--- title: Breaking Bad Easter Egg Even Vince Gilligan Missed description: Better Call Saul is full of callbacks to its mother show — a series you may have heard of — Breaking Bad. canonical: https://time.com/4292409/breaking-bad-easter-egg-vince-gilligan-missed/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-13T18:31:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:35.492Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Here's the Breaking Bad Easter Egg Even Vince Gilligan Missed og:description: Did you catch it? og:url: https://time.com/4292409/breaking-bad-easter-egg-vince-gilligan-missed/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75674fb1718c5d0a/69888efbe20a8736ada90651/better-call-saul.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: better-call-saul og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's the Breaking Bad Easter Egg Even Vince Gilligan Missed twitter:description: Did you catch it? twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75674fb1718c5d0a/69888efbe20a8736ada90651/better-call-saul.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's the _Breaking Bad_ Easter Egg Even Vince Gilligan Missed > Sponsored content. 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Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman in "Better Call Saul."Ursula Coyote—AMC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Apr 13, 2016 6:31 PM UTC _Better Call Saul_ is full of callbacks to its mother show [_Breaking Bad_](http://time.com/4013420/mythbusters-breaking-bad/?iid=sr-link2)_,_ leaving plenty of opportunities for viewers to pick up on connections between the two [Vince Gilligan](http://time.com/3694327/interview-vince-gilligan-better-call-saul/) dramas. The spinoff is currently in its second season on AMC and is accompanied each week by _Better Call Saul Insider Podcast_, a conversation with the show’s cast and crew that is hosted by editor Kelley Dixon. This week’s podcast episode featured showrunner Gilligan and costume designer Jennifer L. Bryan, who in addition to discussing Jimmy McGill’s iconic suits, also revealed a _Breaking Bad_ Easter egg that Gilligan himself didn’t notice until he was told about it. The hidden detail involves the shirt that [Aaron Paul’s Jesse Pinkman](http://time.com/4282177/aaron-paul-breaking-bad-fans-crashed-wedding/?iid=sr-link1) is wearing in season five’s “[Granite State](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/09/23/breaking-bad-watch-the-iceman-cometh/?iid=sr-link4)” after being kept in captivity by Todd and his uncle’s gang of white supremacists. Since this is not the outfit Jesse was wearing when he was taken hostage, it was presumably given to him by one of his captors. Well, it’s apparently the same shirt that Todd was wearing when he shot the kid who witnessed him, Jesse and Walter stealing methylamine from a train in “Dead Freight.” This moment was significant for all three characters, as it showed Todd’s true nature and led to Jesse’s final breaking point with his meth-dealing mentor. > [](https://twitter.com/TVSecrets/status/404769427444727808) **Read More:** [_Breaking Bad_ Creator: Stop Throwing Pizzas at Walter White’s House](http://time.com/3740595/breaking-bad-vince-gilligan-pizza/) “It’s so f—king brilliant,” Gilligan says in the podcast. “I had to be told that because I didn’t have that great an eye for it. I should’ve noticed it, but as soon as I heard, the hair stood up on the back of my neck. I said ‘That is so perfect.’ That’s the kind of sh—t, that we’re proud of ourselves for coming up with the perfect detail in the writers’ room, and that was such an ironic thing that makes perfect sense.” ([h/t Uproxx](http://uproxx.com/tv/breaking-bad-jesse-pinkman-wearing-todd-shirt-callback-easter-egg/)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4292409/breaking-bad-easter-egg-vince-gilligan-missed/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4292409/breaking-bad-easter-egg-vince-gilligan-missed/"},"headline":"Here's the Breaking Bad Easter Egg Even Vince Gilligan Missed","datePublished":"2016-04-13T18:31:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:35.492Z","description":"Did you catch it?","url":"https://time.com/4292409/breaking-bad-easter-egg-vince-gilligan-missed/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","breaking bad","TV"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75674fb1718c5d0a/69888efbe20a8736ada90651/better-call-saul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt75674fb1718c5d0a/69888efbe20a8736ada90651/better-call-saul.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"better-call-saul","caption":"Bob Odenkirk as Saul Goodman in \"Better Call Saul.\"","creditText":"Ursula Coyote—AMC","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4292409/breaking-bad-easter-egg-vince-gilligan-missed/","name":"Here's the Breaking Bad Easter Egg Even Vince Gilligan Missed"}}]}] ```