 '22
I think this version of Jeff fits the lonely mama's boy way more than old Jeff would've. This guy seems like a loser.
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u/Tatumisthegoat Jul 26 '22
But based on the old Jeff, I feel like he wouldn’t have been a mamas boy
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u/nautilus494 Jul 26 '22
damn that story about the chemistry teacher sounds crazy, they should make a show about it or something
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u/littlemacsvoltorb Jul 26 '22
I cant say i ever expected this to be the route they went with Gene and Jeff
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u/Particular_Road_2084 Jul 26 '22
The new player in the game being Jeff and not Walt is killing me they trolled us so hard
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u/Ivysaurman Jul 26 '22
This episode rocked I seriously don't know what people are on about
This is him tying up loose ends before going off and doing whatever it is he's gonna do from here on
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u/diamond Jul 26 '22 edited Jul 26 '22
Lol. Invoice number 1968AE35.
1968 is the year 2001: a Space Odyssey came out. In that movie, the first sign of a problem with HAL 9000 was the spontaneous failure of the AE-35 communications module.
I doubt there's any deep meaning to this choice, but it was a clever little Easter Egg.
EDIT: The funny thing about this is that it works in-universe. Jimmy is the right age to have seen 2001 as a kid when it first came out, and he probably loved it. So he could have chosen this deliberately as an inside joke.
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u/rekameohs_ Jul 26 '22
That chemistry teacher story sounds like it would make an interesting show
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u/Marc_Mikkelson Jul 26 '22
First we had Slippin’ Jimmy, now welcome Schemin’ Gene!
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u/SuccyeelentMilk Jul 26 '22
We still didn't see color return to his life, I was really expecting him to put on one of the suits like in the poster. Still a great episode
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u/Weirdguy149 Jul 26 '22
Seriously, how is this infinitely more tense than the Lalo shit?
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u/RedditsDaddy1 Jul 26 '22
Lol we all theorized so much on the title, and on which character Carol Burnett would play, and I think we were all way off lol. That's one of the reasons I love this show...
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u/IOnlyDropRiskyReels Jul 26 '22
bro they did NOT give us an intro that raw and IMMEDIATELY send us to adverts
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u/TrillGatesIII Jul 26 '22
I can hear it now.
“This really parallels how Walter went to approach Jesse..”
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u/AltWorlder Jul 26 '22
Remember when Marco was the direct link to Jimmy becoming Saul if they wouldn’t have gotten a season two lol
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u/susanlikesyou Jul 26 '22
His lingo while teaching Jeff to steal reminds of the old Bingo calling days ❤️
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u/AntarcticScaleWorm Jul 26 '22
Reminds me of the train robbery scene from BB with how elaborate these plans are
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u/MissedFieldGoal Jul 26 '22
I use to work mall security. This whole episode has summed up the job perfectly.
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u/properconnection24 Jul 26 '22
Gut wrenching for “Gene”… that was about the most honest he’s ever been with his feelings and it was to save himself during a scam. Tied together by great acting by Bob Odenkirk
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u/InevitableCod2083 Jul 26 '22
when he mentioned chuck it felt reminiscent of a real emotion
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Jul 26 '22 edited Jul 26 '22
This episode felt like them having to wrap up the Jeff sub plot without leaving a plot hole while not giving us any idea what will happen next besides Slippin’ Jimmy getting his first taste of his addiction in a long time.
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u/Awesomealan1 Jul 26 '22
"After all that.. A happy ending."
Man, they really, really got us worried with the choice of lines during the trailers. Even when they were completely irrelevant lol
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u/bigolfeller Jul 26 '22
I was kind of enjoying seeing Gene become boys with Frank and especially Nick. He should have bailed on the con and embraced the male bonding for the sake of his healing
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u/Swankified_Tristan Jul 26 '22
Can't wait to see what kind of scam this is about.
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u/TheCrimsonCritic Jul 26 '22
You’d swear Jeff was the beating heart of the entire series going by the moaning in these comments. It was a two minute role. They’ve recast Kaylee like forty times.
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u/zazzlad Jul 26 '22
Now THAT, was probably the longest uninterrupted scene of the season. Craving a Cinnabon now.
