Chuck Attempts A Risky Play | Fifi | Better Call Saul
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
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Season 2 Episode 8 - Fifi: Mike is determined to get even with a dangerous adversary, while an unexpected opportunity to gain the advantage over the competition falls in Jimmy's lap.
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Nice speech from a guy who can't write down four digits without mistake.
Chuck: I DID NOT MAKE A MISTAKE!!!!
You think this is something, you think this is bad? This, this chicanery? He’s done worse.
@@holm-v4o That bilboard!
he got that IDIOT from copy shop to lie for him!!
@@tigeraxe186You think that a man just happens to fall like that?
“These days, the penalties for even the most honest of errors can be devastating.”
Foreshadowing.
glad someone else noticed this!
it was a very dishonest error THOUGH
Are you telling me an error just happened like that??
@@davidgulik5556 I know it was twelve sixteen.
@@duhanmerterkekoglu1290 One year after the magna carta
Notice how well Chuck can manage his “condition” when he’s working against Jimmy.
Jimmy stresses him out!!
Remember when they were working on the case and Chuck was in his flow getting case files out of the car and forgot about his condition up until the SECOND Jimmy called his name!
And like that time when he was working WITH Jimmy?
That’s because it’s completely MENTAL
The doctor told Jimmy he was enabling Chuck's "condition" when he was mentally ill.
The law is sacred!!!
Jimmy gets the rep of being a con man, but Chuck showed himself to be just as cunning and confident, just as long as he was following every iota of the law.
Con means confines of the law in Chuck’s case
Chuck is just lawful, doesn’t mean he’s a good person
@@nont18411Chuck may not be a “good” person but he is a realistic, morally ambiguous person… Chuck held grudges against Jimmy but who wouldn’t after what Jimmy did to their parents?
On top of that, Chuck was right about Jimmy cutting corners and cheating to get ahead even before their faking out
I wonder if their mother was a little of a con(wo?)man. These genes gotta come from somewhere
Both playing the same game, thats why Chuck hated Jimmy, he saw his own shittyness in him but Jimmy didn't have the suit and tie to legitimize it
I love how Howard is visibly concerned for a moment there before he realizes what Chuck is doing and starts playing along
And some folks will say that “Howard did nothing wrong”.
Even Howard himself knew that he did something wrong.
“I sided with Chuck too often?”
@nont18411 Is that any worse than anything Jimmy has done? If we apply the same standards to every character, Jimmy does not come out looking good. Howard is pretty high up.
In fairness though, so is Kim.
@Soulful_Sorrow Chuck may not have done criminal things, but his arrogance hurt people and nearly destroyed his own firm before Howard forced him out. He's no better than Jimmy in terms of manipulating, using and hurting people for his own benefit.
And less than a couple years after, one self immolated, and the other got humiliated and was buried under a laundromat. lol
@@nont18411he was doing it for HHM not for Chuck
Legally, Chuck was right, but morally, he was wrong. He only did this once he found out Jimmy and Kim would be practicing in the same building. A way to hurt Jimmy.
Chuck did good, legal things with bad intentions
Jimmy (pre Saul) did bad, illegal things with good intentions
To be quite fair with Chuck in this one, Howard got a meeting with Mesa Verde and Chuck did do his best to get them back.
@pliniojr95 For his own gain not for HHM or Howard even when he helped him. His hidden cloak of righteous covers his desire to control and keep Jimmy down no matter who gets caught in the crossfire.
@@pliniojr95HHM was doing good without Mesa Verde business which practically Kim is the one who find it through her connection and hard work. Chuck wasn't even plan to retook it from her, he even complimenting her and scolding Howard when he tells Chuck about losing it to Kim. But the moments Chuck hear that Jimmy is the one who she partner with, Chuck immediately call him svengali and planning to take Mesa Verde whatever it takes
The thing is, all of Chuck and Howard’s points are valid. They do have experience and knowledge and resources and connections that would help smooth any problems over, and the show makes it pretty clear that they’re right: Mesa Verde’s expansion was too much for a single lawyer to manage. Kim did better than anyone would expect, sure, but she needed help and it was eating up all of her waking hours just trying to stay on top of it all.
