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Breaking Bad' Fans Still Tossing Pizzas On Walter White's Roof

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Malyse

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"We've had pizzas on our roof. We've had pizzas on our driveway; pizzas until we're sick of looking at pizzas," Fran Padilla told NPR in March. Later in the interview she added, "I'll sit outside with a shotgun in a rocking chair. You know, like Granny from 'Beverly Hillbillies.'"
Padilla and her husband, Louis, have this unique pizza problem because they happen to own the White family home from the show "Breaking Bad." The Albuquerque, New Mexico, house -- which they've lived in for over four decades -- is perhaps most famous for the time a frustrated Walter White improbably threw a whole pie onto the roof.

Padilla's comments came a few days after show creator Vince Gilligan popularized their problem on a "Better Call Saul" podcast, warning fans, "There is nothing funny or original or cool about throwing pizzas on this lady’s roof."

"It is just not funny," Gilligan continued. "It’s been done before. You’re not the first." Tough guy-playing actor Jonathan Banks followed up, saying, "If I catch you doing it, I will hunt you down."

Now, two-thirds of a year later and curious if the warnings had been heeded, The Huffington Post followed up and found that pizzas are still being tossed onto the Padilla house.

Banks may have to follow through on that promise.

Jackie Sandoval is the co-owner of "Breaking Bad" RV Tours, along with her husband Frank. The couple is close with the Padillas and it's been Frank's job at times to scrape and scrub the unwelcome pizzas. "Frank had to remove three pizzas off of their roof that some teenagers had thrown on it a few weeks ago," Jackie Sandoval said.

A longer interview with her is forthcoming as HuffPost continues a retrospective on "Breaking Bad," but it seems especially urgent to stress that the Padillas' problem hasn't stopped.

"As far as Vince's warning goes, it's working for the normal fan base, but what we've found is that the younger crowd are the ones doing it, just for kicks," she told us. "There have been at least six instances since Vince put the warning out."

At the height of the show's fandom, around 200 people would pass by the Padilla household every day to gawk at the real-life White residence. Now that number has come down, but fanatics continue to make the pilgrimage. Jackie says, "We also put up 'Stay Off Property' warning signs in her front yard to detour people."

If you're a real fan of "Breaking Bad," don't be the one who knocks on the Padillas' door and certainly don't be the jerk making a mess on their roof. Breaking rules is only kind of cool -- perhaps ignoring all the murder -- if it leads to you becoming a multi-millionaire kingpin. In this case, you're just wasting perfectly delicious pizza.
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http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/56339e04e4b0631799122426?ir=Entertainment?ncid=newsltushpmg00000003
 
Sapiens

Sapiens

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Just build a pizza detecting trap door with a chute that leads directly to the kitchen table.


Free pizza.
 
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Valkrai

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This is a problem since the show happened. Literally people keep coming to that house and throwing the same pizza up there. On the bright side, it helps keep that pizzeria in business despite it tasting kinda crappy.
 
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Arc

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Visited the house on a road trip and posed for pictures in the street.

Felt bad for the owners, but you know, it made a great instagram.
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Wasting money and pizza, and being a general asshole to these homeowners. So many wrongs in that equation.

Maybe some surveillance cameras could help the issue.
 
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Aztechnology

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Deadly Cyclone said:
Why did this couple agree to let their house be used in the show?
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Maybe they got paid, or they wanted to support an artistic endeavor. Regardless they shouldn't have to worry about people being absolute pieces of shit and showing up on your lawn constantly to stage a photo op or to recreate their favourite scene. It's unbelievably disrespectful.
 
Gray Matter

Gray Matter

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I'm sure the owners didn't anticipate the show becoming that popular.

I wonder how much they got paid to let their house be used to shoot there.
 
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Exuro

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I felt bad enough just driving by their place to see it and one of them walking out and staring at my vehicles as I drove away.
 
Lamel

Lamel

Banned
They should put a plastic pizza on the roof all the time so people think there is already one there and then they won't throw another.

Problem solved.
 
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Rhaknar

The Steam equivalent of the drunk friend who keeps offering to pay your tab all night.
No gif in the OP makes me sad
 
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BigBoss

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breaking-bad-pizza.0.gif


Had to be posted.
 
PAULINK

PAULINK

I microwave steaks.
Just put a dispensary with walter white's face and it's in the shape of a roof and it says "place pizza here" and then you can donate them pizza while feeling like you have achieved your life dream.
 
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Permanently A

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We need to lock these criminals up. I mean, who would be sick enough to waste good pizza like that? Oh yeah and sucks for the homeowners I guess
 
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Sorian

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Why don't they just sell the house? I'd imagine the property value would be insane to some rich die hard fan.

Edit: Not to say that people should be throwing pizza on the roof, just that selling the house would have been the first thing I did when the show blew up in popularity.
 
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Einchy

semen stains the mountaintops
Valkrai said:
Not really, it's only a house. It's just everyone in Albuquerque can't let this show go.
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How isn't it iconic? It's a house that people saw over and over and over for five seasons in arguably the best TV show ever made.

The reason Breaking Bad is popular isn't because people in Albuquerque can't "let it go".
 
Krappadizzle

Krappadizzle

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My wife and I went to see the house when we drove cross country. We met a nice couple from Germany there taking pictures when we got there. I'm sure it's annoying being the owners of the house, and we'd never go so far as to be so disrespectful of the current owners to throw a pizza on the roof. People are assholes.
 
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Zebra

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Valkrai said:
Not really, it's only a house. It's just everyone in Albuquerque can't let this show go.
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No it really is iconic. Both the way the house is filmed and the events that occur inside and outside of it imprint that place in viewers' memories. That house as a setting is ingrained in the show's DNA in every season.
 
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