An Open Letter to the Producers of AMC's "Breaking Bad"

Dear Producers of "Breaking Bad":

I have really enjoyed your new series that follows a high school chemistry teacher, who having been diagnosed with terminal cancer, decides to set up a meth lab to provide for his family after his death. It contains some dark and twisted humor that is right up Mad Chemist Chick's alley.

However, there are some glaring inconsistencies and errors in the chemistry that is presented. I realize that some of it is artistic license, and some of it is that you can not show step-by-step the process for making crystal meth on TV, otherwise every teenager between here and the Canadian border would attempt to cook some up in their bathtub.

But please, for the love of all that is holy, fix the structures of the molecules that appear behind the title of the show in the opening graphics.

Several of the structures contain carbons with 5 bonds. Carbon can only make 4 bonds. Also, some of the charges shown on the structures are suspect. Every time I see them, I get an eye twitch accompanied by an overwhelming urge to grab a red pen and draw corrections all over my TV screen.

If you would like to hire someone to catch such errors before you air the episodes, I gladly offer my services for a nominal fee.

The Mad Chemist

P.S. Last night, I was really disappointed with the main character caving to his wife's demand that he undergo chemo. Especially after he gave that big speech about how he had never made his own decisions and this time would be different.