125 Fun Facts About Better Call Saul

What was Jimmy McGill's initial role at Hamlin, Hamlin & McGill (HHM)?

Mailroom Staff: Jimmy sorted HHM's post while earning a law degree by correspondence, and when he passed the bar it was Chuck, not Howard, who secretly kept the firm from hiring him.

Which battered car, yellow with one mismatched red door, does Jimmy McGill drive for most of Better Call Saul?

Suzuki Esteem: the cheap, mismatched car marks Jimmy as a lawyer scraping by, and it dies in the desert in season five, when he and Mike push the broken-down wreck off the road.

Which pricey tequila do Jimmy McGill and Kim Wexler trick a boastful businessman into buying in 'Switch'?

Zafiro Añejo: Jimmy and Kim stick Ken Wins with a bottle of the fictional tequila in 'Switch'; the same brand is the poisoned bottle Gus uses on Don Eladio in Breaking Bad's 'Salud'.

All but one of Better Call Saul's season-one episode titles end in which letter?

O: 'Uno', 'Mijo', 'Marco' and the rest all end in it, and the odd one out, 'Alpine Shepherd Boy', was meant to be 'Jell-O' until the brand's owner refused permission.

What legal work pays Jimmy McGill's bills when Better Call Saul begins?

Public defence: the pilot shows him paid just $700 for defending three teenagers at trial, when he had counted on $700 for each, and he complains bitterly about the cheque.

Before moving to Albuquerque, what job did Mike Ehrmantraut hold in Philadelphia?

Police officer: Mike was a corrupt Philadelphia cop, and when he urged his son Matt to take the same dirty money, Matt's hesitation got him killed by fellow officers.

What does Lalo Salamanca fix to his uncle Hector's wheelchair so that the stroke victim can communicate?

A hotel desk bell: Lalo kept it as a souvenir of the night his uncle burned down a hotel whose owner had slighted him, and he straps it to the wheelchair as a gift.

Who portrays the character of Kim Wexler in "Better Call Saul"?

Rhea Seehorn joined when the writers had planned little for Kim beyond a possible love interest, and by the final season she was also directing, taking charge of the episode 'Hit and Run'.

Which game is Jimmy McGill running at a senior centre when he melts down in Better Call Saul's first-season finale?

Bingo: a run of B-numbers sets him brooding on his brother's betrayal, and his cheerful patter curdles into a bitter rant in front of the players.

Jimmy McGill's elder-law practice uncovers fraud at which retirement-home chain?

Sandpiper Crossing was overcharging its own residents, and Jimmy found the proof by climbing into its dumpster for shredded papers that he and Chuck pieced back together.

Better Call Saul's record-setting 2015 premiere aired straight after which hit drama?

The Walking Dead: the pilot was scheduled directly after the zombie hit's midseason return, and that lead-in helped the spin-off to the highest-rated series premiere cable had then seen.

In Better Call Saul's first-season finale, which film star has Jimmy posed as to charm a woman?

Kevin Costner: the lie unravels the morning after, and it pays off a boast from Breaking Bad, where Saul tells Walter White he once convinced a woman he was the actor.

By its last Emmy ceremony in January 2024, Better Call Saul had set which record?

Most nominations without a single win: the series went 0 for 53 at the Primetime Emmys, a blank made stranger by its parent show, Breaking Bad, which took home 16.

In a Better Call Saul flash-forward, the trapped 'Gene' scratches which initials into a wall?

SG: he carves 'SG was here' with a loose screw, because the only way out is a fire door that would summon the police, so he waits over two hours for a cleaner.

Jimmy McGill's old nickname 'Slippin' Jimmy' came from which of his hustles?

Slip-and-fall accidents: every winter he hunted out icy patches, staged a tumble and squeezed money out of whoever was to blame, a past he boasts about to two skateboarding scammers in 'Uno'.

Jimmy McGill earned a law degree by correspondence from which fictional institution?

The University of American Samoa: Jimmy took its distance course in secret and surprised his brother by passing the bar, only for Chuck to sneer years later that it made him no real lawyer.

What is Jimmy's full real name?

James Morgan McGill: he buries the name for years behind the Saul Goodman brand, then reclaims it in the finale, telling a courtroom that he is McGill, not Saul Goodman.

Kim Wexler was raised in several towns in which state?

Nebraska: Kim grew up in Red Cloud and other small towns, and a flashback shows the schoolgirl refusing to get into the car with her drunk mother and walking home instead.

