Yahoo Lifestyle “Breaking Bad” writer shares script in which Saul imagined working at Hot Topic instead of Cinnabon
"Better Call Saul" shows star Bob Odenkirk whipping up a sugary treat rather than folding trendy t-shirts.
As fans saw on the Emmy-nominated series Better Call Saul, Saul Goodman (played by Bob Odenkirk) knows his way around a Cinnabon. We see him whipping up the sugary treats, under the name Gene Takavic, as he dodges his former life as a shady criminal lawyer.
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But that almost didn't happen.
On Thursday, Peter Gould, who wrote Breaking Bad, which Better Call Saul was spun off from, and served as showrunner for the spinoff, posted a page from the original show's script that showed Odenkirk's character was once destined to work at a hipper mall staple: Hot Topic.
Saul explains to Walter White (Bryan Cranston), as the two prepare to enter witness protection, "I mean, a month from now, best case scenario, I'm managing a Hot Topic in Omaha."
Gould captioned it, "Came across this page from an early draft of #BreakingBad's penultimate episode. Cinnabon? Not just yet!"
A day later, Gould added, "In fact, we found out that Hot Topic was carrying #BreakingBad stuff and we didn't want to make it look like a cheap promo. So Cinnabon it was! (And they had no idea about it until the episode aired.)"
The Hot Topic website continues to offer a variety of Breaking Bad-themed t-shirts, along with pajama pants, eleven years after it ended its five-season run on AMC.
Once Cinnabon was featured on the series, the eatery embraced its time in the spotlight and offered promotions tied to it.
Odenkirk explained to Conan O'Brien on a 2016 episode of Conan that the company actually taught him how to make Cinnabon sweets, so he could do his pretend job authentically.
"I not only learned the first season," Odenkirk said, "but the second season, they gave me a refreshing course."
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He joked, "I know what goes into Cinnabons. And I'm not gonna tell you. So that you can still enjoy them."
Better Call Saul followed the titular character in the period before his relationship with Cranston's Walter White, and the scenes involving Cinnabon were flashes forward to his post-Walter years.
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