Monday, November 9, 2009

Bones - The Tough Man in the Tender Chicken, S05E06

This may have been the goofiest episode of Bones ever.
The body they found - well, actually, it was found by Woodchucks, who are essentially Girl Scouts who wish to emulate Brennan (Emily Deschanel) in every way - had a face which distinctly resembled a chicken.
This was, of course, followed by some speculation that he was some sort of government experiment gone wrong, in which the attempt had been made to combine man and chicken into a supersoldier.
Riiight...

Don't get me wrong, I'm normally right in with the weird and campy, and I was quite happy to have Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) back in conspiratorial mode, but chicken-man?
Though the moment that just went too far to be remotely believable was when Brennan and Booth (David Boreanaz) were at the chicken factory and the protesters yoked and feathered them. Thank God Booth then arrested them all. What kind of morons assault members of the FBI for absolutely no reason.

And don't even get me started on Angela (Michaela Conlin) and her quest to save the adorable pig. You're really going to get mad at a friend over that? I guess this is the part of me that just has to embrace my meativoreness and admit that I eat animals well aware that they once had faces and I'm okay with that because as a human, I was designed to eat meat as well as plants.

But at least it seemed like the episode focused on the crime committed, and Booth brought up his potential long-term sufferings from his surgery when he did not recognize that a man was lying.
Oh, and Angela slept with Wendall (Michael Terry)...which I hope is not going to create issues between him and Hodgins...

Did you enjoy the goofiness, or was it too much for you?

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