Out of water on a desert trek in 'Bagman', what does Jimmy McGill end up drinking?

His own urine: Mike tells him to save it in his water bottle as a last resort, and once Jimmy has walked into the road as bait for the last gunman, he swigs it down and trudges on.

In seasons one and two, Kim was almost never seen without which 'all business' styling choice?

A tight ponytail: Kim's severe ponytail was her seasons one and two signature, and later how loosely it was tied became a coded signal of her inner turmoil.

Which rival firm offers Kim a job after one of its partners notices her courtroom skill?

Schweikart & Cokely: after watching Kim in court in 'Bali Ha'i', Rich Schweikart offers her a job over lunch; she declines, going solo beside Jimmy, but joins the firm in season four.

When Jimmy McGill first crosses paths with Mike Ehrmantraut in season one, Mike is working which job?

Courthouse parking attendant: Mike refuses to raise the barrier whenever Jimmy is short of validation stickers, a running feud that ends once Mike needs a lawyer and asks for him by name.

Which 1980s crime drama convinced the producers to cast Jonathan Banks as Mike?

Wiseguy: Jonathan Banks played FBI handler Frank McPike on the 1987–90 series, and Breaking Bad's writers, fans of the show since their student days, cast him as Mike on the strength of it.

In 'Five-O', Jimmy spills coffee over a Philadelphia detective so that Mike can steal what?

His notebook: Mike lifts it while dabbing at the detective's jacket, and its pages reveal who set the Philadelphia police on him, his own daughter-in-law.

What are the names of Mike's daughter-in-law and granddaughter, whom he moves to Albuquerque to support?

Stacey and Kaylee: Stacey is Matt's widow and Kaylee his daughter; Mike moved to Albuquerque to be near them, and the money from his dangerous work is meant for Kaylee's future.

Chuck McGill believes he suffers from what condition?

Electromagnetic hypersensitivity: Chuck strips the power from his home and stays away from the office, yet a hospital doctor shows it is psychosomatic by switching on his bed's controls without him noticing.

Which literary character was Chuck McGill first modelled on, before he became Better Call Saul's antagonist?

Mycroft Holmes: the writers first pictured Chuck as a damaged but supportive older brother in the mould of Sherlock's sibling, with Howard as the villain, until watching the actors flipped the roles.

What is the title of Better Call Saul's season-three finale, in which Chuck McGill dies?

Lantern: the title names the gas lamp Chuck works by at home, and the finale ends as it is knocked from his desk and sets the house ablaze.

What is the name of Chuck McGill's ex-wife, from whom he hides his illness?

Rebecca Bois: a concert violinist who divorced Chuck before the series, she is kept unaware of his condition until Jimmy brings her to his bar hearing in 'Chicanery'.

Which actor plays Lalo Salamanca?

Tony Dalton arrived as a recurring guest, was promoted to the main cast the following season, and so impressed a Marvel producer as Lalo that she cast him in Hawkeye.

In which season-six episode is Lalo killed by Gus Fring?

Point and Shoot: in the season-six midseason return Gus shoots Lalo in the dark of the superlab excavation with a pistol he had hidden on site; Lalo is buried there beside Howard.

In which Breaking Bad season did a kidnapped Saul first mention Lalo?

Season 2: in the 2009 episode 'Better Call Saul', a kidnapped Saul kneels in the desert asking 'Lalo didn't send you?', a name the prequel waited nine years to explain.

How does Nacho Varga try to kill the Salamanca patriarch?

Swapping his heart pills for placebos: Nacho replaces the old man's nitroglycerin capsules with ibuprofen-filled fakes; Gus discovers the plot and turns Nacho into his mole.

What kind of business does Nacho's father Manuel run?

An upholstery repair shop: when the Salamancas decide to run their drug trade through the honest family business, Nacho turns on his own boss to keep his father out of it.

What is the licence plate on Howard Hamlin's dark green Jaguar XJ8?

NAMAST3: Jimmy first notices the plate as Howard drives away from a lunch in season five, and in the final season he takes that very Jaguar with a copied key so a witness will recognise it.

In which season-six episode is Howard murdered by Lalo?

Plan and Execution: the season-six midseason finale ends with Lalo walking into Jimmy and Kim's apartment and shooting Howard mid-sentence, moments after Howard confronted them over their con against him.

Gus Fring's second legitimate business, besides his chicken restaurants, is what?

