BlazinSkatinAxel
Member
It's very common. Rent the house, pay for license rights, pay the owners' hotel stay while shooting. One can get $40,000+ depending on the project.
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Owners of "Breaking Bad" house put up a fence to stop pizza throwers
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It's very common. Rent the house, pay for license rights, pay the owners' hotel stay while shooting. One can get $40,000+ depending on the project.
I'M PICKLE RICK JAMES BITCH!
It's probably shithead fans like this who said the owner came out as soon as he had the pizza box open. I would honestly fuck up anyone who stole rocks from the landscaping. Can see why they want a fence up. I am a giant Saul or Breaking Bad fan. I would probably take a picture from across the street if I was ever in that area but never go on some star tour,or enter their property etc. Even then,I would debate why I need the picture. Some people just need to make fandom about themselves.
Master Yoshi
Member
People, the fucking joke has been done. Breaking Bad has been over for years. Move the fuck on.
PipefishUK
Banned
It's an old (still operating though) TV studio in Melbourne. Used as the exterior for only the best worst 70s/80s TV show ever! - Prisoner Cell Block H. Screw Breaking Bad
https://youtu.be/1Rb-QzBlmQ4
Red Liquorice
Member
I knew it was PrisonerIt's an old (still operating though) TV studio in Melbourne. Used as the exterior for only the best worst 70s/80s TV show ever! - Prisoner Cell Block H. Screw Breaking Bad
- So it's still a TV studio, cool!The inside shots were a set. The house doesn't look anything like the internals from Breaking Bad. And the exterior shoots where the house was used will likely have been filmed all in one block where the homeowners will likely have had a really nice free holiday courtesy of AMC along with a very very large rental fee.
jts
...hate me...
You mean one block for the whole show? No way, with how much the characters and their appearances changed throughout the years and seasons, and wasnt the writing continuous as well?
I could see one block per season/year.
BattleMonkey
Member
Know a "friend" on FB who went to one of the Back to the Future homes to take pictures, and was posting how rude the owners were to him as he was trying to take photos of their house and with his memorabilia selfies. I was like, you are a jerk, respect the home owners property and wishes.
Skellig Gra
Member
Id take a selfie but thats about it. These people need to get over it and move on with their lives.
Create some sort of chute from the roof to kitchen. You will never have to pay for food again.
David Incorporated Esq.
Member
More people would show up to pose with the sign.
Talk to the people who own the Amityville house. They even remodelled it, but the fans keep coming decades later.
Twilight Princess
Member
Id start charging people for that, 100 bucks a throw.
elrechazado
Banned
Yeah, people will love living there because they totally won't experience the same nightmare.
Skinny Pete
Banned
I think someone needs to invent a pizza launcher.
papercan55
Member
Talk to the people who own the Amityville house. They even remodelled it, but the fans keep coming decades later.
Same thing happened to the goonies house and the one from mrs.doubtfire.
No matter what they do the fans keep coming and eventually the owners simply move but the fans keep coming.
Talk to the people who own the Amityville house. They even remodelled it, but the fans keep coming decades later.
I live a block away. It's fucking ridiculous. The house also sits directly on top of a 3-way stop T intersection. Easily half the time you drive by someone is stopped at the intersection just idling or having people get out to take a picture.
I've even seen a small tour van before. It's pathetic. And only gets worse this time of year. Tons of people come by for Halloween and ask for directions.
The house also has a pretty massive black iron fence around the whole front yard with a no trespassing sign. New younger couple just moved in less than a year ago. Wonder how long they'll last.
schwabdizzle
Banned
They should of made a contraption that catches the pizza and puts it nicely on their dining room table.
I can't imagine the frustration one must have if they live, or have to drive through, Abbey Road. Having to stop so people can break every convention of road safety to take a shitty picture of themselves walking across a road must suck quite badly.
LucidMomentum
Member
Now that's a T-Shirt slogan if I ever saw one.
It's like, "IRONIC" bro.
It's not modern day fandom, die hard fans have always been sketchy.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Charge them $5 for tossing the pizza. Toss is free if you land it perfectly.
Jesus, the house even has a Yelp page
https://www.yelp.com/biz/walter-and-skyler-whites-house-albuquerque
https://www.yelp.com/biz/walter-and-skyler-whites-house-albuquerque
Mammoth Jones
Member
People are fucking disgusting. Fandom is a mistake.
