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 7: Expenses
Official Synopsis: Jimmy attempts to settle his debts. Nacho reunites with an old acquaintance. Mike helps Stacey with a project and makes a meaningful connection.
- The opening shot of Jimmy against the brick wall is an homage to the beginning of the episode “Amarillo,” but instead of a dazzling white suit, Jimmy is wearing sweats.
- Frank Deal from Law & Order: SVU plays “Parks Supervisor.”
- Jimmy wears a Panovision hat. Panavision is an American motion picture equipment company specializing in cameras and lenses.
- There are a lot of businesses in Albuquerque with Duke City in the name, but Duke City Recliners isn’t one of them.
- Daniel “Pryce” Wormald resurfaces, last appearing for some Crybaby Squat Cobbler in Season 2’s “Cobbler.”
- Anita is played by another SVU alum, Tamara Tunie.
- Ritiche Blackmore is indeed a founding member of Deep Purple and the heavy metal band Rainbow. Blackmore indeed plays a modified Fender Stratocaster.
- The sound guy incorrectly repeats Pink Floyd lyrics, mistaking them for Deep Purple.
- Comedy duo the Sklar Brothers play the owners of ABQ In Tune, a fictional music store.
- Anita states that her husband disappeared in Gila National Forest, home of the Gila Cliff Dwellings. In the late 1200's, people of the Mogollon Culture built rooms, crafted pottery and raised children in the cliff dwellings for about twenty years.
- Once again, Jimmy compares himself to Kevin Costner. This is a signature trademark of director Thomas Schnauz, who worked the comparison into a Breaking Badscript where Saul tells Walt that he impersonated Costner to hook up with a woman and it worked “because I believed it!” We witness said hook-up in the Better Call Saul Seaosn 1 finale, “Marco.”
- Kim makes reference to her con artist name, Giselle St. Clair, which she used in the episodes “Switch” and “Bali Ha’i.”
- Mike checks Nacho’s gas cap fearing he was bugged by Gus just as he was in the season premiere.