Kelly Ripa thinks she can do Crystal Meth after watching Breaking Bad

Kelly Ripa I didn’t just enjoy watching Breaking Bad — she also found it educational.

On the Tuesday, January 7 episode of Live with Kelly and MarkRipa, 54, touted her love for the AMC series, telling producer Michael Gelman: “Remember when I was like, ‘I think I can do meth!’ because I’ve seen Breaking Bad?”

Ripa continued, “I’m like a chef. I love watching cooking shows — really baking shows, I’m more of a baker — which is a science — and, obviously, also making crystal meth. That’s how I convinced myself that I could make crystal meth, too.”

Consuelos, 53, tried to clarify what Ripa meant, adding: “You think you can figure skate too when you watch the olympics. Ripa responded by joking that she has a “syndrome.”

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“Yes. I have it. If I see something on TV, then I’m like, “I can totally do that.” And every Winter Olympics I move all the furniture in the living room. I do – she quips. “I’m moving the furniture, putting on my socks and I’m like, ‘I’m going to do the Olympics in the living room.'” Sorry, don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Breaking Badwhich aired from 2008 to 2013, introduced Bryan Cranston as high school chemistry teacher Walter White. He begins manufacturing and distributing methamphetamine with former student Jesse (Aaron Paul) after being diagnosed with stage three lung cancer. Walter’s attempts to provide a financially stable future for his family before he dies leads him to become involved in a life of crime.

“I remember reading things (like) ‘Shame on Sony, shame on AMC for greenlighting a show that glamorously cooks and sells meth,'” Paul, 45, said Entertainment Weekly in 2018 about the initial backlash. “That all quickly disappeared the moment we took to the air.”

Cranston, 68, also opined about the very heavy content. “We all came up with one idea: ‘We’re going to talk about what the show is really about.’ It’s about that person’s decision-making,” he noted at the time. “But we never had to use him,” he said. “It just blew away because critics and fans saw what the show was about and sympathized with these characters.”

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The Breaking Bad franchise has been around ever since expanded with backstory Better call Sol and 2019 El Camino: Breakthrough Movie. Despite the success of the crime drama, Paul previously revealed get no leftovers from the streaming service.

“I’m not getting a Netflix piece for Breaking Bad to be completely honest, and that’s crazy to me, you know what I mean?” Pavel said Entertainment tonight in 2023 “Shows live forever on these streamers and go through waves. And I just saw the other day that Breaking Bad is trending on Netflix and that’s just common sense and I think a lot of these streamers know that they’ve been getting away with not paying people just fair wages and now it’s time to pony up and that’s just one of the things we’re fighting for.”