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

 

* [[Accidental Innuendo]]

** Pointed out in-show in "The Man in the Outhouse" when Booth and Bones were discussing her sexual relationship with a Deep-Sea welder.

'''Booth:''' ... underwater? }}

** The conversation about how Bones' gun is bigger than Booth's.

* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Booth towards Sweets and, to a lesser extent, all the Squinterns.

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Attempted and failed by Hacker in "The Proof in the Pudding":

* [[Bi the Way]]: Angela

* [[Birth-Death Juxtaposition]]: The death of {{spoiler|Vincent}} and {{spoiler|the birth of Angela and Hodgins' son}} an episode afterwards. {{spoiler|Plus Brennan's reveal of her pregnancy.}}

** Also, it seems, [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Bank Account]]. Practically anytime that it's mentioned that Bones is really really rich, by the end of the episode she donates large amounts of money to a good cause. Except in the season 6 premiere, when she pays Wendel a large sum of money so he doesn't have to work for tuition, without the audience being reminded beforehand about her wealth. Also, at the end of the seventh season premiere, Bones is looking for houses for her and Booth to move into and she casually mentions that one, which is obviously a mansion, costs only $3 million, at which point Booth almost chokes on his beer because he wants to pay for half of the house.

** A literal example is Bones' [[BFG|hand-cannon]]. The subject of much [[Freud Was Right|Freudian dialogue]] throughout the episode, it comes in handy when Booth has to shoot a serial killer through a metal door.

'''Booth:''' One shot. ''(BLAM!)'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|One hell of a shot.]] }}

** In "The Change in the Game", {{spoiler|Bones and Booth spend most of the episode at a bowling tournament and are saddled with a "horrible child" as Bones calls her. In between dealing with the girl, Bones states "you and I would never have a kid like that" several times. Guess what she announces at the end of the episode?}}

* [[Conspiracy Theorist]]: Hodgins

** At least one was oddly plausible; he believes that old, rich families secretly rule the world. He is actually a member of one of these families. Another was actually confirmed by a government official when he suggested it as a viable tool, although it turned out to be nowhere as cloak and dagger as he imagined (it basically came down to looking up information that was available in public records, but the way he described it made it sound like there was a dossier already prepared for every human being the US government knew existed).

** One episode features a team of secret service agents 'comandeering' the lab and the team, requiring them to examine a set of bones. They're firmly told not to speculate about the deceased's identity, but as the evidence mounts it looks more and more like they're examining the remains of President JFK. {{spoiler|and if it *is* JFK, then the evidence they uncover all but proves the existance of [[Who Shot JFK?|a second gunamn, and a cover-up]] }}.)

* [[Contamination Situation]]: The first season's Christmas episode, "The Man in the Fallout Shelter".

* [[Cop and Scientist]]

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

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

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* [[Damn You, Muscle Memory!]]: For the final sniper cat-and-mouse show down with Booth, Broadsky, as trained snipers are taught to do, camped out on the high ground. Unfortunately, he forgot that {{spoiler|Booth mangled his left hand in the previous encounter, and therefore he cannot aim downwards. This allowed Booth to kill him from below before he can change cover.}}

* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Alluded to when Mr. Fisher the depressed intern gets in trouble for sleeping with a suspect:

* [[Dawson Casting]]: Zach is supposed to be the youngest member of the team by a significant margin; in fact Eric Millegan is the third oldest member of the cast after David Boreanaz and Tamara Taylor.

* [[Dead Guy, Junior]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Everyone, to a certain extent.

** Bones especially, though. Subverted in that much of the time, Temperance isn't aware she's snarking.

'''Bones:''' [[Gonna Need More Trope|I'm gonna need a bigger bag]]. }}

** Cam, being the [[Only Sane Employee]] at the Jeffersonian, does this. A lot.

== E ==

* [[The Eeyore]]: Fisher. Naturally, his mom is an overly-sunny optimist.

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

* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Brennan

* [[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.}}

* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Bones and Booth. Sweets writes a book about it!

* [[Expospeak Gag]]

'''Brennan:''' Yeah, that's what I said. }}

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: Zack's second-season makeover.

== G ==

* [[Geeky Turn On]]: Hodgins and Angela, frequently. Notable incidents include him naming a rose smelling fungus after her (long story), proposing to her with glowing sea food (longer story), and, of course, the following:

'''Hodgins:''' Not in the least, but I am so turned on by her brain. I'd like to see her brain totally naked. }}

* [[Genre Busting]]: It's a drama-comedy all about decaying bodies, murder investigations and romance.

