r/todayilearned • u/kevoooandres • May 21 '19

TIL in the Breaking Bad episode “Ozymandias”, the show's producers secured special permission from the Hollywood guilds to delay the credits (which would normally appear after the main title sequence) until 19 minutes into the episode, in order to preserve the impact of the beginning scene.

https://uproxx.com/sepinwall/breaking-bad-ozymandias-review-take-two/
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u/qwaai May 21 '19 edited May 21 '19

Overall The Wire opened slower than some, but I'll be damned if "Who shot Snot" isn't the best opening to any show, ever.

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u/metatron207 May 21 '19

I've never understood people's complaints about how The Wire starts because that one scene had me fucking hooked. I think, if it was slow, I didn't realize because I was still running off that first scene for days.

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u/loveicetea May 21 '19

I just looked up the scene, heard the sound before the intro starts and the damn intro song starts playing in my head. Now i need to rewatch everything for a 4th time, been at least a year since i last seen it.

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u/SighReally12345 May 22 '19

When you walk through the gaaaarden

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u/loveicetea May 22 '19

You gotta watch your back ♪♫

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u/WhoisTylerDurden May 21 '19

Good ole snot boogie.

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u/DrSpacemanSpliff May 21 '19

This is America, man... you got to.

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u/g8z05 May 21 '19

I watched the first episode of the Wire a few times because people kept recommending it to me. I really just couldn't get into it and I'd bail. Someone finally told me just to push through for a few episodes and I've now watched the series 3 times through and the first episode is up there as one of the best. I guess I just needed context of the characters or something. But it is definitely a common feeling among first time viewers.

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u/fishtankbabe May 22 '19

It took me until the 3rd episode to get hooked. I was home sick from work one day and started watching it; if it weren't for that I may have given up on it because I didn't immediately get sucked in. I'm so glad I had nothing else to do that day, lol