Bones (TV series): Difference between revisions

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]].

** Just before he gets shot, {{spoiler|Vincent}} says, "I feel like I'm going to be dead soon."

** Zack is seen to hang on every word that his best friend, Jack Hodgins, says. This makes it all the more heartbreaking when you learn that {{spoiler|it was partly because of Hodgins believing in conspiracy theories that Zack was persuaded to become the Gormogon's apprentice.}}

** In the episode "The Knight on the Grid", the show warrants a surprising [[Artistic License Physics]] when Zack turns on a laser and we can see the laser tracing out its path.

** Occurs even earlier (first season) when Hodgins uses two lasers to examine the chemical composition of a bone.

* [[The Foster Kid]]: Brennan; Sweets

* [[The Fun in Funeral]]: "The Double Death of the Dearly Departed"

* [[Functional Addict]]: Nigel-Murray, apparently, who would get drunk and brag about sleeping with the lab's ladies to his pals (Cam and Angela are shocked, Bones just finds the idea of them being compatible hilarious). He joined AA and got better {{spoiler|before he died}}.

* [[In Name Only]]: The TV series borrows nothing from the novel series aside from the main protagonist's name, profession, and tendency for not suffering fools gladly. Most of the inspiration for the series comes from the life and work of Kathy Reichs, the novelist. Not that's a bad thing

** The novel character is a worldly and rather jaded divorced (not to Booth, who does not exist in the novels) single-mother, former alcoholic professor in her late-forties. A bit taciturn but very much capable of normal social interaction. And she goes by Tempe, not Bones. Reichs and Deschanel theorizes that Novel!Brennan is a older version of TV!Brennan, but it's not canonical.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Ska-luh!

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: '''''MANY.'''''

* [[Intentional Engrish for Funny]] ([[Blind Idiot Translation]] in-universe): The instructions to the "baby walker" that Angela buys for her baby in season seven's "The Prince in the Plastic".

* [[Interdisciplinary Sleuth]]: Brennan, Hodgins, and Angela all qualify in their own way.

* [[Irony]]: The replacement bowler on Max's team (paraphrased): "I'm not superstitious like Victim-of-the-Week, I believe in God!" Amazingly, Bones doesn't say a word (she's undercover, barely, but it must have been a strain).

* [[It Has Been an Honor]]: Hodgins to Brennan {{spoiler|before they attempt to blow up the windshield of the van they are trapped in}}.

* [[The Kindnapper]]: One episode involves a kidnapped child, who it turns out has been kidnapped by his father, who thinks his ex-wife is an unfit mother. The father changes the child's name and hair color to hide him at his cousin's house.

* [[Knife Throwing Act]]: Booth and Bones went undercover as a knife-throwing act.

** Even away from the job Booth is just Booth, almost nobody calls him Seeley. Inverted with his brother who is always called "Jared" and is actually at one point called "a fake Booth".

** Colin Fisher is never called by his first name. In a scene where Wendell is speaking to Cam about the other interns, he refers to them as Daisy, Vincent (who almost everyone ''else'' calls Mister Nigel-Murray), Arastoo and Fisher.

** She eventually decides it would be "selfish" of her not to procreate and chooses Booth to be her sperm donor; this is put on hold due to {{spoiler|Booth's brain tumor.}}

** Back on, now that {{spoiler|[[Real Life Writes the Plot|Bones is pregnant]].}}

* [[McLeaned]]: {{spoiler|Vincent Nigel-Murray}} is killed in "The Hole in the Heart" a few weeks before {{spoiler|Ryan Cartwright}}'s new show was set to premier. The dialogue during the death scene even sounds like someone who's more about to be fired than died.

* [[Misplaced Accent]]: In-universe; Vaziri fakes a Jordanian accent despite being Iranian.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: [[Bill Nye the Science Guy|Bunsen Jude, the Science Dude.]]

* [[No Man of Woman Born]]: When Bones and Booth discuss whether they could catch each other if one of them committed a murder, Booth boasts "I always get my man," and Bones replies smugly, "I am a ''woman''."

* [[Nonuniform Uniform]]

** Booth wears a standard FBI suit-and-tie get-up, but varies it with strange socks and a ludicrous belt-buckle.

** Also Vincent, who can spout random useless facts on a wealth of topics. And yes, there are people who can actually do this. He won a large sum on ''[[Jeopardy (TV)|Jeopardy]]'' doing this, and promptly spent all of it.

* [[One of Our Own]]: When Bones and Hodgins, and later Booth, are kidnapped. Saroyan, Hodgins and intern-of-the-episode Wendell take offense when a substitute agent calls the team (minus Booth) "her people," with Hodgins and Wendell quickly correcting her that they're "Booth's people."

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]] / [[Only Sane Employee]]

** Camille Saroyan.

* [[Playful Hacker]] / [[The Cracker]]: The "hacktivist" who claims he's only trying to expose government corruption. His methods are a little unorthodox: {{spoiler|he explodes an innocent girl with a tiny bomb on a stick, rearranges her spine into a riddle, soaks it with donated FBI agent blood, sneaks it into a museum(?), puts the rest of her in an FBI file room, etches a computer virus into her bones to short out the Angelator, and explodes a reporter ''who was on his side'' because he was on the verge of revealing him. He's been studying Bones & Co. for a very long time and is doing these things to challenge them personally}}. And he does all this ''while under house arrest with no computer access.''