Lawful Evil at its best. Not breaking a single rule, but every bit as selfish and manipulative as most villians.
Chuck isn't really comparable to any of the other main characters in these shows, especially the villains. His only crime was being a dick, which doesn't make him a villain.
@@jessetheanimenerd3304 He is not as evil as Walt or Gus, yes, but he absolutely was a selfish person who obstructed Jimmy from ever making himself a better person.
@@jessetheanimenerd3304 Also if you don't think Chuck was the main villain of the first 3 seasons you should re-watch.
@@jessetheanimenerd3304 that absolutely makes him a villain.
oh he is a villain, just a villain that cross the legality barrier
Slippin' Chuck
Fluster Chuck!
As soon as my mind processed what I read, it did a hard cut to Chuck falling and hitting his head and I burst out laughing in the bus
Chuck showing a little bit of showmanship.
And he gets to be a lawyer? What a sick joke!
Yeah let's be honest, lawyers and conmen, what's the difference?
2:06
“ These days the penalties for even the most honest of errors can be devastating “
They were setting it up, man. Right in front of us
BUT NOT OUR JIMMY!
@@alangarciarodriguez3062😱 Couldn’t be PRECIOUS JIMMY
You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This foreshadowing? He's done worse. That forgery scene! Are you telling me that a man just happens to set up a plot point like that? No! He orchestrated it! Vince!
@@Zombiphobia And some people still haven't seen either show?! WHAT A SICK JOKE!!!
@@whynot5568YEH
This was the moment when 1261 was still 1261.
46 after Magna Carta!
@@TheLastBestResort-ns5ti HE DEFECATED THROUGH A SUN ROOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I could have sworn it was 1216?! How could it b-... Jimmy!
bravo vince
1261? What a sick joke!
"Banking law needs to be exciting" may be one of the most hilarious lines ever written lol and its just dropped in the middle of this amazing scene like it's nothing
Howard and Chuck were quite the double act when they were firing on all requisite cylinders together.
Meh, the performance they put on here was really embarrassing - Paige and Kevin saw right through it.
@@No_co_OK That was their plan. They didn't need to actually convince them to join HHM, all they needed to do was make them doubt Kim
@@sinception5034 Their behaviour was slimy and dishonest which has the effect of making people doubt them.
@@No_co_OK Also what do you think lawyers do for a living
@@sinception5034 They're slimy and dishonest, yeah, I know.
That "hang on" from Howard at the end is such a short utterance, yet Patrick Fabian absolutely *packed* it with emotion
He chucked it with emotion, truly a chucksterpiece.
@@holm-v4o It was chucking brilliant.
Page is so good here, her growing unease as chuck makes his point is wonderful
I read her and Kevin's behaviour and being increasingly put off by Chuck's "performance". It's hard to watch this because Chuck genuinely seems to have absolutely no idea of how transparently awful it is.
@@No_co_OKhe hates jimmy but seems to try making dramatic moves in law like him.
I feel like Page always really respected Kim and quickly saw through what Chuck was trying to do. She's also probably not a fan of Jimmy to begin with, so she may be more predisposed to disliking Chuck too lol
*Paige
@@No_co_OK He got them back though, didn't he?
"We are there for you. Day and night." Damnn that's the kind of promises we staffs hate.
Chuck was actually speaking 100 percent the truth, and could have save them a lot of hassle in the future.
1) kim couldnt handle the workload, she literally had a full breakdown from it
2) kim was too young and restless, so much so, that she left them hanging bc she hadnt decided what she wanted to do with her life
3) since kim was a 1 person team, when she decided to quit, there wasnt a whole team of lawyers to take over the case.
It's quite tragic that Chuck and Howard were both right, all along, about Jimmy.
