Re-watch podcasts are all the rage these days - from revisiting The Office with Office Ladies to popping by Smallville with Talkville.
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The latest show to get the re-watch podcast treatment is Bones, with star and producer Emily Deschanel and recurring guest star Carla Gallo starting Boneheads. Though the start of their show (which was due to kick off on July 19) has been delayed due to the joint writers' and actors' strike, our nostalgia for Bones remains strong.
We take a look back at some of the best episodes of the crime procedural.
Widely considered to be best episode of Bones ever made, Episode 209, Aliens in a Spaceship saw Bones (Deschanel) and Hodgins (TJ Thyne) kidnapped by serial killer the Gravedigger and buried alive underground in a car, with only limited oxygen left. They had to use their wiles to extend their breathing time, while the crew up on the surface had to pull out all the stops to save them. It saw a deepening of the fledgling relationship between Hodgins and Angela (Michaela Conlin) and was the first appearance of the Gravedigger. Episode 414, Hero in the Hold, was another amazing Gravedigger entry, where this time Booth (David Boreanaz) was captured and left to die on a decommissioned ship about to be sent to the ocean floor - and we finally learned who the killer actually was. It also marked one of the first signs of Booth's brain tumour, though we didn't know it yet. Episode 611, The Bullet in the Brain, was the end of the Gravedigger, killed by sniper fire in a truly shocking intro - heralding in new serial killer Jacob Broadsky (Arnold Vosloo).
Broadsky's tenure came to an end in one of the most stirring and impactful episodes of Bones - Episode 622, The Hole in the Heart - where beloved squintern Vincent Nigel-Murray (Ryan Cartwright) is killed. This has a profound affect on the team, and leads to Booth and Bones finally getting together. Hodgins and Angela also decide to call their son Michael-Vincent to honour their late colleague.
Back to Booth, in Episode 425, The Critic in the Cabernet, what starts as a run-of-the-mill case with some fun banter quickly leads to something more serious when we learn Booth is hallucinating conversations with Stewie Griffin (Seth MacFarlane) from Family Guy. This is the work of his brain tumour, and there's nary a dry eye in the house when he goes into emergency surgery with Bones by his side. The next episode, The End in the Beginning, takes place while Booth is unconscious and follows the gang as characters in one of Bones' novels, running a bar called 'The Lab' and playing host to Motley Crue.
Booth had another run-in with death in Episode 314, The Wannabe in the Weeds. Most of the episode follows the case of a karaoke singer found dead in a cornfield, but when his stalker turns her sights on Booth instead, things end in a dramatic shooting at a karaoke bar. Then in Episode 315, The Hole in the Heart, not only do we get the fake-out reveal that Booth is not dead, they just wanted to people to believe that so they could catch one of his old adversaries at his 'funeral' (and no one told Bones, who is ropable), we learn that Zack (Eric Millegan) has been working with serial killer Gormogon for most of the season, and his is arrested and taken into psychiatric care. Later, in Episode 405, The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond, Zach breaks out to help the team solve a case, and we learn that he didn't actually kill anybody. In the series' penultimate episode, Episode 1211, The Day in the Life, Zack is finally exonerated.
The funniest episode of 12 seasons is Episode 422, The Double Death of the Dearly Departed, where, at the funeral of a Jeffersonian colleague, Bones determines the man was murdered and did not die of a heart attack. The team use the code word 'translated' to mean 'murdered', put sunglasses on the corpse and break out into song. It's a hell of a ride.
Special shout-out to the 100th episode, Episode 516, The Parts in the Sum of the Whole, where we flash back to Booth and Bones' first case together and Booth confesses his love for Bones - though we must wait another season and a half before the pair get together.
