Better Call Saul season 6 is positively Spooge-ing with familiar characters from Breaking Bad. When Better Call Saul began in 2015, still very much under the shadow of its almighty predecessor, Bob Odenkirk's Jimmy McGill and Jonathan Banks' Mike Ehrmantraut were the main imports from Breaking Bad. Since then, Better Call Saul has explored a gaggle of minor Breaking Bad figures in richer detail, giving the likes of Huell Babineaux (Lavell Crawford), Hector Salamanca (Mark Margolis) and Sobchak (Steven Ogg) more time to shine. Attracting increasingly rave reviews with each season, Better Call Saul has firmly dispelled any spinoff blues, and become increasingly confident in adding more famous alumni - Giancarlo Esposito's Gus Fring, Dean Norris' Hank Schrader, etc.
For Better Call Saul season 6, then, it's not so much a case of if more Breaking Bad characters will be reintroduced, but which ones Vince Gilligan will call up. There's a 50/50 chance Bryan Cranston reprises his role as Walter White, while Bill Burr's Kuby would represent a natural addition after he missed out on a season 5 cameo due to personal circumstances. None of these potential inclusions are confirmed by the Better Call Saul season 6 trailer, predictably, but the promo footage does reveal at least one Breaking Bad returnee...
Played by David Ury, Spooge debuted in Breaking Bad season 2's "Breakage" before making a further appearance in "Peekaboo." If the name doesn't ring any bells, Spooge is the drug addict killed by an ATM falling on his head. Spooge steals a bag of meth from Skinny Pete, prompting Jesse Pinkman to "send a message" by visiting the thief's house packing heat. Jesse hangs around while Spooge and his wife attempt cracking a stolen ATM, but the stolen ATM ends up cracking Spooge. After that messy end, David Ury is now back. In the Better Call Saul season 6 trailer, Spooge is waiting at Saul Goodman's nail salon office, asking, "You're the guy, right? Salamanca's guy?"
Without wanting to cast aspersions, Spooge looked precisely how you'd imagine a stereotypical meth addict to look during Breaking Bad season 2. In Better Call Saul, however, there's no physical indication of substance abuse whatsoever, suggesting Spooge and his wife haven't yet succumbed to drugs. In fact, he seems to be approaching Jimmy in a more official capacity, in need of Saul's less-than-scrupulous legal services. Spooge may not be an addict in Better Call Saul, but he's clearly already connected to the criminal underworld. Name-dropping the Salamancas confirms Spooge is involved in illegality, the fancy medallion and silent companion pointing more toward him being an accomplice, rather than a customer, at this point
Breaking Bad previously alluded toward Spooge being trained in medicine, so maybe he was originally a doctor who would secretly patch up Lalo and the Salamancas, before falling into the clutches of the product they shift. Better Call Saul season 6 might even show how Spooge's downward spiral began. Did Jimmy inadvertently set him on that self-destructive path? Is he collateral damage in the ongoing Fring-Salamanca war?
However his return plays out, Spooge's unexpected comeback exemplifies Better Call Saul's uncanny ability to compliment its parent series in the best ways. David Ury proved more than worthy of his Breaking Bad guest spot, but the narrative left no opportunity to satisfy curious viewers who wanted to know how a family man wound up so destroyed by meth addiction, his head met with the underside of a stolen ATM. Better Call Saul season 6 not only looks primed to fill Spooge's blanks, but will surely also add another layer of context and importance to his original Breaking Bad story.