An industrial laundry: Lavandería Brillante, Gus's commercial laundry, hides the entrance to the superlab being dug beneath it.

In the episode 'Piñata', Gus tells a comatose rival a childhood story about tending what in Chile?

A lúcuma tree: young Gus trapped the coati that raided its fruit and, rather than kill the injured animal, kept it alive to suffer, which is what he intends for the patient in the bed.

What was the name of Gus Fring's original business partner, whose murder he spends years avenging?

Max Arciniega: the chemist who started the chicken business with Gus, he was shot beside a cartel boss's pool, and Gus was spared only because of who he had been in Chile.

Under what alias does Jimmy live as a fugitive in the black-and-white flash-forwards?

Gene Takavic: living as 'Gene', Jimmy manages a Cinnabon in an Omaha mall, the new identity bought from the 'disappearer' Ed Galbraith at the end of Breaking Bad.

Which Breaking Bad writer scripted Saul Goodman's debut episode and went on to co-create Better Call Saul?

Peter Gould wrote Saul's 2009 debut and, once his co-creator stepped back from the writers' room during season three, ran the prequel as sole showrunner to the end.

What collection does Nacho steal from pill-dealer Daniel Wormald's house?

Baseball cards: Nacho burgles 'Pryce' Wormald's house for his pill cash and baseball cards, and Mike brokers the cards' return to stop Wormald talking to the police.

Which Breaking Bad character confronts Saul at his plea negotiation in Better Call Saul's finale?

Marie Schrader: she sits across the table and blames Saul for helping the man behind her husband Hank's murder, and he answers by posing as Walter White's terrified victim to squeeze out a lighter deal.

Which detail does Jimmy secretly alter in Chuck's bank paperwork?

A street address: Jimmy swaps two digits of a planned branch's number, so that 1261 becomes 1216 on every page, and the botched filing delays the bank's expansion and costs Chuck the client, who returns to Kim.

Which of these actors plays a character created new for Better Call Saul?

Patrick Fabian's Howard Hamlin was invented for the prequel, so unlike the faces returning from Breaking Bad he had no guaranteed future, and he is shot dead in the final season.

Which comedy legend played Marion, Jeff's mother, in season six?

Carol Burnett: the comedy legend played Marion, Jeff's sharp-eyed mother, whose suspicion of 'Gene' finally brings the law down on him in 'Waterworks'.

Caldera, the fixer who links Albuquerque's criminals with one another, has which legitimate day job?

Veterinarian: he treats Mike's wounded shoulder off the books and brokers underworld jobs from an encrypted black book, a sideline he tells Jimmy he means to give up.

In Better Call Saul's finale, Kim visits Jimmy in prison and the two share what, echoing a scene from the pilot?

A cigarette: they lean on a wall passing it back and forth, as they did in the first episode, and when she leaves he sends her off with a pair of finger guns.

Where does Jimmy find the vanished Kettlemans hiding?

A tent near home: on Mike's hunch that runaways rarely go far, Jimmy searches the wild land behind their house, finds the family camping, and a tug-of-war over a bag spills the stolen cash.

In the flash-forwards, Kim works a desk job for which company in Titusville, Florida?

Palm Coast Sprinkler: Kim writes its sales brochures and lives quietly with a boyfriend named Glenn, until an angry phone call from Jimmy pushes her to fly home and confess.

Besides the district attorney, who else is handed a copy of Kim's written confession in 'Waterworks'?

Cheryl Hamlin: after filing an affidavit with the district attorney, Kim hands Howard's widow Cheryl a copy detailing the con and how Lalo killed him.

How does Marion summon the police when she realises Gene is Saul Goodman?

A Life Alert button: after finding Saul Goodman's old commercials on the laptop Jeff bought her, Marion presses her Life Alert pendant and tells the operator she needs the police.

Which university's law school did Kim attend while HHM paid her way?

University of New Mexico: HHM lent Kim the tuition, and when she later tries to repay the loan Howard refuses the money and accuses her of betraying the firm.

What makes Kim Wexler crash her car in season three?

Falling asleep: Kim has taken on a second client to cover the office she shares with Jimmy, and after nights with little sleep she nods off on the way to a meeting, wrecks the car and breaks her arm.

Why does Kim Wexler propose that she and Jimmy get married in season five?

To gain spousal privilege: straight after a furious row over his blindsiding her in a client meeting, Kim says they must split up or marry, so that whatever he tells her stays protected.

