Yikes. She looks kinda 1850’s attractive there.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
"Chemistry Club
Math Club
Interests:
Chemistry
Math"
That’s very Temperance. 
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.
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?
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.
The school probably had a shitty bio program, which is why she was dissecting roadkill instead of fetal pigs.
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.
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.
Except she’s stated that she lost her virginity when she was 22 (in the episode “The Plain in the Prodigy”).
Nice catch. I stand corrected.
All the weirdness and she didn’t put out? Yep, everyone hated her.