"5 Absurd Movie Plots That You Won't Believe Actually Happened"-- #3. A Mild-Mannered High School Educator With Cancer Becomes a Meth Dealer AMC In Breaking Bad, the dad from Malcolm in the Middle takes the darkest career turn since Patty Hearst by playing a high school chemistry teacher named Walter White who finds out he has cancer and starts cooking meth. That's as far as we've watched the show (no spoilers!), but we're pretty sure that lovable, goofy old Walt will ultimately realize the error of his ways and adopt poor lost Jesse into his family, where they will both live happily ever after. The Real Version: We've already covered the time a real-life tweaker named Walter White was arrested for selling meth. That's pretty weird, but it's just a name, and a fairly common one at that. It was almost bound to happen. It's the premise of Breaking Bad that's outlandish. Mild-mannered teacher turning to a double life of drug dealing because of a serious illness? That's the type of overwrought drama that happens only on TV. Unless you're Stephen Doran. Although he was battling cancer and undergoing treatment, everybody thought that the hardest problems Doran faced during his workday were algebraic in nature. That's until a kilo of meth from his side job as a drug dealer was accidentally sent to the same building where he helped shape the minds of our children. Really, it was as much a Malcolm plot as it was a Breaking Bad one. Where TV's Walter White would have saved himself at the last minute by poisoning a couple of kindergartners to distract everyone, Doran got caught, and the cops eventually found over $50,000 worth of meth hidden at his house. The school pointed out that he was not a teacher, like White, but a tutor. Clearly that distinction makes all the difference. http://www.cracked.com/article_2118...nt-believe-really-happened.html#ixzz33Dv3wkF9
In other Walter White news: Walter White Not Dead? Bryan Cranston Drops Crazy 'Breaking Bad' Hint In CNN Interview
You don't kill off a money-making franchise that easy. Mind you, no new "Sopranos" on the horizon. But a "Breaking Bad movie" is still a possibility.
