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'''Max:''' [[Meta Guy|Why, are you gay?]] }}

 

 

Fortunately for her (and the members of the public who have to deal with her), [[The Face|she has FBI agent Seeley Booth on her side]]. A former sniper with a young son and a laid-back loose-cannon personality, Booth is Brennan's partner in crime-solving, mutual irritation, and [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]. With the help of a team of "squints" (Booth's terminology for [[The Lab Rat]], cause they're always squinting at things), the two of them [[They Fight Crime|solve murders]] through a mix of forensics, detective work, and occasional violence.

An often recurring theme is the nature of intellect versus emotion and at what point you should use which. Most of Brennan's team rely on careful logic, and in some cases are bound entirely to it. Meanwhile Booth brings Brennan along on investigations and has to help put a soft touch to her chainmail glove when dealing with people.

 

 

Loosely based on the novels and life of [[Kathy Reichs]].

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== A ==

* [[Abusive Parents]]

* [[Cool Old Guy]]: Max Brennan; Billy Gibbons; Hank Booth; [[Stephen Fry|Gordon Gordon Wyatt]]

* [[Cop and Scientist]]

* [[Courtroom Antics]]: Caroline has been known to engage in them every now and then.

{{quote|'''David Barron:''' Objection. Assuming facts not in evidence.

'''Caroline Julian:''' Yes, I would like to testify, because then I'd know what answers I was getting.

'''Judge:''' Alright, settle down. This is a murder trial, not a night at the Improv. }}

* [[Cryptid Episode]]: There's an episode focused on the chupacabra.

* [[Cultural Translation]]: The original novels were partially -- sometimes mostly -- set in Montreal or North Carolina. This gets a nods in the pilot, where Brennan tells Booth the nearest forensic anthropologist other than herself is in Montreal.

 

== D ==

'''Cam:''' Were you for or against?

'''Fisher:''' This is weird. Something good is happening. }}

* [[Enfant Terrible]]: A particularly brittle, obsessive, bratty little girl on Max's bowling league. {{spoiler|You know something's up when Bones declares several times that her child will never be like that!}}

* [[Enhance Button]]: The show RUNS on it. So much so that when they seemed about to avert it in season 5 in "The Predator in the Pool" they felt the need to justify themselves at length...

'''Camille:''' I was just asking! }}

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: An [[In-Universe]] example. It had been a [[Story Arc]] looking for a new lab intern and the crew were really starting to like Wendell Bray. When the scholarship that qualified him for the position in the first place went bankrupt, they spent an entire episode trying to find a way to keep him. {{spoiler|He was kept on thanks to an anonymous donation. Except they received ''three times'' as much money as they needed, meaning ''everyone'' was desperate to keep him but didn't want to admit it.}}

* [[Establishing Shot]]: The stock footage of a lovely summer garden outside 'The Jeffersonian'.

* [[Ethical Slut]]: Angela '''really''' likes sex, and has no reservations about letting it known.

* Expy: [[Bill Nye the Science Guy|Mr. Bunsen Jude, The Science Dude]]

* [[Eye Scream]]: Although it's done to a dead body, the scene where they remove fluid from an eye in one episode is still not for the squeamish.

 

== F ==

 

== N ==

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]

** Subverted with Bones herself.

** The case we never see solved: a skeleton curved all the way around into a backwards circle. This is before Brennan is pulled off the case for her father's trial.

** Dr. Nigel-Murray's hedonistic trip during the one-year break using the money he won on ''[[Jeopardy!]]''.

* [[No Social Skills]]: Zack, and Brennan to a lesser extent. As Angela puts it when they attempt to fist-bump (and immediately start deconstructing the entire concept) "It's so cute when you try to behave like earthlings." What's strange about this is that from what we see of Zack's family, it's normal. Like, mind-numbingly normal. His descriptions of them fit the stereotype of the average American family to a T. If anything, this seems to have ''exacerbated'' his strangeness.

* [[Not So Different]]: Broadsky invokes this when comparing himself and Booth, as does Bones when comparing the two. Booth vigorously rejects the notion but has trouble with the fact that Bones sees them as similar.

* [[Nude Nature Dance]]: In one episode, when a self-proclaimed witch is found dead, Brennan and Booth decide to check out a local group of Wiccans. They show up at a ceremony in the woods just as the (all-female) group begins to disrobe and start dancing.

 

== O ==

* [[Real Life Relative]]: Bones's second cousin Margaret is played by Emily Deschanel's sister [[Zooey Deschanel|Zooey]] in the Season 5 [[Christmas Episode]]. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] to death: "You two could be sisters!"

* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Emily Deschanel's pregnancy was written into the 7th season. {{spoiler|It also means she and Booth start living together and enter a committed relationship.}}

* [[Relationship Upgrade]]: {{spoiler|Bones and Booth in season 7.}}

* [[Retired Badass]]: Max

{{quote|'''Hodgins:''' Your robot reminds me of you. You tell it to turn, it stops. You tell it to stop, it turns. You ask it to take out the garbage, it watches reruns of ''[[Firefly]]''.}}

** "The Bond in the Boot" is ''loaded'' with [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] references. One of the few that goes unremarked is a CIA front company named "Universal Exports" -- 007's standard cover.

** Possibly, ''possibly'' "[[Reservoir Dogs|Mr. White]]" in "The Proof in the Pudding." ''Possibly.''

** Booth spends the first half of "The Devil in the Details" dressed uncannily similarly to [[Hellblazer|John Constantine]].

 

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