In the 'Axe and Grind' flashback, the teenage Kim is caught doing what before her mother talks her out of trouble?

Shoplifting: her mother plays the outraged parent until the store manager lets them go, then proudly produces the jewellery, which she pocketed herself, and gives it to Kim.

Mike Ehrmantraut was invented for Breaking Bad because Saul Goodman's actor was away filming which sitcom?

How I Met Your Mother: the actor could shoot only three of the four episodes planned for Saul, so a new fixer was written to clean up in the season-two finale, and Mike stayed for good.

Which Madrigal executive puts Mike on the company's books as a security consultant?

Lydia Rodarte-Quayle: she books Mike as a contractor so that his stolen cash can come back to him as clean consulting fees, a no-show job arranged at Gus's request.

Which receptionist works for Jimmy at the office he shares with Kim and returns years later at Saul Goodman's practice?

Francesca Liddy: hired on the spot to answer phones for the shared office, she is still at the front desk in the Breaking Bad years, and after he flees she takes his secret call and tells him Kim asked after him.

Jimmy plants fake cocaine in Howard's locker at a club for which sport?

Golf: Jimmy talks his way into Howard's country club, slips a baggie of fake cocaine into his golf locker and lets Cliff Main see it fall out, an opening move in the scheme to discredit Howard.

What is Nacho Varga's real first name?

Ignacio is the name a kidnapped Saul blurts out in his first Breaking Bad episode, a throwaway line the prequel later built a whole character around.

Lalo is jailed in Albuquerque under which alias?

Jorge de Guzman: arrested for the TravelWire clerk's murder, Lalo gives police that alias, and Saul gets 'Mr. de Guzman' released on bail.

Lalo Salamanca first appears in which season of Better Call Saul?

Fourth: Lalo turns up unannounced late in season four, cooking in the kitchen of the Salamancas' restaurant, nine years after Saul first blurted out his name in Breaking Bad.

What is Lalo's full first name?

Eduardo: 'Lalo' is a Spanish pet form of Eduardo, and the character grew out of a name Saul blurts in a panic in Breaking Bad, nine years before Lalo appeared on screen.

What is the name of the eager assistant manager at Gus Fring's restaurant?

Lyle: the earnest assistant manager scrubs the fryer again and again after closing while an anxious Gus vents on him, then hears his spotless work called merely 'acceptable'.

Who plays Saul's pickpocketing bodyguard Huell Babineaux?

Lavell Crawford: the stand-up comedian's Huell joins the prequel in 'Chicanery', bumping into Chuck on a stairway to plant something in his pocket that undoes Chuck at the bar hearing.

Bob Odenkirk won his first Emmy in 1989 as a writer on which show?

Saturday Night Live: Odenkirk shared SNL's 1989 writing Emmy and created Chris Farley's motivational speaker Matt Foley, first staged at Second City; a second Emmy came for The Ben Stiller Show in 1993.

Which 2021 action film starred and was produced by Bob Odenkirk?

Nobody: Odenkirk starred as suburban dad Hutch Mansell and produced the 2021 thriller, a hit that earned a sequel, Nobody 2, in 2025.

Chuck McGill actor Michael McKean began his career playing Lenny in which sitcom?

Laverne & Shirley: McKean played Lenny Kosnowski on the 1976–83 sitcom, a character he and David Lander had created as students at Carnegie Mellon.

Which pair of aliases do Jimmy and Kim adopt when conning marks together?

Viktor and Giselle: posing as siblings with an inheritance to invest, they let a boastful wealth manager sign them up over rounds of pricey tequila in 'Switch', then leave him holding the tab.

Michael Mando, who plays Nacho, voiced which Far Cry villain?

Vaas Montenegro: Far Cry 3's villain was planned as a hulking brute until Mando's audition persuaded Ubisoft to rebuild the character around his own face, body and voice.

In which season-six episode does Nacho Varga die?

Rock and Hard Place: cornered in the desert, Nacho spits out his contempt for Hector, seizes Bolsa's pistol and shoots himself, dying on his own terms as Mike watches through a rifle scope.

Tony Dalton played which Marvel character in Hawkeye?

The Swordsman: Dalton's Jack Duquesne is a wealthy socialite engaged to Kate Bishop's mother, whereas the comics' Swordsman began as a villain who had mentored the young Hawkeye at a carnival.

In 'Fun and Games', Gus lets his guard down chatting with a man named David, an expert in what?

