--- title: Watch Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul Reunite in an Emmy Awards Promo description: The sketch, which also stars Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus, doubles as a commercial for Audi—and alternate Breaking Bad outcome canonical: https://time.com/3145569/bryan-cranston-aaron-paul-reunion/ author: Eric Dodds article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-19T21:20:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T09:45:19.429Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul Reunite in an Emmy Awards Promo og:description: The sketch, which also stars Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus, doubles as a commercial for Audi—and alternate Breaking Bad outcome og:url: https://time.com/3145569/bryan-cranston-aaron-paul-reunion/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd21a77a4e1d7f3b8/6986a01a06f2c17eb03305f5/478015261.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul Reunite in an Emmy Awards Promo twitter:description: The sketch, which also stars Veep's Julia Louis-Dreyfus, doubles as a commercial for Audi—and alternate Breaking Bad outcome twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd21a77a4e1d7f3b8/6986a01a06f2c17eb03305f5/478015261.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul Reunite in the Hilarious 'Barely Legal Pawn' by [Eric Dodds](https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Aug 19, 2014 9:20 PM UTC  Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul attend the after party for "Need For Speed" on March 11in New York City. Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul attend the after party for "Need For Speed" on March 11in New York City.Stephen Lovekin—WireImage by [Eric Dodds](https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Aug 19, 2014 9:20 PM UTC It’s been a long, cold 11 months since _Breaking Bad_ aired its final episode, but stars Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul have finally reunited for a lengthy Emmys promo-cum-Audi commercial — and they brought _Veep_‘s Julia Louis-Dreyfus along for the ride. For all intents and purposes, the sketch is basically the brightest timeline version of _Breaking Bad_, wherein Walter White and Jeese Pinkman abandon their meth empire and instead open up a pawn shop while running an adorable side-business in the back of their shop. They spend their days pretending not to recognize celebrities when Hollywood A-listers show up in their store and making inside jokes about the relative merits of various Emmy awards. It’s probably for the best that Vince Gilligan didn’t go that route, but now he’s got at least one idea if _Better Call Saul!_ doesn’t pan out. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3145569/bryan-cranston-aaron-paul-reunion/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3145569/bryan-cranston-aaron-paul-reunion/"},"headline":"Watch Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul Reunite in the Hilarious 'Barely Legal Pawn'","datePublished":"2014-08-19T21:20:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:45:19.429Z","description":"Oh, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus is there too","url":"https://time.com/3145569/bryan-cranston-aaron-paul-reunion/","keywords":["Television","breaking bad","Aaron Paul","Veep","Julia Louis-Dreyfus","Bryan Cranston","commercial"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd21a77a4e1d7f3b8/6986a01a06f2c17eb03305f5/478015261.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eric Dodds","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd21a77a4e1d7f3b8/6986a01a06f2c17eb03305f5/478015261.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul","caption":"Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul","creditText":"Stephen Lovekin—WireImage","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/3145569/bryan-cranston-aaron-paul-reunion/","name":"Watch Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul Reunite in the Hilarious 'Barely Legal Pawn'"}}]}] ```