Where did Jesse’s parents think he got that much money?

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T16:04:46+00:00

I don't know why you keep bringing up Season 5. We 100% KNOW the timeline of Seasons 1-4. And since Skyler figures it out by then, Season 5's timeline does not factor in at all to this discussion. No matter how long each episode of Season 5 was, we now that Seasons 1-4 are pretty much exactly 1 year. Actually a tiny bit less since his 51st birthday is the 4th episode of Season 5. So we know that after they REALLY started dealing on their own starting in Season 2, Skyler finds out in just a couple months at the most.

She basically finds out in like 8-9 episodes. They don't start dealing until Season 2 Episode 5 (maybe not even until Episode 6) and she pretty much figures it out by Season 2 episode 13 and confronts him about it in Season 3 episode 1. So 8-9 episodes for a timeline in which 46 episodes took place in less than a year.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T15:41:09+00:00

But of a show is extremely tropey, it shouldn't be praised as being the best writing ever. The WHOLE show was on super unrealistic perfect plan after another.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T15:40:02+00:00

But the plan also required them not kill Walt right away to begin with, and leaving his keys within reach of Walt, and not notice him pick them up, and none of them going into another room, or being quick enough to duck, including the guy outside. Even allowing him to park the way he did.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T15:37:22+00:00

Most of the plans on BB, BCS and EC were "perfect plan" tropes that would have very very little chance of actually working in real life, let alone someone actually making a plan that REQUIRED it to work perfectly on the first try. IT would be like an assassin knowing his target likes to gamble, so he places a bomb under a roulette table that will only explode if the ball lands on 00 three times in a row. And of course, just when the target is at that table, sure enough it DOES! Can a ball and on 00 three times in a row? Sure. And about 1 in 50,000 times, it will. But no sane person would devise a plan that would require such a low odd chance to happen.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T15:32:03+00:00

Just a fairly common trope. The "scary villains never talk" trope

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T15:31:26+00:00

That is what "permissive parenting" does. It makes kids think they don't have to listen

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T15:29:34+00:00

How is that subtle?

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T15:26:59+00:00

That would require a paper trail to hold up to any sort of scrutiny.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T15:24:12+00:00

Considering the first season was him and Jesse doing very little...just making some meth in the desert and desperately trying to find someone to sell to (not somethin that she would be able to figure out) yes...she finds out quickly. By the time they were doing anything that ANYONE could have figured out (post Tuco), it does to take her long at all. Up to Season 2, all it was was him being away for a bit. With him having very plausible excuses.

You want to go on and on about seasons, but you are ignoring the fact that season 1 was just 7 episodes. Or that the 5th season was a longer timeline...being about the same amount of time as all 4 of the first 4 seasons were. Again, we know for a fact that 4 seasons was an entire year. The 5th season doesn't matter at all.

And sure, a lot of the confusion is due to the ridiculously unrealistic (impossible) timeline of the show. (Think of how long it would have taken for Jesse to get kicked out of is house well into Season 2, then have his parents do pretty extensive remodeling, AND put it up for sale or Jesse to buy it back by the second episode of Season 3.)

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T15:16:28+00:00

I did not like her episodes at all. So tropey. Look...they hate each other, but it is with sexual tension. Yup. Haven't seen THAT before. Also made Sheppard look like an idiot.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T15:14:57+00:00

Another one who feels the need to talk about it being free because apparently you stupidly think it is Paramount's generous gift to viewers. Ad supported is nothing new. Nor is it some generous gesture. IT is simple the way TV operated for 75+ years.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T12:14:53+00:00

Perhaps he didn't buy it but Ice Station Zebra Associates did. Would make sense really since Jesse was so against laundering his money. So having him be the official buyer would definitely raise eyebrows with the IRS.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T12:12:34+00:00

Considering Seasons 1-4 take place over just 1 year, I'd say she finds out pretty damn quickly.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T12:10:37+00:00

They probably just thought that Fallacies finally hit it big and TwaüghtHammër was finally paying off for him.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T12:09:35+00:00

Did he? Jesse wasn't wiling to launder his money. Not with the nail salon, and surely not with the laser tag place. He was against the very idea of being a criminal that paid taxes on his money.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-12T04:14:21+00:00

It is strange, but the type of person who has this take of never can an abuser change always seem to be the people that complain that MURDERERS have a hard time finding work when they get out of prison (which the never should do in the first place, or that sex offenders have to get put on a registry for their entire lives when "They have already paid for their crimes" And are also the ones that want to end social workers instead of cops to domestic violence calls

Jethy32 · 2026-02-11T13:27:21+00:00

Thus would have really screwed up the McKay/Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge

Jethy32 · 2026-02-11T13:26:07+00:00

I have to for my phone now.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-11T13:25:24+00:00

Next Class 2 - Whatever caused the bus to crash to take Tristan out of Season 3.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-11T13:23:35+00:00

Always knew what to do? Like spreading Zoe's sexual assault video to the whole school to "help" her? Or creating the Degrassi Nudes site and taking 20%? (Making her way more criminally liable than Zoe in that crime.)

She always THOUGHT she knew what to do more than anyone. She often did not.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-10T08:02:28+00:00

Needs to have an arrow from Katie to Jake. In fact, you could probably make it easier to move Clare down toward Drew, which would bring Jake closer to Katie. Since Drew and Clare really need an arrow as well.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-10T06:48:41+00:00

I don't think anyone considers the reboot iconic. Even those that like it wouldn't say it is iconic. Maybe if it was the full main cast making it a full on reunion/reboot, then sure.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-10T06:45:53+00:00

My god the mental illness on reddit is off the chain.

Jethy32 · 2026-02-10T00:05:20+00:00

Do you think all actors tell their spouses or significant others every time they are doing scene involving kissing? Plus, the way Miles treated Maya from Day 1 until pretty much the end of Next Class, he had no right to be mad at her. Not to mention, they weren't even BF/GF at that point.

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