Breaking Bad ran on AMC from 2008 to 2013, with Bryan Cranston playing chemistry teacher turned drug manufacturer Walter White. Pizza became unexpectedly linked to the character after a frustrated Walter threw a whole pizza onto his house roof, an image that was endlessly screenshotted and memed. Short voice clips from the show later spread on soundboards and social media, detached from their dramatic scenes. This brought pizza line survived because the contrast is instantly readable even without context, making it reusable as a light reaction in a series known for tension.