Breaking Bad Facts

In the mid-70s, the actor who portrays Mike from “Breaking Bad” began his acting career in an education film on menstruation and puberty.

HBO passed up "The Walking Dead" because they thought it was too violent. They also passed up "Breaking Bad" and "Mad Men".

Bryan Cranston threw a full pizza onto a real family's roof in one unscripted take for Breaking Bad - and fans have been copying him ever since. The Padilla family in Albuquerque started getting 400+ visitors a day hurling pizzas at their actual home. In 2017 they built a 6-foot wrought-iron fence. Even creator Vince Gilligan begged fans to stop - calling it "nothing original, or funny, or cool."