Gratuitous periodic tables are not just a hapax graphomenon in russian music; cf
Алена Апина Притончик
(maybe not so gratuitous, the song seems to be about moonshining, which might explain the downvotes for a version performed by a children's choir dressed in Young Octobrist style)
I've never seen "Breaking Bad", but I'm still guessing that on the anglophone side we'd probably have to go back to Tom Lehrer to find anyone other than students doing chemistry-themed song-and-dance.
Might this tendency have something to do with Дмитрий Иванович Менделеев?