{"id":1210,"date":"2014-08-21T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T17:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2014-08-21T14:41:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:41:06","slug":"bryan-cranston-aaron-paul-reunite-barely-legal-pawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/08\/21\/bryan-cranston-aaron-paul-reunite-barely-legal-pawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul Reunite for &#8216;Barely Legal Pawn&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When History Channel&#8217;s <em>Pawn Stars<\/em> debuted in 2009 (and was subsequently knocked off by <em>Hardcore Pawn<\/em>), it opened the gates for a flood of pawn\/porn puns for hypothetical, like-minded shows: Asian Pawn, Backdoor Pawn, MILF Pawn. But nothing could top Barely Legal Pawn. And who better to deliver <em>Barely Legal Pawn<\/em> than bros-for-life Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston?<\/p>\n<p>In the sketch, the pair are back at it again, only this time they&#8217;re hawking junk and doing dip, not hawking meth and doing dirt. Julia Louis-Dreyfuss plays herself (bringing the on-screen Emmy total to a whopping 10 between the three actors), attempting to sell an Emmy to help fund her accidental purchase of an island. Hilarity, as you can imagine, ensues.<\/p>\n<p>Will Julia get a fair price? What&#8217;s barely legal about their pawn shop? Can Aaron Paul last the six minutes without saying &#8220;bitch&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>The skit was produced by the Television Academy to help build excite for Monday night&#8217;s Emmys. And dammit, it worked.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ovqM72em1dA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When History Channel&#8217;s Pawn Stars debuted in 2009 (and was subsequently knocked off by Hardcore Pawn), it opened the gates for a flood of pawn\/porn puns for hypothetical, like-minded shows: Asian Pawn, Backdoor Pawn, MILF Pawn. But nothing could top Barely Legal Pawn. And who better to deliver Barely Legal Pawn than bros-for-life Aaron Paul<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/08\/21\/bryan-cranston-aaron-paul-reunite-barely-legal-pawn\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,652,653],"tags":[655,656,539,654,658,659,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-1210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-television","8":"category-the-internet","9":"category-viral-videos","10":"tag-aaron-paul","11":"tag-barely-legal-pawn","12":"tag-breaking-bad","13":"tag-bryan-cranston","14":"tag-hardcore-pawn","15":"tag-julia-louis-dreyfuss","16":"tag-pawn-stars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}