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These things about ''[[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]'' are subjective - not everyone will agree with all of them.
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Wiccans in "The Witch in the Wardrobe", BDSM practitioners, [[LAR Pers]], comic book fans...▼
* [[Alas Poor Scrappy]]: A common reaction to {{spoiler|the death of Dr. Nigel-Murray}}. Just when you thought you could deal with him...▼
▲* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Wiccans in "The Witch in the Wardrobe", BDSM practitioners, [[
▲* [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]]: A common reaction to {{spoiler|the death of Dr. Nigel-Murray}}. Just when you thought you could deal with him...
* [[Audience Reactions]]: Did Brennan really, honestly try to tell [[Stephen Fry
* [[Badass Decay]]: In the first couple of seasons Brennan is presented as a capable and skilled martial artist. This seems to have been abandoned in later seasons, noticeable in "Harbingers in the Fountain" where an untrained doctor clumsily wielding a simple scalpel is more than a match for her.
** In Season 7's "The Warrior in the Wuss", she provides some significant information about Karate, and just about any self-defense instructor will tell a student that just because someone is untrained doesn't mean they're not a significant threat, ''especially'' if they're armed and/or highly motivated. Even in the first episode, she was perfectly willing {{spoiler|to shoot a guy threatening to burn both of them to death instead of trying to subdue him.}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: The one that inevitably first comes to mind is the Gravedigger, whose victims are ''buried alive''. And we learn that their motive pretty much amounts to "because I can."
** The Gormogon. Dear ''God'', the Gormogon!
** Howard Epps.
* [[Crosses the Line Twice]]: Billy Gibbons (Angela's father) forcing Hodgins to get a tattoo of her and then leaving him in the middle of the desert. Good thing he lived. And this is after promising Angela that he won't seek revenge. And then he does it ''again'', this time because Hodgins refuses to let him name the baby something ridiculous.
* [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory]]: Parodied, when Zack interprets a ''[[
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* [[Fan Nickname]]
** "Baby Duck" for Sweets, and "The Duck Family" for him, Booth, and Brennan as [[True Companions]].
** "Squintern" (Brennan's six rotating interns) was this until it became [[Ascended Fanon]].
** [[Fan Community Nickname]]: [[FOX]] recently started refering to fans of the show as Squinterns.
* [[Girls Need Role Models]]: Could Dr. Temperance Brennan ''be'' a better role model for girls? An ass-kicking anthropologist with liberal views about sex, religion and morality, who wears jewelery, skirts and high heels while beating the shit out of bad guys and whose best girlfriends are a similarly ass-kicking African-American coroner whose race is ''never mentioned'' and once had a comfortably relaxed affair, and is still best friends with, the man Brennan is now in love with, and a free-spirited Eurasian artist who believes in love while still being a [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]. And for that rare creature, the female teenage Aspie, the fact that a woman with ''ridiculously'' obvious social problems can not only be accepted as a friend, lover and boss, but does so ''on national television'', is enormously comforting, however unrealistic.
** This show is feminist ''to the core.'' Brennan's views are often consistent with liberal third-wave feminism, even though she is never identified as such (probably to avoid the unpleasant associations with [[Straw Feminist]] images). The show's commitment to diversity plays into the same ideology. The writers seem committed to making the show as a whole as thoroughly feminist as possible.
* [[Flanderization]]
** Very badly in Brennan's case -- in the pilot, and the rest of Season One, to a lesser extent, she seems a little detached from reality and certainly lonely, but she gets sarcasm, irony, and most of the normal human interaction going on around her. Four seasons later, her unawareness of pop culture has morphed into full-on ridiculousness about the most basic bits of metaphor.
** Oddly inverted for the intern-of-the-week crowd: they all started off with a single trait ([[Funny Foreigner|Muslim]], [[Genki Girl|way too over-peppy]], [[Someday This Will Come in Handy|constantly spouting useless facts]]...), but these easy traits all turned into pretty deep characterization down the road.
* [[Gratuitous Special Effects]]: A particularly egregious example occurs in at the end of an episode where Bones and Booth start shooting nerf guns at each other. The balls are clearly cgi and the actors are clearly pumping empty guns, and it rather begs the question why not just use real nerf balls and save the special effects budget?
