Video of the Week: Inflatable Breaking Bad

I am the one who floats.

Someone's used AI video generation to recreate Breaking Bad - but with every character rendered as a shiny vinyl pool toy. Walter White confronts Skyler in their living room, except Walt's iconic goatee is now a puffy plastic blob, his forehead wrinkles are painted-on seams, and his menacing stare catches the light like a beach ball.

It shouldn't work. It absolutely works.

What makes this so watchable isn't just the absurdity - it's how committed the AI is to the bit. The cinematography mimics the show's signature tension. The framing, the close-ups, the colour grading - all faithfully reproduced. But everyone looks like they've been purchased from a motorway service station gift shop circa 1997.

The technical achievement here is actually significant. Getting AI to maintain consistent character appearance across multiple shots has been one of the harder problems in video generation. These inflatable nightmares stay remarkably on-model throughout. Walt's purple shirt gleams consistently. Skyler's blonde bob keeps its stitched vinyl seams from shot to shot. The "identity persistence" that Google and OpenAI have been racing to perfect? Apparently it works great when your characters are literally made of plastic.

There's something weirdly poetic about reducing prestige television to pool toy theatre. All that Emmy-winning dramatic tension, deflated (or inflated?) into something your kids might fight over at the beach.

And the squeaking of the plastic is genuinely chuckle-worthy.

For property people: this is where AI video is heading. Not replacing Hollywood tomorrow - but making the previously impossible trivially easy to create. How long before someone generates an inflatable virtual tour? Don't laugh. It's coming.

Say my name. Say it. INTEX SUMMER WAVES WALTER WHITE 72" DELUXE POOL FLOAT.