Here are the five best things that have happened on July 15 throughout history:

#5. Johnny Thunders was born (1952)
#4. The duck-billed platypus arrived in America from Australia (1922)
#3. The Nintendo Entertainment System was released in Japan (1985)
#2. Napoleon Bonaparte was captured (1815)
#1. “Breaking Bad” begins its fifth and final season (2012)

Vince Gilligan’s Emmy Award-winning meth drama will return to AMC on July 15th at 10 p.m. As expected, the season is also being split into two parts: the first eight episodes will air this summer, the final eight next summer. In the endless, drama-free weeks between the end of “Game of Thrones” and “Mad Men” and beginning of “Breaking Bad,” I plan to spend my time slowly going insane in random crawl spaces:

Yeah, that looks about right.

It’s been a busy day with network scheduling and new shows, and it will continue to be busy with that most of the week, which we’ll cap off with three episodes of “Community.” In the meantime, I thought we’d take a break from it because this interview with “Breaking Bad” creator Vince Gilligan caught my attention.

Apparently, Aaron Paul’s character wasn’t meant to be a huge presence on the show initially, but Paul so impressed Gilligan that he eventually became the show’s co-star. Asked about other instances of that on “Breaking Bad,” Vince Gilligan revealed that Giancarlo Esposito’s Gus Fring was actually the product of a scheduling problem with Raymond Cruz, who played Tuco and was supposed to be the Big Bad in Season Two.

The original intention was to have him be the main bad guy for that entire season, but unfortunately, he had prior commitments after the first episode on a TV show called The Closer – it was a real bummer for us, and I heard through the grapevine a real bummer for him too because he was enjoying his time with us. But, as an actor, he had to honor those contractual commitments.

“So he became unavailable to us and we thought, ‘Man, we’re never gonna have a character as good and interesting as he was’, but we then thought to ourselves, ‘Why don’t we go in the complete opposite direction?’ – why don’t we have a bad guy who doesn’t snort meth off the end of a bully knife? Who isn’t a screaming lunatic?

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On a show that features characters played by Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Alison Brie, and Jessica Paré, Elisabeth Moss often gets overlooked when it comes to the show’s sex appeal. It doesn’t hurt, of course, that Moss’ character, Peggy Olson, is the least provocative character on the show, even if her character is often the most rich. That character, who has provided glimpses of the wilder woman that lay beneath in past seasons, is struggling to break out this year. Accordingly, she’s revealed much more of her sexier side in fashion shoots (it’s also likely it has nothing to do with her “Mad Men” character arc; maybe she just wants to rub her sex appeal in her ex-husband, Fred Armisen’s face). Either way, we’ve seen a different side of Moss in 2011-2012, an alluring side that has finally put the last vestiges of Zooey Bartlett (“West Wing”) to bed.

Check out the sexual awakening of Elisabeth Moss in the fashion magazines in this slide show, and make sure to head over to the Uproxx mothership to participate in the “Mad Men” weekly discussion.

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AMC released their first promo for season five of “Breaking Bad,” and I’m not going to lie to you: There’s not much here. It’s Bryan Cranston (Walter White) and Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman) hanging out in the neighborhood set where “Breaking Bad” is filmed talking about how “crazy” the next season is going to be. Does it reveal anything? No, but at one point, Cranston notes that there’s a huge plot revelation over to the side, off screen. It was then that I attempted to crawl through my laptop so that I could scan over and see what the hell he was talking about, because I MUST KNOW NOW.

July, people. “Breaking Bad” season five will break open your face and smear the blood on its meth-stained walls.

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Through four and a half seasons of “Mad Men,” the most remarkable thing to me about January Jones is not her bitch-face, nor is it Fat Betty. It’s that a character with as much screen time as Jones is so very seldom seen smiling. It’s not isolated to her Betty Draper-Francis character, either. If you’ve seen X-Men: First Class or Unknown, with Liam Neeson, you’ll begin to notice a pattern: She doesn’t smile. She plays glum, icy bitches that rarely ask her to part her lips.

It wasn’t always that way, however. Before “Mad Men,” January Jones was more likely to be seen playing giggly blondes. In fact, she’s been in three movies that many of you have probably seen, only you didn’t realize it because you didn’t know who January Jones was at the time, so you had no frame of reference.

Check out these three January Jones roles from $100 million movies that you probably don’t remember her from. What’s most remarkable about them all is that she ACTUALLY SMILES. Afterward, slide over to the Uproxx mothership and join this week’s “Mad Men” discussion.

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