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Taxi - Season 5


Did you recognize "Jeff" in the season 5 premiere of Better Call Saul? For the most part, Better Call Saul acts as a Breaking Bad prequel, exploring Jimmy McGill's life before he wound up working alongside Walt and Jesse. However, the spinoff's black and white scenes are set after the events of Breaking Bad, with Saul living in hiding under the alias "Gene Takovic." Despite working at Cinnabon, Gene's life is clearly an unhappy one, and the former lawyer is paranoid that his true identity will be uncovered, and he'll be forced to pay for past misdeeds.




Taxi - Season 5



In Better Call Saul's "Magic Man," Gene is having his traditional lonely lunch in the mall where he works and is approached by a strange individual who (eventually) introduces himself as Jeff. With a silent friend lingering in the background, Jeff claims he used to live in Albuquerque and recognizes Gene as Saul from the lawyer's string of catchy commercials. This perfect stranger then forces Saul to perform his catchphrase, before handing over a contact card for his taxi service and leaving. Clearly rattled, Saul considers another extraction, but resolves to deal with the problem on his own.


While Saul's dilemma is obvious, it's not immediately clear that Jeff has actually been following him for an entire season. Back in Better Call Saul's season 4 premiere, "Smoke," Saul leaves the hospital and gets into a cab, where he notices the driver eyeing him suspiciously and makes a swift exit, clocking the Albuquerque Isotopes air freshener and fearing he could be recognized. This is the same character who approaches in the shopping mall, played by the actor Don Harvey. Since the cab scenes only ever show brief glimpses of the driver's eyes (and season 4 aired way back in 2018), the audience won't necessarily make the connection between the two figures.


The big question is whether or not Saul realizes the mall stalker is the taxi driver from the hospital. Like the viewer, Saul didn't get a good look at the driver originally, and Jeff doesn't introduce himself as "the guy who gave you a ride," instead just saying he spotted Gene from afar. Additionally, Saul never questions whether he and Jeff have met previously, and his panicked decision to call Ed Galbraith could've simply been a reaction to being recognized as Saul, rather than because he realized Jeff was stalking him persistently. Lastly, if Saul did realize Jeff had been tailing him for a while, he surely wouldn't have revealed his identity, even under pressure.


The other big mystery here revolves around Jeff and his true intentions towards Saul. The character presents himself as Saul's number one fan, just a cab driver from Albuquerque who happens to recognize a local celebrity in a different state and gets a little bit pushy. But so much about Jeff doesn't add up. He acts strangely during the cab ride in season 4, letting Saul out of his cab with extreme reluctance, and although this could just be a simple-minded man trying to figure out where he recognizes a passenger from, the intent feels far more sinister. Interestingly, Saul asked the driver to take him to the mall, rather than his house, so Jeff would've known where he could likely find Saul during working hours.


All the disparate oddness surrounding Jeff would make sense if he were really an undercover cop. Saul's admission into hospital could've triggered an alert with the authorities, and an officer disguised as a cab driver might've then been sent to pick their suspect up. It's likely that "Jeff" needs to verify Gene's true identity before making a move, so he needed to visit his target again after season 4's hasty cab exit. This would explain why Jeff is so keen to hear Gene admit he's the "better call Saul guy" in the mall, and why he has a burly friend standing guard behind him. Now that the Gene persona has been rumbled, it's only a matter of time before Jeff takes action and Saul has to run. As if Sammy Hagar takes cabs anyway, the guy can afford a limo.


Following the roaring success of Season 1, Taxi Driver is now back for a second season with most of its original cast returning for the new season. Now that the Rainbow Deluxe Taxi is back in business with Sung-cheol, Do-gi, Go-eun, Kyung-goo and Ji-eon.


The episode starts with Peppa and George shopping with Mummy Pig. After their shopping, Mummy Pig asks Daddy Pig where their car is, but he didn't bring the car because he didn't know they would be buying so much. Mummy Pig decides to call for a taxi. Miss Rabbit takes Peppa and the family to Granny and Grandpa Pig's house to drop off their shopping. While on their way to Granny and Grandpa's house, Peppa asks Miss Rabbit why she talks too much. Miss Rabbit says that that's what a taxi driver does. Peppa Pig asks Daddy Pig if they could wave "Goodbye" to Granny Pig at the airport, to which he agrees. They're in a hurry because Granny Pig has a plane to catch. She's going on holiday. At the airport, they waved goodbye to Granny. Peppa wonders, "How are we gonna go home?" so Daddy Pig calls for a taxi. While heading to the airport, Miss Rabbit encounters Mr. Bull. He said that he was supposed to be mending the airport, but his truck has broken down. Miss Rabbit tells him to hop in, but her taxi is full of sand. Finally, the taxi arrived at the airport. Miss Rabbit takes Peppa, George, and Daddy Pig home, and heads back to the shops. The episode ends.


