Bones
TV Show • 2005
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Brennan was abandoned by her parents and older brother in her childhood. Several of the victims were also abandoned children
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Temperance’s parents left her at age 15 without saying goodbye, leaving her to asume they were dead.
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National Child Abuse Hotline (1-800-4-A-Child)
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Sweets mentions that before he was adopted, he suffered emotional (and possibly physical) abuse with the foster families he was placed with. Bones also suffered emotional abuse in her foster placements as a child and was once even locked in the boot of a car for ‘misbehaving’, which allows her to empathise with others who went through the same thing.
In Season 9 Episode 3 “El Carnicero en el Conche” the victim’s murderer, a teenage boy named Javier Alvarado is slapped quite hard by his mother Maria, the victim’s girlfriend after she learns the truth. Maria is arrested for child abuse and gang related activities.
In Season 9 Episode 3 “El Carnicero en el Conche” the victim’s murderer, a teenage boy named Javier Alvarado is slapped quite hard by his mother Maria, the victim’s girlfriend after she learns the truth. Maria is arrested for child abuse and gang related activities.
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S7
E6
serial kill's whole MO is making a spectacle of his victims remains, this episode included a young woman
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National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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It's off screen / in the past / talked about that booth and his brother were physically abused by their father
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Booth, Brennan, and Sweets (all main characters) were abused by their parents. Many instances of child abuse as a backstory or cause of death for the victim of the episode.
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S7
E4
not necessarily, but after struggling to grieve his abusive fathers death, booth does feel some sympathy for him at the end of the episode
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A MC was previously abused by their parents from ages 1-6
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S1
E8
Dr. Brennan's ex is a manipulative a*****e He definitely tries to gaslight Tempe.
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National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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S9
E22
abused child grows up to be a serial killer
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Several reoccurring serial killers and murders stalk the cast throughout various seasons of the show
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Addiction Back to Top
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S2
E1
Victim was a heroin addict and we interview others
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S1
E18
There is a scene where two characters are drinking
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S2
E1
Victim was a heroin addict, and did fentanyl-laced heroin
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Animal Death Back to Top
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Season 8 Episode 4 they find the remains of a Tiger that was killed shortly before they arrived.
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(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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In season 1 episode 4, the first scene shows a dead bear laying flat on its back, with a woman examining the contents of its open stomach
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S1
E2
Zack thinks of the beetles as pets and is very sad when some need to be killed for science
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S1
E4
A bear, very first shot
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Animal Distress Back to Top
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S4
E4
The whole episode is about illegal dog fights to death so some details are pretty graphic
Most of the dogs are really nice and wouldn’t be violent if their owners didn’t force them
Most of the dogs are really nice and wouldn’t be violent if their owners didn’t force them
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S4
E4
The whole episode is mainly based on dog fights to death
No graphic scenes but some photos are shown to illustrate the situation
No graphic scenes but some photos are shown to illustrate the situation
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S7
E2
victim's snake is "abandoned" when victim dies
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S2
E4
Booth threatens a dog with a gun :(
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Animal Phobia Back to Top
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All kinds of bugs actually. A major point of many episodes is when they identify how long someone has been dead for by seeing what stage of life the bugs on it are in.
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Yes there is bugs in most episodes they are normally seen in with the character Jack
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Yes, they're used as a torture method in season 3 episode 5 The Mummy In The Maze especially
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S2
E13
An alligator eats parts of a body and they have to sacrifice it and do a necropsy to access the proof.
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Appendages Back to Top
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S4
E7
There is a genital change surgery discussed.