Wine: David is the sommelier at a bar Gus visits to celebrate, and the two happily trade stories of vintages until Gus, left alone for a moment, turns sombre and slips away.

Mark Margolis appeared in the first six films of which director, starting with Pi?

Darren Aronofsky: Margolis was a fixture of his films from Pi through Noah; earlier, in Brian De Palma's Scarface, he played the hitman Alberto, whom Tony Montana kills to stop a car bombing.

At which strip-mall phone shop does Jimmy work during his suspension from the bar?

CC Mobile: during his suspension Jimmy mans a dead-quiet CC Mobile store, then starts hawking 'privacy' burner phones on the street to the clients Saul Goodman will inherit.

What inspired the deliberately low-quality look of Better Call Saul's title sequences?

Early VHS and public-access TV: the creators wanted each title card to look like a worn tape of 1980s local television, echoing the bargain-basement ads Saul ran in Breaking Bad.

In 'Marco', what do Jimmy and Marco sell during the con in which Marco dies?

A fake Rolex: the grift has Jimmy let a mark 'steal' a counterfeit Rolex off a passed-out drunk for the cash in his wallet; Marco, playing the drunk, suffers a fatal heart attack mid-con.

What did Jimmy do to Chet's car in the act he calls the 'Chicago Sunroof'?

Defecated through the roof: Jimmy's 'Chicago Sunroof' meant defecating through the open sunroof of Chet's car, not knowing Chet's children were in the back seat, which nearly made him a sex offender.

Who does Mike shoot at Gus's order after the man escapes from the super-lab site?

Werner Ziegler: homesick, the superlab's engineer slips away to meet his wife and lets details of the dig slip to Lalo over the phone, so Mike walks him out under the stars and shoots him.

In season six, the disgraced Kettlemans are found running what kind of business?

A tax-preparation service: Betsy and Craig run Sweet Liberty Tax Services, cheating their customers, beneath the inflatable Statue of Liberty that later sits on the roof of Saul's office.

In 'Bagman', who hands Jimmy $7 million in bail money in the desert?

The Cousins: Leonel and Marco Salamanca hand over two duffel bags at a remote pickup site and drive off; gunmen then ambush Jimmy, and he and Mike finish the journey on foot.

Jimmy's mirror pep-talk 'It's showtime, folks!' is lifted from which film?

All That Jazz: in Bob Fosse's 1979 film a pill-popping choreographer greets his mirror with the line every morning, and 'Mijo' borrows it for the montage of Jimmy's daily courthouse grind.

In 'Chicanery', what does Chuck notice Jimmy has removed from his phone?

The battery: Chuck says he feels nothing because Jimmy's phone has no battery, then Jimmy reveals the battery has been in Chuck's pocket for over an hour, courtesy of Huell.

Which ABBA song do Jimmy and Chuck sing at karaoke in Better Call Saul's season four finale?

The Winner Takes It All: in the 'Winner' cold open Chuck joins Jimmy on stage for the ABBA song at his bar-admission karaoke party, a duet that gives the episode its title.

Why did the bar panel initially reject Jimmy's reinstatement in season four?

He was 'insincere': the committee denied reinstatement because Jimmy never mentioned Chuck, then he won the appeal in 'Winner' with a tearful speech about his brother he later admitted was an act.

Where is Jimmy's makeshift law office in the pilot episode 'Uno'?

The back of a nail salon: Jimmy works and sleeps in the cramped back room of a Vietnamese nail salon, and it is there that he tears up a cheque from HHM that he sees as a token payoff for his brother.

Which TV lawyer's look does Jimmy copy to charm elderly clients in season one?

Matlock: Jimmy studies Andy Griffith's folksy attorney on TV, noting every detail of the pale suit, then turns up at a retirement home dressed to match and drums up elder-law business.

Rhea Seehorn stars as novelist Carol Sturka in which 2025 Apple TV series?

Pluribus: reunited with Vince Gilligan, Seehorn plays a novelist who must 'save the world from happiness' after an alien virus turns the rest of humanity into a contented hive mind.

On which streaming service was the animated spin-off Slippin' Jimmy released?

AMC+: the animated shorts about young Jimmy and Marco's misadventures in Cicero landed on AMC's own streaming service on May 23, 2022, timed to coincide with the midseason finale of the parent show's last season.

Saul's first Breaking Bad client is which Jesse associate caught in an undercover drug bust?

