Jimmy Just Wanted To Impress Chuck | Compilation | Better Call Saul 

Never destroy yourself for pleasing someone else.

When Jimmy passed the bar: Chuck on the outside:🙂 Chuck on the inside: 🤬

Chuck: “this must’ve taken you years!” Also Chuck: “nope doesn’t count.”

Chuck also not winning an award is the biggest crime in the history

Jimmy passing the bar was Chucks opportunity to guide and mentor him along the Jimmy McGill path, instead of sabotaging him down the Saul Goodman path.

Chuck: how dare he try to be a lawyer and impress me, WHat A SiCK JOKE

"Are you telling me that Jimmy happens to be a real lawyer?! No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy!"

What a tragic relationship. They could see each other's flaws but not their own and that was their downfall.

It's like when Kim scolded him: All Jimmy ever wanted was Chuck's love, but all he's ever done was judging him and keeping him down. Chuck never deserved a brother like Jimmy.

"I thought you were proud of me..." Damn, that really hurted, Chuck was the last person he had and thought he was actually happy for him, that he finally made something that his older brother would praise him for. Just to realise that he would never do anything that would make him happy, except looking down upon him.

To be fair, chuck screwed over jimmy when he was asleep by calling Howard, that was before jimmy changed the numbers while chuck was asleep

The news that Jimmy passed the bar exam hadn't even sunk in fully in Chuck's brain and he was already hating so goddamn much it looked like he was being tortured. If you forced a horse to look at you in the eye while you brutally whipped it you'd get Chuck's reaction.

Chucks demeanor after Jimmy walked out following Chuck telling him that he really didnt matter all that much to him is absolutely shattering.. he was in so much pain that he wanted jimmy to feel that pain so he dropped that hurtful line on him..

17:21 About this line, I don't know if people notice this but Jimmy CAN change. The apex of this proof was that he returned the money the kettleman bribed to him and sent the millions back. This was the peak sincerity he could get away with all that easily. And this was the epitome of him trying to keep his promise with chuck, to change his behaviour, ever since chuck bailed him out of prison earlier. Thats what this whole lawyer thing is about, a person like him becoming a lawyer the whole opposite of what he is before. He really wanted to impress chuck but chuck saw him becoming a lawyer as an offensive joke even if jimmy doesnt mean it like that. Chuck IS the self fulfilling tumor that kept him from truly changing. If he had chuck's entire support we would not have saul goodman.

13:30 - "Look what you've done, here." As in "Look at the mess you created for ME to deal with. A chimp with a machine gun" Jimmy deserved better.

As early as the first episode they established that Chuck's share of the firm was large enough to sink it if it had to be liquidated. Of course, back in Season 1 HHM's reputation was a lot cleaner and stronger. Chuck's and Jimmy's feud did a lot to tarnish and tear away at HHM.

I think it was that moment when Jimmy gave Howard the list of errands when Howard realized what kind of person Chuck really was.

The sad thing is that Jimmy showing chuck the letter is after Rebecca had left chuck. While chuck says the Divorce was mutual he was very devastated by it, now all of the sudden he learns Jimmy is a lawyer. It’s like a switch flipped inside of him and he did a truly awful thing to his own brother which then manifested into his illness.

12:50 I love the way the little pause seemed so inconsequential at the time, only to take on new life as a freudian slip once you rewatch the series. The writing for this series was immaculate.

Chuck was always an interesting character brilliantly portrayed. The inner view of a destructive narcissist personality that Jimmy felt needed to replicate outwardly. Great writing

No one ever believed he could change, because if he could, then they had no excuse to only be as good as they were. It intimidated Chuck and Marco for the same reasons. In the end, it broke Jimmy, and he convinced himself that he could never change.

At 12:30 you could see through chuck and interpret that as "you didn't tell me anything I could of done something to make you quit, stop trying or prevent his from happening" knowing chuck he probably had enough juice to get the University of Samoa's accreditation revoked.

"Your not a real Lawyer" If a person Passes the Bar with or without Prestigious Law School Credentials, it doesn't matter.

The sad reality was, Jimmy did the bar on the side, working his a off and studying online (at that time, 2002 or whenever). Chuck was the only who had it easy, Jimmy was doing it on highest difficulty. Not only was Jimmy his equal, he was better than Chuck. And Chuck knew it.

