# Bones 04/15/10 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 16, 2010, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395 "2010-04-16T21:16:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/21 "2010-04-20T04:59:51Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > It looks better as a still, but this is still not a flattering picture of Brennan. > > [http://www.fanpop.com/spots/bones/images/11568182/title/young-bones](http://www.fanpop.com/spots/bones/images/11568182/title/young-bones) Yikes. She looks kinda 1850’s attractive there. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/22 "2010-04-20T07:10:41Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Given that we recently found out that Angela writes the romantic subplots to Bones’ novels, are you sure? I don’t think a teenage Bones would have had a clue how to interact with male classmates. That would probably only make her more popular with the boys. A reasonably attractive teenage girl with a male attitude toward sex would be a revelation. ---
**Author:** ![belladonna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9fc29f/32.png) [@belladonna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/belladonna)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/23 "2010-04-20T10:54:45Z")
Bones was an awkward, brutally honest foster child with questionable fashion sense. Considering she hung out doing dissections with the janitor, I’m going to go out on a limb and claim that she didn’t have friends. Granted, some “unpopular” girls enjoy greater popularity with boys for sexual reasons, but in my experience those boys come from their circle of friends and acquaintances. My guess would be that in a small town like that, a girl so unapologetically _different_ would not have been well-received. As for this episode–I liked it. I thought it leaned more toward dark comedy, especially Bones and her interactions with Freddy (sorry, he’ll always be Freddy to me), so the over-the-top campiness was fitting. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/24 "2010-04-20T14:06:45Z")
Seriously, you guys - I picked up my high school yearbook a while ago and was shocked at how good looking some of us bottom of the ladder kids were. Because they (well, we) didn’t _seem_ hot at the time, because we, you know, weren’t. We were awkward and we didn’t dress right and nobody liked us. (Well, things were better in high school, but our standings were set in stone in middle school when _nobody’s_ good looking.) ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/25 "2010-04-20T14:33:50Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Doesn’t matter. Again, we’re talking about teenaged boys here. A girl who knows how to respond well would doubtlessly be more popular, but as far as hormone-driven boys are concerned, a pretty face is still a pretty face. Yes, but the alpha-females are quick to punish the boys who like the unpopular girls and it doesn’t last long. When I was 14, my friend met a really cute girl from another school, she was totally into sports and BMX bikes and stuff, so he was over the moon to find a good looking girl who liked boy stuff. Little did he know, he’d found the Unpopular Tomboy from the Wrong Side of the Tracks (Copyright 1984 John Hughs). Then the Heathers of his school declared “This shall not be!” and when he became a social pariah for all of 45 minutes, he dumped her via note given to her younger brother who went to our school. So basically, the teenage boys know that the way to be popular with the popular girls is to like what they like and dislike who they dislike. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2010, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/26 "2010-04-20T19:11:08Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > It looks better as a still, but this is still not a flattering picture of Brennan. > > [http://www.fanpop.com/spots/bones/images/11568182/title/young-bones](http://www.fanpop.com/spots/bones/images/11568182/title/young-bones) "Chemistry Club Math Club Interests: Chemistry Math" That’s very Temperance. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/27 "2010-04-21T03:03:39Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Seriously, you guys - I picked up my high school yearbook a while ago and was shocked at how good looking some of us bottom of the ladder kids were. Because they (well, we) didn’t _seem_ hot at the time, because we, you know, weren’t. We were awkward and we didn’t dress right and nobody liked us. (Well, things were better in high school, but our standings were set in stone in middle school when _nobody’s_ good looking.) I had the opposite reaction last fall while flipping through some of my old highschool yearbooks. The ugly chicks were just as ugly as I remember, but many of the hot chicks (as I remember them) weren’t much better; some of them were downright butt-ugly. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/28 "2010-04-21T06:52:53Z")
I don’t think that picture was very flattering either. But even if you do…that speaks more to what the actress could cobble up from her youth than what the character was actually like. I doubt she was very popular with either boys or girls given her interaction with the grown up classmates. OTOH, we know that she is fairly sexually uninhibited for rational reasons. Has the issue of the loss of her virginity come up in the series? > [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > "Chemistry Club > Math Club > > Interests: > Chemistry > Math" > That’s very Temperance. 😃 I noticed that too. I was surprised there wasn’t something more biological in there. Or geological. Math, OK. But dissections of dead janitor animals followed by anthropological excellence speaks more to bio and geo, maybe even history, than chem. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/29 "2010-04-21T14:24:28Z")
The school probably had a shitty bio program, which is why she was dissecting roadkill instead of fetal pigs. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/30 "2010-04-21T14:50:39Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Seriously, you guys - I picked up my high school yearbook a while ago and was shocked at how good looking some of us bottom of the ladder kids were. Because they (well, we) didn’t _seem_ hot at the time, because we, you know, weren’t. We were awkward and we didn’t dress right and nobody liked us. (Well, things were better in high school, but our standings were set in stone in middle school when _nobody’s_ good looking.) That was me. I was pretty, thin, etc. But I was a drama geek and was weird. I had some friends and dated a bit, but I was far from popular, despite being pretty. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/31 "2010-04-22T03:59:55Z")
It’s not even just her looks, which from the pic weren’t either great or horrible. Face it, she’s weird. As an adult, it works for her. But if there’s one thing teenagers won’t abide, it’s the weird kids. Even if you disregard stuff like dissecting animals with creepy old janitor guy, her whole manner is just not normal. And on top of the weird, she’s a nerd that’s into Math and Chemistry to the point of being in clubs? Yeah, no way she’d be popular. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/32 "2010-04-24T19:36:11Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > That would probably only make her more popular with the boys. A reasonably attractive teenage girl with a male attitude toward sex would be a revelation. Except she’s stated that she lost her virginity when she was 22 (in the episode “The Plain in the Prodigy”). ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395/33 "2010-04-24T21:26:53Z")
Nice catch. I stand corrected. All the weirdness _and_ she didn’t put out? Yep, everyone hated her. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-04-15-10/536395.md?page=1)