Breaking Bad

Season 2

Seven Thirty-Seven

1. When Walt is flipping through channels while blocking out the sound of Skyler calling his name, one of the channels says "plants for you, better call Saul!"
2. When extracting ricin from Castor beans it is extremely important to keep external contamination, even at the germ level, out of the process. That is the reason Walt is so careful about touching the raw beans. Ricin itself is not that fragile. It is during the process of extraction that the bean is sensitive.
3. When Gonzo and No-Doze are originally introduced in season 1, their names are reversed in the credits: Jesus Payan is credited as 'No-Doze' and Cesar Garcia as 'Gonzo'. At the end of season 1 and for the remainder of season 2, their character names are reversed. In the spin-off "Better call Saul", both are back the other way round again.
4. First and only time Skyler sees Walt in his Heisenberg hat.
5. Season two episodes one, four, ten, and thirteen spell out "seven-thirty-seven down over ABQ". Which is what all the flash forwards seen through out the second season have been foreshadowing.
6. The title refers both to how much money Walt says he needs to earn ($737,000) and to the plane crash (between a charter plane and a 737) which caused the scene in the flash-forwards throughout season 2.

Grilled

1. The character of Tuco Salamanca was originally going to be much bigger, and become Walt's nemesis for much of season 2. Unfortunately, there was a scheduling conflict with the actor Raymond Cruz appearing in TNT's The Closer (2005). So the character was written out. Cruz later admitted he wasn't sorry for this, since Tuco was such an intense and draining character to play. He did, however, agree to return as Tuco in the prequel series Better Call Saul (2015).
2. When Tio is trying to get Tuco's attention he is ring his bell in a specific pattern, three rings in quick succession followed by three rings spaced out and three more quick rings, which is Morse Code for S.O.S.
3. When Tuco takes Walter prisoner, he reads his driver's license as Walter Hartwell White. Walter's middle name was revealed the first time after the very first episode, in one of the earliest lines of dialogue, when he makes the video recording for his family on Jesse's camcorder while expecting to be cornered by the police and fight his last stand in his underpants and green shirt, next to the crashed RV in the desert.
4. When Tuco gets Walter and Jesse out of the car and into the house, there is a Mexican movie ("El mago" starring Cantinflas) playing on TV being watched by Tio Salamanca. The person seen on the screen is Ramiro Gamboa, who would be known as el Tío Gamboín in the 60's, a sort of Mr. Rogers for Mexican children.
5. "Dry 'n Tidy" is the brand name on the box of diapers that Walt uses to transfer his money and gun from the heating vent.

Bit by a Dead Bee

1. On the DVD extras for season 2 Vince Gilligan says that the scriptwriters told him the title was from a line in the Humphrey Bogart film 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. This is incorrect, the title is a line from the Bogart and Bacall film 'To Have and Have Not'. However a reference to 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre' would be more relevant to the plot of Breaking Bad.
2. When Jesse is released by Hank he's in front of 400 Gold Av. SW, Albq., N.M. Coincidentally, there is an historic Federal Building in the same block, the Federal Building and United States Courthouse, built in 1930, located at 421 Gold Avenue SW in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is part of the complex of federal buildings on Gold Avenue.
3. The Muzak song playing in the market when Walter is standing naked is "Feel Like Makin' Love," made popular by Roberta Flack.

Down

1. Jesse's middle name is revealed to be Bruce.
2. As Jesse begins to choke Walt on the floor of the RV, the camera angle and position of Walt's body eerily resemble the final scene of the series, when Walt is lying on the ground after his last cook.

Breakage

1. Jesse calls Walter "Walt" for the first of only two times in the series run. All other times Walt is known to Jesse as "Mr. White"
2. The song that Hank sings while he is brewing is a 1970s advertising jingle for Löwenbräu.
3. Name of towing company (and same place RV was stored) as labeled on side of the truck is called "Crank It Up". Crank is another street name for meth
4. While Jesse is talking to Jane about the house, he walks over to the sink and turns on the garbage disposal and it scares him. This is a reference to a movie Aaron Paul was in called The Last House on the Left (2009) In the movie Aaron's character, Francis, gets his hand shoved into the sink drain and the garbage disposal gets turned on. The movie was released one month before this episode aired on television.
5. First appearance of Jane.

Peekaboo

1. Aaron Paul submitted this episode for nomination for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for the 2009 Emmy Awards.
2. As of 2012, this is one of only two episodes in the series where Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul do not share any scenes together. The other is Breaking Bad: Salud (2011).
3. The little boy Jesse plays peekaboo with, is actually played by two actors (twins)
4. When Walter is talking to Skyler about Gretchen cutting off the money for Walt's treatment, Walter uses the phrase "yada, yada, yada." Bryan Cranston starred in a Seinfeld episode titled The Yada Yada.

