Kelly Ripa didn’t just enjoy watching Breaking Bad — she found it educational as well.
During the Tuesday, January 7, episode of Live With Kelly and Mark, Ripa, 54, brought up her love for the AMC series, telling producer Michael Gelman, “Do you remember when I was like, ‘I think I can make meth!’ because I’ve seen Breaking Bad?”
Ripa continued: “I’m like a chef. I like to watch cooking shows — baking shows, really, I’m more of a baker — which is science — and, apparently, so is making crystal meth. So I became convinced that I, too, could make crystal meth.”
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Consuelos, 53, attempted to clarify what Ripa meant, adding, “You also think you can figure skate when you watch the Olympics. Ripa replied by joking that she has “a—— syndrome.”
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“I do. I have it. If I see anything on TV, I’m then like, ‘I can totally do that.’ And every Winter Olympics, I move all the furniture in the living room. I do,” she quipped. “I move the furniture, I put on my socks, and I’m like, ‘I’m going to do living room Olympics.’ Sorry, don’t hate the player, hate the game.”
Breaking Bad, which aired from 2008 to 2013, introduced Bryan Cranston as high school chemistry teacher Walter White. He starts producing and distributing meth with former student Jesse (Aaron Paul) after being diagnosed with stage three lung cancer. Walter’s attempts to secure a financially stable future for his family before he dies results in him getting caught up in a life of crime.
“I remember reading things [like] ‘Shame on Sony, shame on AMC for greenlighting a show that’s glamorizing the cooking and selling of meth,’” Paul, 45, told Entertainment Weekly in 2018 about the initial backlash. “All of that quickly went away the moment we hit the air.”
Cranston, 68, also weighed in on the very heavy content. “We all came to an idea: ‘We’ll talk about what the show is really about. It’s about this man’s decision-making,’” he noted at the time. “But we never had to use it,” he said. “It just dissipated because the critics and fans saw what the show was about and were sympathetic to these characters.”
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The Breaking Bad franchise has since expanded with prequel Better Call Saul and 2019’s El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Despite the crime drama’s success, Paul previously revealed he didn’t receive residuals from the streaming service.
“I don’t get a piece from Netflix on Breaking Bad to be totally honest, and that’s insane to me, you know what I mean?” Paul told Entertainment Tonight in 2023. “Shows live forever on these streamers and it goes through waves. And I just saw the other day that Breaking Bad was trending on Netflix, and it’s just such common sense, and I think a lot of these streamers, they know they have been getting away with not paying people just fair wage and now it’s time to pony up, and that’s just one of the things we’re fighting for.”
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