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S1
E1
Discussion and holographic depiction of victim's fingertips being cut off after death
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S8
E18
a characters arm was chopped off when he was a child
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Trigger warning
In almost all the episodes, the bones examined by the doctors are cracked, dented, snapped or fractured in some way
In almost all the episodes, the bones examined by the doctors are cracked, dented, snapped or fractured in some way
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S1
E10
One girl is missing a fingernail, it is healed over
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Mentioned multiple shoulder and other body parts dislocated. Sometimes they show a 3d recriation of the wound in the Angelanator to investigate the murder. Usually no blood is shown, but exaggerated sounds and imagery of inside bones cracking are common
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Assault Back to Top
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S8
E19
benzodiazepines just used to be put to sleep
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S1
E18
While Hodgins is scuba diving, the killer holds a knife against the oxygen line to threaten Brennan and Booth. He is unaware of the situation but very much stuck there and threatened with drowning
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S1
E16
Handcuffs
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National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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S1
E3
Not beaten up, but lots of discussion of the bullying the victim went through
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S1
E15
Brennan is gagged when in the warehouse
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Children Back to Top
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There are a few episodes where the victims are children under the age of 17
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S2
A baby is stolen from his mother when she is murdered in a season 2 episode.
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S1
E11
Toddler cries
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Creepy Crawly Back to Top
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Death Back to Top
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Spoilers, obviously.
Most of the major serial killers die at the end of their arcs.
Brennan's mom is the victim in s1e22, but she wasn't shown before this point.
I believe the first really major character, that wasn't a killer, to die was Vincent Nigel-Murray, s6e22.
Sweets dies in s10e1 and e2 is all about his death and catching his killer
Jared Booth, is killed in s11e1 and is misidentified as his brother, Seeley Booth, one of the most main characters in the show.
Max Keenan, Brennan's father, is killed in s12e7
Most of the major serial killers die at the end of their arcs.
Brennan's mom is the victim in s1e22, but she wasn't shown before this point.
I believe the first really major character, that wasn't a killer, to die was Vincent Nigel-Murray, s6e22.
Sweets dies in s10e1 and e2 is all about his death and catching his killer
Jared Booth, is killed in s11e1 and is misidentified as his brother, Seeley Booth, one of the most main characters in the show.
Max Keenan, Brennan's father, is killed in s12e7
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Every episode
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S1
E18
Not to the death, but one character shows a scar he has from trying to save the victim's life a few years prior
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Disability Back to Top
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S1
E3
One person says that it's a word people used to talk about the victim, but he isn't saying it maliciously
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S1
E21
Hank Luttrell in a wheelchair played by an actor that uses a wheelchair.
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Drugs/Alcohol Back to Top
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Not any main character, but a few victims of the week / episode
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Family Back to Top
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Dr. Brennan’s mother died prior to the show beginning, but her murder investigation is the season 1 finale and season 2 prologue. Later in Season 12 Brennan’s father Max dies in surgery after being mortally wounded defending his grandchildren from Assassins sent to kill them for revenge against Booth.
Booth’s father also dies during the show’s runtime, though this is off screen
Booth’s father also dies during the show’s runtime, though this is off screen
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S7
E3
adult victim's childhood doll is destroyed during her death
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S1
E1
We meet the victim's parents
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S9
E2
main victim is a cheater, discussed at length
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In Season 2 Episode 9, Bones and Hodgins are kidnapped by the Gravedigger and buried alive in a car. They manage to escape by using the car’s airbags to create an explosion to loosen the sediment above them
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Fear Back to Top
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S3
E8
One right at the end. A guy with a knife jumps out of the lobbyist's closet at him.
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S1
E2
The beetles eating the flesh off the bones and the beetles in the jars is just on the edge of triggering. Did not personally both me, but was close.
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A serial killer called the Grave Digger buries people alive, you might want to avoid any episodes related to that. s2e9, s4e14, s4e26, s5e21, s6e11, s6e11.
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S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
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S1
E10
Many surgical supplies
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Season 2 Episode 10
It is alluded to that the killer of the episode was possessed to commit the murder
It is alluded to that the killer of the episode was possessed to commit the murder
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Yes in 'Mummy in the Maze' episode there is a clown with a gun
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On a few occasions one of the main characters, Booth, sees ghosts, however it is unclear if the ghosts are real or due to a brain injury that is revealed later in the series.