* [[Polymath]]: Brennan, Zach and Hodgins hold about eight doctorates between them.

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: Very enjoyable, if admittedly quite divergent from the novels.

* [[The Pratfall]]: A disturbing-but-still-funny version. Booth is in a hurry to find a missing head. He slips on a muddy riverbank, and slides on his rear into the water, then triumphantly holds up the head.

** In "The Man with the Bone," upon discovering that an entire skeleton has disappeared:

{{quote| '''Brennan:''' Where the hell are my bones?!}}

* [[Retired Badass]]: Max

* [[Reverse Cerebus Syndrome]]: From season four onwards, the show noticeably takes a more comedic tone.

** More than one plot, but perhaps most obvious in an episode featuring a "pregnancy pact" written around the same time the Massachusetts girls were news.

** Another episode featured [http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2008/07/19/bc-foot.html all those feet that washed up in] [[The Other Rainforest]]'s area.

** "The Goop on the Girl" has all the earmarks of {{spoiler|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wells_(bank_robber) the 2003 death of Brian Wells, aka "The Pizza Bomber."]}}

** "Mayhem on a Cross" may have something to do with the murder of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varg_Vikernes#Murder_of_.C3.98ystein_Aarseth Euronymous], guitarist of black metal band Mayhem.

* [[Romantic False Lead]]

** Sully for Bones before he was [[Put On a Bus]].

** Not to mention the episode "The X in the File", which is full of ''X-Files'' references and guest stars.

** In the book series, Brennan's mother is named Daisy. On the show, we have the intern Daisy Wick. This is either a dual case of [[Shown Their Work]] or just an extreme coincidence.

** One of the major character interactions in "The Gamer in the Grease" is lifted directly from [[The King of Kong]], right down to the record holder and breaker being named Billy and Steve, respectively.

** In "The Feet on the Beach", one of the employees at the body farm is named Larry [[Angel (TV)|Wolfram]].

* [[The Show Goes Hollywood]]: In "The Suit on the Set", Bones and Booth visit the set of [[The Film of the Book|the film of one of Bones' novels]], where they discover an actual dead body.

{{quote| '''Brennan''': Nobody wants to hear that rambling psycho-speech!}}

* [[Sleep Cute]]: {{spoiler|Bones and Booth}}, cuddling in bed, have made it to the opening credits as of the seventh season.

* [[Tar and Feathers]]

* [[Tarot Troubles]]: With [[Special Guest]] [[Cyndi Lauper]] as the fortuneteller.

* [[Techno Babble]]: Most of the scientists.

** Invoked by Booth in "The Proof in the Pudding" where part of his plan involves Bones burying the Secret Service agent holding the team in lockdown under technical jargon so he will let them perform a questionable experiment. Bones doesn't disappoint.

* [[Therapy Is for The Weak]]: Definitely. They resist Sweets' much needed therapy sessions for over a season. Even now, they would cheerfully leap out a window before admitting they're actually coming to Sweets for ''therapy,'' rather than profiling and the like. Finally, Sweets gets so fed up with Booth's weak excuses that he threatens to jump out of the car if Booth doesn't admit that he actually wants advice from Sweets. Even then, Booths adds afterward that he didn't really need Sweets' help, he was just making him feel better about himself.

* [[Turn in Your Badge]]: Season 2 episode "Judas on a Pole" offers the most classic example of this, but also toyed with a few times throughout the show, when Booth gets decommissioned or confined to desk duty for needlessly discharging his weapon.

* [[Twerp Sweating]]: Booth intimidates Cam's daughter's boyfriend in "The Plain in the Prodigy".

 

 

{{quote| '''Brennan:''' {{spoiler|I'm pregnant. You're the father.}}}}

* [[What the Fu Are You Doing]]: Hodgins in "The Devil in the Details". Arastoo shows him how it's done.

** Booth gets a minor one directed at him when he runs a background check on Jared's latest girlfriend. Sweets, Brennan, and Jared all call him out on it.

** He pulls one again when he ducks out on {{spoiler|Angela and Hodgins' announcement of her pregnancy}} to have sex with his girlfriend.

** In "The Graft in the Girl" the team tries to solve a murder where the victim is still alive.

** Plus, there's when Bones and Hodgins are buried alive in "Aliens in a Spaceship" and have to figure out and tell the others where they are.

* [[Who Shot JFK]]: "The Proof In The Pudding" is built around (possibly) answering this question.

* [[William Telling]]: When Bones and Booth were undercover at the circus doing a [[Knife Throwing Act]], she made him throw a knife at an oversized prop apple on top of her head. She sprang it on him all of a sudden during the show.

* [[Window Love]]: Zack and his family, when he's trapped in quarantine during a [[Christmas Episode]].

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