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** 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.

{{quote| '''Zack:''' And then here, he explodes... but not really.}}

* [[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]].

* [[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.

** 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?

* [[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]]

{{quote| '''Caroline:''' Man sneaks into [Booth's] house, threatens [Booth] with a gun. That's unforgivable. He should be lethally injected just for that.}}

* [[Narm]]: The birth of {{spoiler|Booth and Brennan's baby}}. Slow-motion in a ''manger''.

* [[Never Live It Down]]

** Bones shooting an unarmed man. [[Running Gag|He was trying to set her on fire.]]

* [[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.

** "The Princess and the Pear". Guess what [[wikipedia:Pear of Anguish|the "pear"]] is. And a version is made for [[Nightmare Fuel|use further south]]. If it's any comfort to folks, Pears of Anguish don't actually work -- they're psychological torture as the force needed to use them on either location is more than a Pear could exert. The Pear would break long before the human would.

** "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]].

* [[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.}}

 

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