To celebrate (or mourn) the death of James McGill and the birth of Saul Goodman in Season 5, we're ranking every Jimmy McGill scam from the first 4 seasons of Better Call Saul! #1 is truly the moment where Hank became ASAC Schraeder.
Something about Vince Gilligan shows does this thing where the actual big crimes aren't nearly as heinous feeling as the little pet peeve stuff. Maybe it's because the pet peeve stuff hits closer to home generally
The Mrs. Landry scam was worse than Mike killing Werner, worse than Walt letting Jane die, and worse than Jesse killing Gale. Nothing between the two shows will surmount the horrible heartlessness of that scam.
I don’t think the writers were trying to trick Better Call Saul viewers into thinking its as intense and fast paced as BrBa, they wrote those scenes between Tuco and Saul to show that he can literally talk his way out of any situation. Truthfully I think characters like Gus are even scarier in BCS because we get a much deeper look into their backstories
Yeah that scene was critical and foreshadowed how close Jimmy and the Cartel were going to get. Although it's a pointless scene if you watched Breaking Bad and already knows Saul's future. As a guy who watched BCS first the scene was great
"to try and sucker people into thinking this show is going to be as high stakes and tense as breaking bad" lmaooo he MUST have wrote this before season 5
@@xenopath8069 lol HA I KNEW IT! When Lalo had Jimmy and Kim in the apartment going over their story I lost years off my LIFE. thanks for pointing that out.
Now that the first part of Season 6 came out, we know that the 'Ham- Scam' is probably the most trickiest, best/worst and darkest Scam of them all. It really has to be, if you suffer only by watching the victim get scammed. Jimmy really outdid himself there and Kim was the motivational fuel they poured over good ol' Howie.
The realization that Fifi was around not just 9/11 but the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY is pretty mind blowing, part because it gives us a very specific time frame but also because, yeah, that’s some boldness, for lack of a better word.
Vilkku oh man, there have been so many scams JUST trying to save that house. My mind was on fire trying to figure out where each one fits into the ranking! haha
Some of Jimmy's scams are so well done that they could be entire heist movies on their own, and given the length of Better Call Saul's episodes, they technically are.
Ironically Jimmy was doing good by scamming people back in the day with Marco. He was attacking the people who often take advantage of other people much like his father, which Chuck always blamed Jimmy for his dads shops down fall.
great video. I would aruge that the Tuco episode isnt a "bait" episode, it may be an episode designed to draw veiwers in but I wouldnt say it was "bait" i mean theres plenty of action and tension in the show its not misrepresenting anything.
Good point Mack! "Bait" might be a bad way of putting it - after watching Season 5, I guess my feelings on the sequence in the first two episodes is that, since the show reached those dangerous stakes so quickly, the escalation in the episode Bagman feels a bit less impactful because you kind of go "oh, well... Jimmy's been here before" haha. Thanks for watching!
I think the most important part of that scene, is before they even discuss the two skateboarders. It was when they were questioning Jimmy. They didn't believe him until Jimmy told them what they wanted to hear. Foreshadowing the speech jimmy gives to the bar about Chuck
I felt so bad for Howard. He got his car crushed with bowling balls, all the lawyers turned against him when Jimmy made the fake picture and used fake cocaine, and still killed by Lalo.
"to try and sucker people into thinking this show is going to be as high stakes and tense as breaking bad" i know this video was made before season 5 and 6 but it's still really funny to hear
I don't know what it is Slip but you really came out swinging with this video, I'm on my 6th rewatch and it gets better everytime. I've got my hopes up for a Series review once S6 is over because you and your videos are absolute gems.
Great video, deserves more views. First thing is that the show as ramped up in intensity since you made this video And second the Mesa Verde meeting would definitely be up there
Finally got the chance to watch this. This is really well done. Great editing and voice work. This must have taken a while to put together, if only to re-watch a bunch of the episodes and place the scams in order, but you definitely have a knack for this. Keep it up. For myself, the battery plant and billboard scams have always been my favorites.
“This must have taken a while to put together, if only to rewatch a bunch of the episodes” Implying there’s anything else I would rather do with my time than rewatch this show.
For like 5 seconds, you really got my hopes up. This was just randomly recommended to me by the algorithm tonight. And when you said it returns February 23rd I got so happy and excited, before realizing this was a year old and you were talking about last season. Still, that was a good 5 seconds
It's unfortunate to see such a high-quality video with such little recognition. This was really well put together and I hope you get the recognition you deserve for this and your channel soon!
Fun fact - The website for Huell is real. When the episode released, I went to the website and actually called the number. It connected to someone whom I told "Hey your number is on this site you probably will want to change it." He thanked me and periodically texted me links to his (trap?) music. Spirit of AVS. I hope he's doing well
Once the final season of Saul airs, I’ll be making one on all the scams he does across both Breaking Bad and BCS under the name Saul Goodman. I’ve been thinking of doing one ranking all of Walt’s... lets call them “chemistry experiments” too...
For 20 Years I was a Cliff Rescue Instructor and falling in a Harness is absolutely Painless. Whatever the guy in #3 was paid to fall, No Nuts or Balls were harmed or even inconvenienced.
personally the billboard episode is the best for me, cause you know jimmy had to lay it on thick to get him up there, and to take the fall. ive been saved a bad fall by those harness's before. they work (when fitted and secured properly,) but you couldn't pay me to take a fall like that. harness or not.
By the time it sadly ends this could overtake Breaking Bad as my favorite show of all time, and I honestly NEVER thought that was possible! The season 6 mid season finale is now my second favorite episode of TV ever behind only the last episode of Breaking Bad. I have no higher praise than that.
"Its not like sandpaper people put on a skimask and mugged old may so put that image out of ur mind" lol by saying that u gave them that image lol love it
I don't think the Tuco scene was meant to "bait" the audience. I think they put Saul in a very similar situation as Walt and Jesse in season 2 and asked: "how would THIS character get out of it?"
Tbh first seasons of breaking bad didnt had many action as well, compared to season 5 and 6 it is nearly the same ammount, the action scene he used was from season 2
Save Huell is my favorite, that video! I must've watched it a dozen times crying with laughter 😅 (I'm talking about on the website which actually works). Priceless.
You used to be a steel worker?! That is a pretty wide skill set dude. Excellent breakdown of the scams. Can't comment on any steel work you might have done, I got dizzy wearing Beatle boots.
@@evm6177 You need a copy machine, scissors, and a glue stick. Those are found at stationary stores. I didn't have a scanner at home, plus using a consumer grade printer makes the report card look fake. It has to feel like it came off a big machine.
@@evm6177 Take the original, make two copies (you want to keep the original clean) Take letters from copy A and paste them on copy B. Make another copy of that. Now you have a clean and smooth report card. Did you think that I just handed my mum a report card covered in glue, with letters missing?
