Line #19 Trivia/Bones


1	* AccidentallyCorrectWriting:
2	** Bones' ambiguously-defined disorder would not have made much sense to be called "autism" (WordOfGod has mentioned the subset Aspergers, but it was never used on-screen) when the show began development and production. By the end of its run, the scientific consensus was that the condition ''does'' include both women and highly intelligent people and it's hard to see Bones' as anything else. Her ineptitude with metaphor jumps out in particular and is considered ''very'' specific, even more than the NoSocialSkills.
3	** Season 4 basically predicted the Tinder app.
4	* ActorLeavesCharacterDies:
5	** [[spoiler: Vincent Nigel-Murray was killed by Broadsky due to Ryan Cartwright]] leaving the series to be a main character on another show.
6	** A more harsh example with [[spoiler: the death of Sweets; John Francis Daley (whose writing and directing career was picking up steam)]] [[http://tvline.com/2014/10/02/john-francis-daley-interview-bones-why-did-he-leave-sweets/ requested]] a four-month leave to direct a movie with full intention of returning to the show once it was completed. Showrunner Stephen Nathan instead opted to kill off his character in the season premiere, feeling it would be better for him to dramatically die, than to have him vanish for half a season, and possibly having to write him out again later on.
7	* ActorSharedBackground:
8	** Pelant went to Stanford University and got a degree in Computer Science, just like his actor, Creator/AndrewLeeds.
9	** Both Arastoo and his actor Pej Vahdat are Persian Muslims (though Pej isn’t Iranian born).
10	** Creator/DavidBoreanaz really did want to be a pro athlete before wrenching his shoulder like Booth did.
11	** Like Angela, Creator/MichaelaConlin has both a white father and Chinese mother.
12	** Bones is a vegetarian like her actress Creator/EmilyDeschanel.
13	* AdamWesting: In the opening scene of "The Senator in the Sweeper," Sal Vulcano and James Murray from ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' make guest appearances as [[TheDanza Sal and Murr]], a pair of street sweepers who find the titular senator’s remains jamming up their vehicle. When they discover the carnage, Murr initially thinks that Sal has pranked him and asks if Joe and Q put him up to it, referencing Joe Gatto and Brian Quinn, their castmates on ''Impractical Jokers''.
14	* AscendedFanon: "Squintern" was a fan term referring to Brennan's six ever-rotating interns. The cast and crew adopted it.
15	* AuthorsSavingThrow: After Pelant [[spoiler: coming in between the engaged Booth and Brennan]] in the Season 8 finale ignited fans' rage, the writers decided to quickly wrap up the plotline, [[spoiler:killing off]] Pelant in episode 4, and having Booth and Brennan tie the knot in episode 6.
16	* CaliforniaDoubling:
17	** Set in Washington D.C., filmed in Los Angeles. [[http://www.aquariumofpacific.org/ The Aquarium of the Pacific]] in Long Beach appears as "The Aquarium of the Atlantic", The Jeffersonian itself is often "played" by the Los Angeles Natural History Museum, and despite the name, "The Bones on the Blue Line" doesn't resemble the DC Metro in the slightest (barring an establishing shot of the distinctive DC Metro), and is actually the Earthquake subway set on the Universal Studios Backlot (part of the Universal Studio Tour).
18	** "The Murder in the Middle East" has Little Tokyo substituting for Tehran, Iran (there's lots of rice-paper-looking window coverings in the background, plus Arastoo emerges from a notable yogurt shop in that area).
19	* DawsonCasting:
20	** Zack is supposed to be the youngest member of the team by a significant margin; in fact Eric Millegan is the third oldest member of the cast after David Boreanaz and Creator/TamaraTaylor.
21	** Daisy is around the same age as Sweets, but Creator/CarlaGallo is ''[[OlderThanTheyLook ten years]]'' older than Creator/JohnFrancisDaley. She's actually older (by a year) than Creator/EmilyDeschanel, too.
22	** One of Sweets' previous girlfriends, April (the fish girl in "The Man in the Mud"), was portrayed as only a few years older than Sweets. Creator/SentaMoses, who played April is ''twelve'' years older than Daley.
23	* DirectedByCastMember:
24	** David Boreanaz seems to have what it takes to be a TV director on top of an actor. In total, he's directed 11 episodes[[note]]"The Bones That Foam", "The Parts in the Sum of the Whole", "The Bullet in the Brain", "The Blackout in the Blizzard", "The Past in the Present", "The Secret in the Siege", "Big in the Phillipines", "The Recluse in the Recliner", "The 200th in the 10th", "The Nightmare Within the Nightmare", and "The End in the End".[[/note]], including the milestone 100th and 200th episodes, four {{Season Finale}}s, and the very last episode.