** How Max evens the playing field after he challenges Booth to a fight.

** Booth himself in "The Proof in the Pudding".

* [[Gross Up Close-Up]]

** The bodies are often found badly decomposed and covered with maggots.

* [[Hard on Soft Science]]

** Brennan rather hypocritically mocks psychology. {{spoiler|Which makes it darkly ironic when she persuades Zack to give up the Gormogon using applied psychology.}} Very ironic, considering that Brennan is an anthropologist, and psychology is a considerably "harder", more lab/experiment-based social science than anthropology.

'''Therapist:''' ''(later interview, out loud)'' Oh my god. She's an anthropologist, isn't she? She ''talks'' like an anthropologist! }}

** Also ironically, one of Brennan's childhood idols is Wonder Woman, a superheroine ''designed'' by a psychologist.

** She dismisses any implied relation from what "is" to what "could be", so her use of anthropology is limited to what has been proven as fact.

** Pointedly subverted in "The Devil in the Details", which takes place mostly in a mental ward.

** When [[Stephen Fry]] is on the show, his character seems to have a bit of disdain for psychology himself, calling it on its ability to oversimplify and objectify a person's state of mind while arbitrarily projecting solutions that rely on the person's ability to understand and implement them. Then again, he was probably just using fast word play and large vocabulary to turn Brennan to his way of thought.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: In one episode the team find evidence a South American official with [[Diplomatic Impunity|Diplomatic Immunity]] was involved with a murder. Getting through the red tape would be nearly impossible, and Cam suggested manipulating evidence to implicate the son, trying to get the official to confess and waive immunity. Booth listened but quickly rejected the proposal on the grounds that trying to cheat around DI would cause ''international'' problems, even though such manipulation is used all the time in local law enforcement. {{spoiler|They got her to waive immunity based on what the political situation would be back home if they did try to go through the normal channels, she would be killed by her enemies.}}

* [[Left the Background Music On]]: In "The X in the File," Bones and Booth are talking about the possibility of alien visitation, when the [[X Files]] theme starts up in the background. Turns out it's the ringtone of an abandoned cellphone.

* [[Let Me Get This Straight...]]: From the episode ''The Santa In The Slush.''

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Booth's trademark black suit and belt buckle, with occasional variations in the shirt, socks, and tie. When he's off the job, he usually wears a brown leather jacket, which he sometimes wears to crime scenes. Brennan tends to wear big, dangly earrings and necklaces.

* [[Literal Minded]]: Brennan, more so than anyone who isn't an android should be.

* [[Living Lie Detector]]: Sweets

'''Sweets:''' He didn't mean that in a good way, did he? }}

* [[Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard]]: When Brennan and Hodgins are {{spoiler|1=buried alive by the Grave Digger, their cell (Brennan's car) contains all of the materials a person needs to perform surgery, manufacture oxygen, power a cell phone, and hack a detonator -- assuming one has three PhDs}}.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|Angela's input on relationships and sex are a major part of Brennan's success as an author.}}

* [[Maternally Challenged]]: Brennan, naturally. "Just because I have breasts does not mean I have magical powers over infants." She does grow attached to the kid by the end of the episode, though.

** 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]].}}

* [[Nausea Dissonance]]: This comes up all the time. The Jeffersonian crew are all unfazed by decaying corpses and the like, while other characters get squicked to varying degrees, including having to vomit.

** Surprisingly, even Bones is not immune to this. When Angela plays a scenario of a girl with a belly-button ring shimmying in a narrow space, in the part where the girl's belly-button ring gets ripped off, Bones immediately looks away from the computer screen and takes a few deep breaths. Angela calls her out on this.

'''Brennan''': Thank you. }}

* [[Nightmare Fetishist]]: Sweets pops into the Jeffersonian to discuss the Gormogon in "The Knight on the Grid." The team is somewhat disturbed by how enthusiastic he is. We later find out that in his youth he was a fan of both Black and Death Metal and still has the clothes -- [[Shirtless Scene|or lack thereof]] -- to go incognito at a concert.

** In the episode "The Man in the Fallout Shelter," Brennan mentions a Fourth of July fiasco when Hodgins and Zack try to spike the eggnog.

** An agent from the State Department asks Bones about an incident involving a South American drug lord:

'''Agent:''' ''(stunned after taking the phone)'' ... They're checking my credentials... I am to wait here until somebody comes to destroy my notes. }}

** In "The Bones on the Blue Line": a sexual position described on page 187 in one of Brennan's books.

** Max Brennan is a natural at this.

* [[Odd Couple]]: Booth and Bones' outlooks on very nearly everything are polar opposites. Certain other characters have noted that they really shouldn't work as well together as they do because of it. Dr. Sweets drafts a book centering on exactly that during season 4 (''Opposites Attract: Yin and Yang in the Workplace''), but seems to eventually change his viewpoint after discussing it with retiring psychologist Gordon Gordon Wyatt.

