Aaron Paul pranked the internet with a fake Breaking Bad spinoff

Aaron Paul crushed the dreams of the Internet and AMC executives alike by briefly teasing a Jesse Pinkman-centric spinoff of Breaking Bad in a Periscope livestream, only to reveal just moments later that it was all a joke. The 12-minute video is laggy to the point of being practically indecipherable, but Paul can at least be heard talking up a Jesse spinoff, namedropping Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan several times, and alluding to some sort of misadventures in Alaska (Jesse was last seen in the Breaking Bad finale speeding away from the meth lab where Walter White and a gaggle of neo-Nazis met their fates). The exact moment Paul reveals that he was making the whole thing up is lost to Periscope choppiness, though, absent evidence to the contrary, we assume that, honoring his radical ’90s commercial dude past, he did so by shouting “Sike-a-like-a-like!”