The moment Jimmy McGill became Saul Goodman

I know Chucky had a condition but everytime they showed that dark room it resonated well with his character.

The scene where Chuck tells Jimmy he meant nothing to him always gets me. Such an amazing build up to such a terrible feeling payoff. Some of the best drama I've ever seen.

9:26 all this because he hates people who do online classes i know Chuck can't stand the electricity but this is too much

Chuck- "Slippin Jimmy with a law degree is like a chimp with a machine gun" that cracked me up, though i empathise with them both.

Chuck would be so angry at virtual lectures during covid

5:50 once you learn that Chuck not Howard is the reason why, Chuck’s little laugh here is skin crawling. Also the line read of “nagging” at 8:01 is very underrated

Only someone who has lived in the shadow of a successful older brother who he always admired and wanted to be at his level can understand what it means when your hero confesses that you will never be anything to him. Although it's fiction, the relationship between them portrays very well the pain of seeking acceptance from a brother who has always despised you.

People don’t talk enough about how much Jimmy loved his brother. All the while chuck despised him. It’s the most heartbreaking thing to watch. Over and over again you watch as jimmy go to great lengths to make chuck happy and proud of him but it only matters to chuck that jimmy is beneath him.

Chuck was wrong for what he did to Jimmy. And in a lot of ways, he’s probably the reason the show ended the way it did. But he was also right about people getting hurt by Jimmy abusing the law. And in reality, there’s definitely a possibility Jimmy would’ve fell back into some of his old ways even if Chuck had embraced him the way he wanted.

‘You know I’m going to beat this, you know I’m going to get better - just look at how much weight I’ve lost since “Saul Gone”!’

Chuck talking about not wanting for people to lose their job at beginning when he was gonna destroy all of HHM because Howard in nicest way possible after putting up with his petty problems decided he should finally step down.

stories where siblings hate each other always hurt my soul the most. i mean, obviously chuck started it but as the series went on jimmy was did some bad stuff too.

16:45 "I'm telling you, don't bother." At this point, Chuck COULD have said, 'let's put the past in the past and move forward." Instead, he tries to own Jimmy with his "you've never mattered". Well, Jimmy knows, and we the viewers know, that Chuck's "disorder" was his response to Jimmy. Jimmy mattered WAY too much to Chuck. He was so full of it with that line. I don't understand what he thought he was going to get out of saying that.

I like to think that Chuck was at the moment, genuinely proud of Jimmy. It's only after it settled down (which was relatively quick....), that Chuck started having doubts...

I think “You never mattered all that much to me” hurt Chuck as much as it did Jimmy. As we see in the season 4 premiere, Jimmy thought so too.

Jimmy needed to learn to love himself instead of looking for his brothers approval and validation

As a lawyer I agree, some of the best experience you get as a public defendant. I don't know how it works in the USA but in here that thing DOES NOT work and being in there helping people out even though everyone else thinks you're doing too much and you're gonna make em look bad is some of the most rewarding stuff I've ever done

Go land crabs!

There's probably a Chuck in all our lives.

Without Jimmy and Hower, Chuck is just a errand boy boss

the winner takes it all the loser standing small

The law is sunrooof number 9…..

This scene I need to go back to and it reminds me maybe Jimmy switching the numbers wasn't that bad.

Go land crabs! 🦀🦀🦀

Spoiler Warning: Chuck mentioning "falsis principiis proficisci" when Chuck despises Jimmy on a false principle is fantastic writing. Their whole dynamic is anchored by Chucks belief that Jimmy was the cause of their fathers misfortune and death because he stole and lied. Had they ever cleared up that false principle - the premise which Chuck uses to sabotage and denigrate Jimmy would no longer exist and we would never have gotten Slippin' Jimmy, or Saul Goodman.

No Jimmy did not want to 'just impress chuck" He loved his brother...thats it. He did what he did because he loved his brother and only family member. Chuck did not love Jimmy and used Jimmys love against Jimmy.

Reminder to do 4 minutes of cardio a day 🟠⚪

The true reason for the phrase 'Better call Saul'

Jimmy always was a little bad but Chuck's disappointment in him sent him to the dark side.

wish jimmy and chuck found a way to be closer, coming from a family where my siblings and i areant close just hurts and cant imagine how itll be in 25 years when im older and we just kinda feel like strangers

Just like Mike- I could watch an entire show about just a mundane life between these two, without the tragic drama. Brilliant performances and chemistry. Always genuinely hurt to see when these two went against each other.