Badger: Brandon 'Badger' Mayhew's arrest selling meth to an undercover cop is what brings Walt and Jesse to Saul's strip-mall office in his Breaking Bad debut.

The name 'Saul Goodman' is a play on which phrase?

It's all good, man: Jimmy picks Saul Goodman because it sounds like 's'all good, man', a name he reasons the street clients he sold burner phones to will remember.

What fictional fetish does Jimmy invent to explain Daniel Wormald's hiding place?

Hoboken squat cobbler: Jimmy tells the detectives the hiding place held fetish videos of Daniel sitting in pies, a 'Hoboken squat cobbler', and makes Daniel film one to back the story.

In 'Nailed', where does Chuck faint and hit his head?

A copy shop: Chuck collapses at the all-night copy shop where Jimmy had doctored his documents, hitting his head on the counter while grilling the clerk, Lance, as Jimmy watches from across the street.

In 'Klick', what does Jimmy find plastered on Chuck's walls?

Space blankets: Chuck has lined his walls with space blankets to block the 'electricity', and secretly tapes Jimmy's confession about the doctored documents during the visit.

Lalo's fortified home, raided in 'Something Unforgivable', is in which Mexican state bordering New Mexico?

Chihuahua: after Nacho opens the gate to Gus's gunmen, Lalo kills all but one of them and makes the survivor phone in that the hit succeeded.

Where does Mike wake up after street thugs stab him in season five?

One of Gus's ranches in Mexico: Mike wakes just over the border with his wounds stitched by Gus's doctor, who tells him he is free to leave but would not survive the journey home.

Whom does Kim ask Jimmy to represent against Mesa Verde in season five?

Everett Acker: the Tucumcari homeowner refusing Mesa Verde's buyout; Kim, unable to sway Kevin Wachtell, has Jimmy take Acker's side against her own client.

Which CSI: Miami regular plays Mesa Verde boss Kevin Wachtell?

Rex Linn: CSI: Miami's Frank Tripp plays the bank boss, who gives in to Jimmy's settlement demand once it emerges that the bank's cowboy logo was copied from a photograph without permission.

In 'Black and Blue', Howard challenges Jimmy to what?

A boxing match: in 'Black and Blue' Howard, sure Jimmy is behind the smear campaign, takes him to a gym and challenges him to a boxing match, which Howard wins.

In the season six episode 'Breaking Bad', how is Saul transported by Walt and Jesse?

In the back of their RV: the flashback replays Saul's kidnapping and adds a coda inside the stalled RV, where Saul eyes the lab gear and works out that Walt is the cook known as Heisenberg.

In 'Hit and Run', whom does Jimmy pick up while disguised as Howard?

Wendy: dressed as Howard and driving Howard's own Jaguar, taken with a copied key during his therapy session, Jimmy collects Wendy from the Crossroads Motel and pretends to shove her out in front of Cliff Main.

Why is Chuck arrested and hospitalised in 'Alpine Shepherd Boy'?

Stealing a neighbour's newspaper: desperate to read the story about Jimmy's publicity stunt, Chuck darts outside to grab the neighbour's paper, and the police who respond tase and hospitalise him.

In 'Hero', Jimmy stages a rescue of a man falling from what?

A billboard: Jimmy's billboard apes Howard Hamlin's look and HHM's logo, and when a judge orders it taken down he stages a worker's fall and his own daring rescue for the news cameras.

Which musical does the song Jimmy sings on Kim's voicemail in 'Bali Ha'i' come from?

South Pacific: Kim, then stuck in HHM's document-review room, lets Jimmy's morning call go to voicemail and is left amused as he croons the show tune down the line.

What does Walt do in Breaking Bad to the car of Ken, the braggart conned in 'Switch'?

Blows it up: in Breaking Bad's 'Cancer Man', Walt jams a squeegee under the hood of Ken's 'KEN WINS' car at a gas station and strolls away as it bursts into flames.

What gets Jimmy onto an air base to film beside a bomber in 'Fifi'?

A fake war hero: Jimmy wheels in elderly 'Fudge' as a WWII veteran and, once their escort goes to fetch water, films the old man on his feet in front of the B-29 'FIFI', the plane that gives the episode its title.

In 'Sabrosito', which gift does Hector present to Don Eladio in a 1999 flashback?

A bobblehead mascot: Hector presents the nodding 'Sabrosito' figure from his ice-cream shop with a cash tribute, then is teased by Eladio when Juan Bolsa arrives bearing a far larger tribute from Gus.

