History Heartwarming / Bones

** What she has to tell them is [[spoiler: the woman's money worries are over. The woman wants to send her granddaughter to college to be a doctor but the granddaughter states they can't afford that. Lionel had a single coin with him that is worth a fortune... meaning that he will be able to send his granddaughter to college even though he is long gone.]]

** Followed with a one-two punch with a TearJerker moment when [[spoiler: she turns him down.]]
* Hodgins, who has spent all of "The Bikini in the Soup" trying to find Angela a Valentines Day gift, finally comes up with one. [[spoiler:He creates a hybrid slime mold that smells like roses and names it after Angela.]]

* When [[spoiler: Brennan decides to leave]] at the end of Season 5:
--> [[spoiler: '''Bones:''' I can give you a list of forensic anthropologists who can do this job.]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Camille:''' No, Dr. Brennan, you can give me a list of forensic anthropologists.]]
* While saying their last goodbyes to [[spoiler:Mr. Nigel-Murray]], the Squints sing his favorite song as they load him into the hearse.

* The team gathering around [[spoiler:Micheal Staccato Vincent Hodgins]] at the end of "The Change in the Game". It's the true essence of friendship. Even the kid's ''name'' is a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments CMOH]]! Michael Staccato [[spoiler:Vincent]] Hodgins.
* From the same episode, [[spoiler:Brennan telling Booth that she's pregnant and he's the father]]. He just gets this grin on his face and looks so damn ''happy''. * After being told that Sweets had imprinted on Booth and Bones as parental figures.

* Season 7 episode 2, where Booth and Brennan see [[spoiler: the ultrasound video of their daughter.]]
** from the same episode: what does a [[spoiler:''pregnant'']] genius forensic anthropologist listen to while studying bones? She plugs her earbuds into [[spoiler:a fetal heart monitor!]] [[NerdGasm Geek]]-[[{{Squee}} Dawww]]!!

* "The Male in the Mail": Brennan is there to comfort Booth at the end of the episode when [[spoiler: he deals with the death of his estranged father]]. David Boreanaz turned in a strong performance as he displayed Booth's grief.

* "The Crack in the Code": When Booth and Brennan are examining their new house, and Brennan talked about planting a cherry blossom tree outside [[spoiler:their unborn daughter's window.]] In general, the whole scene is heartwarming.
* The team surprising Booth and Brennan in their new home when they return from [[spoiler:the birth of their daughter]].
** Following in the tradition of Hodges and Angela's son's name, [[spoiler: Booth and Brennan named their daughter Christine Angela Brennan, after Brennan's late mother and her best friend]].

-> '''Amos:''' He was going to be my brother.

** The entire episode shot through the skulls point of view to simulate the boy watching the team until they fulfill his last wish [[spoiler: which they discover is showing the girl he had a crush on the love song he sung for her. The final shot through his eyes afterwards is him looking down on the team as he ascends to heaven.]]

* Season 9, Episode 1. As if the writers were outright apologizing for Pelant railroading things last season, they mend the fences between Booth and Bones almost completely: Bones finally decides to put logic aside and have a little faith in Booth's reasons for [[spoiler: calling off the engagement]]. Sure, she tells him he'll have to [[spoiler: propose]] next time, but it's the thought that counts, as Bones is almost allergic to taking anything on faith and this is clearly a big leap for her. ''[[spoiler: And he does.]]''

