The web's best Breaking Bad memes (Season 5 starts this Sunday, w00t!)

I'm not a fan of listicles, but I'll stoop to link to this one on Buzzfeed because it is highly relevant to my interests: the 27 best "Breaking Bad" memes.

A few months back when I was in chemo, we made a few of our own. The oncology nurses loved my Héctor “Tio” Salamanca impression, above. Or, maybe I just thought so when I was hopped up on all that Benadryl. The bell is for real, btw, not a prop: nurses place that near each chemotherapy infusion station in case a patient has an emergency and cannot verbalize an emergency call for help.

I re-watched season one, two, three, and four, in bed on my iPad during recovery from chemo and surgery.

I was only half joking when I tweeted that the anticipation of Season 5 is what kept me going through this difficult time. I CAN NOT WAIT for Sunday.

(thanks, @sfslim!)

• [Jake0748]

  Nice picture!!  :D   <3

• [Petzl]

  [Br][B] ended on such a note of finality, it will be interesting to see where Vince Gilligan takes it next.

• [yoshua]

  Well, I’m about five episodes into season one, and none of these memes make sense! Must watch more breaking bad…

• [EH]

  Disregard Marie is the best!

• [Stefan Jones]

  It has been deeply strange seeing the actor who played Uncle Hector appear in other roles (where he talks . . and walks) after his, ah, sudden exit. 

  @xeni, mind you that AMC is only showing EIGHT EPISODES next summer. So you’ve got something to make positron bombardment tolerable!

  • [Rezeya Montecore]

    Not “half” as weird as seeing the other guy. O:)

• [Rezeya Montecore]

  Okay, I have been a Xeni critic in the past but this is awesome. I think I like her much better now. Supervillainess-scary kinda flatters her. :D

• [Michael Sheehan]

  I missed the point at which “meme” moved from being a word coined by an evolutionary biologist to help describe the movement of concepts and ideas through a culture to being (more or less) an exclusive reference to Internet pictures with funny/ironic captions. Not sure how that happened, or how “tropes” seemingly became synonymous (for many) with “cliches.”

  • [ocker3]

     Useage.

  • [haineux]

    Cranky word-usage maven is cranky.

    Because the previous term of record was “image macro,” and that’s a crappy term.

  • [Halloween_Jack]

     Your English language, it evolves and changes meanings of words without your permission or approval. Yee-heekers!

  • [vrplumber]

    Why learn the proper word, when you can just make it up as you go?  

    Sling that slang.

  • [EH]

    Your confusion is an reflection of the difference between descriptive and prescriptive linguistics.

  • [Lord Byte]

    Richard Dawkins coined it first in “The selfish gene”, by the end he explains how  ideas and concepts, memes, seem to survive and propagate in a similar way to genetic material.

• [thatbob]

  Oh no, not the dread Listicular cancer!Speedy revocery!
  :-)

• [YourOldBuddy]

  I used to think Breaking Bad was the best series ever, but was finally browbeat into watching The Wire. It is better. Speedy recovery. 

• [djcarlito]

  your sense of humor gives you an incredible advantage Xeni.. stay strong and don’t put up with no funny bizness 

• [yarnivore]

  If you crochet, you can make Walt and Jesse amigurumi, from the pattern by Allison Hoffman!  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/mini-set-of-cooks-walt-and-jesse-amigurumi-w-hazmat-suits

• [Evert Jan Boon]

  Didn’t know you were sick. All the best. Get through it!

• [jujube]

  You’re awesome & that bell is a great touch. Hope you recover quickly!

• [elix]

  I’m not a BrBa fan, but if that getup helps kick cancer’s ass, you wear that shit whenever you want, Xeni. :D

• [Halloween_Jack]

  Oh Xeni, that picture made me laugh so hard I ended up doing the Eddie Murphy laugh that I do when I’m completely out of control with the lulz and don’t care how it sounds. If you can get your hands on a yellow hazmat suit, you gotta do an “All Hail The Queen” shot, pretty plz. 

  • [Halloween_Jack]

     Did it again after reading the memes post on BuzzFeed. The “Hal from Malcolm in the Middle:Walter::Stevie from MITM:Gus” one is especially side-splitting.

• [AwesomeRobot]

  Those eyebrows… 

• [Derek Anderson]

  For some of the chemo drugs, EVERYBODY gets that face. Fucking Dacarbazine. 

  /me remembers making that face  too.

• [Kevin Redman]

  You have the facial expression down.
  I LOL’ed.

  • [EH]

    The eyebrows make it.

• [Lodewijk Gonggrijp]

  DAT PICTURE !
  Xeni, you’re hilarious ! :P

• [Bill Gilliland]

  Xeni — your article was the inspiration for me to make another BB meme.  Enjoy! http://cheezburger.com/6431088384