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: "The Man in the Fallout Shelter" is much funnier now that Bethesda owns ''[[
* [[Hollywood Homely]]: The Wiccans in "The Witch in the Wardrobe". Booth is repelled at seeing them naked during their ceremony but when we see them clearly in the light of day all of them are at least slightly above-average lookswise.
* [[Ho Yay]]
** Many moments between Zack and Hodgins.
** Zack and Vincent seem a bit like a bickering couple in Booth's coma dream.
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* [[Motive Decay]]: In the early episodes, the scientists at the Jeffersonian spend most of their time on historical and archaeological work, and only put up with the FBI commandeering their services in order to justify their federal funding. By the middle of the first season, they're pretty much a dedicated crime lab. More [[Characterization Marches On]], since at least one episode actually addresses this: they find the FBI cases are much more exciting, challenging, and rewarding. They still ''do'' the other work, it's just that they're not as enthusiastic about it anymore.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Arguably, killing a random woman because she was in the way was this for Broadsky. Killing serial killers made him vaguely sympathetic, in a Max Keenan sort of way, but this seemed to cross the line. Of course, Caroline disagrees:
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* [[Narm]]: The birth of {{spoiler|Booth and Brennan's baby}}. Slow-motion in a ''manger''.
* [[Narrowed It Down to
* [[Never Live It Down]]
** Bones shooting an unarmed man. [[Running Gag|He was trying to set her on fire.]]
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* [[Squick]]: The entire concept of the show is about bodies that are mangled too far for regular forensic teams to analyze, so this can be considered par for every episode.
** The "pony play" episode.
*** Now [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]. This troper rewatched that episode recently and thought of something [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** "The Princess and the Pear". Guess what [
** "The Critic in The Cabernet". Red wine. Body. How do you think they discover it? ...EWWWW! The liquefied man was somewhere between this and [[Nightmare Fuel]].
** Then there's the flattened girl who is often being compared to a pizza. They even use a piece of sheet metal to pry her off the cardboard she's stuck to. [[Sarcasm Mode|Thanks a lot.]]
** Then there's the person that was in used fry batter stuff... it's [[Nausea Fuel|the usual]], right? Bones says that it's not her department and walks off... and then, when they pull the body out, the skin starts falling off, the organs start slipping out, and Bones quickly returns, since it is now in her department.
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** "The Graft in the Girl"
** "The Man in the Fallout Shelter":
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'''Bones:''' I don't have to imagine. }}
** The season three finale still makes my eyes water.
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** The sixth season premiere, "The Mastadon in the Room", in a good way when Hodgins and Angela are talking about {{spoiler|their baby}}.
** "The Doctor in the Photo" brings out Brennan's oft overlooked [[The Woobie|woobie side]]. {{spoiler|Her tearful breakdown and confession to Booth at the end is especially emotional.}}
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** As a man who has been on the tail end of {{spoiler|a rejected marriage proposal}} what happens to Booth at the end of "The Daredevil in the Mold" is particularly jarring.
** "The Shallow in the Deep", when Angela {{spoiler|gives faces to all of the slave ship victims.}}
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* [[The Unfair Sex]] / [[Double Standard]]: While the show is feminist and portrays a wide range of strong female and male characters, it will occasionally veer into this category generalizing men as [[Acceptable Targets]], whereas you do not ''dare'' do the same to women.
** For example, in "Yanks in the U.K., part 2":
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'''Cam:''' "Women" is an unacceptable generalization.
''(10 minutes later)''
'''Angela:''' Men are stupid. }}
** Or in "The Finger in the Nest"
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'''Angela:''' To men.
'''Bones:''' [[All Abusers Are Male|Yes, it's always men]]. }}
* [[What Do You Mean
* [[The Woobie]]: Sweets and, to a lesser extent, Zack. And if you don't feel bad for Hodgins during season 4, there's something wrong with you. Heck, Brennan herself-underneath that [[Insufferable Genius]] exterior lies a very vulnerable, fragile soul-the times when it's exposed tend to [[Tear Jerker|quite sad.]]
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: {{spoiler|Zack as the apprentice to Gormogon.}}
▲* [[Audience Reactions]]: Did Brennan really, honestly try to tell [[Stephen Fry (Creator)|Stephen bloody Fry]] of "a writer called [[William Shakespeare (Creator)|Shakespeare]]" and "a play called ''[[Hamlet (Theatre)|Hamlet]]''", as if he had never heard of them? This resulted in some humour for Brits watching.
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