BONES: The Rocker in the Rinse Cycle

Hey, hey, hey! It’s BONES time! First of all, I want to send a Happy Bonesy Birthday greeting to my sister Elizabeth who loves the show and also to TeamGMMR’s Erik. You can hop on over to his HOUSE post and wish him a happy birthday, or tweet him some birthday cheer @FreelanceErik.

But enough of that feelgoodery; let’s talk dead bodies!

Or well…just the ONE dead body…

THE CASE:

A skeleton is found in an industrial sized hotel washer, and Booth and Brennan are called to the case. Booth immediately asserts that the only way for the body to have gotten into that washer was for it to have been dumped down a laundry chute, to which Brennan infers homicide. Cam, Hodgins, Vasiri and Angela work to identify the victim as Richard Cole, single, commercial real estate developer. Richard went to fantasy camps every year for his birthday. The current fantasy camp at the hotel where his body is found is rock and roll camp. It’s led by uber famous promoter and manager, Simon Graham.

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BONES: The Predator in the Pool

Ah, as Dr. Brennan would say, “Excellent”. Of course, when she said it, she was trying to convince herself, but we know the truth, and it tastes kind of bitter. Unlike last week, where I felt nervous, this week I felt very good with where things were left at the end of the episode. Not to skip to the end, but WHOA…how about B&B still sharing an after-case beer with one another AFTER their respective dates? I did not see that coming, but I loved it.

As far as Hacker and Catherine go, well…they are pretty much likable. Catherine (the lovely Rena Sofer) more than Hacker, I think. He just rubs me the wrong way, but Catherine seemed great. Not that I’m a Booth and Catherine shipper or anything. She’s like Sully to me; whom I loved but will not miss when gone (power of positive thinking, haha!). THOUGHTS???

I thought maybe Smiley/Flirty!Booth would make me nervous, but in reality, it just made me very, very happy. More on that later; but first…

THE CASE:

A self-help and self-helped motivational speaker, Jazz Gunn is revealed to be the victim when a human skeleton is found in a local aquarium. (Quick question: Does anyone know if that was the Aquarium of the Pacific?) Suspects include Dr. Stoddard of the aquarium’s animal husbandry department, Catherine (somewhat), Aquarium employee Ben, local school teacher Grace Redmon, and Jazz Gunn’s somewhat begrudged assistant, Tad.

Meanwhile, the aquarium’s facilities had an expensive filter stolen, leading Booth into contact with a mob boss who may or may not have ties to the murder. And Booth was awesome.

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BONES: The Death of the Queen Bee

Bones fans, you rocked last week and I loved your comments and analysis! We proved once again that whether or not we always agree, BONES fans are able to use brain & heart.

As for this week’s episode…I don’t know what to think. From last week to the end of this episode, I kind of felt like I’d been on a romantic vacation only to come home to a sink full of dishes (aka real life). I think perhaps I am still feeling the effects of last week, and this episode, the way it kind of just pushed past most of that…I don’t know, it sort of scraped against my heart. More on that later. Not that I didn’t like it necessarily, I just have some questions that perhaps you can help me solve.

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BONES: The Parts in the Sum of the Whole

First of all, show of hands…Who is glad to know that Brennan DIDN’T lie in Soccer Mom in the Mini Van when she said Booth had no direct knowledge? I know I am.

I LOVED this episode and have been DYING to talk about it with you. Even more important than my opinion are your thoughts and feelings (but don’t get me wrong…I’m about to get all opiniony up in your BONESloving grills). My first impression was completely, mind numbingly…stunned, can’t breathe…just…wow. Wow!

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BONES: The Bones on the Blue Line

Hey BONES fans! Thursdays just haven’t been the same without you, but we did it. We survived the two month BONES hiatus. I hope you liked this episode, because I did. I think it has somewhat of a misfortune of being stuck in the position of being our first ep back AND the ep that precedes the 100th; those are tough shoes to fill. Then again, we BONES fans are loyal and able to judge an episode based on itself, and I think when it comes down to it, this episode will always have a very special place in my heart.

But let me backtrack a bit.

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David Boreanaz talks BONES- “We’re the Little Show that Could and The Little Show that Has”

Hey BONES fans! How are things? What have you been up to since we last met on February 4th? If you are like me, you have been missing BONES and are exited for its return this Thursday, April 1st for episode 99, The Bones on the Blue Line and the 100th episode airing April 8th, The Parts in the Sum of the Whole.

I was ‘out of this world’ lucky enough to catch screeners of both the 99th and 100th eps, and yesterday had the opportunity to be on a conference call with David Boreanaz. I’m here to bring you the scoop on what the hard working actor has to say on what’s coming up over the next few weeks…and the rest of the season.

