Throughout the entirety of Better Call Saul, Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), aka Saul Goodman, has been conning almost everyone he comes across. These scams are not only entertaining, but necessary for understanding how Jimmy McGill turned into the smarmy lawyer from Breaking Bad. These scams range from, “How and why would anyone think of this?” to, “Why would anyone waste their time on this?” The executions range from catastrophic to monumental.
As Better Call Saul returns July 11 on AMC and gets closer and closer to its inevitably dramatic and devastating finale, there’s no better time to revisit and rank the scams that created the Saul Goodman we know and love, based on how creative, successful, and impressively detailed they are.
9. Jimmy Gets Fired (Season 2, Episode 7)
When Jimmy is hired by Davis & Main, it’s obvious he doesn’t fit in, and after getting in trouble with the bosses, his time there is spent being babysat by first-year associates. Jimmy decides to quit, but after finding out that he loses his bonus if he quits within a year of employment, and can only keep it if he’s fired without cause, he hatches a new plan.
Jimmy realizes he needs to get fired quickly, so he decides to be as obnoxious as possible. In one of the show’s more iconic montages we see Jimmy trading out his boring suits for colorful, ill fitting ones, making loud and messy smoothies every day, “forgetting” to flush the toilets repeatedly, and playing the bagpipes (badly)….