25	** Emily Deschanel's directorial debut is the Season 12 premiere, "The Hope in the Horror".
26	* FanCommunityNickname: {{Creator/FOX}} began referring to fans of the show as Squinterns.
27	* FilmingLocationCameo:
28	** Season 1 episode "The Woman at the Airport", where Booth and Brennan travel to L.A. to investigate the death of a woman whose bones were scattered around Los Angeles International Airport.
29	** In the season 7 episode "The Suit on the Set", Booth and Brennan return to L.A. to consult on the production of a film based on Brennan's latest book. Naturally, the film is being shot at Fox Studios. (Although the characters never explicitly say where they are. [[ProductPlacement They just let the coffee cups do the talking]].)
30	** The 200th episode, season 10's "The 200th in the 10th", is an {{Elseworld}} with the characters living in ''1950s'' L.A.
31	* GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld:
32	** Seasons 1-9 were handled by series creator Hart Hanson. For Season 10, Hanson stepped down and passed on his showrunner duties to Stephen Nathan, a good pal of his who'd been in the series since the beginning. Later, [[PromotedFanboy Michael Peterson]] and Jonathan Collier, two writers/producers who began working on the show in 2009 and 2012 respectively, took over as showrunners for Seasons 11 and 12.
33	** In a [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools positive example of this trope]], the two new showrunners made sure to get Hart's approval for some of the plotlines in the episodes they made, even though they didn't have to. Hanson's vision for the GrandFinale of the series was different to what Collier and Peterson did, though he gave them his support regardless.
34	* LifeImitatesArt: Several years after “The Graft In The Girl” a real life tissue harvesting ring came to light that had many similarities. Several people got cancer from tainted tissue and some died. And the ringleader got cancer and died from it just like on the show.
35	* LongRunners: The series lasted 12 seasons from 2005 to 2017, 246 episodes in total.
36	* MilestoneCelebration:
37	** Episode 100 is an OriginsEpisode detailing how the Jeffersonian and the FBI came to work together.
38	** Episode 200 is an {{Elseworld}} episode similar to the Season 4 finale, but set in the 1950s with Booth being a jewel thief and Brennan a detective facing sexism in the police force.
39	** ''The Big Beef in the Royal Diner'' is a special episode for two reasons: it's the landmark episode that pushed ''Bones'' as the longest-running FOX drama, and it's the 206th episode of the series. To celebrate, all 206 bones of the human body are mentioned.
40	* TheOtherDarrin:
41	** Thomas Vega, the kidnap expert who'd been following the steps of The Gravedigger, was portrayed by a different actor in each of his two appearances, in ''Aliens in a Spaceship'' and ''The Hero in the Hold''.
42	** Cam's daughter Michelle was played by a different actress in her very first appearance.
43	** In season 11, the actor playing Parker was changed.
44	** Michael Vincent Hodgins was played by three different actors over the seasons he was in. Two different kids were used in season 9 though they look similar enough to pull it off.
45	** Both of Brennan’s parents. Her dad’s different appearance was explained by [[MagicPlasticSurgery extensive plastic surgery]].
46	* OutOfOrder: Two instances, in Season 3. Both can (at least in part) be blamed on the 2010 [[UsefulNotes/TVStrikes WGA strike,]] which put a gap in that season and shortened it considerably.
47	** ''The Baby in the Bough'' aired in the latter half of Season 3, but judging by the opening credits (which don't feature John Francis Daley), the episode was supposed to air before ''The Santa in the Slush''.
48	** ''Player Under Pressure'' was supposed to be the 19th episode of Season 2, but was delayed for a year thanks to the Virgina Tech shootings. When it aired in Season 3, it had new Hodgins and Angela scenes so it wouldn't look as out of place. The DVD features the original S2 version.
49	* ProducedByCastmember: Creator/DavidBoreanaz and Creator/EmilyDeschanel both became producers over the course of the series.
50	* RealLifeRelative
51	** Aubrey's dad is played by John Boyd's actual father, Guy Boyd.
52	** David Boreanaz's daughter Bella appeared as one of the kids in Christine's class in "The Movie in the Making”. His son Jaden and his wife Jaime Bergman both appeared briefly in "The Steel in the Wheels". His father Dave Roberts (credited under his full name Dave T. Boreanaz) had a cameo as a newscaster in the series finale.
