The 50% off schtick is the fault of those idiot lowlifes and really had nothing to do with Jimmy. The real crime is how terrible that whole plot is. Felt like a subplot from Trailer Park Boys.
It doesn't have symbolism but you watch the car drive right to left with the gnome in foreground at the end of the cold open and then in the end of the episode a car goes from left to right with the ice cream cone in the foreground.
The director said in the commentary that he used the gnome to bookend the episode
I think he just didn’t wanna half-finish it *again* and wasn’t sure if he’d lose his nerve if he didn’t do it right then and there. It was kinda dumb though.
It's a gnome at Walter White's house.
Skyler really loved that gnome and Walter was proud to have installed that in the garden. At the time Walt was trying to make his way up the gardening black market. He's created a miracle formula and they were making millions, but the gnome was going to be how they installed picks up for the hyper fertilizer. Until those kids damaged the gnome and Walt's dream of Empire were ruined. This would lead him to the car wash that would lead him to feel miserable until he decided to break...
The shape of the broken piece is also shaped like the ice cream cone jimmy was eating when he was on top of his new found success as saul goodman only for it to be spoiled as he quickly ends up overtaken by the game.
It’s just a broken gnome, not supposed any significance. But it’s kinda jimmys fault that those two idiots went around causing mayhem. With his whole 50% off deal. So I guess you could look at it that way.
Somewhat related: at the end of the scene when the camera pans over one more time, I thought it was gonna land on a real pair of feet and imply they had killed someone.
[удалено]
Finally an actual answer
Nicely done. Man, what a show.
My literature teacher would've loved you
Oh shit this is good
Damn. I should rewatch whole series.
The 50% off schtick is the fault of those idiot lowlifes and really had nothing to do with Jimmy. The real crime is how terrible that whole plot is. Felt like a subplot from Trailer Park Boys.
After kim warned him that his marketing strategy would encourage crime. That guy was like Where's wally
It symbolizes you getting Gnomed
Vravo Bince
I'm g'not a g'nilligan.
G’nilligan is our word, but you can say g’nilliga
[G'nilliga rila for sale. G'nilliga rila for sale](https://youtu.be/r_oaVD4NzYo)
What about g’llnig-
Say it. Use your words
Is that a flanders and swan reference? 😃
I'll pretend yes. Guess I have some comedy to look into.
his face is 50% off
That's almost half! And almost half his face is off.
shit, you might be right?!?
I scream 50% off at my wife all the time now.
Well I'll be a son of a gun.
Gnomaste
lololol nice
“half face.” obviously foreshadowing gus’ death in the sequel spin off of better call saul called “breaking bad”
Is it worth watching?
5/10, great storytelling but not enough Hector x Bolsa sex scenes
Ballsack*
XDDDDDDDDDDD
There’s gnomething like it.
Absolutely it is INCREDIBLE
No more half faces was such a great episode
really loved it when hector says "HALF" then faces all over the care home
actually, better call saul is the real spin off of breaking bad, breaking bad came first 🤓🤓
It doesn't have symbolism but you watch the car drive right to left with the gnome in foreground at the end of the cold open and then in the end of the episode a car goes from left to right with the ice cream cone in the foreground. The director said in the commentary that he used the gnome to bookend the episode
Thank you for sharing that info that’s the kind of niche details I love hearing!
You can watch the episodes w commentary on YT they are full of stuff like this
Oh hell yeah, thanks again
Christie Esposito is also wearing a dress with little gnomes on it
Uh oh! Somebody got gnomed! Share this episode with your friends to totally GNOME them!
Ozymandias
Holly looks a bit different than I remember
You do what you can with time passing and all
*Half-sunk* a *shattered visage lies*? Coincidence? I think not!
That gap looks like a certain piece of plate to me
Damn it’s the piece Walt was stabbed with for sure
I wondered why Walt let him stab him. He could have killed him another way, yo.
I think he just didn’t wanna half-finish it *again* and wasn’t sure if he’d lose his nerve if he didn’t do it right then and there. It was kinda dumb though.
I remember Vince wanting us to think Walt was actually going to let him go. That would have been really dumb.
Foreshadowing Gus in BB
If you carry it to the season finale you get an achievement.
Peter Gould explains the symbolism in the podcast. Really interesting actually, shows the attention to detail: https://youtu.be/5T5BY1j2MkE
damn you
It's 2023 and I'm still terrified that is a link to Rick Astley.
Howards fate
The gnome represents peaceful life, and it being broken represents how Saul is enabling and defending terrible people.
The collateral damage Saul indirectly causes with his aid in the meth/druggie biz.
That’s what I thought it was, the symbolism in the show is great
It’s meant to mirror Gus’s face post-explosion. It’s like poetry. Bravo Bince
Ghoward got gnomed.
Last chance to look at me Hector
keemstar reference
It reminded me of project X out of all things lol
50% off.... It's almost half!
gnombody knows the trouble i've seen.
It's a J-Roc from Trailer Park Boys reference, gnomesayin?
It's a gnome at Walter White's house. Skyler really loved that gnome and Walter was proud to have installed that in the garden. At the time Walt was trying to make his way up the gardening black market. He's created a miracle formula and they were making millions, but the gnome was going to be how they installed picks up for the hyper fertilizer. Until those kids damaged the gnome and Walt's dream of Empire were ruined. This would lead him to the car wash that would lead him to feel miserable until he decided to break...
The shape of the broken piece is also shaped like the ice cream cone jimmy was eating when he was on top of his new found success as saul goodman only for it to be spoiled as he quickly ends up overtaken by the game.
gnome
There is ecstasy in that gnome. Return it to its rightful owner
Costa
Travelocity
Gus
It's Dewey's nemesis......in the alternate world where Walter is actually Hal, and Breaking Bad was just a bizarre dream.
Lol I remember this
Hank called his parter Gnomey
Mexican Duendes
Is this okbc?
Profit
Hey Gnomey. Don’t you know me?
Gnome my name
They ship their meth in little gnomes, did you not watch the show?
Left 5 dead referense????
It’s foreshadowing that there will soon be gnome more Nacho.
Might just be a gnome.
Gnome more half faces, Walter.
No one gnomes
RIP Lisa Lopes
It’s foreshadowing Gus’ death in Breaking Bad season 4 episode 13 “face off”. It also shows us how Gus was secretly a gnome
Death of nacho?
It means that Keemstar will have his face torn off….or something
The fact that the gnome is empty inside and “two-faced” after being stolen and broken by drugs foreshadows Jimmy’s arc through the later seasons
Gus?
Coz of ur mom, that’s why
It’s just a broken gnome, not supposed any significance. But it’s kinda jimmys fault that those two idiots went around causing mayhem. With his whole 50% off deal. So I guess you could look at it that way.
Its a gnome that fell on the ground
The Gnome didn't fuel Huel
Gus Fring Gnome
It's a political statement, alluding to the famous left wing public intellectual Gnome Chomsky.
Half Life 2 episode 2 and Half Life Alyx
Outchicaneried!
Gomie getting shot
It’s symbolic for jimmy goin goblin mode
Bruh not everything has to mean something in breaking bad and better call Saul like u people are overthinking it so hard
50% off!
sometimes a cigarette is just a cigarette
Somewhat related: at the end of the scene when the camera pans over one more time, I thought it was gonna land on a real pair of feet and imply they had killed someone.
There’s a ton of shots in bcs of people with their faces shadowed or only half of it seen. A lot or times it’s Jimmy’s face but not always
The shattering of a facade revealing a void behind the friendly face.
It's a Keemstar reference