http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/19/mythbusters-breaking-bad-trailer/
 
I love Breaking Bad, but as with anything involving science, it often leaves you wondering how exaggerated that stuff is - especially when you're like me and chemistry and all that fun stuff has never been your forte. 
 
I'm glad that the Mythbusters decided to put a couple of those things to the test.

I've never seen Breaking Bad. Isn't that the one about the science teacher who makes crack? The concept sounded a little thin to me, which is why I never watched it. Should I?

I've never seen Breaking Bad. Isn't that the one about the science teacher who makes crack? The concept sounded a little thin to me, which is why I never watched it. Should I?

He does make crystal meth - to pay for his treatment for cancer at first, but then he gets caught up in it obviously and ends up doing lots of things he never thought he would or was capable of. Not my favorite show, but an entertaining one which asks a few interesting questions.

I’ve been teaching college level chemistry classes now since the late 90’s.  The students over the years … after they became comfortable with me, would start asking questions that were outside the scope of the class and at one time, fun to answer.
 
I started taking notice sometime around 2006 or 2007 that the nature of the questions that I got asked (the off the wall questions that you get after class) changed.
 
They shifted from fairly innocuous stuff to things that I think were weighing very heavily upon these kids to things that just outright disturbed me.  I make this observation because some of the questions would come from the show Breaking Bad (and I will add that I have never seen the show) and movies like Fight Club.  To keep things in perspective, my recent students had been watching Breaking Bad all through high school (i.e., starting at 13 or 14).
 
But, beyond the macabre (and unsettling) questions with their roots in the HBO series and various movies, the stuff that really got me were the questions I would get about the drugs these kids had been taking since they were little (e.g., Ritalin).

I still recall that question the kids asked their chemistry teacher at an underground party (from some DUMB movie): "Can I buy a vowel?"  (I.e., "A" for acid or "E" for ecstasy.)
 
I never did anything drug related when we were in chemistry class, but we definitely learned some things we shouldn't like making extension fuses for firecrackers (I seem to recall rolling cotton string in some kind of magnesium oxide paste - you couldn't see the fuse burning and an inch took about a minute to burn - that meant you were long gone when the firecracker went off - lol).  The other "abuse" was making concentrated amonium sulfide.  The same stuff that goes into those gifts-and-gags stink perfume, except that there's only about 1/8" of concentrated stuff with water filling the rest in those bottles.  We've got some wild stories about that stuff including having three periods get out of 7th grade math class while the school had people checking for a sewage leak or dead animal...  Ah, good times!

I haven't seen Breaking Bad either.
 
Until the seventies getting a bottle of cinnamon from the pharmacist to soak toothpicks in was the
extent of my chemical experiments.
 

 
Around these parts, I'm considered by many as being the consummate expert in "Breaking Bad Wind"....
 
 
Anyone for another helping of Brussel sprout vindaloo with prune puree?
 
 
 "I'd say you'd had enough"
                                                      Mr Taggart ~ 1974

Yes. I am sad that this is the end of the show. This is the best drama ever produced for TV in my opinion. Maybe not for everyone's taste. If interested though, I would recommend renting or buying the prior seasons. Start at episode one.

KenB123
If interested though, I would recommend renting or buying the prior seasons. Start at episode one.

That is our plan (to buy) since we did not get around to watching it yet.