"Accept it, embrace it. Frankly, I'd have more respect for you if you did." Well, he would have really respected him if he lived to see him become Saul Goodman.

In my opinion chuck was right, but more of a self fulfilling prophecy, jimmy didn’t really have a choice in becoming saul, and in going down the road that saul went, jimmy is still responsible for his actions he was a grown man responsible for his actions, but did jimmy really have a choice but to become saul? Think of all the things that had chuck choose to have faith in his brother like kim had in jimmy, things would have turned out much different the jimmy os season 1 the one that gave up his at the time plan to go up in the corporate world just to help kim, the one that felt the need to “do the right thing” without having to do so and almost confusing mike in the process, that jimmy couldn’t have turned into saul cuz that jimmy still wanted to do good Then all the subsequent things that chuck did to keep jimmy down, from the mesa verde thing, to the tape recorder, to the trying to take away his license and those final words he had for jimmy, that drove jimmy in his desperation to the saul persona cuz jimmy had no choice but to But then he learned of all the things chuck did to try and keep him down, the manipulation and two face bs of always using howard as a scapegoat, had Chuck embraced his brother and given him a chance maybe he would have failed but i think jimmy would have succeeded, he would have likely gone to become a respected lawyer of the high society, cuz jimmy was a good lawyer

These siblings just wanting to be strong cogs in the legal machine but life taking it's twists and turns. The development of Jimmy really is a crazy one between both shows

In the first season, Jimmy and Chucks relationship was flawed yet so much warner that its so sad to watch it deteriorate following the Sandpiper/HHM fiasco.

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Funny to think that so many lives could have been saved if Chuck had taken Jimmy under his wing and guide and reward him rather than just try to keep him down and force him to take desperate measures.

I would have paid to see Jimmy slug Chuck.

The problem wasnt Jimmy getting is diploma, but him wanting to be Chuck Equal, yeah, easy path to the top beacuse your brother is the best legal mind in the whole state maybe more, everyone here doesnt know what is to work and having someone newer take everything you have accomplished, and it shows.

If Jimmy truly wanted to impress Chuck, he would've stayed at Davis & Main and worked toward being the best lawyer he could be. Nothing on earth would've impressed Chuck more than hearing from Clifford Main, a man he considered to be his peer, that Jimmy was developing into a fine attorney. But Jimmy is impatient, and he cuts corners. He was always in it for himself, which is fine, but let's not pretend he never had chances to go straight.

12:45 wow, idk what to say are you proud of me? *hmm..?* o oh yes, absolutely! thanks! that means..ALOT

Man! Kim is gorgeous!

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The interesting question is was Jimmy going to change if Chuck praised and helped him or was Jimmy going to end up being Saul Goodman anyway.... was Chuck's looking down on Jimmy to blame that he continued to go down the bad road ... i think Jimmy was born a scammer and the one time that he should of got out he chose not to which took his whole life .... the decisions these characters make it's crazy man...

“Jimmy would have played by the rules if Chuck only believed in him!!” Did you not watch Season 1, where Jimmy constantly runs schemes to try to shortcut his way to success? Or Season 2, where he gets a prestigious job but hates it because he just cannot play by the rules? Idk where this RU-vid comment talking point came from, the whole series disproves it.

Rude :(

Despite his flaws I never managed to hate Chuck. I mean he's right about Jimmy in every way.

Chuck was right.

i hate chuck

That’s a crappy and incomplete explanation. Why did Jimmy just want to “impress” his brother? Because he was a narcissistic psychopath and getting recognized or validated by his older brother was indispensable regardless of the means or sincerely earning it. Jimmy was a narcissistic psychopath. A manipulative personality that was ultimately destructive to himself or others close to him. That’s why Kim left him because she knew that they would only reinforce each other’s antisocial tendencies, though obviously she was nowhere close to the level of his personality pathology.

Chuck’s the worst

It's funny how everyone still hates Chuck even though the series proves that he was right about everything

Like this button if Chuck is your most hated character in television history.

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There was an element in Jimmy of legitimately wanting the approval of his brother but in no way was that desire ever going to be enough to impede Jimmy’s own subversive and self-destructive tendencies.

now that was one hell of a friend at the end of the video

Who is making these? Genuinely curious about the job behind maintaining this channel.