Follow along each week as we find every Easter egg, secret and pop culture reference in Better Call Saul season 3.
Better Call Saul is a great show for many reasons. Chief among those reasons is that it trusts its own mythology.
Vince Gilligan, Peter Gould, and the rest of the minds behind Better Call Saul have correctly predicted that viewers deeply care about the mythology and history of this fictional version of Albuquerque built up over five seaons of Breaking Badand two seasons of Better Call Saul. So they highlight, reference, and remix it in every way they can over and over.
Better Call Saul is dramatically satsifying to be sure but it's also one of the better Easter egg hunts on television. After doing the same for season one and season two of Better Call Saul, we're conducting our own Easter egg hunt again for season three. This time we're doing it live as episodes air to bring you the most up to date pop culture reference and fact finding possible in Vince Gilligan's ABQ.
Better Call Saul Season 3 Episode 4: Sabrosito
Official Synopsis:Jimmy asks a favor of Mike; new complications disrupt Salamancas' business; Chuck and Jimmy struggle with a compromise.
- Don Eladio reappears in a flashback, marking his first Better Call Saul appearance. Gus Fring’s main adversary and boss of the Ciudad Juárez Cartel first appeared via flashback in the Breaking Bad episode “Hermanos.”
- Point of view shots from pools have always been a popular convention in Breaking Bad as well. An underwater shot facing upward opened up season 2 of Breaking Bad in “Down” for instance.
- We also see Juan Bolsa, the cartel’s liaison between Eladio and Gus. Bolsa first appeared in the Breaking Bad episode “I.F.T.” ordering the hit on Tortuga.
- The Spanish word Sabroso means “delicious.”
- Hector refers to Los Pollos Hermanos as “The Butt Brothers,” further asserting his theory that Gus and his former partner Max were lovers.
- Ximenez is the truck driver that will later be robbed by Mike and killed by Hector in Season 2.
- Michael Mando makes his first appearance of the season as Nacho.
- The fire station that Gus is visiting is the same place where Walt will leave baby Holly in the Breaking Badepisode “Ozymandias.”
- Martin’s Handyman and Repair doesn't seem to be a real business in Albuquerque.
- This is the first time Mike Ehrmantraut and Chuck McGill have met onscreen. 24 episodes into the series.
- Francesca is overheard on the phone discussing a problem with a Pomeranian. In The Big Lebowski, Walter looks over his ex-wife’s pomeranian, which also causes problems.
- Jimmy critiques Mike’s photos, telling him he should take into account the rule of thirds. Wikipedia defines the photo technique as “aligning a subject with the guide lines and their intersection points, placing the horizon on the top or bottom line, or allowing linear features in the image to flow from section to section.”
- Jimmy compares Mike to Ansel Adams, a famous American nature photographer.
- Mike can be seen reading Handyman magazine after fixing Chuck’s door.