When you obsessively mastermind a show like Breaking Bad through five molar-grinding seasons, you deserve a mini-vacation or two: It's just been announced that Vince Gilligan will shift gears rather dramatically early next year when he makes his onscreen debut as a guest star on NBC's Community.
According to Entertainment Weekly, he’ll play “a smooth-talking gold digger who winds up exacerbating a fight between Annie (Alison Brie) and Abed (Danny Pudi),” in an episode that's being filmed this very week, and will air sometime “in late winter or early spring,” a few months after the penultimate season premieres January 2. Jonathan Banks (a.k.a. Mike from Breaking Bad) is also going to be on the show, for a whopping 11 episodes, as – what else? – a criminology professor. Just based on character descriptions, it seems unlikely the two will interact on-camera, but we can at least dream.
Additionally, there's the potential for some sort of brilliant-show-creator rivalry thunderdome action going on here since Arrested Development creator Mitchell Hurwitz is also slated for a guest spot this season. The pair join the ranks of other announced cameos from folks like Tim and Eric, Ben Folds, Paget Brewster and Nathan Fillion.
