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Jimmy said "It's showtime" without the "folks" part in Saul Gone because chronologically by then The Incredibles had come out

Y’know there’s an alternate timeline where Jimmy quit lawyering and pursued filmmaking because he’s one hell of a director and for him the film industry he’d slip right in.

The idea that Lalo invaded Kim and Jimmy's home, taking away their sense of control, which led them to plan their scheme on Howard to get their control back in a way, actually blew my mind. It's insight like this that I couldn't have picked up on if I rewatched the show 100 times. Thank you for doing what you do ❤

47:35 when asked about what he thinks is happening to Saul in current day, Vince said "I think Trump pardoned him" which is perfect honestly how twisted

but consider the silver lining: he seems to have an exceptionally good reputation among the other prisoners, providing him modicum of extra protection from the violence or prisons and with his added social skills, a huge potential to create contacts to get like extra coffee and ice cream and stuff. and most of all, he can work as a legal advisor, which is one of the most valuable types of "currency" you can make in the american prison system if i'm not mistaken. this unironically does make saul 'the last line of defense for the little guy'

You described an aspect of Jimmy that I don't think is noticed much, the outsider, creative side. It's what makes Jimmy so relatable to me, and what makes him standout as a lawyer.

I was helping a kid with Math, and I told him to just play around with a calculator and do things and see what happens. And he didn't like that idea, it seemed almost morally wrong to him... that not doing something in a way you are told to and creative play. If you aren't told specifically how to do something, it's wrong to just try it.  I was kind of shocked by this, and I thought this might be the process that many people actually have. There's a flippant creativity that some find repulsive, that sets you up as an outsider just by disposition.

Jimmy seemed to embody this in some way... I fully get his reaction to working at Davis & Main. I did student teaching, and had a talking to that wasn't much different from Jimmy's stern warning from the higher ups. I didn't realize that what I was doing would offend them so much. (I inadvertently insulted the teacher, because I didn't like a worksheet that was her pet project.)

Great video, you always reveal so many new things about it.

Jimmy painted Jesus at Mr. Acker's house in season 5, too

3 years and still no sopranos video💔

This is going to sound silly but I was reading this post-finale BCS fanfiction (yes those exist) and there's this hilarious but not even totally ridiculous thing that happens where Jimmy's commercials and Saul Goodman performance are re-analysed through an artistic lens after he gains infamy and goes to prison, and while a very funny/absurd notion, its also a little accurate in terms of Saul Goodman being kind of performance art, intentionally satirising and trampling over all the things Jimmy was denied entry into, it's intersting to think that the charcater Saul Goodman went from being this tasteless, sleazy guy in BrBa to someone intentionally performing tastlessness in BCS

I’m an artist, I studied psychology, and I’m obsessed with bcs, so this video could not be any more up my alley. I just absolutely adore your videos. And your thorough explanation of the psychological underpinnings of the Howard scam was so on point.  Every video you make is a gift….even more so now that the series is over. Thank you 🙏

"If youre like me, well, good luck with that, but also..." absolute gold

You and Ological are the two best BCS analysts on YouTube. So many channels just summarize episodes and have nothing original or insightful to say, but you guys always remind me the amount of detail and depth that was put into this show. I think that a great TV show is designed to make you think, and reflect on what it means, as well as have discussions about what it could mean (there's no one obvious answer to the questions the show poses). BTW, you should team up Ological for a collab video.

2:49 To be fair to Saul, it's really good ice cream.

When it comes to his commercial, it's worth mentioning that Bob Odenkirk was executive producer on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, arguably discovering tim and eric.

This is excluding his already rich history of spoof commercials in The Birthday Boys and Mr.Show

I really love the description of jimmy's art being a way for him to feel powerful. I think it's definitely right, when he's performing he can make himself into an auteur, he can convince himself that his opinion matters more than anyone else's. I think it makes not telling clifford main about the commercial make way more sense because having to be accountable to anyone else would take away that power to some degree.

"if youre like me, good luck with that" i was not ready, sir, that was gold how you just slid that like that

Phenomenal takeaways, Saul and Kim needing control makes MUCH more sense than them (as characters in their own minds) needing an antagonist.

Also, that makes Howard's death even more impactful, Lalo took control back, with a damn smile.

Your dismissal of denial of death right after explaining its premise of human self importance is hilarious…

The reason that he pushed the commercial through instead of going through proper channels is because being Chuck’s scapegoat taught him that the rules will always go against him and cancel creativity and genius. And in a lot of cases he’s right. He’s internalized the idea that the game is rigged in favor of the chucks of the world so he needs to always take the back road.