{"id":20803,"date":"2018-08-10T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20803"},"modified":"2018-08-09T17:08:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T21:08:57","slug":"10-fun-facts-about-better-call-saul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=20803","title":{"rendered":"10 Fun Facts About &#8220;Better Call Saul&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2018\/z081018bettercallsaul_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"369\" \/><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scott Beggs and Mental Floss present\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/553287\/facts-about-better-call-saul-bob-odenkirk\">10 Fun Facts About <em>Better Call Saul<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>3. THE TITLES HAVE HIDDEN MEANINGS.<\/strong><br \/>\nYou can take nothing for granted in the Better Call Saul universe, including the episode titles. In the first season, every episode (from \u201cUno\u201d to \u201cMarco\u201d) ended in the letter O, except \u201cAlpine Shepherd Boy,\u201d which was supposed to be called \u201cJell-O\u201d before the producers waved it off to avoid being sued by the gelatin makers. Even crazier, the first letters of season two\u2019s episodes (S-C-A-G-R-B-I-F-N-K) unscramble to spell \u201cFring\u2019s Back\u201d\u2014a clear message for Breaking Bad fans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>6. CHUCK WASN\u2019T INTENDED TO BE A BAD GUY.<\/strong><br \/>\nEveryone who watches the show hates Chuck McGill, Jimmy\u2019s brother played by Michael McKean, but it wasn\u2019t until writing the seventh episode that Gilligan and the writers realized Chuck was a villain. \u201cBelieve it or not, the idea of Chuck being the \u2018bad guy\u2019 was a late addition to Season 1,\u201d Gilligan explained during a 2015 Reddit AMA. \u201cThis points out one of the things I love most about writing for TV. There are enough episodes and enough lead time (if you\u2019re lucky) for writers to change the direction of a story midstream.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>8. YOU SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT COLOR PEOPLE ARE WEARING.<\/strong><br \/>\nGilligan\u2019s fanatical dedication to detail includes the colors that get associated with each character. It was a major element in Breaking Bad. It\u2019s also a big part of Better Call Saul in the form of the \u201cFire and Ice Theory,\u201d partially confirmed by writer Peter Gould, who confessed that hotter colors like red were associated with criminals. That tacitly means cooler colors are meant for the innocent, so it\u2019s curious that Jimmy\u2019s car is yellow with one red door \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Beggs and Mental Floss present\u00a010 Fun Facts About Better Call Saul.\u00a0 Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 3. 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