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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 232053" data-attributes="member: 8">S2E4I love Hank, he&#039;s a bit of a pig but a very authentic pig. I&#039;m sure many of us know a &quot;Hank&quot;.Walt has faked amnesia (ha!) but overall he&#039;s a very bad liar. A good liar or manipulator knows when his/her scheme is about to fail, but Walt just keeps digging a deeper hole for himself, and it&#039;s quite insulting towards Skyler. He just can&#039;t believe that she&#039;s not buying his BS.Jesse is sloppy and lazy, but it&#039;s all so miserable it&#039;s just not funny anymore. And then he cries his tears in a gas mask because the stench of the toilet chemicals is too much, and it becomes brilliantly funny again.And I think that&#039;s (at least partially) the strength of Breaking Bad, how it combines the outrageous or dangerous moments with mundanity i.e. objects or situations that usually have no specific emotional meaning, but in the context of the scene they are being magnified or even ridiculed.It&#039;s an organic and often accidental kind of humour that doesn&#039;t need to be presented with a punch or explanation why it is so funny.Also, it&#039;s very nice to see Tess Harper in a TV series again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 232053, member: 8"] S2E4 I love Hank, he's a bit of a pig but a very authentic pig. I'm sure many of us know a "Hank". Walt has faked amnesia (ha!) but overall he's a very bad liar. A good liar or manipulator knows when his/her scheme is about to fail, but Walt just keeps digging a deeper hole for himself, and it's quite insulting towards Skyler. He just can't believe that she's not buying his BS. Jesse is sloppy and lazy, but it's all so miserable it's just not funny anymore. And then he cries his tears in a gas mask because the stench of the toilet chemicals is too much, and it becomes brilliantly funny again. And I think that's (at least partially) the strength of Breaking Bad, how it combines the outrageous or dangerous moments with mundanity i.e. objects or situations that usually have no specific emotional meaning, but in the context of the scene they are being magnified or even ridiculed. It's an organic and often accidental kind of humour that doesn't need to be presented with a punch or explanation [I]why[/I] it is so funny. Also, it's very nice to see Tess Harper in a TV series again. [/QUOTE]

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