Better Call Saul’s Gus Fring hidden message: Creators can’t believe fans decoded episode title's anagram
'I guess we really underestimated the genius and hard work of our fans.'
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Your support makes all the difference.Better Call Saul creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould know fans love a good Easter Egg from their Breaking Bad days, but it seems they underestimated their ability to spot them.
*Spoilers ahead*
The first letters of each season 2 episode title spelling out ‘FRING’S BACK’ was a hidden message they thought fans would only work out after Gus had returned (which he sort of did in the finale, more on that here), but one very bored fan cracked it last month:
“We had this—to us—this very bright idea of encoding the words “Fring’s Back” in the episode titles,” Gould told Vanity Fair. “And we thought we’d be revealing it maybe sometime over the summer. I guess we really underestimated the genius and hard work of our fans.”
“And their attention to detail, and God bless them for it,” Gilligan chimed in.
Gould concluded: “It’s hard to complain about people paying attention to every aspect of the show. It certainly reminds us again that we better keep all our i’s dotted and our t’s crossed in every aspect of the show.”
Following the ominous ‘DON’T’ note on Mike’s windscreen, the stage is set for everyone’s favourite homicidal fried chicken shop owner to return in season 3 of Better Call Saul, which is expected early 2017.
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