If you can stay spoiler free, I highly recommend it. I went into both of those eps knowing next to nothing about them and really enjoyed them. But if you can’t resist, and you need a quick fix, then read on. I am sure it goes without saying, but we are talking  spoilers here after the link. Read on at your own risk.

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BONES: The Devil in the Details

Hey, BONES fans! Did you like this episode? It’s our last one till APRIL, so we’ve got to make this one count. I liked it. I wasn’t smiling the whole time like with other episodes, but I was very fascinated by this case and the people involved. Let’s discuss it!

THE CASE:

Booth and Brennan are called to a church where human remains are found. They are badly burned in a way that suggests sacrifice, and the head of the victim sports bone-like devil horns and a tail. This of course sets Booth and Brennan at odds, as religion is one of their few points of disagreement. Brennan is fascinated by the remains, as she has never seen anything like it. Booth on the other hand is anxious to get it out of the church and back to the lab.

Once there, the team determines that the body was burned by standard, run of the mill motor oil. The horns were cosmetically attached, but Brennan identifies that the tail is natural. The victim is Neal Lowry, a schizophrenic patient of Havenhurst sanitarium.

Booth questions Neal’s mother and brother. They reveal that at age 14, Neal was suffering emotionally after the death of his father. He often set things on fire, and it was recommended that his tail be removed, but at that point, he wanted to keep it.

Joshua Malina! Excellent guest star of the week! I will never give up hope that SPORTS NIGHT will somehow come back on the air. In this episode, he is portraying the doctor at the sanitarium, Dr. Copeland. Dr. Copeland introduces Booth, Brennan and Sweets to Neviah, a pretty woman who believes she is the living incarnation of an angel whose body is taken over by God for his will. She has created a painting which depicts a crucifixion, specifically, her killing Neal. The wound on the painting matches the wound on his body.

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BONES: The Dentist in the Ditch

Hey, BONES fans, what’s shaking? How did you like this episode? To me, it felt very standard issued BONES, which is a really good thing. The show has been getting excellent ratings for a reason, right? Go ahead and pat yourself on the back and give yourself a Twitter Follow Friday for that! What I really liked about this episode was that the victim and the case were very interesting and very intricately woven into the episode as a whole. It was also cool to see Booth presented with two different situations of ‘not easy to come by’ love, something I believe he knows a little something about.

THE CASE:

A man’s body is found at the site of a Civil War reenactment, but Brennan quickly determines that he’s not a Civil War victim. Not since Bodies in the Book have we seen a swarm of bugs like the armies of spiders we saw tonight in the lab. Ew, ew, ew; swarms are the worst. I’ll take eyeballs falling out of sockets before swarms.

Danny Peniard, a local dentist, is the victim. Booth and Brennan go to his home and his contractor is kicking his feet up. But he (Pickford) has a quick alibi; why would he kill Danny? Danny owed him money. Booth and Brennan need to talk to Danny’s ex-boyfriend, Chris. Chris and Booth don’t exactly hit it off as he’s not interested in answering Booth’s questions. But when Brennan finds an arrowhead that has the potential to match the fatal blow on Danny’s sternum, Chris has no choice but to go with Booth to the FBI building.

Another suspect includes Danny’s dental hygienist, Ms Bryceson, who claims he gave her Hepatitis C from mutual nicks while getting a syringe ready. But twist, Danny never had Hepatitis.

When Nigel Murray and his rhubarb help Brennan and Hodgins figure out that Danny was a football player, which takes Booth and Brennan to the football field. Brennan wants to know if another team member was threatened by Danny’s homosexuality, but the coach quickly dismisses that. The entire team is gay. When Brennan finds blood inside the football helmet, everyone on the team becomes a suspect.

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BONES: The Proof in the Pudding

Talk about having some mixed emotions. Tonight’s episode was an hour of teamwork and smarts and FBI Booth kicking butt, and I love all of those things. On the other hand, though…and really, it’s just a teensy part of the other hand, it felt almost too good. I know that doesn’t seem to make sense, but it seemed almost too perfect. Too good to be true, I guess. Right? SuperBooth and Team Brennan stand up to a tyrannical and mysterious government agency, solve one of the greatest mysteries of American history and are done in time for a hearty breakfast? I don’t want to be a complainer, but I guess I just like my BONES with a touch more pathos. But back to my overwhelming option…I loved it!

THE CASE:

Brennan, Cam, Angela, Hodgins, and Sweets are sequestered at the Jeffersonian by the GSA and given the task of identifying what the markers, bullet entry points and for what very well might be the remains of John F. Kennedy. The GSA suits forbid them from declaring an identity; the J-team’s ONLY task is to determine cause of death. Booth is anxious that ‘his people’ are without him, I guess, and so he literally shoots his way into the Jeffersonian Forensics Lab where he then proceeds to use an FBI created perfect replica of Lee Harvey Oswald’s gun to shoot two (perfect) shots into cantaloupes. The ‘assignment’ is quickly shut down, even though the team is not convinced they have the full answers. They later find out that a congressional committee was considering exhuming Kennedy’s body, and it was a test or dry run.

