Season 5, Episode 19 – Airs: 4/29/2010
The Rocker in the Rinse Cycle
The body of an eccentric rich man is found in a laundry machine at a hotel, and Brennan and Booth find out that he was last seen at a Rock ‘n’ Roll camp, where they go to investigate. Back in the lab, a strange piece of evidence found on the body helps the team uncover potential murder suspects.
Look for the testicle joke in the first few minutes; it’s somewhat funny in an unsettlng sort of way.
Cam finds a gynecologist for her ward, and then winds up dating him.
And it appears that Brennan doesn’t have a clue about the death of Kurt Cobain.
I usually really enjoy “Bones,” but this was a very lame episode. Booth with his tie around his head, playing air guitar? Bones picking up the guitar and playing it? The painful singing together? Ouch.
I think the show is starting to lose more than a little credibility with the rediculousness of the “I don’t know what that means” situation. Last weekend, she didn’t know about The Rat Pack, this weekend, it’s Kurt Cobain.
Any braniacs I knew also kept track of current affairs and trends – her character is really starting to come off as not being realistic or credible at all.
She never heard of Kurt Cobain, yet could play every riff from “Hot Blooded.” Does not compute.
Still, I don’t watch the show for painstaking consistency. It was a cute episode and I enjoyed it. My only regret was that Billy Gibbons didn’t pay a visit…TRM
Hated this episode so much I considered giving up on the series entirely. I’ll be back, but wow, that was bad.
This isn’t new. She reacted that way to countless pop culture references starting in the pilot and continuing on up to the present. This is not a change or a move in any direction except consistency. (Also, there’s no “e” in ridiculous.)
I’m surprised that she couldn’t remember that a “groupie” wasn’t called a “grouper,” especially since in the next breath she demonstrated that she had a clear understanding of what the word meant. And even more surprising because I’d think that groupies would be interesting studies for an anthropologist. (Certainly chieftans and warriers of primitive tribes had their share of groupies, but what about the dude beating the drum??)
I realize that this is nothing new; I was just using the last couple of shows to illustrate the ridiculous (thanks) depths this ongoing gag (for want of a better word) is sinking into.
Nobody is that clueless at the age she is. I’ve never met anyone as clueless as she is, anyway…
Yeah, how do you have a Rock&Roll episode in a T.V. show where Billy Gibbons plays the father of one of the major characters, and not have him guest star!
I guess the point is to show that she is encyclopedic and brilliant in her limited fields, and hopeless in others, but I’m getting a little tired of the ham-handed treatment of that quirk, too. This season has been really hit-and-miss for me, from the season opener in England that I could barely watch, to this last episode. I’m starting to come to the conclusion that some of the writers on this show just plain suck.
Oh yeah, I hated the Angela/Hodgins breakup, too. “We don’t agree 100% on something; let’s just call the whole thing off.” Bleah. There are awesome characters on this show that I adore (Sweets and Hodgins, for example), and then there is terrible writing at times. Very spotty.
It’s always been that stupid, though. The few threads on the dope from season 1 had two major complaints: 1) That stupid magic hologram thing, and 2) Brennan’s utter cluelessness reagrding every single pop culture reference makes the idea of her being a bestselling novelist almost as stupid as that hologram thing.
Frankly, her more recent “I don’t know what that means” haven’t been anywhere near as eye-rollingly stupid as they were earlier in the show’s run. I can’t remember any offhand, but it was almost as bad as her not knowing what a cellphone was.
…and how Angela is an expert on a myriad of topics and then can make the hologram do things that would take an average person weeks to do.
“On the screen, you’ll see three unknowns.” (scrunches her face). “Hm, they look familiar.” (click, click -->She clicks into what must be the best image bank in the world and within seconds produces a 3D rendering of a 1973 Les Paul Limited edition guitar.) “Now I’m going to twist these 2” pieces, which are conveniently perfectly scaled to the guitar image, and fit them to one another like a jigsaw puzzle."
Another episode that drew a groan from me was when she was trying to identify an unknown African-American woman. She took the skull, and added facial features, hair, etc. Later, when they identified her and showed her on video playing piano, not only had Ange hit the woman’s facial features right on the money, but she matched her exact hairdo, but even her 3" gold hoop earrings! That’s* good. *
Wasnt it last week that she created the interactive aquarium based on the live camera feed, and had all the stats for all the wildlife in it - and you could click on the moving fish to get those stats in real time - and she did it ‘over night’?
Starting?? I’ve only caught this show sporadically. Much as I love a good murder mystery, she is so unbelieveably bogus, I can’t stand watching. And she’s flat-out rude with spewing facts at people regardless of the need for tact. No one that obnoxious would rise to such a position, I don’t care how impressive the credentials…
Well yes, her total lack of social skills is bad enough, but then again, I had a cousin that was that obnoxious without really realizing it, although he did like to let people know he was smarter than they were.
To which I said, a real smart person knows how to talk to anyone on their level without making them feel uncomfortable…
p.s. (I can’t believe I forgot this) Once again, Boreanaz proves without doubt that he can’t sing worth a damn. I still admire his guts in being willing to demonstrate it, though.