Glass Shark
Banned
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Glendemonium
Member
The actor must be thinking, "Breaking Bad was a mistake."
InsaneTiger
Member
Why should they have to move? Those fanatics are in the wrong and should leave that family alone.
The Albatross
Member
I'm sure some neighbors who were pissed about production vehicles being on their street for years are now like "Well, serves em right!" Otherwise the neighbors could probably get together to help them out and just accost fans driving up and down the street. If this happened in my neighborhood I'd intentionally ruin people's photos, like by constantly walking my dog in front of the house wearing weird costumes or something.
Just gotta do something odd.
Paint "Jesus Saves" on the roof
Giant yard sign for "VOTE TRUMP 2024!"
Paint a giant picture of E.T. on your garage doors.
Cover the garage door in reflective aluminium foil and point a large flood light at it at all times to ruin photos with over exposure
Have a naked cardboard cutout of yourself standing in the window
Park a giant RV in the driveway
If it were me, I'd try to keep monetizing the hell out of it. Try to get licenses from the city every weekend to park food trucks in my driveway, or make hot dogs and hamburgers. Setup a farm stand or dog petting zoo. Host a charity wrestling event.
I'd imagine throwing pizza at the house is some form of illegal dumping, so if they attached cameras to the property and recorded the license plates of anybody who throws pizza, they might be able to fight back if the town followed up. Have the city council pass a law that throwing pizza in that city comes with a $100,000 fine.
Just gotta do something odd.
Paint "Jesus Saves" on the roof
Giant yard sign for "VOTE TRUMP 2024!"
Paint a giant picture of E.T. on your garage doors.
Cover the garage door in reflective aluminium foil and point a large flood light at it at all times to ruin photos with over exposure
Have a naked cardboard cutout of yourself standing in the window
Park a giant RV in the driveway
If it were me, I'd try to keep monetizing the hell out of it. Try to get licenses from the city every weekend to park food trucks in my driveway, or make hot dogs and hamburgers. Setup a farm stand or dog petting zoo. Host a charity wrestling event.
I'd imagine throwing pizza at the house is some form of illegal dumping, so if they attached cameras to the property and recorded the license plates of anybody who throws pizza, they might be able to fight back if the town followed up. Have the city council pass a law that throwing pizza in that city comes with a $100,000 fine.
Albino_Yeti
Member
"They feel the need to tell us to close our garage, get out of the picture, you know -- tell us what to do on our own property," Quintana said.
Are you serious? How do people think this is ok? I would absolutely go off on someone if they tried telling that to me if I lived there.
Are you serious? How do people think this is ok? I would absolutely go off on someone if they tried telling that to me if I lived there.
I mean... owning such a famous house I'm sure they could've sold it for quite a lot above what it's actually worst... probably
reading on gaf gave me the impression that fans in the US are more extreme than anywhere else. I wonder if that's just me or if there's something to it.
Maybe it's because they lack the football (soccer) culture other countries have which usually absorb the most crazy individuals?
reading on gaf gave me the impression that fans in the US are more extreme than anywhere else. I wonder if that's just me or if there's something to it.
Maybe it's because they lack the football (soccer) culture other countries have which usually absorb the most crazy individuals?
That would honestly get annoying too and then you have the extra fun of feeling like a heel if you aren't all thankful for the pizza they brought.
backflip10019
Member
Why don't they just install a pressure-sensitive trap door that releases the pizza down a chute to their kitchen?
Boom, unlimited free pizza.
Boom, unlimited free pizza.
UnemployedVillain
Member
What is it about stupid, obnoxious fans of media that make them do these things? This along with the Rick & Morty fans causing commotion over a fucking McDonalds dipping sauce. What goes through your head that you convince yourself this is acceptable?
Throw that pizza filled with Szechuan-laced needles onto the roof of a house in Burkitsville to force the homeowner off of social media for not favoring your ship of Shrek and Shadow...Hodor.
There's saying a funny line, then there's chastising other fans for not being as into it as you, then there's physically re-enacting shit, then theres death threats, then theres aggressively stalking members of the cast dye to an inability to distinguish the actor/actress from their character
Commitment to the gag to a degree that is affecting others' lives negatively.
There's saying a funny line, then there's chastising other fans for not being as into it as you, then there's physically re-enacting shit, then theres death threats, then theres aggressively stalking members of the cast dye to an inability to distinguish the actor/actress from their character