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'''Booth:''' ... underwater? }}
** The conversation about how Bones' gun is bigger than Booth's.
* [[Accidental Marriage]] / [[Oops, I Forgot I Was Married]]: Angela, so drunk she ''forgot'' it (and implied that she didn't think it counted; she had no idea the paperwork had been filed).
* [[Action Girl]]: Brennan
* [[Adorkable]]: Most of the regular male cast: Zack, Hodgins, Sweets, Vincent. Brennan is an uncommon female example. Despite geeky traits, Booth (comic book collector, although that is basically his only one) and Wendell are a little too macho to count, and Edison and {{spoiler|Arastoo (after being caught faking his accent)}} seem a bit too smooth. Finn is a genius, but not at all nerdy.
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** No matter how often Sweets is useful or just plain ''right'', Brennan ''always'' dismisses it as coincidence. This has been sort of wink-and-nudge acknowledged as Brennan not necessarily believing it's a coincidence, but making herself believe she believes it's a coincidence, which is not the same thing. Witness the time she tries to get Sweets to explain, and he blows her off with "You wouldn't believe me anyway." The curiosity clearly eats her alive.
** [[Lampshade|Lampshaded]] (somewhat) by Booth in the first episode, when his way of turning over a new leaf with Brennan is by referring to them as Mulder and Scully.
** The Booth/Brennan partnership and UST has often been compared to the Mulder/Scully partnership and UST. Quite a few ''Bones'' fans were ''[[The X-Files (TV)|The X-Files]]'' fans first. The core formula for both couples is still there; the [[Mother Nature, Father Science]] trope is inverted for both. However, since Booth and Brennan are not (thankfully) Expys of Mulder and Scully, the personalities are different and so is the interaction and dynamic between partners. Not to mention the Booth/Brennan romantic relationships was (presumably) planned from the start, giving a more logical progression to their UST (also adds realism). Unlike Mulder and Scully's romantic relationship, which was not planned from the start and entered into [[Romantic Plot Tumor]] territory after awhile.
* [[All Psychology Is Freudian]]: Played straight by psychologist Sweets who often utilizes Freudian theories and language. However, psychiatrist Gordon Wyatt subverts this stating that "Freud is largely discredited, so to hell with him." Keep in mind Brennan actually feels that Wyatt's psychology makes more sense.
* [[Almost Out of Oxygen]]: Brennan and Hodgins wind up in this situation when the Gravedigger buries them alive. Due to the relatively hard science nature of the program, Dr. Hodgins {{spoiler|manages to [[MacGyvering|MacGyver]] a carbon dioxide scrubber, and gets a text message out.}}
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* [[Ambiguous Disorder]]: Bones has a ''lot'' of trouble with metaphors and social skills.
* [[And Now for Something Completely Different]] / [[Elseworld]]: The fourth season finale, a [[All Just a Dream|dream sequence]] in which a married Booth and Bones run a nightclub staffed by most of the cast.
* [[Angst]] / [[Angst? What Angst?|What Angst]]: {{spoiler|Angela and Hodgins are brimming with sadness after learning they both carry a gene that gives their child a 1/4 chance of being blind, but later Hodgins decides to make the best of it, saying they should take up hobbies that don't require sight (piano for him and sculpture for her).}}
* [[Anti Intellectualism]]: Hodgins gets chewed out on a regular basis for his impromptu tests -- spam and artificial bone to determine exact circumstances of death by incineration make perfect sense to Hodgins and the viewer, but Cam says (paraphrased): "You say SPAM to a jury and they get a laugh and the perp gets an acquittal!" Bones herself gets harangued for being smart while jurors are slack-jawed morons -- she nearly loses an otherwise open-and-shut case because the opposing expert is chatty and handsome. "The jury likes Michael better than they like me, apparently that’s a problem. Are they stupid?" Goodman responds that, "Compared to you, yes they are stupid. However, compared to you most of the world is a little stupid." Bones and her "squints" are supposed to be smart enough to catch crooks with microscopic bone fragments, but not smart enough to intimidate [[Muggles]].
* [[Artistic License Biology]]: In one episode Booth gets his sperm analyzed and everyone brags up that he had 28.8 million sperm in 3 mL. Although anything over 1 million sperm per mL is capable of fertilization, the average sperm count for a male in the United States is 120 million in ONE mL. (Or 360/28.8 = 12.5 times Booth's sperm count).
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{{quote| '''Hacker:''' Ten seconds earlier and I would have been the hero, right?}}
* [[Bi the Way]]: Angela
* [[Birth
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: "The Hole in the Heart". The Squints pay tribute to {{spoiler|Vincent Nigel-Murray}} by singing his favorite song as they place his casket in the hearse.
* [[Blond Brunette Redhead|Black, White, Asian]]: Cam, Brennan, and Angela. It fiddles around with the stereotypes, too: Angela is the cool one, Cam is the reserved one, and Brennan is the nerdy one (granted, they're all nerds, but she takes the cake).
