Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad (2008)

57 mistakes in season 4

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Salud - S4-E10

Other mistake: Don Eladio tells Gus that every two years he has to give him a "paliza" which the subtitles translate as "a spank". A spank is an "azote" (Spanish) or "nalgada" (Mexican Spanish). A "paliza" is a beating, way more violent than a spank.

Sacha

Bullet Points - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: Walt comes over to Jesse's house to tell him about Hank investigating Gale's murder. Jesse is shaving some guy's head. In one shot, the guy getting shaved has less hair. More hair instantly appears seconds later. (00:26:20)

manthabeat

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Face Off - S4-E13

Continuity mistake: When Gus walks towards the nursing home towards the end of the episode, two flags in the background stop waving, but in the next shot they suddenly wave again.

Problem Dog - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: Skyler makes Walt return the Challenger to the car dealership, but Walt decides to take it to a parking lot and spin donuts with it. Just before he crashes, he's spinning clockwise, starts to lose control, and tries to correct it by turning the steering wheel sharply to the left. However, from the overhead shot, the marks on the pavement indicate he was spinning counter-clockwise and tried to correct by turning right. (00:05:50)

djm

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Thirty-Eight Snub - S4-E2

Continuity mistake: When Walt is practicing his pistol draw in his apartment, he drags over a chair in which to sit during his practice. When he is dragging it, he aligns it directly against the carpet. However, a few seconds later, another shot shows that the chair is now inches away from the carpet, despite him never adjusting the chair.

Mechanic1c

Crawl Space - S4-E11

Continuity mistake: In the opening scene, the medical team is treating Gus. The oral syringe of medication is drawn to "1", in the next scene, it is completely full when the man administers the drug. (00:01:20)

Salud - S4-E10

Continuity mistake: After Gus goes to the restroom, there's a shot of the cartel leader smoking a cigar as he turns to look at Jesse. The cigar is burnt down nearly to the band around it where his fingers are. When it cuts to a different angle to him taking it out of his mouth, suddenly there is much more cigar left above that band.

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Bug - S4-E9

Continuity mistake: At the start of the episode, Marie is escorting Hank out to Walter's car and is behind him when she makes a bee buzzing sound. It cuts to a different angle as Walt walks around his car and suddenly she's walking directly to Hank's right.

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Problem Dog - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: After Walt makes the ricin poison and Jesse is holding it in the little vial, the position Jesse is holding it changes between shots. Holding it in one hand up looking at it from side angles, to the front angle view him holding it more outstretched and in both hands.

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Bullet Points - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: After Walt and Junior are about to go see Hank's mineral collection, Hank's front door is still open. The camera cuts to Hank for a moment as he turns his wheelchair to move down the hall and Walt and Junior soon follow. In the next shot, suddenly the front door has closed by itself. There was not enough time for Walt to have closed it and it would have been heard if he did.

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Box Cutter - S4-E1

Continuity mistake: At the Denny's, when Jesse says "Him and us, we get it" he reaches down with his right hand and picks up his knife. Sitting on the plate next to his knife is his fork. But in the next shot, suddenly his fork is in his left hand.

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Face Off - S4-E13

Continuity mistake: When destroying the lab, Walt hits the 6 drums with an axe, hitting each drum only once as shown by 1 hole being in each drum. However he is seen swinging and connecting with the barrels 7 times. (00:43:00)

Ssiscool

Face Off - S4-E13

Continuity mistake: When Gus is walking across the car park near the end, he approaches the grass circle in the middle from the behind shot. However from the front shot he is past the big circle. Not something that can happen instantly. (00:35:00)

Ssiscool

Face Off - S4-E13

Continuity mistake: When Hector is talking to the DEA, Merkert flips the page on his notebook and leaves a page attached but turned over. Camera cuts and he does the same action. (00:24:30)

Ssiscool

Face Off - S4-E13

Continuity mistake: When Marie is on the phone to Walt trying to get him to come to their house, Skyler is cradling Holly up to her face in some shots and against her chest in others.

Ssiscool

Hermanos - S4-E8

Other mistake: We see Gus watching the camera feed on his laptop. The camera is seen panning, despite not being controlled by Gus. The camera shown does not automatically pan. (00:05:45)

Ssiscool

Problem Dog - S4-E7

Continuity mistake: Walt unloads the money that's hidden in the drinks cases. He removes the Pepsi Max case and puts it on the floor, leaving the Coca-Cola case on top. Camera changes and the Pepsi Max case is now back on top. (00:15:00)

Ssiscool

Salud - S4-E10

Continuity mistake: There is an X on the back of the black Hummer during behind shots. It disappears approximately 10 seconds later.

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Caballo sin Nombre - S3-E2

Trivia: There is a scene in this episode where Walter angrily tosses a box of pizza in the air in such a way that the pizza exits the box and lands on his roof. Before filming this scene, the crew had wondered how many takes would be required to achieve the desired result. Bryan Cranston nailed it on the first try.

Phaneron

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Caballo sin Nombre - S3-E2

Question: When Saul buys Jesse's house from his parents, he said that he showed their lawyer, Mr. Gardner, "all the pertinent financials", meaning $875,000 in cash available to buy the house. Jesse only had $450,000 and that money was not in any account. How did Saul show Mr. Gardner that he had $875,000 in cash?

dweezel7

Answer: Saul is a criminal himself. It's not past his capabilities to forge some documents to show the 857k is available.

Ssiscool

Forged documents by Saul is most likely the correct answer.

The_Iceman

Answer: Saul has a stash of cash himself, hidden in his office. It's possible he used some of that instead as part of the scheme instead of having to go through the effort of falsifying documents.

Phaneron

Answer: In all likelihood, he sold some more meth.

Captain Defenestrator

At the time, they were not producing enough Meth to get that much money in the time frame of the events.

Ssiscool

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