Even with Chuck's personal grudge against Jimmy, he was still giving sound legal advice to Mesa Verde here: no matter how good Kim is, she is still a one woman shop, she literally could not handle the workload...
legally it was right and made sense but morally Chuck was 100% dead wrong. While it may had seems rational for Mesa Verde to return to HHM however, the whole motives is fully irrational as Chuck pulling another attempted of sabotaging Jimmy's career out of spite and pettiness by taking Mesa Verde from Kim which is a dirty move, as it shown that he can manage his "condition" when he did that.
F**k HHM
I've just realized, In this scene Chuck is doing EXACTLY what Jimmy does. He's manipulating people to do what he wants with words.
Yep, especially the scheme he would come up with on trying to expell Jimmy's law license
It takes one to know one
Except he does it within the confines of the law.
Haven’t you figured out the whole shtick of Charles was that he is jealous of his brother?
Charles hated that James could behave in such a manipulative and swindler way while working not only as a lawyer but also having people willing to cover for him.
This is just a smaller-scale version of the _real_ problem between the two,
which is that Charles _hates_ that James is, was, and will always be the ‘favorite’ (despite everything)
A basic “why *you* (the 'bad' one gets the praise) and not *me* ? (the straight arrow that)” Type of situation.
He's a lawyer. That's what they do. It's all they do.
1:26 Chuck and Howard realizing they're not in Breaking Bad (colorized)
Neither is Kim, but they don't have the safe passage writers afford to wumben
She is technically cause she’s alive, where’s Chuck and Howard 💀💀
Wdym? You didn’t notice the Howard revenge plot vs Fly Salamanca in season 3?
@@TheSundayShooter dude, don't be this pathetic. Your comment speaks volumes only about you.
This is an amazing play from Chuck!!
He COULDN'T denigrate Kim Wexler as she was there employee so he consistently gave her praise and instead gave himself critcisim saying he is old and does financial readings for fun and his decades of experience so he is constantly praising himself WHILE criticising himself...
Then him stating that they will save several thousands of dollars by doing things gives them confidence...
It's crazy because while he did this to throw Kim Wexler under the bus but as soon as he got his address wrong.. This scene replayed in his head and they got rid of HHM as their legal counsil due to incompetence!
On top of them firing Chuck for being condescending to them in court.
I mean, badmouthing ex colleagues is very unprofessional and this would tell more about Chuck than Kim herself. And Chuck, despite Kim being Jimmy's girlfried, always treated her fairly, thanks to him she got out of Doc Review before she left HHM. Howard was the one who pushed her around.
Chuck almost broke his arm patting himself on the back.
You think Chuck's condition just happens to fall like that?
No he orchestrated it, Chuck! He hates his brother! I should have stopped him when I had the chance!
@@danielevan8712and I have to be mentally ill? What a sick joke!
Chuck McGill became Chuck McShill
*This is the moment when...
There's something I love about this show when they're talking about stuff I'd usually find extremely boring and have little to no understanding of. I actually find it very relaxing.
2:06 Ironic, considering the bank branch address mistake that was coming.
A terrific example of how Chuck and Jimmy were funhouse mirror versions of each other
Jimmy is Chuck's reflection, so to speak. Is he brilliant? Yes, absolutely. But he and Jimmy share a talent of salesmanship. They're essentially the same. The only difference is Chuck uses the law to justify moral wrongs, and Jimmy uses what's morally right to justify what may be illegally wrong. This scene is a perfect example. This was a dirty move to take Mesa Verde from Kim. Legal? Yes. But was it right? NO. That's when his "condition" kicks in. He almost collapsed when the Mesa Verde reps left...because deep down he knew that what he and Howard did was FOUL. And for alllll his never ending prattling about the law and doing the right thing...his incessant lectures to Jimmy and his judgement, he and his brother are cut from the exact same cloth, and that fact literally PAINS him---hence, the "condition". That condition goes by a more common name: a conscience.
2 sides of the same coin
@@DaScorpionSting yep, exactly...
Morality vs legality is a big theme of this show. What is legal may not be moral (i.e. Chuck trying to get Jimmy disbarred) and what is moral may not be legal (i.e. Jimmy scamming the DA's office to save Huell).