* [[Book Dumb]]: Booth, contrasting with Brennan's [[TV Genius]]; there is evidence that this is more an act of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] on his part, so that the various insufferable geniuses he works with are less threatened by him. We know he's [[Book Dumb]], and we know he uses [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] to make Bones feel better, but we don't know the degrees in which these tropes are present. Probably he's just picked up a lot more from working with them than he lets on.<br />Booth is usually presented as more intuitive with a high emotional intelligence which makes sense for someone who has suffered abuse. Several episodes generally present him (and others) acknowledging that within context of the team, his "specialty" is the emotional aspect of such cases. It comes up a lot less though because within context of having to present a legal case and identifying bodies, gut instincts generally don't cut it.
* [[Boom! Headshot!]]: {{spoiler|The Gravedigger meets her end when a sniper uses a high-caliber rifle to invoke this trope, and we get to see her head explode, on screen, in glorious high def}}.
* [[Brainy Brunette]]: Bones, and how.
* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: Hodgins and Wendell do this (with a healthy dose of [[MacGyvering]]) when they are trapped by a blizzard without power, and they have to solve the case quickly because the murderer might be contagious. The clearest example is when Hodgins actually manages to vaporize some of the metal shrapnel and analyze it. Justified because they work IN a museum.
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** 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).
{{quote| '''Hodgins:''' You call it conspiracy theories, I call it the family business.}}
** 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".
* [[Conveniently an Orphan]]: Dr. Brennan, whose loss is used to explain and excuse her (seemingly?) detached approach to humanity.
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== D ==
* [[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:
{{quote| '''Mr. Fisher:''' Can I please keep my job if I promise never ever to have sex again with anyone, which, by the way, suits me temperamentally? I happen to be very self-sufficient.}}
* [[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]]
** One of the names Angela and Hodgins' baby gets is {{spoiler|Vincent, after Vincent Nigel-Murray}}.
** Booth names Parker after Corporal Edward Parker, a friend of Booth's from the Army Rangers.
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* [[Finger in The Mail]]: {{spoiler|The Bishop's kneecaps, Catherine Epps' head...}}
** One actual use of this trope occurs in "The Woman in the Car", where the son of a grand jury witness gets kidnapped. Booth gets the kid's pinky finger in the mail.
* [[Foot
* [[Forensic Drama]]
* [[Foreshadowing]]
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** Booth himself in "The Proof in the Pudding".
{{quote| '''Booth:''' Good, old, American classic.}}
* [[Gross Up Close
** The bodies are often found badly decomposed and covered with maggots.
** The fifth season episode "The Gamer in the Grease" takes it a step further with an extended shot of half-liquidated flesh sliding off of a corpse's bones. Complete with sound effects.
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== H ==
* [[Had to Come To Prison To Be A Crook]]: [[Serial Killer]] Howard Epps, possibly. He could be a [[Manipulative Bastard]] all along, or maybe he learned it while on death row. When we first meet Epps, he's claiming to be innocent and trying to get exonerated, but it ends up he just reveals he's killed even more people than previously thought, so they have to keep him alive while they process the new bodies. When he returns in season 2, Epps is even more manipulative and playing serial killer games, leading the team on a merry chase with body parts as clues.
* [[Hand Cannon]]: One episode has Brennan getting ''[
* [[Happily Adopted]]: Sweets in his backstory.
* [[Hard On Soft Science]]
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* [[Hates Small Talk]]: One of the regularly-repeating crew of interns is constantly frustrated by the amount of time the main characters spend discussing their personal lives and dramas, so much so that "can we talk about the job, please" is basically his [[Catch Phrase]].
* [[The Heart]]: Angela, at least according to Hodgins. Except rather than personal vendettas, it's the minutiae of the body they're studying that she raises their eyes from. Further driven home by the fact that in "The Man in the Cell", Angela receives a human heart in the mail after the publication of a newspaper article in which Hodgins calls her "the heart of the operation".
* [[Hello, Nurse!]]: Booth says to Brennan, "There isn't a guy in this country who wouldn't want to have sex with you, including half the gay men."
* [[Heroic BSOD]]
** Booth nearly has one in "Proof in the Pudding", {{spoiler|when it's implied that [[Who Shot JFK?|there were two assassins involved in JFK's death]] and there was a government cover-up to hide this. Given the number of people he's killed for his country, he sees it as a huge betrayal.}}
** Brennan gets one in "The Doctor in the Photo." {{spoiler|The [[Victim of the Week]] also had one, which was what lead to her (accidental) death.}}
* [[Hollywood Amnesia]]: Averted in "The Man in the Morgue". As far as Bones can tell, one minute she was accepting a dinner date with a nice guy, the next, she's beaten purple and covered in blood -- when she blacked out, she lost several hours of time ''before'' the event in question, as per [[Real Life]] [
* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Averted. Bones is an atheist and the closest that gets to being plot-centric is another on the long list of personality conflicts between Bones and Booth (who is Catholic).
* [[Hollywood Nerd]]: Brennan; Hodgins; Zack; Sweets
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* {{spoiler|[[John F Kennedy]]}}: Brennen's team suspects, but can't ever be sure, that {{spoiler|the skeleton the Secret Service conscripted them to analyze with state-of-the-art forensic methods was him}}.