When ABC cancelled the series in 1982, HBO considered purchasing the show, only to lose out to NBC, which promoted the show in ads stating "Same time, better network". However, NBC then cancelled it after one season.


On The Howard Stern Show (1990), writer Sam Simon claimed that when Jeff Conaway was absent during the production of one episode, his dialogue was reassigned to the other cast members. They delivered the jokes just as well or better, and the producers realized that Conaway was expendable. Conaway left during the fourth season.


Andy Kaufman's contract stipulated that he only had to be on the set two days a week, fourteen episodes per season. Kaufman disliked sitcoms, and originally turned down the part of Latka because he wanted to focus on his stand-up comedy career. But the producers liked him so much that a compromise was reached.


During the run of the series the cabs used by The Sunshine Cab Company were the classic checkered cabs that were manufactured by the Checkered Cab Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The Checkered Company was a car manufacturer who primarily built custom made cabs designed for heavy use and high mileage on New York streets, although several of their models were available for sale for regular non-cab customers. The design in use in the 1970's and 80's had changed very little since it's introduction in the 1950's giving the cabs their classic look. Despite this, however, several establishing and transition scenes in the series would show the other dominant cab model on the road in New York at the time the 1968 Dodge Coronet. The 1970's saw a trend of cab companies beginning to use regular model cars in taxi service instead of the custom built cabs of the Checkered Company as they would of been much easier to service. This would lead to Checkered ceasing cab production in 1982. Many of the checkered cabs, due to their sturdy construction, however, would survive into the 1990's although by that time the Chevy Caprice, introduced in the early 1980's, was the most dominant model used in cab service in New York.


According to Marley Brant's interview with him in her book "Happier Days: Paramount Television's Classic Sitcoms 1974-1984", Randall Carver (who played John Burns) was let go by the producers at the end of the first season not because of poor acting or any personal issues on the set, but rather because the writers simply didn't know what to do with his character. The character was deemed as bland, not very defined and it became hard for the writers to come up with ideas for it. Carver understood and didn't take the firing personally. In the book, the writers and producers go out of their way to acknowledge that it was they who fumbled the ball and couldn't come up with anything for the character. Carver was regarded by all as a nice guy and a professional.


I remember going through a couple of season 4 episodes on streaming that were edited on DVD and I remember Vienna Waits had scene cut on DVD where two characters sing the Billy Joel song Vienna and then throughout the episode the song itself plays in the transition scenes, as I said earlier this was changed on DVD but it was uncut on streaming


To help you gain quicker access to the backcountry, our water taxi can drop you off or pick up you and your canoes or kayaks at many of the island's docks. Maximum of six people including backpacks, or four people and two canoes per trip. Reservations, well in advance, are recommended. The property team will be happy to assist once the lodge opens in May.


China's taxi war is heating up in recent days with the incumbent Didi (DIDI), which is backed by Alibaba (BABA), Apple (AAPL) and Tencent (OTCPK:TCEHY), and Baidu (BIDU) backed Uber (NYSE:UBER). At the Converge tech conference last Friday, Didi disclosed that it is profitable in more than half of the 400 cities which it operates, and the recent investment by AAPL will be used to advance big data and machine learning technologies to rival that of BIDU-Uber alliance. On the other hand, Uber is looking to overtake Didi in the private-car ride-sharing sector next year by leveraging BIDU's map asset and big data analytics. Per Uber-China estimate, the company were only operating in 8 cities with only 1% market share but it has grown its share to nearly a third.


To be clear, the actual interpretation of the market share data with ride-sharing can be murky given the various definition of taxi, private-car or on-demand taxi services, but per Analysis International estimates, Didi-Kuaidi commands 99% market share in China's taxi-hailing market and roughly 80% market share in China's private car market last year. The dominant market share by Didi is perhaps a key selling point for AAPL to invest in the company to potentially drive the adoption of AAPL pay in China and gain a foothold in the O2O economy. 041b061a72


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