Trivia: Saul's rival attorney, later turned defense lawyer, Bill Oakley, has the same name as a writer for The Simpsons. Bob Odenkirk's brother, Bill, is also a writer for The Simpsons.
Phaneron
27th Feb 2024
Better Call Saul (2015)
26th Feb 2024
Better Call Saul (2015)
Trivia: The scene in which Saul tricks a witness on the stand into identifying a defendant that he had swapped out with a doppelganger may be based on a real-life incident from 1994, in which a lawyer swapped out his client with a lookalike, leading to the arresting officer for the case to misidentify the defendant. The judge presiding over the case then ordered a not guilty verdict and held the defense lawyer in contempt for deception. He ended up only having to pay a $400 fine as punishment.
28th Jan 2024
Better Call Saul (2015)
13th Nov 2023
Better Call Saul (2015)
Hit and Run - S6-E4
Trivia: When Kim is sitting down to eat with Clifford Main, she mentions the place gives Java Joe's a run for its money. Java Joe's is actually the name of the real-life coffee shop whose building exterior was used as Tuco's headquarters in Breaking Bad.
21st Mar 2023
Better Call Saul (2015)
Stupidity: Despite being a high-profile fugitive who was a local celebrity in his previous life, Saul does very little to alter his physical appearance, settling on just a mustache and glasses. Growing a beard, wearing a hairpiece, and altering his speaking voice around others would have gone a long way in preventing him from being made.
16th Sep 2022
Better Call Saul (2015)
Question: I know Bob Odenkirk wore a hairpiece in this series, but does Saul Goodman himself wear one, or is it his natural hair? I seem to recall some episodes of Breaking Bad in which you could see a bald spot in the crown area of Saul's head, so if he is wearing a hairpiece, it seems a little odd that he would have an uncovered bald spot, not to mention the flash-forward segments of this show saw him with quite the thinning head of hair despite not taking too long after Breaking Bad.
31st Aug 2021
Better Call Saul (2015)
Trivia: On July 27th, 2021 while filming the sixth and final season, Bob Odenkirk suffered a minor heart attack and collapsed on set.
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Chosen answer: He does a "comb-over", which is a really tacky way of covering a bald patch: letting the hair grow long on one side, then combing it to the other side, over the bald spot. We see him arranging it at the end of S06E09, after the time jump. It's pretty on-brand for Saul. Later, when he becomes Gene, he cuts his hair more "normally" and his baldness is more apparent throughout the scenes in that timeline.