### Author:  [@RachelChristine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RachelChristine)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-season-3-pain-in-the-heart-gormogons-apprentice/564123/21 "2010-12-15T13:03:33Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#):
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> I actually liked the episode, especially the way that Brennan talked Zach down. And I thought that the later episode where Booth is trapped on a boat with a ghost was a thousand times worse, although it, too, was mitigated by a later episode.
OH my goodness worst episode I’ve seen so far! Actually all three of the ones where Booth hallucinates are just terrible. The one where he sees Stewie was at least interesting for the Brennan wants a baby thing.
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### Author:  [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-season-3-pain-in-the-heart-gormogons-apprentice/564123/22 "2010-12-15T13:05:03Z")
> [@Kyla](#):
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> \ I guess this is what happens when there’s a writer’s strike: sudden rush to finish up the storyline.
I’ve said it in a previous thread. They would have been better off to leave that storyline unfinished and continue it the following year. I think somebody may have forced the writers to end the storyline that season.
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-season-3-pain-in-the-heart-gormogons-apprentice/564123/23 "2010-12-15T15:12:21Z")
> [@RachelChristine](#):
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> OH my goodness worst episode I’ve seen so far! Actually all three of the ones where Booth hallucinates are just terrible. The one where he sees Stewie was at least interesting for the Brennan wants a baby thing.
Well, I kind of liked that one just because he told somebody about it and they were like “HOLY FUCK DUDE GO TO THE HOSPITAL!” Whereas a lot of times on TV either the hallucinator keeps it to himself or he tells somebody and it’s no big deal. In real life, when Stewie talks to you when you’re trying to do your FBI business, you need an MRI. Or to stop drinking, either one.
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-season-3-pain-in-the-heart-gormogons-apprentice/564123/24 "2010-12-15T15:26:51Z")
> [@running\_piglet\_cheese](#):
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> They did made it minimally better with a subsequent episode where Zach escaped the institution to help with a case and the real truth of the Gormegon incident came out with a talk to Sweets. I kind of thought it was going to lead to a return of Zach, but no such luck. Can’t say I’m too fond of these rotating interns.
Can someone spoil this for me? I never knew such an episode existed. (Don’t watch TV much.)
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### Author:  [@Sonnenstrahl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sonnenstrahl)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-season-3-pain-in-the-heart-gormogons-apprentice/564123/25 "2010-12-15T17:40:12Z")
> [@olivesmarch4th](#):
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> And of course we were all like, ‘‘OMG, it’s Sam Weir all grown up!’’ Yeah, we like Sweets too. Enough to overlook all the blatantly unprofessional actions he takes as a psychologist.
I really, really think that Sweets should just have been their friendly neighbourhood profiler. That way, his clear ineptitude in psychoanalyzing normal people would have made sense. (He’s not terrible, he often has good insights, but his penchant for applying weird theories rather than just, you know, understanding people, is weird.)
I try to get past the blatant ignorance of all academic disciplines in the show, but Bones hating psychology and loving anthropology (way more of a soft science to me!) strains a bit. I could see her disliking a profiler, since profiling is unsubstantiated by empirical evidence.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-season-3-pain-in-the-heart-gormogons-apprentice/564123/26 "2010-12-15T18:13:54Z")
> [@Sonnenstrahl](#):
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> I try to get past the blatant ignorance of all academic disciplines in the show, but Bones hating psychology and loving anthropology (way more of a soft science to me!) strains a bit. I could see her disliking a profiler, since profiling is unsubstantiated by empirical evidence.
To be fair, a lot of mainstream psychology over the last 100 years hasn’t been based in empirical evidence. That’s changing rapidly, but for a long time, most therapeutic techniques were basically ideas people pulled out of their own asses. I don’t know anything about anthropology but if she is a real scientist I could understand her reservations about psychology.
**running piglet cheese** , why did you post a blatant spoiler in a thread started by a person who obviously hadn’t seen past Season 3? Really? This is the second spoiler I’ve gotten in 5 minutes in this forum. I’M TRYING TO RELAX HERE!
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### Author:  [@running\_piglet\_cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_piglet_cheese)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-season-3-pain-in-the-heart-gormogons-apprentice/564123/27 "2010-12-15T18:40:45Z")
**running piglet cheese** , why did you post a blatant spoiler in a thread started by a person who obviously hadn’t seen past Season 3? Really? This is the second spoiler I’ve gotten in 5 minutes in this forum. I’M TRYING TO RELAX HERE!
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Sorry, Olive. Tried to be a little obscure, but obviously not enough. But to be fair, the thread doesn’t say no spoilers.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-season-3-pain-in-the-heart-gormogons-apprentice/564123/28 "2010-12-15T19:18:07Z")
> [@running\_piglet\_cheese](#):
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> Sorry, Olive. Tried to be a little obscure, but obviously not enough. But to be fair, the thread doesn’t say no spoilers.
Eh, it’s not that big a deal. I just got a MAJOR spoiler in that Dr. Horrible thread for Angel and I was taking it out on you. Did I mention it’s finals week?
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2010, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-season-3-pain-in-the-heart-gormogons-apprentice/564123/29 "2010-12-16T00:28:53Z")
Well, it all started with Zach being severely traumatized by a particular episode of The Smurfs when he was seven years old. It took many years of therapy for him to recover.
Then, the summer after graduating college, he took a trip to Las Vegas with a bunch of high school friends. Unfortunalely, he was slipped a roofie and gang raped by several members of the Blue Man Group, not only re-awakening, but strengthening his Smurf related trauma.
So when he was approached by Gormogon, his traumatized mind instantly connected and assumed “Gargamel”, the tormenter of the Smurfs. Wanting vengeance on the little blue bastards, especially for what happened in Vegas, Zach was quick to sign on and agree to anything and everything ‘Gargamel’ said.
Well, that and the massive student loans. He figured if he could get his hands on just a couple of Smurfs and melt them down for gold, it would go a long way toward relieving his crushing debt. Or maybe he was confusing the Smurfs with a somewhat similar episode of _The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy_.
Let’s not even go into what happened when _Avatar_ was released.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2010, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-season-3-pain-in-the-heart-gormogons-apprentice/564123/30 "2010-12-16T00:53:30Z")
> [@Songs with a Story](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-with-a-story/65866/16):
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> Well, that and the massive student loans. He figured if he could get his hands on just a couple of Smurfs and melt them down for gold, it would go a long way toward relieving his crushing debt.
_Now_ you’re talking my language!
Zack… buddy… I understand.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bones-season-3-pain-in-the-heart-gormogons-apprentice/564123/31 "2010-12-16T01:00:54Z")
Apparently this is really bugging my **Sr. Olives** as well.
I just received the following text:
"New theory: Zack was compelled to kill because they made him cut his hair, resulting in the loss of his moral compass.’’
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