* The entirety of "The Woman in White," which focuses around [[spoiler: Bones and Booth's wedding.]] Particularly adorable are [[spoiler: their self written vows - including the TearJerker of Brennan's being the letter she wrote to Booth when she and Hodgens were buried alive - and then her adorable basically "Was that ok? Did I do that wrong?" question to Booth]] and Angela trying to [[spoiler: set up a venue and get the wedding to actually happen the day it was planned, because their venue had burnt down the night before. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It's a long story]].]]
* Also from "The Woman in White", Booth comes home and finds Max with a dufflebag full of money and covered in dirt, and is reasonably suspicious on what's happening. Max is adamant he didn't do anything wrong, but refuses to say what. [[spoiler: He later confesses to Brennan that the money was won from gambling, which was why he was ashamed of telling them where it comes from. Max had a gambling problem and was in Vegas one day, where he had a winning streak. Just before he dug himself too deep though, he had an epiphany; he realized the money was for Brennan's eventual wedding, his gift to her. He immediately took the money and bolted, burying it in the desert for safe keeping after he went on the run. As Max was never able to properly provide for Brennan, this was his way of making up for it.]]
* While Big in the Philippines has a few TearJerker moments, the way Brennan and Booth show their support to Wendell, who had [[spoiler: just be diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a rare bone cancer]] makes you feel warm inside. To top off, after Wendell gives a Crowning Moment of Awesome when he [[spoiler: says he is going to fight]], Brennan gives him a massive hug, much to the happiness of Booth and to the shock of Wendell. Another one is when Brennan (who is one of four people to know) says that Wendell's work was invaluable, to which Angela responds that a broken arm is nothing. It speaks so much about how they all value Wendell as an anthropologist, not just another intern.
* The end of the subplot of "The Heiress In The Hill", which deals with Hodgins finding out he [[spoiler: has a mentally ill older brother whom his parents kept a secret from him living in an institution, where the funds needed to support him are drying up]]. Hodgins promises [[spoiler: his brother]] that he won't be taken from his home, they'll figure something out, and they bond over their shared love of ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea'', walking off with their arms over each other's shoulders.
** Also Booth suggesting to Brennan that they pay to help keep [[spoiler: Hodgins' brother]] in the facility that he's lived in for much of his life. Although Hodgins turns them down, the gesture is clearly one of love, and the fact that it comes from Booth specifically, who has never been very close to Hodgins, makes it mean all the more.
** Even dour Fisher gets in on the action, telling Hodgins that "the loony bin" is a wonderful place, the best place to be when you're ill, and the worst thing is when someone looks at you like you don't belong there, like you're just faking it. He then says that [[spoiler:his brother]], "having someone like you? He just won the lottery."

* In "The Nail in the Coffin", Booth [[spoiler: stopping the SympatheticMurderer's suicide and promising him mercy from the law.]]
* A weirdly sweet moment in the rising climax in the episode, "Prisoner in the Pipe". '''None''' of the inmates try to hurt a [[spoiler:pregnant Bones]] while she goes to find the evidence needed from the real killer. They even guide her to the killer! Bones was right when she told Booth they wouldn't hurt because she was [[spoiler:[[FriendToAllChildren pregnant]].]]
* In season 9, there is a plaque of [[spoiler: Vincent Nigel Murray]] on a pillar in the Jeffersonian. It's visible in a blink-and-miss moment of episode 18 and in season 12,Cam pulls it out of the rubble of the ruined lab and brushes off the dust, giving us a good look at it.

* When Sully, said by Angelia to be "the only other guy who ever had a chance", reappears, many fans shared the characters' worry that Sully would get in the way of Booth and Bones' relationship. But did he? Nope. He graciously accepts that she chose Booth and helps her reassess her emotions about [[spoiler: her father's death]] to get her relationships back on track. Booth for his part completely trusted his wife's loyalty and Bones credits Sully with getting her ready to start a life with Booth.

* From the same episode, [[spoiler:Brennan telling Booth that she's pregnant and he's the father]]. He just gets this grin on his face and looks so damn ''happy''. Doubly heartwarming on a meta level. A lot of writers would have gone with a cheap shot--made Booth look ambiguously shocked or stunned, and leave us with that to chew on over the summer. But that would have been unfair and OOC, and we had the entire summer to look forward to the happiness that we ''know'' will ensue.
* After being told that Sweets had imprinted on Booth and Bones as parental figures.

** The show also manages a meta-moment of heartwarming as well. Almost every media portrays mental health institutions as horrible places, at best an undesirable place to be and at worst barely humane. Seeing one portrayed not only concerned about patients, but as an actual ''home'' for them is a refreshing change.

* Meta example: when confronted with the possibility that [[spoiler: Zach could be the serial killer after the Jeffersonian crew]], the actors who portray Cam and Hodgins went to the producers and outright ''demanded'' that they not go this route. [[spoiler: Zach's]] actor was quite touched.