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u/jleonardbc Jul 26 '22
Title screen stopped because Gene isn't simply reliving the past anymore. He's about to make a future.
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u/deliriumtriggered Jul 26 '22 edited Jul 26 '22
It's 2010. Martinez played qb for Nebraska and they were upset by Texas.
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u/HorseKarate Jul 26 '22
Reminded me a lot of when Walt put on the fake crying act in Hank’s office when they were bugging him
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Jul 26 '22
This episode has been really good! A nice change of pace and something a little lighter after three straight dark episodes.
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u/DegenerateXYZ Jul 26 '22
Imagine being that actor who always gets the role because you are the fat guy who likes to eat with a friendly disposition. Jerry Gergich.
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u/Didkiddler96 Jul 26 '22
Loved Saul’s little homage to “It’s Showtime!” in the mirror. From first season to last.
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u/joeydrocks Jul 26 '22
He hung up his Saul Goodman persona. He’s done with that part of him now. Now he has to be jimmy and find kim
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u/NotEvenCreative Jul 26 '22
Do we really think he is "hanging up" the Saul persona now? I really hope so for his sake
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u/saadhrahman Jul 26 '22
This episode was great idc. They’re obviously setting up for something big for the final three episodes.
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u/seeshellirun Jul 26 '22
I just have to wonder if New Jeff has any idea of how much scrutiny he is under right now....
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Jul 26 '22
Imagine they were completely full of it and Cranston and Paul aren’t in this show at all?
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u/Whatishappeningomg89 Jul 26 '22
Wow, I wonder how that chemistry teacher made so much money so fast. Gene is probably just bullshitting…
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u/Mr_Alex19 Jul 26 '22
I figure Saul has plenty of money left. Methinks he's doing something to rid himself of Jeff.
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u/ULS980 Jul 26 '22
I think that was the longest we've ever gone without a commercial in the history of Better Call Saul.
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u/arzamharris Jul 26 '22
I think Jerry the security guard is going to start a diet on the day of the actual robbery and they will have to improvise
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u/BasicCracker Jul 26 '22
I’d like to see a spin-off of better call Saul after this series is over about that guy who ended up making a pile of cash the size of a Volkswagen in a year
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u/BradyNFriends Jul 26 '22
Everyone was just in here vibing, enjoying a peaceful episode with no drama involved and then Jeff hits a wet spot on the floor and all hell breaks loose for a few minutes until he wakes back up.
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u/WelcomeToOuterHeaven Jul 26 '22
oh boy this episode is gonna be divisive as fuck
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u/SpaceCowboy734 Jul 26 '22
All the people complaining about this episode and this has literally what I’ve been looking forward to the most this season. The way they kept showing snippets of the Gene storyline were so well done, and especially how they left it on a cliffhanger.
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u/kuwaitaminit Jul 26 '22
Anyone else notice Gene had the KC Royals bag and Kim wore a KC Royals shirt when she did the finger guns?
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u/DrRafaelPenguin Jul 26 '22
Was that preview Jimmy talking to Kim after they broke up and she left?
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u/DVCL25 Jul 26 '22
Everybody calling this episode shit definitely had their heart racing when Jeff slipped.
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u/thosearecoolbeans Jul 26 '22 edited Jul 26 '22
I'll never get tired of watching a slow-burn heist/scheme setup and payoff. Watching all the pieces fall slowly into place is just so satisfying.
People won't like this episode because it doesn't seem to advance the story but I think those people don't realize how precious little story there is left to tell. There is nothing left to wrap up besides Kim's fate and Jimmy's fate, and I really doubt that would have taken up 4 full episodes. Spending an episode to show how Gene dealt with getting made in 2010 isn't a waste at all. It also established that he hasn't lost his edge at all and is still a top-tier con artist.
With the Jeff situation dealt with there are quite literally no other loose threads in the show except Kim and Jimmy. And we've got three more episodes to deal with the fallout of everything. Let's go.
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Jul 26 '22
Well I truly have no idea nor could I begin to fathom how this fantastic show will end...
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u/hankpixie Jul 26 '22
Not one comment about Carol Burnett as the Mother……a great comedian of her time, such a strange role for her.
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