“Breaking Bad,” The Fly
Almost as bad as clip shows are bottle episodes. Bottle episodes take place in one location, and are mostly done for budget reasons. ‘The Fly’ was no exception. As Vince Gilligan described it, “We were hopelessly over budget and we needed to come up with what is called a bottle episode, set in one location.” Enter ‘The Fly,’ in which Walter spends much of the episode trying to kill a fly in his lab. Some fans love it, but when an episode only exists because the creators ran out of money to do something better, it likely isn’t their best.