--- title: Grand Theft Auto V Tribute to Breaking Bad description: One fan offers an eerily realistic tribute to the memory of Walter White. canonical: https://time.com/3889755/breaking-bad-grand-theft-auto-v/ author: Eliza Berman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-19T19:45:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:48:27.872Z og:title: Watch Your Favorite "Breaking Bad" Scenes Recreated in "Grand Theft Auto V" og:description: One fan offers an eerily realistic tribute to the memory of Walter White. og:url: https://time.com/3889755/breaking-bad-grand-theft-auto-v/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt309376b680ed214c/698850d38e06014d9e460945/screen-shot-2015-05-19-at-3-27-25-pm.png?branch=production&width=386&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 386 og:image:height: 217 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-05-19 at 3.27.25 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Your Favorite "Breaking Bad" Scenes Recreated in "Grand Theft Auto V" twitter:description: One fan offers an eerily realistic tribute to the memory of Walter White. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt309376b680ed214c/698850d38e06014d9e460945/screen-shot-2015-05-19-at-3-27-25-pm.png?branch=production&width=386&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Your Favorite _Breaking Bad_ Scenes Recreated in _Grand Theft Auto V_ > Sponsored content. 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And one fan, still mourning the loss of Walter White going on two years after his fictional demise, created a _Breaking Bad_ tribute in the medium best suited to memorialize the show. The details—from White’s green button-down shirt to Jesse’s red hoodie to the pair’s blue gloves—are painstakingly recorded as the series’ musical outro, Badfinger’s “Baby Blue,” induces the kind of nostalgia that only a show about drugs, Neo-Nazis and extreme hubris can. ## Transcript [ SOUND ] I really don't want to talk about it [ NOISE ]. Oops Martin oh, oh my God. Let me get one of them too [ SOUND ]. [ MUSIC ]. [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ SOUND ] [ SOUND ] [ NOISE ] Do what you're gonna do. [ NOISE ] [ MUSIC ]. [ MUSIC ] No, you. [ NOISE ] Well get on with it, ****. [ SOUND ] [ NOISE ] [ NOISE ]. Hold on! [ NOISE ]. The only person left to judge you was, zero [ SOUND ] [ CROSSTALK ] [ INAUDIBLE ] [ NOISE ] All right. [ SOUND ]. 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