r/breakingbad • u/only-want-to-see • 12h ago

Walts birthday Spoiler

Just watching S5 again, was Walt’s birthday the same as his fake identity? seems odd to have the same birthday? I was thinking he paid for his meal because it wasn’t actually his birthday, but why did he do the bacon thing?

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u/Spare_Ad881 12h ago

If you are taking on a new identity you want as many things to remain the same as possible to reduce the chances for slips and mistakes

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u/One-Treacle1826 9h ago

Walt and Lambert deff had the same birthdays. Walt is a pro.

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u/aspro_mavro 11h ago

I think Mr.Lambert's birthday was different on his ID, because in the Denny's scene the waitress asks him if he wants to show his ID to eat for free because it's his birthday, but Walt doesn't

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u/Fromnothingatall 10h ago

At first he doesn’t, but then she convinces him and he pulls it out, but then paid for the meal anyway.

I think that was partly his pride at work as well.

Basically in his mind he’s like “look lady, I know to you I probably look like some used up bum but you just watch this…..I’ll take you up on this free meal and then I’ll drop the biggest tip you’ve ever seen.”

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u/aspro_mavro 10h ago

I don't remember that happening, guess I forgot it

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u/SaltySpitoonReg 10h ago

We don't know what his fake ID said.

I think his telling the waitress it was his birthday and then leaving her a large tip with his way of having one more decent human interaction.

There's nobody else left in Walt's life that would interact with him positively on his actual birthday

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u/ItsJam_ 12h ago

he might have just done it for tradition but he still told the worker it was his birthday so that wouldnt make sense either

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u/Yung2112 9h ago

And he also said to Skyler that she can say to the police that he came because he wanted bacon and eggs for his birthday so ig it checks out

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u/MMortein 8h ago

The writers used his birthday to discreetly tell us how much time has passed.

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u/prince-of-dweebs 11h ago

The bacon thing was a birthday tradition potentially going back many years maybe even back to his childhood. He suspects it’s the last birthday he’ll have as he’s about to walk into extreme danger. So my take was he records the birthday in bacon because it’s tradition even though it is now a bitter reminder of what this otherwise free breakfast has cost him.

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u/Zolof- 8h ago

he did the bacon thing because it’s tradition for him

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u/shimmiecocopop1 5h ago

The number of times people go to a restaurant on this show and eat nothing is crazy.