* [[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
* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: In "The Graft in the Girl", a woman who dropped out of medical school is stealing corpses from a funeral home and selling them through a fake medical supply house for bone grafts. One of these corpses, who died of mesothelioma, infected at least five people with a deadly disease. The suspect isn't going to trial, though. She didn't last long enough in med school to know that bone dust is toxic, so she gave herself a fatal disease.
* [[Last-Name Basis]]
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* [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]]: In the episode the ''Family in the Fued'' the conflict of the Hatfield and McCoys is referred to as "a story", whereas "there's nothing made up about the Mobley's and Babcocks.", when in fact it's the exact opposite.
* [[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|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.''
{{quote| '''Angela:'''"Wait. The evidence actually adds up to an old, fat man with a white beard, in a custom-made Santa suit who smoked a clay pipe and got kicked in the ass by a reindeer?"}}
* [[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.
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** 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|[
** "Mayhem on a Cross" may have something to do with the murder of [
* [[Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Zack and Hodgins play to determine who has to deal with a bag of unsavory evidence.
* [[Romantic False Lead]]
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** 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.]]
* [[Shout
** "The Girl with the Curl" has the [[Angel (TV)|Hyperion Hotel]].
** Also in "The Girl with the Curl" Brennan mentions Booth threatening to push someone out a window, possibly a subtle shout out to the pilot episode of ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'', in which Angel (Boreanaz) does exactly that.
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** When you have [[Raised By Wolves]] Bones be the one who can navigate Japanese manners with politeness and sensitivity. This is the person who often can't even figure out how to compliment someone in the looser and less formal American society without making it an offhand (or sometimes just outright) insult.
** Also as noted in "The Maggots in the Meathead", she can quite readily pick up and understand cultures and social groups to the point of appreciating various similarities and differences. Mostly, it's just her tendency to be fairly literal in her own culture that makes her seem socially stunted.
* [[Something Completely Different]] / [[Out
** Bones is usually a drama with some hints of comedy. But a 4th season episode "The Double Death of the Dearly Departed" is a pure comedy. It's filled with out-of-character actions that in any other episode would be considered utterly ridiculous. Such as {{spoiler|Brennan and Booth stealing a body because they can't get a warrant to examine it, as Hodgins distracts the funeral guests}}. However due to [[Rule of Funny]] this episode actually works and currently has an average rating of 9.2 out of 10 at TV.com.
** And "The Death of the Queen Bee" is mostly [[Shout
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: The only way Sweets knows how to talk.
* [[Special Guest]]
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* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Analyzed carefully in the show. Booth is a former sniper and while he acknowledges the acceptability in dealing with enemy soldiers and criminals, he doesn't take it lightly. When Brennan had to kill someone to protect Booth, she is also noticeably troubled by it, but only the first time. She kills the stalker who shot Booth (who took the bullet for her) with a throat shot and was shown having no problems at all with the killing and even declares how she's killed and it wasn't that hard in the 2-parter in England when trying to talk Scotland Yard into giving her a gun like they did Booth.
* [[A Threesome Is Hot]]: A guy at the bar tries to get Brennan and Hannah into one at the end of "The Body in the Bag" -- they tell him to get lost.
* [[Tiny Guy, Huge Girl]]: Angela is noticeably taller than Hodgins. Commented on in "The Man in the Cell." But it's O.K., because apparently "short guys have better leverage."
* [[TV Genius]]: Brennan; Zack
* [[Trailers Always Lie]] and/or [[Trailers Always Spoil]]
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* [[Vigilante Man]]: The sniper who shot {{spoiler|The Gravedigger as she was going into court}}. Booth loathes being compared to him, which Bones does constantly ("He kills bad people, just like you do!").
* [[We All Live in America]]: In the episode "Mayhem on a Cross", Norwegian police are depicted as wearing what appears to be riot gear and guns, violently kicking in the door spurring a fight between policemen and musicians and concert goers. In reality, Norwegian police are typically unarmed and many policemen may only arm themselves in extreme situations, such as when approaching a suspect they know to be armed.
* [[Wham! Episode]]
** The season six finale, "The Change in the Game" ends with {{spoiler|Brennan telling Booth she's pregnant with his baby.}}
** The previous episode, "The Hole in the Heart," was no slouch either, as {{spoiler|the season's main villain kills Mr. Nigel-Murray and Booth finally manages to take him down.}}
** The season three finale where we learn that {{spoiler|Zack was the Gormogon's most recent apprentice.}}
* [[Wham! Line]]: From the Season 6 finale:
{{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.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]
** 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.
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** 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.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Bones and Booth. {{spoiler|They did in season six.}}
* [[William Telling]]: When Bones and Booth were undercover at the circus doing a [[Knife
* [[Window Love]]: Zack and his family, when he's trapped in quarantine during a [[Christmas Episode]].
* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: Repeatedly invoked by Bones in the seventh episode of season seven. She's in a prison and [[Even Evil Has Standards|knows the prisoners wouldn't hurt a pregnant woman]]. [[Up to Eleven]] when she [[Dissonant Serenity|walks calmly through]] the middle of a prison riot, with the prisoners don't just getting out of her way, but actively block some people who might get toward her.
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