** A former convict who is a suspect is told that the victim used to be a man. He states he didn't care, that he loved them for they were and wasn't embarrassed or ashamed of that

* Hodgins, who has spent all of "The Bikini in the Soup" trying to find Angela a Valentines Day gift, finally comes up with one. [[spoiler:He creates a hybrid slime that smells like roses and names it after Angela.]]

* From the same episode, [[spoiler:Brennan telling Booth that she's pregnant and he's the father]]. He just gets this grin on his face and looks so damn ''happy''. Doubly heartwarming on a meta level. A lot of writers would have gone with a cheap shot--made Booth look ambigously shocked or stunned, and leave us with that to chew on over the summer. But that would have been unfair and OOC, and we had the entire summer to look forward to the happiness that we ''know'' will ensue.
* After being told that Sweets had inprinted on Booth and Bones as parental figures.

* When a Japanese journalist comes to interview Bones on her books, the reporter insists on focusing on the character relationships instead of the science. She helps Brennan realize that Angela is an intregal part of her success and gives her back pay of 30% of her royalties which from the look on her face is a lot of money, it is wonderful to see Angela getting the credit she deserves.

** Brennan going to Angela for help, admiting that she knows she needs to help Booth.

** Levi's friendship with the other music convservatory students and how one gave him an old trophy.

* The Sheriff in "The Witch in the Wardrobe" comes off as a hard ass but that is only because he respects the law. When Angela and Hodgins get married he agrees to be their witness and is so giddy he reveals he shredded papper to toss around them, doing some with a beaming smile on his face

* "The He In the She" has a former televangelist preacher give up his life because he realized he was a woman living in a man's body. She started a small church for other outsiders in society.

** A former convict who is a suspect is told that the victim used to be a man. He states he didn't care, that he loved them for they were and wasn't embarassed or ashamed of that

* When Wendell's scholarship runs out of money, meaning he will have to drop out of the program, Cam later comes to Brennan and Hodgins and states that the scholarship is back... because MULTIPLE people mysteriously donated funds, so they actually can now have more than one student. Cam's smile at the end sells that she knows what the others did.

* Sweets' backstory. His mother couldn't care for him and he was adopted by an older couple who passed away shortly before the series began. He states that despite their age they gave him a wonderful home and helped him get through his difficult teen years to become the man he now is.

* Though it's undercut by a BrokenAesop attack on a left-wing radio program, the ending of "The Girl in the Goop" is sweet, as the whole team shows up so the grieving mother of the VictimOfTheWeek doesn't have to bury her son alone.

* Doubles as a TearJerker, but when Caroline notices the BSOD Sweets was experiencing after talking with Heather Taffet in The Bullet in The Brain and gets him out of his funk by both confiding a moment of terror she experienced when Heather's head exploded, and giving him a pep talk about the irrelevance of a dead serial killers opinions.

** The girl's reaction when she is told by the interpreter that Bones can find out where she grew up by using her wisdom teeth.

** Them showing Levi's parents the record of his music.

** Joseph Beahy, who comes across as TheHedonist, assuring that he does plan to return to the Amish village anfter his Rumspringa.
** The brother of Levi's fiancee is being set up as a suspect, or even the killer, talking about his angry confrontation with Levi, but then how he was mood by a piano piece Levi played him, and hugged him goodbye.

** The entire episode shot through the skulls point of view to simulate the boy watching the team until they fulfill his last [[spoiler: which they discover is showing the girl he had a crush on the love song he sung for her. The final shot through his eyes afterwards is him looking down on the team as he ascends to heaven.]]

** Also, when Brennan and the latest Squint Finn Abernathy bonded while analyzing a skeleton. Abernathy, a SouthernFriedGenius thought Brennan was teasing her when she spoke with a drawl, but she then told him, "I love Creator/JohnWayne movies."

* When the team manages to re-unite the kidnapped deaf and mute abused child with her original birth parents in "The Signs in the Silence", complete with her parents calling her by her birth name (Samantha) and showing that they brought her favorite stuffed bunny.

** The girl's reaction to finding out that Bones can find out where she grew up by using her wisdom teeth.

* The season 8 episode "The Patriot in Purgatory" ends with a funeral for a homeless veteran who had run into the Pentagon during 9/11 and saved three people from dying. Along with the the main team, Squinterns,the family of the veteran, and the three people the man saved from the Pentagon are also at the funeral.