History Awesome / Bones

** The victim deserves some praise too. A former soldier with PTSD reduced to live on the streets, on 9/11 was in front of the Pentagon shouting for his fallen squad-mates to get awarded with the Silver Star. When the plane came, a small piece of debris broke his rib, but he went into the building and saved three people trapped. He had to lift over 400 pounds, way more than what his body could handle, the strain caused his rib to completely break and puncturing his lung, causing his death ten days later. The Jeffersonian crew gave him back his identity and got a funeral with full military honors in Arlington Cemetary. NoOneGetsLeftBehind.

* When Gordon Gordon returns to read over Sweets' notes to see if he can find something to clear Zack, he manages to find a body that has been buried and unlocateable for over a year (namely because the killer is now dead) with help from Hodgins. And this time, the evidence can't be thrown out.

* In ''[[Recap/BonesS7E13ThePastInThePresent The Past in the Present]]''Cam manages this against Pelant by being a SpannerInTheWorks. She is the only person who doesn't play his game, by doing her job instead of what she wants to do even as it's killing her and as is pointed out by Caroline, is the only reason people who have a chance at stopping Pelant are still on the case.

-->Booth's eyes light up - With his hand in a cast, Broadsky can only rest the gun barrel on his arm and is incapable of gripping the barrel and aiming downwards.

* In ''[[Recap/BonesS6E22TheHoleInTheHeart The Hole in the Heart]]'', Booth and Broadsky's hide and go seek [[SniperDuel sniper showdown]]. Booth has pursued Broadsky to his base of operations, a dockyard maze of shipping containers where Broadsky is not only intimately familiar with the territory but armed with a customized precision rifle that insanely outperforms Booth's FBI-approved mass-production longarm. Booth, however, gets one game-breaking advantage - Bones and the Squints, who've been puzzling over some odd cracks in the skull of one of Broadsky's victims for the entire episode, realize that due to Booth's [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands trick shot]] on Broadsky in their previous encounter...

* In ''[[Recap/BonesS6E4TheBodyAndTheBounty The Body in the Bounty]]'' Dr. Benson Jude, the Science Dude wants Brennan to be on his show but she rejects him, believing his show and thus himself aren't true science. Cam offers to have him be her intern for the week. Brennan watches as he gags at the sight of the body and at first it looks like she was correct. But then Jude fights through the nausea and reveals a fact even Cam didn't know. By the end of the episode he has completely won Brennan over.

* In ''[[Recap/BonesS6E11TheBulletInTheBrain The Bullet in the Brain]]'', Booth confronts his mentor, Broadsky, who has gone rogue and who is quite possibly the only sniper on earth as good as he is, on private property that his mentor bought under Booth's name, and stares him down cold. He stays on one side of the property line, telling Booth that if he wants the evidence that will prove it, he'll have to cross that line with a search warrant.

---> '''Booth:''' You know what, your job is to protect the president, ''mine's'' to solve murders. * ''heave''*

---> '''Agent:''' (* ''arrogantly''* ) What d'ya got, Feeb?
---> '''Booth:''' * ''GroinAttack''* Good old American classic in my hometown. * ''cuff''*

* In ''[[Recap/BonesS5E8TheFootInTheForeclosure The Foot in the Foreclosure]]'', Booth's grandfather, Hank, revealing that when he walked in on his son beating Little Booth he snapped, forcing his son to leave his home and never return, and then stepping in to be Seeley and Jared's dad.
* The sheriff in ''[[Recap/BonesS5E11TheXInTheFile The X In The Files]]'' stonewalling Booth and Brennan from taking the body away by showing that, despite appearing a bit dippy, he does know the law. Then shows how genre savvy he is by pointing out that if he lets the FBI ship what many believe is an alien to DC to have secret tests done it will only cause more problems.

* A brief moment, but at one point, Bones and Booth consult the chiropractor of the victim in ''[[Recap/BonesS4E17TheSaltInTheWounds The Salt in the Wounds]]''. After helping them, Bones thanks him, even though he's not a medical doctor. He immediately fires back that she isn't either. Of course, the chiropractor ended up as the killer, but it's nice to see Bones taken down a peg now and then.

-->Then she hands the phone to Pickering. By the time whoever's on the other end gets done, Pickering is looking rather disturbed.

-->'''Bones:''' Nobody wants to hear that rambling psycho-speech!

* [[Recap/BonesS1E4TheManInTheBear The fourth episode]] has Bones and Booth confront the killer, who attempts to make a FreudianExcuse speech about justifying why he was performing ritualistic murders and [[ImAHumanitarian partially eating them]], as Booth swiftly [[ShutUpHannibal tells him to stop with the rambling psycho speech]]. When he continues again, Bones subsequently grabs a bedpan off the nearby wall and clocks the perp upside the head from behind. Keep in mind Booth had just given her a gun for self-defense and, seeing the perp straight up walk past her without a care despite it so he can clarify himself to Booth, opts for the physical route; this is her showing ''self-restraint''.

* [[Recap/BonesS1E4TheManInTheBear The fourth episode]] has Bones and Booth confront the killer, who attempts to make a FreudianExcuse speech about justifying why he was performing ritualistic murders and [[ImAHumanitarian partially eating them]], as Booth swiftly [[ShutUpHannibal tells him to stop with the rambling psycho speech]]. When he continues again, Bones subsequently grabs a bedpan off the nearby wall and clocks the perp upside the head from behind. Keep in mind Booth had just given her a gun for self-defense and, seeing the perp straight up walk past her without a care, opts for the physical route; this is ''self-restraint''.

* [[Recap/BonesS1E4TheManInTheBear The fourth episode]] has Bones and Booth confront the killer, who attempts to make a FreudianExcuse speech about justifying why he was performing ritualistic murders and [[ImAHumanitarian partially eating them]], as Booth swiftly [[ShutUpHannibal tells him to stop with the rambling psycho speech]]. When he continues again, Bones subsequently grabs a bedpan off the nearby wall and clocks the perp upside the head from behind.
-->'''Booth:''' What did you do that for?

-->'''Booth:''' ({{Beat}}) With a ''bedpan''?

* A Meta one for the writers of The Witch in the Wardrobe. We see a standard scene with ProductPlacement, in this case a Prius, showing off the "stay in your lane feature". . . which immediately gets Hodgins and Angela arrested and stuck in jail, thanks to some old bench warrants and a sheriff who takes his job very seriously. This leads to Hodgins and Angela reconnecting, leading to their wedding at the end of the episode (while still in jail). Yes ladies and gentlemen, these writers made mandatory ProductPlacement into an event that permanently altered the dynamics of the series.