53	** Emily Deschanel's younger sister Zooey appeared as one of Brennan's distant relatives in "The Goop on the Girl". Her real-life husband, Creator/DavidHornsby, appeared briefly as the Father at the beginning of "The Woman in White". Her son was one of the boys in Christine’s class with David’s daughter in “The Movie In The Making”. Offscreen, her father Caleb directed at least one episode.
54	** Creator/JohnFrancisDaley’s dad R.F. Daley is in season 6’s “The Truth in the Myth”. They have an interrogation session together.
55	* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Both times Brennan became pregnant on the show were due to Creator/EmilyDeschanel becoming pregnant in real life. The first in Season 6-7 ended up advancing the WillTheyOrWontThey of Booth and Brennan a bit earlier than planned.
56	* RecycledScript: The Season 8 episode ''The Pathos in the Pathogens'' is remarkably similar to the ''Series/{{House}}'' Season 2 two-parter ''Euphoria''. Both episodes have a team member contract an illness from the infected victim/patient of the week, and the rest of the team rushing to find out what the illness is (and catch the murderer to get the antidote, in the case of ''Bones'') before it's too late.
57	* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Over its 12-year lifespan, the show never had a consistent time slot, and switched around many, many times. Not to mention that according to cast and crew, their show never got many promos and they were always on a bubble, wondering if they'd get another season. It even briefly ended up in the FridayNightDeathSlot in mid-Season 9, rightfully [[http://tvline.com/2013/05/13/fox-fall-tv-lineup-2013-bones-friday/ raising concerns]] that FOX, being FOX, would screw over the show soon.
58	** Through all this, it was the persistence and loyalty of the ''Bones'' fanbase that managed to keep it alive and performing steadily for so long. Hart Hanson even called it [[http://deadline.com/2017/01/bones-final-season-emily-deschanel-boreanaz-hart-hanson-tca-1201883874/ "the cockroach of FOX"]].
59	** This trope was ultimately (and thankfully) subverted at the end, since the FOX execs decided to give the show a mercy kill: granting the showrunners a chance to write a twelfth, half-length FinaleSeason to give it a proper ending.
60	** This show might have been one of the most notable examples of it in modern television: In 2015, a massive lawsuit was filed by 2 of the shows Producers along with stars Boreanz and Deschanel accusing Fox of hiding profits and avoiding paying them what they were owed. Four years later, the suit settled for 129 million in hidden profits, after an arbitrator found multiple instances of blatant fraud on the side of Fox execs.
61	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
62	** Originally, Hart Hanson intended Angela and Booth to drunkenly get together one night, but abandoned the idea to save Angela's reputation among fans. Instead, he created Cam and originally planned to have her be a RomanticFalseLead to Booth and a rival to Brennan for six episodes before killing her off. However, the crew [[EnsembleDarkhorse really liked Cam]], so they decided to keep her alive and promoted her to a regular.
63	** The writers' strike cut short Bones' third season, eliminating episodes that could have been used to give clues into the Gormogon case (and Zack's role in it). Instead, Zack's involvement came out of the blue in the season finale, leaving many fans angry.
64	** Apparently, the Gravedigger was originally going to be a one-episode villain. According to the original FOX summary for ''Aliens in a Spaceship'', after Brennan and Hodgins were found, the bumper sticker in Hodgins's leg would be used to arrest Thomas Vega's co-author Janine O'Connell, closing the case. Instead, the episode was ended with character reunion scenes, and the Gravedigger case was left unsolved until two seasons later.
65	** It's quite possible that Aubrey's role in the {{Elseworld}}-set 200th episode was originally intended for Sweets had he survived in the tenth season premiere.
66	** The plot for the Season 11 MidSeasonTwist, where [[spoiler:Hodgins and Aubrey nearly get blown up by a bomb in a body]] was initially considered as the plot for the season premiere, which would bring Booth and Brennan back into their old jobs. But David Boreanaz [[RealLifeWritesThePlot got sick]] before filming began, so the showrunners instead came up with the "Booth goes missing" two-parter in response.
67	** The series finale and the answer to the [[ArcNumber 447]] mystery are both [[http://tvline.com/2017/01/11/bones-cancellation-final-episodes-fox-season-13/ different]] from what Hart Hanson originally intended... though that doesn't mean he disapproves of the ending that was actually done.
68	** There were plans for a black-and-white FilmNoir episode in season 5 but plans were discarded when the crew realised that ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' had done a similar thing. Said plans would be reused in some form for the show's {{Elseworld}}-set 200th episode (minus the black-and-white part).

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