For me the line that drives in this point is in the finale, when Jimmy at the court tells the judge how he got his brother killed by getting his insurance cancelled. Bill asks Jimmy "What was all that? That thing with your brother wasn't even a crime" and Jimmy replies "Yes it was".
Always get chills at that line.
The most underrated comment on RUclips. Perfect analysis!
I like Howard so much. Still the saddest fate of the whole history of television.
Howard was too cocky
@@MrWarrenRB True. If he had sought legal recourse, taken a D test and put it on record instead of going to Kims Apartment he would've been living like a king and foiled Saul's plan.
just imagine Chuck at his prime
the best of the best
sharp as an axe
You think this is something?
@VulpesInculta-h2b HE DEFECATED THROUGH A SUNROOF!
@VulpesInculta-h2b
I thought this was a video.
@ this? this chicanery?
Imagine how crazy Kevin and Paige thought Chuck was. After this spiel, and his blow up. And then they get kim doing everything perfect
And this is what leads to Howard on having Chuck retired. His mental illness can no longer be hidden and Chuck went ballistic on doing anything to stay as a lawyer even if his actions bring harm to others.
Paige’s reaction sums it up😂😂 she could smell the BS far away😂
And yet she went with Chuck after this meeting.
@@footballpredictions-g2ythat’s probably due to Kevin. He makes all the decisions and was clearly convinced by Chuck over here.
@@footballpredictions-g2y cuz she is just his secretary not his partner 😂
@@vishwa_md she is most certainly not just his secretary she's mesa verde's senior legal counsel
wait shes not his wife?
4:33 LOL Ernie's literally just standing there waiting for Howard to call him.
Masterful salesmanship. 10/10.
Ya know, Chuck got what was coming to him in the end.
1:00
That's the shot of BCS.
I want a show where Chuck and Howard are just being competent attorneys.
The true kings like Ned and Robert
Chuck is really channeling Jimmy in this scene, he's got his scam mannerisms down pat
That shot looking down the table through the lights it makes my brain fuzzy, something in the shapes of it 🤷🏻🤌🏻
(Edit for spelling sorry)
Get your foil lined jacket on
As it turned out later, he is absolutely right.
Kim was very talented, but everyone has ups and downs. And in certain moments when she was not in the right mood, there was no one to take care of the legal matters for them.
Never seen a snake smile before.
I love it. Chuck is talking down on himself by being so boring, but "boring" is exactly what is needed when you want a lawyer for a bank, and not exciting ;)
spot on. when banking becomes exciting, troubles are coming
1261
Chuck looks like his name would be Howard and Howard looks like his name would be Chuck.
I don't understand how or why, but you're 100% right
You know, Chuck is a lot more like Jimmy than he would ever admit. Think of how conniving and duplicitous he is in this play. And the way he manipulated them into doing what he wanted. Just like the guy with the mouth. He’s slipping Jimmy, it’s just that his code of ethics is the law and Jimmy’s is his moral compass.
I love seeing a good sales pitch in reverse psychology
Kevin is a side-sitter.
You can see how uncomfortable page is she knew Kevin would fall for this and she felt bad for Kim lol
After everything Ernie did for him yet Chuck treat him like absolute garbage
You are too big for one individual to handle unless that one individual is James Morgan McGill.
Why does the audio sound like it's been put in trashcan and re-recorded
dat happens every vid
It actually was put in a trash can and re-recorded
genius move. Make people interested in the youtube clip, but have bad audio, so this makes people go watch the scene and show for real.
The Houston Astro’s team edited the video 🤭
it takes place in 2004 audio wasnt as good back then
This is just foul play of the lowest order. Undermining a colleague for personal benefit, especially when the client has no reason to doubt them, is one of the most despicable business practices in any industry.
I mean he didn't undermine Kim. Like, at all. He talked about how talented Kim was while also extolling the virtue of his firm. Every point he made was legitimate and he really did nothing wrong. And this is coming from a guy who loathes Chuck.
The similarities between Chuck's harangue about Kim versus the speech from Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' (extolling how great Brutus was while secretly trying to destroy him) are spot-on....
