Aaron Paul’s Response to Toys ‘R’ Us Breaking Bad Controversy Is Perfect | TIME

But Aaron Paul, who played Jesse Pinkman on the show, was perturbed by the concession, tweeting out:
Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm…I wonder what is more damaging?
— Aaron Paul (@aaronpaul_8) October 23, 2014
Though the Breaking Bad toys were sold in the adult-action-figure area of Toys “R” Us stores, parents said that the figures were “a dangerous deviation from [Toys R Us’s] family friendly values.” After all, Breaking Bad does follow a teacher and his former student as they try to cook and sell meth, and the dolls come with detachable bags of drugs and cash. A campaign on Change.org to ban the toys that had over 9,000 signatures as of Thursday evening.
But Paul makes a legitimate argument—at least about the potentially damaging effects of Barbie dolls: A recent study published in The Journal of Sex Roles found that girls who played with a buxom Barbie dressed up as a doctor thought they had fewer career choices than those who played with an amorphous Mrs. Potato Head doll.
No word yet on how playing with a Jesse Pinkman toy affects major life choices.
via Aaron Paul’s Response to Toys ‘R’ Us Breaking Bad Controversy Is Perfect | TIME.