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BONES: The X in the File

Holler back, BONES fans! Are you having a good 2010? I hope so. It’s good to have new BONES episodes back, isn’t it? I’ll admit straight off the bat that I’ve never seen an episode of X-Files, so I supposed I might have missed some inside jokes, but all in all, I liked this episode.

THE CASE:

Booth and Brennan are called to Roswell, New Mexico, where a woman’s body has been found dead inside a silver casing type thing. Not that gross at all, and in fact, kind of a cool corpse! The local sheriff denies Booth his FBI jurisdiction and so B&B have to stay in town to solve this case. Along the way, they have close encounters with human kind in the form of some quirky local characters (kind of reminded me of Season One: Man in the Bear. For those keeping score at home, this is a high compliment!). These non-aliens include the local sheriff, who becomes quite helpful, Delmy, the owner of the most famous UFO blog, Marvin, a man who was obsessed with seeking out UFOs (and also Ursula’s lover), and Marcia, the woman with the gun. While Booth interviews the locals, Brennan’s job includes investigating the body (dreaded flesh and all). She finds a memory card in the victim’s stomach connected to dental floss. The victim is Ursula LePine. Booth and Brennan check out her metal trailer and find that it was highly scientific, and when Angela gets the memory card cleared off, she and Cam see what appears to be a UFO.

After further research, it’s clear that what was on the SD card was not alien life form, but rather something else that needed covered up, dumping of chemicals, etc. Booth and Brennan are up against a real challenge in Rachel Adams, who is leading all of that. But she’s not guilty of murder.

I kind of had that cantankerous ranching woman pegged as the murderer, so I was surprised when it was the diner/nostalgic toy owner. But it worked for me.

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BONES: The Goop on the Girl

Hey BONES fans!

First of all, thanks to all who joined in on the live chat last night; it was a great time. I asked those of us there which BONES Christmas episode was a favorite, and I’m interested to know what you think, too.

1. The Man in the Fallout Shelter (Season One)
2. The Santa in the Slush (Season Three)
3. The Goop on the Girl (Season Five)

Be sure to vote in the comments. But let’s get on to this week’s episode.

A lot of times, I think BONES plays the smoke & mirror game and makes up for poor case writing with some fluff, but in this episode, I liked the case. Of course, perhaps that just means their mirror game worked as it’s never worked before. I need your help. Was this a good episode, or not?

Let’s talk Zooey Deschanel. I was torn, because on the one hand, I really liked all of Margaret’s moments with Brennan, but on the flip side; I had seen all of them from the promo videos, so that was kind of a let down. I’ll blame FOX for that, though, and not the actresses. I think I liked this as a one time thing; I don’t need for Brennan to go off searching for her biological family. Thoughts from you? Another note; it was nice to see Ryan ONeal around as Max again.

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BONES: The Gamer in the Grease

First things first, BONES fans – Don’t forget about our live chat during next week’s episode. Be sure to check back in with GMMR for the link. I’ll post it on twitter, too. YAY!

Secondly…AAAHHH! The body. Ugh! I was just saying the other day that they haven’t been that gross this year (exception: Boot), certainly nothing like last year, but you guys, yuck. But then, I guess the BONES writers know how to balance, because as disgusting as the corpse was…well, one word: Hodgins. Two more words: Not disgusting.

Did any of y’all ever work in fast food? I totally rocked the front counter of an Arby’s for my high school and college days, and I just know exactly what a grease pit smells like, you know? So gross. So seeing that body in the grease was visual and olfactory.

The CASE:

A man’s body is found in a grease pit. He has stab wounds and indications that he was beaten, but those aren’t what killed him. His lungs were filled with grease, indicating that he drowned. Brennan, Cam and Fisher look for occupational markers, and using his sloping shoulder and the bite marks on his leg, they come to the conclusion that their victim was a mail carrier. Booth identifies the victim as Steve Rifton, a 26 year old mailman (and compliments Brennan in the process). Steve’s wife tells Booth and Brennan that he was the reigning world champion of Punky Pong. Suspects in the murder include the former reigning champion “Bill”, “Deandra”, the current contestant for the highest score, as well as a man on Steve’s regular mail route. The man was disturbed by the way Steve often looked at his son, the autistic Dougie. When it turned out that Steve was just interested in watching the Punky Play game Dougie was playing, the dad felt remorse. And in the end, it turns out that this murder was more about family than games. BONES has been leaving these cases with some ambiguous endings. We know the murderer was Dougie’s dad, of course, but what was his sentence? I’m not sure the writers care. They just want the heart.