Negro Y Azul

1. In the second scene that takes place at the National Atomic Museum, an educational recording can be heard which says "Germany, headed by Werner Heisenberg, were also undertaking ... [becomes inaudible]" Werner Heisenberg was the German theoretical physicist whose name inspired Walter White's alias.
2. When Badger, Skinny Pete, and Combo are at The National Museum of Nuclear Science & History, the song "Bert the Turtle" is heard. "Tortuga" (played by Danny Trejo) is Spanish for "turtle".
3. The title of this episode, "Negro Y Azul", translates to "Black and Blue".
4. In scene where Hank meets "Tortuga" (Danny Trejo) the song playing in the background is "El Corrido de Kiko".

Better Call Saul

1. In the final scene, Walter White is grading the exam of a student named Matt Feight. This name also appears in episode 5.1 "Live Free or Die".
2. Saul Goodman wants the money order for his services to Badger made out to a fictional 'Ice Station Zebra Associates', the same name he and Kim Wexler gave their fictitious software company in their second scam in the second season of the spin-off series, 'Better Call Saul'.
3. The crawler text during the Better Call Saul TV commercial reads, 'Not actual clients, paid actors representing testimonials, affidavits on file - ¡Se habla espanol!'
4. When Walt and Jesse threaten Saul out in the desert wearing ski-masks and holding guns to Saul's face beside a shallow grave, Saul says to Jesse "Take the ski-mask off, I feel like I'm talking to the weather underground here." Weather Underground was an American radical left wing militant organization formed in 1969, that issued major bombing campains against numerous American Federal facilities in protest of the Vietnam War.
5. Here are the names shown in the opening credits, with that person's chemical abbreviation letters, and the full name of that element in the periodic table of elements: Bryan Cranston - Br - Bromine; Anna Gunn - Na - Sodium (Natrium); Aaron Paul - Ar - Argon; Dean Norris - N - Nitrogen; Betsy Brandt - Be - Beryllium; 'Dj. Qualls' - Al - Aluminium; Krysten Ritter - Kr - Krypton; Matt Jones - At - Astatine; Steven Michael Quezada - H - Hydrogen; Skip Macdonald - Ac - Actinium; Robb Wilson King - W - Tungsten (Wolfram); Michael Slovis - Ch - (Ch is not an element of the periodic table.); Dave Porter - Po - Polonium; Sharon Bialy - S - Sulfur; Sherry Thomas - Y - Yttrium; Sam Catlin - Ca - Calcium; Stewart Lyons - Ar - Argon; Melissa Bernstein - Be - Beryllium; John Shiban - Ba - Barium; Mark Johnson - O - Oxygen; Karen Moore - Mo - Molybdenum; Peter Gould - Te - Tellurium; Terry McDonough - Er - Erbium.
6. When Walt and Jessie take Saul out to the desert tied-up and blindfolded, he pleas with them that "it wasn't me, it was Ignacio". Ignacio, or " Nacho " is a character in "Better call Saul" who was planning to make moves against members of the Cartel.
7. There are two references of the tv show "Prison Break" in this episode. The mugshot of Jimmy is the same mugshot used for Jimmy Daniels' character as Oscar Shales. Saul also compares Walt to D.B. Cooper who was a famous prisoner at Fox River.
8. In the opening scene of "Better Call Saul" the viewer gets his first introduction to Saul Goodman from the ad on the bus stop bench bearing his name. When the undercover cop sits down on the bench next to Badger, the two conceal appropriate letters of "Better Call Saul" to make it read "Balls". This is when the viewer gets his true introduction to the sleazy Yellow Page lawyer.

4 Days Out

1. Aaron Paul has stated that this episode was his favorite from breaking bad
2. At about 17 minutes, a Lilly of the Valley flower can be seen in the foreground of The Crystal Ship.
3. When Jane gets out of bed at Jesse's place and goes to the kitchen to get something to eat, the cereal she pours is Cap'n Crunch Crunchberries. The same cereal appears later when Walter is going through the food that Jesse brought in the RV for their marathon cook session. This is presumably a veiled reference to Jesse's street name at the beginning of the show, "Cap'n Cook".

Over

1. Betsy Brandt is pregnant during this season. You can tell with the purse placement, pillow placement and such always covering her belly.
2. When Jesse shows Jane (Krysten Ritter) his sketches of his imaginary Superheros, she pokes fun at him; to which he retorts "Like you never wanted a superpower." Krysten would eventually go on to star in the NETFLIX series as "Jessica Jones" who's a Marvel Comics superhero with super-strength, durability, telepathic resistance and flight.
3. When Jesse cracks the eggs into the pan he says "This is your brain on drugs". This is a reference to an 80's PSA that used eggs to symbolize your brain and then the eggs are scrambled to symbolize your brain on drugs.
4. In one scene Jesse attempts to cook Jane a surprise breakfast. When Jane walks in, Jesse says "Ah, you weren't supposed to wake up," to which Jane replies "Like, ever?" potentially foreshadowing Jane's death in her sleep just a few episodes later.

