We're going to have to start this one off with an apology. We really like Bryan Cranston. We think he's one of the coolest actors out there. We love everything he does, and we're glad that 'Breaking Bad' has finally won him the critical acclaim he's always richly deserved. Mr. Cranston, we were always with you from the moment we first saw you in 'Malcolm In the Middle!' With all of that being said, though, we can't change the fact he looks like Ned Flanders.
Flanders is one of the all-time great 'Simpsons' characters. As the God-fearing, relentlessly cheerful neighbor of the Simpsons family, Flanders has been the butt of at least one joke per episode for its entire run. We laughed with him when he was running a store for left-handed people. We cried with him when his wife Maud died. Now we're afraid of him, because we suspect he might be baking a certain kind of narcotic in the basement of his house, and he might have murdered people.