What is Jimmy doing as community service in 'Expenses'?

Picking up garbage: suspended from practising, Jimmy spends his community service collecting roadside litter on a highway crew while scrambling to sell TV ads to keep the office afloat.

Which elderly client represents the class in Jimmy's retirement-home lawsuit?

Irene Landry: the sweet lead plaintiff whom Jimmy, desperate for his share, manipulates in 'Fall' by turning her friends against her so she will take the settlement.

In 'Witness', Mike follows a courier and ends up at which location?

Los Pollos Hermanos: the courier's route ends at the chicken restaurant, so Mike sends Jimmy inside to watch the drop, the show's first sighting of Gus Fring.

Who is the only witness at Jimmy and Kim's wedding in 'JMM'?

Huell: Jimmy's pickpocket Huell Babineaux is the witness at the quick, no-frills courthouse ceremony, which Jimmy assures him is a practical arrangement rather than a romantic one.

Which Irish actress plays Mike's widowed daughter-in-law?

Kerry Condon: the Tipperary-born actress plays Matt's widow, to whom Mike finally admits his part in his son's death in 'Five-O'; she also voices Tony Stark's AI F.R.I.D.A.Y. in the Marvel films.

Who plays Clifford Main, managing partner of Davis & Main?

Ed Begley Jr.: his Cliff Main is Jimmy's boss at Davis & Main, goaded into firing him when Jimmy wears garish suits and stops flushing the toilet so that he can keep his signing bonus.

What kills Victor, Gus's henchman in both shows, in Breaking Bad?

A box cutter: Gus slits his loyal henchman's throat with it in front of Walt and Jesse in Breaking Bad's 'Box Cutter'; Jeremiah Bitsui plays Victor in both series.

Which Supernatural actor plays gun dealer Lawson in both Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul?

Jim Beaver: Supernatural's Bobby Singer plays the soft-spoken arms dealer who sells Walt his snub-nosed revolver in Breaking Bad and, years earlier, lays out sniper rifles that Mike decides not to buy.

Which Better Call Saul actor voiced Trevor Philips in Grand Theft Auto V?

Steven Ogg: the voice of GTA V's Trevor Philips plays Sobchak, the loudmouth Mike humiliates while vying for the bodyguard job in 'Pimento'.

Which sport does Gene discuss with mall guard Frank while feeding him Cinnabon rolls in 'Nippy'?

Cornhuskers football: Gene bonds with guard Frank over Cornhuskers football and nightly Cinnabons, buying the minutes Jeff needs out of camera view.

What does Gene offer Jeff in exchange for silence in 'Nippy'?

A department store burglary: Gene lets Jeff in on a heist at the mall, then spells out that it is mutually assured destruction, since turning Gene in would now send Jeff down with him.

What on-set emergency interrupted filming of Better Call Saul's final season in July 2021?

Odenkirk's heart attack: he collapsed on set in July 2021 and crew members revived him with CPR and a defibrillator; he was back at work about six weeks later to finish the season.

In Better Call Saul's finale, flashbacks show Jimmy asking Mike and Walt how they would use what?

A time machine: Walt says he regrets leaving the company he co-founded, while Jimmy would only get rich on an early investment, and another flashback shows Chuck picking up the Wells novel of that name.

In 'Smoke', what does Howard tell Jimmy he believes Chuck's death really was?

Suicide: in 'Smoke' a wrecked Howard tells Jimmy he believes Chuck killed himself after being forced out of HHM, and Jimmy coolly replies that it is Howard's cross to bear.

After Howard offers him a job at HHM in season five, what does Jimmy hurl onto Howard's car?

Bowling balls: Jimmy buys three second-hand and lobs them over Howard's front gate onto the Jaguar, his answer to Howard's olive branch over lunch.

Actor Jonathan Banks says Mike Ehrmantraut is a veteran of which service and war, hinted at when he handles a sniper rifle?

Marine Corps, Vietnam: Banks's backstory for Mike surfaces in 'Gloves Off', where he handles an arms dealer's sniper rifle with easy familiarity and then decides not to buy it.

Madrigal Electromotive, parent company of Gus Fring's restaurant chain, is based in which country?

Germany: Madrigal Electromotive is a German conglomerate, and in Breaking Bad's 'Madrigal' its executive Peter Schuler kills himself with a defibrillator when police arrive to ask about his ties to Gus Fring.