'''Sweets:''' Wow! Small? What is that, British understatement? }}

* [[Odd Friendship]]: Angela and Brennan have opposite views on most things, yet are great friends.

* [[Papa Wolf]]

** Max Keenan does NOT take it well if you threaten Brennan or her brother Russ, as seen in the episode "Judas on a Pole". The rest of the time, however, he comes across as more bumbling than menacing. This is [[Obfuscating Stupidity|very much intentional]].

** Also Angela's dad.

** Booth is on record as saying that if "God Himself" told him to sacrifice his son, "That's not gonna happen." Considering that he's a devout Catholic...

* [[Precision F-Strike]]

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

** And in "The Baby in the Bough:

* [[Pregnant Badass]]: Brennan

* [[Product Placement]]

* [[Shirtless Scene]]

** Booth gets one in the '09 Christmas episode ("The Goop on the Girl"). Booth gets caught in the blast of a suicide bomber and his clothes become covered in DNA evidence. So naturally, Brennan strips him to his undies. [[Fan Service|Merry Christmas]], [[Sincerity Mode|indeed]]. Also serves as a setup for [[Not What It Looks Like]].

** They certainly do love to give Christmas presents: in the 2005 Christmas episode, Hodgins had to hit the showers after a biological accident and for about half the episode appeared in a towel and nothing else.

** Another for Hodgins in the Season 1 gag reel, where he apparently [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlwCXH2r8NQ&feature=related did a scene in boxers] [[Mr. Fanservice|and nothing else.]] [[Foreshadowing|With Angela.]]

** "[[Rocky and Bullwinkle|Boris and Natasha]] and their Russian Throwing Knives of Death."

** One which is made all the funnier when you realize that Cam has a bit role as River's teacher in ''[[Serenity]]'':

** "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.

** There are two inside thirty seconds in "The Dwarf in the Dirt" -- "[[Angel|There are no such things as leprechauns]]" and [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson's]] [http://teesbox.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/homer-simpson-brain-mri.jpg MRI] on the X-ray board behind Nigel. Both were put in to coincide with ''The Simpson'''s 20th anniversary, a theme running throughout all Fox shows that week.

* [[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.

* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: Bones hits a guy with a bedpan rather than hear his psycho-rant about why it's OK to eat people.

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

* [[Sliding Scale of Silliness Versus Seriousness]]: The show has always balanced humor and drama, but the DVD box art has grown progressively sillier over time. Season 1 has Bones and Booth posing against a white background. By season 3, they're playing poker with a cigar-smoking skeleton.

** Many, most of which seem to be pointed at Sweets and Psychology as a whole. In the (admittedly odd and written by an "[[Unreliable Narrator]]") season finale, Sweets' surrogate declares that psychologists are glorified bartenders. Unknown if this is used for comedic effect, because they do like riling up Sweets.

** Sweets gets one on Brennan in a season 4 episode, when he is able to pick out a murderer from a crowd of college students. She is "amazed" he was able to do that, and questions him on what he saw. Sweets doesn't answer her, simply saying "You're not gonna believe me anyway," and walks out of the room.

'''Sweets''': You're not gonna believe me anyway... You're just gonna say I guessed. So have it your way. I guessed. }}

 

** 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.

* [[They Do]]

** Hodgins and Angela.

* [[Translation Train Wreck]]: In-universe with the English instructions of toy Angela is trying to assemble in "The Prince in the Plastic".

* [[True Companions]]

'''Hodgins:''' There's more than one kind of family. }}

* [[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.

** The season three finale where we learn that {{spoiler|Zack was the Gormogon's most recent apprentice.}}

* [[Wham! Line]]: From the Season 6 finale:

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

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]

* [[Writer on Board]]: Season three finale, Angela and Hodgins in season four, even more in season four from Emily Deschanel's interview...The season three finale was the result of 12,000 [[TV Strikes|Writers On Board]].

* [[You Keep Using That Word]]: In "The Twist in the Twister", Sweets takes issue with Booth's choice of words.

'''Sweets:''' You know, that’s a real word and people just throw it around. }}

* [[You Look Familiar]]: The same actor played at least three minor roles on the show, first as a patient of Sweets, whose session Booth interrupts, interested in having a sex change. Second, again as a patient of Sweets whose interrupted, this time as someone who may have multiple personalities. Thirdly in a speaking role at last as an arms dealer who custom made Broadsky's sniper rifle.