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I Quit Breaking Bad Right Before The Boring Fly Episode Meme

This meme features text at the top quoting a person saying "I just dropped Breaking Bad after 29 episodes because it was boring", with the Breaking Bad title stylized using its signature periodic table element logo design. Below the text, the classic 'tunnel digger giving up right before reaching a prize' meme format is used: a drawn man carrying a pickaxe walks away dejectedly from the tunnel he was digging, having given up just before breaking through the last thin layer of wall. On the other side of that remaining wall is a giant, photorealistic common fly. This is a reference to Breaking Bad's infamous season 3 episode 10 titled 'Fly', a slow, divisive bottle episode widely cited by viewers as the most boring episode of the entire series. The joke is that the person who quit watching after 29 episodes was literally one episode away from the very episode that matches their complaint about the show being boring, making their decision to stop watching unintentionally ironic and humorous.
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"I just dropped Breaking Bad after 29 episodes because it was boring"

Overview

This meme features text at the top quoting a person saying "I just dropped Breaking Bad after 29 episodes because it was boring", with the Breaking Bad title stylized using its signature periodic table element logo design. Below the text, the classic 'tunnel digger giving up right before reaching a prize' meme format is used: a drawn man carrying a pickaxe walks away dejectedly from the tunnel he was digging, having given up just before breaking through the last thin layer of wall. On the other side of that remaining wall is a giant, photorealistic common fly. This is a reference to Breaking Bad's infamous season 3 episode 10 titled 'Fly', a slow, divisive bottle episode widely cited by viewers as the most boring episode of the entire series. The joke is that the person who quit watching after 29 episodes was literally one episode away from the very episode that matches their complaint about the show being boring, making their decision to stop watching unintentionally ironic and humorous.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the Reddit r/Meme subreddit, as indicated in the provided RSS source information. It is a remix of two widely known internet cultural elements: the long-running 'digger gives up right before reaching his goal' meme template, and a reference to the hit AMC drama series Breaking Bad, specifically its much-discussed 'Fly' bottle episode. The meme formats the shared opinion of a viewer who dropped the show into the existing meme template for comedic ironic effect, and is widely circulated in TV fan communities online.

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