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Breaking Bad is an American crime drama television series created and produced by Vince Gilligan. The show aired on AMC from January 20, 2008, to September 29, 2013, consisting of five seasons for a total of 62 episodes. Better Call Saul, a prequel series debuted on AMC on February 8, 2015.

References to Breaking Bad in The Simpsons

Episodes

Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
23	491	"The Food Wife"	Chief Wiggum calls the people in the meth lab "Breaking Baddies."
24	525	"What Animated Women Want"	Special opening sequence in homage to Breaking Bad. The camera zooms out at the end to reveal the live-action characters of Walter White and Jesse Pinkman sitting on a couch drinking beer and watching the show on TV.
26	553	"Clown in the Dumps"	The Itchy & Scratchy Show episode Breaking Dad is a reference to Breaking Bad.
29	628	"Haw-Haw Land"	Homer asks Bart if he's making drugs by asking him if he's Breaking Bad.
30	658	"Girl's in the Band"	Homer mentions Breaking Bad as a way to make money, saying he can sell the complete series' boxset, then takes out a hat, glasses and beard, to appear like Walter White. A parody of the Breaking Bad intro then plays, with the words [C]ommercial [B]reak.
30	661	"Woo-Hoo Dunnit?"	The scene in the Science Lab with the bullies and Bart is a parody of Breaking Bad.
34	748	"The Very Hungry Caterpillars"	Breaking Bread is a parody of Breaking Bad.
36	769	"Bart's Birthday"	During the closing credits, the Simpsons appear in spoofs of well-known TV series finales, one of them being Breaking Bad. Ned lying on the floor parodies Walter White's death in Jack's meth lab in "Felina". Conan O'Brien later also reveals that Breaking Bad was one of the many shows used by an artificial intelligence device to script this entire episode.

Games

Picture	Game	Reference
	The Simpsons: Tapped Out‎	After completing In the Lukewarm of the Twilight Pt. 3: Let me guess. You finally watched Breaking Bad.
	The Simpsons: Tapped Out‎	The questline "Baking Bread" is a reference to the show.

Comics

Picture	Comic issue	Story name	Reference
	Simpsons Comics #191	Breaking Bart	The comic's title is a reference to the television show Breaking Bad.

References to Better Call Saul in The Simpsons

Episodes

Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
30	647	"Krusty the Clown"	One of the hundreds of shows seen on TV screens.
33	712	"A Serious Flanders (Part 1)"	Better Call Selm is a parody of Better Call Saul.
34	748	"The Very Hungry Caterpillars"	Better Call King Saul is a parody of Better Call Saul.

Special guest voices

Name	Role in Breaking Bad	Role on The Simpsons
Bryan Cranston	Played Walter White.	Voiced Stradivarius Cain in "The Spy Who Learned Me".
Bob Odenkirk	Played Saul Goodman.	Voiced mob lawyer in "The Fat Blue Line".
Bill Burr	Played Patrick Kuby.	Voiced Boston fan in "The Town".
Krysten Ritter	Played Jane Margolis.	Voiced Sheila Redfield in "Meat Is Murder".
Robert Forster	Played Ed Galbraith also known as "the Disappearer."	Voiced Lucky Jim in "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes".
Ed Begley, Jr.	Played Cliff Main.	Voiced himself in "Homer to the Max" and "Gone Maggie Gone".
Sam McMurray	Played Dr. Victor Bravenec.	Voiced a Duff commercial narrator and an Springfield Nuclear Power Plant employee in "Homer's Odyssey" and Gulliver Dark in "Homer's Night Out".
Charlie Rose	Played himself.	Voiced himself in "Kill the Alligator and Run".

External links

Breaking Bad at the Internet Movie Database
Breaking Bad at Wikipedia

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Contents

References to Breaking Bad in The Simpsons

Episodes

Games

Comics

References to Better Call Saul in The Simpsons

Episodes

Special guest voices

External links