Walter White was never a meth king — he was just suffering from a Twinkie-induce nightmare!
Playing on the half-joke rumors that “Breaking Bad” would end with Bryan Cranston’s family guy/bad guy White going into witness protection only to become another Cranston character, Hal, the dad on his previous long-running sitcom “Malcolm in the Middle,” AMC filmed its own gag, alternate ending to “Bad.”
Cranston’s White wakes up in a terrified sweat, in bed next to “Malcolm” co-star Jane Kaczmarek, who played wife Lois in the 2000-2006 FOX series.
“I told you not to eat those deep-fried Twinkies,” says Kaczmarek as the sympathy-challenged Lois.
“You don’t understand,” Hal says. “I was this meth dealer. Yeah. I was this world class chemist and I cooked and I sold this ultra-pure methamphetamine.”
Before Cranston skyrocketed to fame as White on “Breaking Bad,” he played dentist Tim Watley on several episodes of “Seinfeld” and dad of Frankie Muniz’s child prodigy in “Malcolm.”
Kaczmarek visited her pal Cranston on the “Breaking” set in January and they filmed the comic alternate ending.
It could be included in a “Breaking” box set which comes out later this month.
As “Breaking” drew near an end, fans joked that the series finale should tie back to “Malcolm” — perhaps with White going into witness protection, making “Bad” a prequel to Cranston’s life as sitcom dad.
The “Breaking” gag was also a homage to popular CBS comedy “Newhart,” which ended in 1990 with Bob Newhart waking up in bed next to previous sitcom wife, Suzanne Pleshette.