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BONES: The Dwarf in the Dirt

Well, I think I figured out what that noise was on Wednesday night. Did you all hear that high pitched sound coming from the North? It was none other than about a million Canadians squeeing at the end of the episode. Am I right, Canada?

But you had good cause. Because happiness is a Gordon Gordon episode of BONES. CHEF Gordon Gordon Wyatt! Sprinkle in some Vincent Nigel Murray, AND Booth at the shooting range? Joie de vivre, indeed! All in all, I liked this episode. It’s not my favorite of the season, but it might be close. It wasn’t as cheesy as I’d dreaded, so I’ll blame my slight dread on Fox promos. And for the most part, I thought it felt very ‘true’ to the characters and the developing storylines. Plus, Brennan gave us this little gem…

“Fraud! Look at his femurs!”

One cannot deny the femurs, BONES fans.

THE CASE

The ‘Iron Leprechaun’ (aka Bryce Difanti) is found at the bottom of a sink hole under a collapsed road. His bones are green, and his unfortunate death does provide some excellent banter between our fave crime fighting duo. Suspects include the heir apparent Iron Leprechaun, Bryce’s girlfriend, the midget cougar (wow! BONES, really?), and the wife of the victim’s brother. Motives include money, sex, power, fame and love.

Once again, this case serves as a mirror for the character storyline. I quite enjoyed the way Gordon Gordon wove his way between both…mirrors, for lack of a better word.

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BONES: Tough Man in the Tender Chicken

An open letter to former BONES fans:

If you have stopped watching BONES, please come back. I know that TV is all about loyalty. Some of you may have started watching the show out of loyalty to David Boreanaz from his Angel days. And maybe some of you have stopped watching because of your loyalty to Zack.

But let me encourage you to give the show another shot. If you want to pretend the past season didn’t happen, that is fine by me. We won’t talk about it. Start at the beginning of this season and watch up until now. I think you will be pleased.

For those of you who have continued to watch BONES over the past four + seasons, and to those of you who continue to leave comments here on GMMR, I am grateful for your loyalty.

~Seels

But let’s get down to this episode!

THE CASE:

The ‘Woodchucks’, a local Wilderness Girl Scouts/ Brennan sycophants kind of group discovers a dead body in water. They do everything right (but still must learn), and catalog the remains, crime scene, and probably some diatomaceous earth in there somewhere, too, right? The body is determined (to Booth’s incredulity) to be half man- half chicken. It’s up to him to put the face out on the FBI database to see if they get any hits. And sure enough they do!

The man is an employee at a chicken factory(?) and because he didn’t take the necessary precautions against the chemicals used at the plant, his face and sinuses are becoming deformed. It’s then up to the whole team to find out who killed him. Suspects include the victim’s wife, some radical protestors and a baker who opposes the chicken smell.

THE SQUINTS:

• Wendell: Were he and Hodgins wearing the same shirt at the beginning of the ep? And again at the end? Was that some sort of (non) subtle clue to show us that somehow Wendell was a poser? Or second best? I actually did think it was sweet of him to shell out the $45.

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PROJECT RUNWAY: Taking Your Best to the Next Level

Hey GMMRers! With no BONES for a second week in a row, I’m enjoying my second favorite thing to do, which is to lie on my couch and judge people who are way more talented than me. Seriously, I think I can maybe sew a button onto a shirt, but that hasn’t been proven since 8th grade Home Ec, 1994. First of all, what the heck was Heidi wearing during the runway part? That jacket was ill fitting, with the ruffled shirt, and were those silver lame (pronounced laMay) shorts?

But anyways…remember last week when we talked about how there weren’t really any villains on the show? Well, crank up the yankers, because the editors took THEIR best to the next level, filling this episode with moaning and backbiting from the contestants.

It always kills me when these contestants say this stuff to the cameras in their side interviews. Haven’t they ever seen a season of PR? Don’t they know there is almost always a time where that footage is revealed to everyone?

This week Heidi greeted the designers by presenting them with their best looks ever. Each one was a winning design, except Logan, who has not won. The challenge was to take their previous winning look and use it as inspiration to create a companion piece.

Anyways…let’s discuss the looks our designers had one day and one hundred dollars to complete.

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Carol Hannah:

Not bad. Kind of like last week, I thought Carol Hannah’s dress was nice, but not anything I’ve never seen. Tim G encouraged her to work in her comfort zone, interestingly enough, which is why she chose another dress.

Althea:

The cattiest of the bunch this week, she was more annoyed with Logan’s zipper neckline than the competition, maybe. I liked the design of her top. All in all, her finished look was nice enough to get her through another challenge with high scores.

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