WicketyWack

When we were introduced to Saul in BB, he was "meeting" Brandon Mayhew's father (or so he thought; it was Walt) and upon hearing the name Mayhew, said: "Faith and begorrah! A fellow potato eater! My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak." In the early flashback to his con-man days in Illinois, when Jimmy and his friend were pulling their Drunk Guy Scam, Jimmy does have this conversation with his mark: Mark: Hey, bro, I never did catch your name. Jimmy: Saul. Mark: Saul? Jimmy: Saul good, man. Get it? So I'm guessing he went with his old con-man alias because he wanted to constantly remind himself that he was unequivocally Slippin' Jimmy— but he also liked having Jewish cred.

I do remember Michael McKean as Lenny but when I see him I immediately think of his characters from 2 of my favorite comedies, the ridiculous British rocker in This Is Spinal Tap and half of the gay couple in Best In Show. Both of which he was brilliant in. He's had a remarkable career and I'm so impressed (but not surprised) he can hang with the heavyweights in drama ... similar to Odenkirk. This show just keeps getting better and better. I'm so FREAKING bummed there's just one episode left before a longgggg break. ETA: Edited to correct that McKean played Lenny, not Squiggy. How could I have forgotten?

From the recap: (...does he have an old-timey pioneer [iron] he plans to heat up on his grill or something, or is he now fully done being allergic to electricity?) Yes! It shows him putting an old-timey Monopoly-style iron on his camping stove.

My raging geekery forced me to zoom in on the bottle Nacho was examining. The name on it definitely started with OXY. I'm assuming Oxycodone. And, as someone whose ex was a Sketchy Vet ... veterinarians use ketamine in liquid form, as an injectable ;) Also? If someone had told me 3 months ago that Bob Odenkirk saying "You want maybe, like, a safe word?" would be a seriously hot TV moment I would have called them a dirty liar. To MICHAEL MCKEAN, at that.

Chuck: You're Slippin' Jimmy. And Slippin' Jimmy I can handle just fine, but Slippin' Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun. Mike: I've known good criminals and bad cops. Bad priests, honorable thieves. You can be on one side of the law or the other, but if you make a deal with somebody, you keep your word. You can go home today with your money and never do this again. But you took something that wasn't yours, and you sold it for a profit. You're now a criminal. Good one, bad one — that's up to you. Jimmy: He has reached a level of douchebaggery that will live on for generations. Passed down by wind talkers and the like.

Glad to see that Sketchy Vet does care about animals. I wasn't a big fan of Young Kaylee. She barely interacted with Pop-Pop, or with her mom either for that matter. I hope she gets less robotic the more she hangs around Mike.

"Are you proud of me?" Oh Jimmy. And Chuck's reaction! Giant pause and "Hm? Oh, oh oh - yes! Absolutely!"Could he be more of a DICK at that moment? So much dickish lawyer behavior. That competing attorney, trying to get under Jimmy's skin with "Yeah, I heard about this" and then chuckling with the other two. To Chuck: "I figured you'd be arguing in front of the Supreme Court someday." It was so effing enjoyable to see him lose his swagger at the RICO news, and his discomfort at Chuck's slam-dunk. I would like to see Howard get served in much, much worse fashion but I fear Show is not going to give that to me.

To me, she wasn't acting enough during Mike's monologue -- I felt like she was just like any one of us, riveted and hanging onto Mike's every word, without much emotional investment. Not the reaction I would expect from a woman learning some painful truths about her recently deceased husband -- including the fact that he was murdered by men he trusted.

One of the many things I loved about this episode is it's one of the rare times on Better Call Saul so far that we get glimpses of the ingenious, badass Mike that we know and love on Breaking Bad. The first time is outside the bar where he's breaking into the police car with an artfully tied loop knot (and if anyone knows the exact name of that knot, holler). The second is when his son's killers, plotting his staged suicide, hear a loud "That's what I'd do" and turn to see a very lucid Mike standing with a gun trained on them. It's like — oh yeah, this is Mike F*ing Ehrmantraut! These guys are toast.

I thought without question that both of the guns Mike had on him that night were untraceable ...and that, actually, Mike probably had racked up a little cache of untraceable firearms over the years. You know, one of those things you let slide, something that doesn't make it back into evidence ...

And here's a question that was bugging me, for my law enforcement friends of the forum: I know cops can drink off-duty after their shift, but is it kosher for them to do so while still in uniform, with badge & gun still on? If I saw a couple of uniformed police officers drinking in a bar, I'd be raising eyebrows.

Re Mike and the booze: I think he probably was a drunken mess for maybe a month or so, seeing his son's killers in the bar night after night, and then he started to formulate the plan. Having a revenge plan in place motivated him to clean up so he could pull it off, but still play the drunk as his cover. That's my take on it, anyway. Mike's entire monologue at the end just gutted me. A close second: Jimmy's face when he asked Mike, "How did you know I would spill that coffee?" and Mike just laughed. Everyone expects Jimmy to be shady and he hates it, but ultimately goes along because that's what people want him to do — and let's face it, he's good at it. I'm starting to think Saul Goodman is a product of everyone's expectations of Jimmy, more so than Jimmy himself. Kaylee's age discrepancy also bothers the hell out of me. The kid should have been preschool age during this episode and she looked 8 or 9.