Why was the audio encoded at such a low quality... sounds compressed as all get out
He orchestrated it! Jimmy!
Keep seeing clips for this show, I think I need to watch it
Please do. It's phenomenal
Damn that was smooth. Eloquent.
4:01 Which he ended up doing, contrary to what he said, by having the paperwork brought to his house so he could work on it there. And we all know how that turned out…
Just like Howard said later, that paperwork should've been secured in HHM documents room so, if Chuck wanted to check the document, he can do it in the early morning and have Ernesto or another HHM employee working with him and helping him since it's the most rational things he could've do instead of another attempt on pull Slippin' Chucky on Jimmy just like in that scene.
the foreshadowing in this scene is unreal
Kevin side sitting again
Maybe maturing is realizing that chuck just had a lot of respect for this thing because he may have been crazy but he was brilliant
I'd rather have Jimmy as a brother than Chuck any day of the week. He plays the lawful evil character so well.
What a terrific show this was!
"Chuck, that was really good acting, pretending not to notice the EM fields. Why don't you just.... do that 24/7?"
Because he's fighting against his condition, not treating it.
Like pretending to ignore or walk off a sprained ankle: you can only do it for a while before you can't fight it anymore...
chuck always looked down on jimmy he got what he deserved
Who JImmy or Chuck.
They both ended up bad
Nah, Chuck was right about Jimmy. Chuck loved him as a brother, as Jimmy loved him back, but Jimmy with a law degree really was like a chimp with a machine gun.
@@rvfharrier but it was chuck who keep sabotaging jimmy
@@rvfharrier Only because Chuck pushed him along that path. Chuck created his own self fulfilling prophecy. How can Jimmy take any other path when the path he chose is blocked by Chuck? How is Jimmy supposed to see any merit in law abiding when his law loving brother betrays him and admits pure disdain for him? Chuck has a part in the creation of Saul Goodman. We see Jimmy trying his best to stay straight up until he learns of Chuck's betrayal.
The obvious question Chuck's speech draws is: "If Kim is so good, and is an excellent choice... then why can't HHM do what it takes to rehire her?"
Patrick Fabian (playing Hamlin McGill) is such a good actor, although doesn't get much appreciated. His expression starting at 1:23 - utter shock at what Chuck is saying, but that weirdo corporate smile he always has to keep up with...and then how he continues to say "that's a sad thing"...all the while actually meaning to say: "What the heck are you saying, Chuck!" But riding along with Chuck's truck, coz he believes so much in Chuck's ability.
I've watched this video 1261 times.
That number is ridiculous. 1216 however, now that's a number I can get behind.
Stale. I get stale every night before bed
hmm? >//
Stale aka zendaya acting
Better call Chuck
Guess that being an excellent salesman goes in the family
Chuck deserved what he got, this was so spiteful and petty and he only did this when he found out that Kim was working with Jimmy
Nah man. Jimmy was a lost cause. There was no helping Jimmy. He was a certified pshyco
@@KenKaniff-dw4jw i disagree if Chuck supported him he would never have became Saul
@ALFIEBOY-de9rh nah he was a sociopath. Look what him and Kim did to Howard. They literally got off on ruining his life.
@@KenKaniff-dw4jw Howard started it, they finished it. Howard could've given Jimmy a chance and never did it.
@@KenKaniff-dw4jw Jimmy only became crazy when he found out his brother never supported him.
Chuck-lawful evil
Jimmy-chaotic good?
Michael McKean running a dramatic scene while still acting in a Christopher Guest film is one of my favorite parts of the series.
This is when you realize Chuck is as good as Jimmy when it comes to bullshitting their way into getting what they want
What part of this is "bullshitting"?
Chuck is the best, smart as hell, and hes always right, he warned jimmy and people really got hurt cuz jimmy abused the law, from all the chracters in this show, chuck is the last one ill consider a villain, personally ill start with jimmy
I'm surprised people called Chuck abusive when Jimmy abused Chuck's trust, gaslighted him and pretty much abused him.
