Talk:Breaking Bad

Breaking Bad is currently a Media and drama good article nominee. Nominated by FishandChipper 🐟🍟 at 09:08, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

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Why does Rian Johnson's opinion matter enough to garner its own section in the article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.206.61.27 (talk) 07:35, 4 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Articles for some Season 3 episodes?

I noticed some episodes of Season 3, such as One Minute, have no articles. Is there any objection to me creating an article for at least "One Minute?" As in, has this already been discussed in the past? Hummerrocket (talk) 16:35, 25 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I wondered the same thing about sections being added for the episodes not yet included. I'd definitely be interested in helping to contribute to the episode summaries if no one else is currently working on that. Great article! --LauraStephens435 (talk) 03:12, 16 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Los Pollos Hermanos

I created an article for Los Pollos Hermanos, since there's been real-life LPH restaurants as well.--Prisencolin (talk)

Soft(ly)-spoken

This edit changed "soft-spoken" to "softly-spoken". Yes, theoretically an adjective should be modified by an adverb, not by another adjective, but "soft-spoken" is widely used, and it's in my dictionary, while I've never heard "softly-spoken" (or seen it written, until now), and it isn't in my dictionary. I think the edit should be reverted. -- UKoch (talk) 14:14, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

But there is "softly spoken". So either the hyphen should be deleted, or the edit should be reverted. -- UKoch (talk) 14:47, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

It's been reverted. Crimsonite~enwiki (talk) 16:33, 30 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

OK. -- UKoch (talk) 15:17, 2 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Inadequate explanation of title

According to Gilligan, the title is a Southern colloquialism meaning "to raise hell".

The phrase "breaking bad" apparently cannot mean "to raise hell" since it is the wrong part of speech. Additionally, Wiktionary defines the root phrase "break bad" as follows:

1. (colloquial, of an event or of one's fortunes) To go wrong; to go downhill.
2. (colloquial, especially Southern US and Midwestern US, of a person) To go bad; to turn toward immorality or crime.

This is substantially different from the idea of "raising hell" anyway.

Hopefully someone who is familiar with this expression can look at this. 2A00:23C8:7B09:FA01:1AD:5274:51ED:10BC (talk) 20:13, 23 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The actual meaning shouldn't matter as Gilligan's interpretation is all that counts. If he thinks it means "to raise hell" and that's why he chose it for the show then that's just his misunderstaning. Perhaps a line could be added to say that this isn't the actual meaning of to break bad? FishandChipper 🐟🍟 09:07, 19 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Changes From Was to Is

Whomever decided to arbitrarily remove the dates (years of production) and also (apparently), decided to change description of past television shows from was to is without discussion and with some "secret or hidden" instructions not to change it back has literally sent searches away from Wikipedia and to other websites for searches to see if television shows are still in production. This has without a doubt been done without discussion within the PUBLIC Wikipedia community. So before changing it back, explain why you are doing so. I have come across dozens of these changes without any given reason except a coded invisible thing stating "do not change to was" 2600:1700:8A90:ECF0:C12B:82C:21EF:285E (talk) 06:02, 20 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]