Mike: It's like killing Caesar. Everyone's guilty. Mike: He put me up on a pedestal and I had to show him that I was down in the gutter with the rest of them. Broke my boy. I broke my boy. Mike: I was the only one that could get him to debase himself like that. And it was for nothing. I made him lesser. I made him like me. And the bastards killed him anyway.

Jimmy: Look, don't let Mr. Ehrmentraut's dancing eyes and bubbly bon vivant personality fool you. He's actually, believe it or not, somewhat taciturn. Shall I fan you gently, so you don't go into shock?

Ohhh, yeah, that's the way. Gosh you're big. You're sooo big. My goodness, look at you! Fill me up, Chandler. Put it in me! Give it to me, Chandler. I want it all. Mmmmm. Ahhhh! — Tony the Toilet Buddy

The awkward high-five between Jimmy and Ricky was the cherry on the cake of this episode.

I wish I could feel the same lurve for the Insider podcasts as others. The last one (#5) was the best, but still, most of them are 50% Breaking Bad references and 30% random chat that have nothing to do with the episode. Just wish they'd focus more on the actual episodes.

Just when you think Michelle can't get any less classy, she busts out "nipple hairs."

Jimmy: Promise not to be upset with me. Kim: No way am I making that promise. Jimmy: Right now, my ass is on the highway to the danger zone. ... If the cops keep pushing him they're gonna find something, and when that happens Nacho blames me, and then his guys turn me into a meat piñata. Kim: The Kettlemans are our clients. This would mean incriminating them. Jimmy: You see? This is why people hate lawyers.

The first thing I thought when Hamlin said the Kettlemans had gone missing was that they fled in the night with the money. I figure they were planning to stay in the woods for a while, hike to a neighboring town and then maybe quietly take a series of taxi or bus rides to a Mexican border town where they could pay someone to sneak them across. After that, it's a matter of getting some faked documentation and making the $1.6 million last for a long, long time. The Kettlemans returning with a fake kidnapping story would be too risky with the kids as old as they are. If they had a couple of babies or pre-verbal toddlers, sure, but kids that age are not savvy with keeping up an elaborate web of lies, especially with all the police and media attention they would draw. I don't know if there IS a way that Jimmy can help them get away with their faked kidnapping -- he's already alerted Kim that he found the family and they're happily singing dumb kids' songs, not traumatized in any way. Unless they got Kim on board, which I don't think would happen. I think he's going to bring the family back, thus earning Nacho's gratitude for being able to spring him before the cops caught onto the activities he IS guilty of. And this is how he's going to start developing his new client base. He'd also get a whole lot of media attention for being the ones who found the embezzling treasurer who tried to fake his own death, putting Jimmy one up on both the cops and on his brother's current/former law partners. His "I told you so" will be spectacular, much better than a pineapple-heavy Edible Arrangement.

Holy shitballs, this show just goes from bad to worse. The only thing I liked on the runway even a little bit was Sonjia's grey outfit. I didn't mind Michelle's print, but head to toe? just no. A print master like Mondo or Uli could've worked that into a garment in a fabulous way. I'll say it for the 46,429th time: the benefit of MORE TIME would allow these designers to make garments that impress, instead of just forcing them to slap shit together, repurpose designs they've done already (Dmitry and Helen I am looking at you) and hoping to be safe. Note to AM's stylist who is demanding that she wear all these fauxhawks: dropping the neckline on her garments would also give the effect of elongating a round face, without making her look like she has a dumb column of hair teetering on her head. #justsayin I question this show's taste level.

Alyssa's outfit belonged on Bea Arthur. Someone please reveal who her stylist is so we can publicly shame them and/or find out who they're banging/ blackmailing/ related to.

Tiffani was offered a retail sales job in a DVF shop; Lenore was offered an interview for a gig in the DVF home sales division. So it's the difference between working in ground-level retail at DVF and working in DVF corporate. I was sad to see Lenore go, though it was inevitable. Now I'm on Team Amanda by default, since I can't stomach Brittany or Kier. But for all of Amanda's "corporate experience," she's so utterly amateur when it comes to presentation (all the aforementioned grammar mistakes, her rampant 'like...'s, etc. were cringeworthy). For Diane to be gushing about what a great job she did presenting was so beneath her. Diane actually said "each one of these three could be a brand ambassador" which makes me think she is ether suffering from early onset dementia, or the world's most flagrant bullshitter who has sold her soul to her contract with E!. This whole sham just reeks of desperation. For her to watch all their petty bickering and STILL go forward with hiring one of them as a global brand ambassador is incomprehensible. Brittany and Kier are unlikeable, vile and horrid, and of course because I can't stand them, clearly one of them is going to win. That's par for the course for me and reality shows.

God, this entire season. What a shitshow.

Apparently, women pushing 30 who can't accept that they're no longer in college.