He is like those sons who forge their elderly father's signature and then tell them "you signed it, you just don't remember it!"
1:35 When people ask me what my favorite Metallica song is.
3:25 when people ask me what my favorite Led Zeppelin song is
Chuck's scenes grew on me over the years
I heard somewhere that Chuck's malaise actually manifests when he's losing control of a situation, casually it started when he was "losing" his wife to Jimmy (solely because Rebecca was enjoying Jimmy's company) his worst meltdowns when things were not going his way. Last meltdown when he definitely pushed Jimmy aside.
Jesus, Chuck is so cringe here, to the point that this is hard to watch. If he had just been straight up and forward and said, "Look we respect your choice whoever you decide to go with. However, what I will say is that while we understand that Kim Wexler has her advantages over us in some respects, we can offer you the advantage of having more years of experience on this matter", he would have got his point across in a way that wasn't so slimy. This is a good example of his complete lack of self-awareness and inability to deal with people: he thinks that he is being sly here but in actuality his dishonest way of getting a message across is extremely transparent, and he seems to be completely oblivious of how much this puts people off of him.
Well clearly the transparent way never worked because Howard would have already tried that.
He swooped them up and got them back didn't he?
AI generated ah response. Chuck got them back as clients after this "dishonest way of getting a message across." You probably didn't watch the show.
Love this show!!
After watchilg BCS straight through twice, I'm still not sure whether EM hypersensitivity is a real thing.
But after BB and BCS multiple times, I still believe the Surgeon General was right about cigarettes.
I think it's an OCD thing, just a thought.
This is the moment chuck became slipping chucky
The only thing worse than Slippin Jimmy is Slippin Chuck
I'm yet to watch any of Better Call Saul - but I feel I've watched the whole thing through youtube videos
why not just watch the show?
@@Zack29810 haha I just haven't got to it yet but I will eventually watch it
@@Darther659 gotcha! have you seen Breaking Bad or nah?
Chuck was the best negotiator ever.
Imagine if they turned around as soon as Chuck was about to faint. 😅
That was a low blow and you know it...
Slippin' Chuck, those brothers were danger, Howard was confused at first but then he knew it was business going on
1216
1 after Magna Carta
As if I could ever make such a mistake!
Never. Never!
@@neothe1st644I just- I just couldn’t prove it!
He'll never learn! Ever since he r@ped our mum. But not our Saul. Couldn't possibly be our Saul Goodman!
From the front man of spinal tap to a partner in a major law firm!!! STONEHENGE FOR LIFE!!!!
You forget about things like, oh, I don't know, the correct address
It's quite tragic that Chuck and Howard were both right, all along, about Jimmy.
Even with Chuck's personal grudge against Jimmy, he was still giving sound legal advice to Mesa Verde here: no matter how good Kim is, she is still a one woman shop, she literally could not handle the workload.
Howard barks at Ernie like he Kim Jong Un with his translator
Scenes and dialogues like this make me think BCS is Vince's magnum opus.
Chuck could have had his suits custom lined with that blanket material, treat it like armor.
Chuck is the antagonist to our protagonist Jimmy, so naturally we want Jimmy to succeed and Chuck to fail. But that does not excuse/ pull the veil over our eyes of Chuck being a con man in similar ways to Jimmy he just does it within the law while arrogantly holding his chin high, while casting it down on Jimmy for doing what he does just less subtly.
3:15 I don't think I'd react well to being told what I do and don't know as a client, though maybe I'd ignore that from the ego-boost I'm getting from Howard and Chuck.
This is the exact moment when Chuck became Slippin' Chuck
And then Jimmy 1216 showed up...
Lenny from Lavern and Shirley done got old like the rest of us!😂
And they wonder why they got a counter blow.
Chuck and Jimmy are cut from the same cloth after all.
I'm gonna tell my kids; Kevin is Olaf Scholz before he became the german Chancellor
Hardly business the two founders of the firm would be aggressively targeting. I can see some experienced partners in their firm handling mesa more likely. The fact that the bank guy didn't questioned that shows he don't give a crap who their lawyer is