Mandala

1. First appearance of Giancarlo Esposito as Gustavo "Gus" Fring.
2. First appearance of Los Pollos Hermanos
3. Sam McMurray plays an aggressive cancer surgeon just like his role as Dr. Kennedy in The Sopranos.
4. Sam McMurray (Dr. Victor Bravenec) guest starred in Season 2 Episode 16, Traffic Ticket, of Bryan Cranston's (Walter White) old show, Malcolm in the Middle (2000). He played a police officer looking to strike a deal with Cranston's on show wife.
5. Mandala means Circle in Sanskrit, which is a reference to the episode starting with the death of Combo and ending with Skyler going into labor.

Phoenix

1. The website that Walter Jr. makes for his father "Save Walter" Is currently active. The donation button will actually redirect visitors to the Breaking Bad portion of the AMC website (savewalterwhite.com).
2. Jane's father, Donald Margolis, drives a Lincoln Aviator, a similar kind of car as Walter White, another point to underscore how similar the two men are. Seen from the front in the last episode of the series, you could for a moment even think it was a Buick Rendezvous, which is a re-badged Pontiac Aztek, which is the actual car of Walter White. But that would probably have been a little too much on the nose.
3. In the original scripted ending, Walter deliberately pushes Jane on her back so that she will choke and die. But Bryan Cranston and AMC had doubts about Walter going that far. Cranston suggested for Walter to try to wake Jesse up causing Jane to turn over. Then, Walter does not realize that Jane is choking until it's too late. Vince Gilligan ended up writing a compromise between the two ideas.
4. A "Phoenix", which is the name of the episode, is the bird that mythology symbolizes rebirth. In this episode one man loses his daughter and one man gains a daughter.
5. The scene in which Jane dies, Bryan Cranston wrote about in his autobiography. It was his first chapter and he wrote about it from the point of view of Walter White and then goes on to talk about how greatly the scene effected himself as an actor.
6. About halfway through the episode, a scene displays Walt and Marie ensuring that Holly is placed on her side to sleep so that she doesn't choke on spit-up. This foreshadows the end of the episode when Jane dies because Walt refuses to turn her on her side to stop her from choking on her vomit.
7. In the scene where Jane dies, the vomit Krysten Ritter chokes on was a mixture of Mylanta and oatmeal.

ABQ

1. According to Aaron Paul, when Mike is smacking Jesse, Jonathan Banks was really smacking him without holding back.
2. Jonathan Banks character, Mike, was only introduced to fill a gap created by Bob Odenkirk's absence in the final episode of season 2, as he was filming for another role; Arthur Hobbs on 'How I Met Your Mother'. Mike went on to be credited in 28 episodes, and appears along side Saul in 'Better Call Saul'.
3. The photograph on Jane's bedroom wall is a photo of poet Elizabeth Bishop. Bisshop is Vince Gilligan's favorite poet.
4. In the scene where Walt Jr. is in his room receiving money on the donation website, the ding sound is the same as the bell Tuco's uncle uses to communicate.
5. The magenta sweater Walt is wearing is the same color as the stuffed toy that falls from the airplane into the family's pool.
6. David House portrays Walt's oncologist. In a sad twist of irony, his life was cut short on November 27th, 2016 because of cancer. He was 58.
7. When Jane Margolis' father is in her room, looking for clothes for her burial, a mural on the wall includes a falling teddy bear. Later on, a teddy bear falls into the Whites' swimming pool.
8. The titles of the second season episodes featuring the cold open with the pink teddy bear reveal the ending: "Seven-Thirty-Seven Down Over ABQ".
9. ABQ is the airport code for Albuquerque International Airport, while Donald Margolis works at Albuquerque ARTCC, also called ZAB.
10. Walter White's indirect actions on the show lead to a mid-air collision over his neighborhood in Albuquerque. In 1986, Aeromexico Flight 498 collided with a private plane over the neighborhood of Cerritos, CA. One of the reasons behind the crash was the distraction of the junior air traffic controller handling Flight 498 by another private plane in the area. The air traffic controller's name was Walter White.
11. When Hank is holding up the Walter White donations tub in the DEA office, for a brief moment Walt's mugshot on the tub runs perfect fit into the 'WANTED' display in the background. Foreshadowing that he will be WANTED for the Blue Crystal supply in the South West eventually.