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S1
E9
We see Hodgins and Zack run to the decontamination shower and in the next scene see them in towels, but we don't see them actually in the shower
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S1
E10
A few scenes at the beach
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S1
E22
In the background in the bone room for some reason, completely irrelevant
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Gross Back to Top
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One of the cases, Bones makes someone vomit because they swallowed evidence but you can see it coming because fingers go down his throat.
Also a science guy for children comes in and he vomits quite early in the episode
Also a science guy for children comes in and he vomits quite early in the episode
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S2
E1
Snapping bones. And sizzling flesh
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There are multiple cannibalistic killers, the biggest being Gormagon and his apprentices throughout season 3. He is shown to be eating what is presumably human meat right before he is killed, at the end of s3e15, the season finale.
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In one episode a character says she "messed herself" it's never shown or made fun of
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S1
E3
Hodgins burps many times, but no farting.
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S2
E3
After Brennan tackles a boy in a hoodie, he spits in the direction of the camera
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Head Back to Top
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S1
E15
Lots of description of eyes being gouged out
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S1
E1
Some teeth are missing from the victim's skull
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S1
E3
Head falls off of body in scene 1, quite graphic
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S1
E3
A dead body's head falls off after decomposing in scene 1, quite graphic
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Large-scale Violence Back to Top
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S8
E6
Victim of the week is revealed as a 9/11 victim who rescued other victims from the pentagon building and later died as a result of injuries.
Major characters talk about their experiences on 9/11. Some talk about having lost family in the attacks and some talk about identifying bodies in the aftermath
Major characters talk about their experiences on 9/11. Some talk about having lost family in the attacks and some talk about identifying bodies in the aftermath
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Law Enforcement Back to Top
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Basically, any time Booth gets mad at a suspect the audience is supposed to loathe and want to see hit.
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S4
E7
It is briefly mentioned that one character was previously incarcerated. It is not depicted or discussed in detail
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LGBTQ+ Back to Top
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S4
E7
A trans person is not taken seriously in their gender. They use the wrong pronouns and refer to „real women“ and more
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The episode's victim is trans, time is spent finding her "real" identity, both her chosen and dead name are used
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S4
E7
The plot of the episode centers around a murder victim that is a trans woman. Spoilers: ultimately the woman's gender identity has nothing to do with her death & it is overall framed in a supportive light.
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The woman's ex wife and son are told about her transition.
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The woman's ex wife and son are told about her transition.
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Loss Back to Top
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S1
E10
Dr. Goodman and Hodgins are working on authenticating a 1500-year-old skeleton, and Goodman insists they don't dismantle it
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Medical Back to Top
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S1
E5
Margaret describes finding someone dead with a needle in their arm
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One of the main characters gets sent to a mental institution, (he's fine though) and there's some scenes in it.
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S4
In s4 e5 or e6 Booth tells Sweets that if anyone asks why Zach was out of the facility, he should tell them he took Zach for electro-therapy.
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*spoiler* In season 9, Wendell Bray (a squintern) is diagnosed with Ewings-Sarcoma after Dr. Brennan looks at his x-rays after he broke his arm. He, after some debate, decides to go through chemo. He ultimately survives.
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There are some scenes where (usually) secondary characters are in hospital, such as:
- The child of one f Booth's superiors appears in a hospital room.
- One of Russ' stepdaughters is sick and he comes back to see her.
- SPOILER!
Zack Addy ends up in hospital after an accident in the lab, and the team spends time with him in hospital, so there are different scenes that take place in the hospital room.
There maybe other apparitions, but usually these chapters do not take place fully at hospital, and medical interventions are not seen on screen.
- The child of one f Booth's superiors appears in a hospital room.
- One of Russ' stepdaughters is sick and he comes back to see her.
- SPOILER!
Zack Addy ends up in hospital after an accident in the lab, and the team spends time with him in hospital, so there are different scenes that take place in the hospital room.
There maybe other apparitions, but usually these chapters do not take place fully at hospital, and medical interventions are not seen on screen.
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Mental Health Back to Top
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autistic-coded characters sometimes get playfully picked on for their “quirks” (which are actually traits of autism), but it’s typically out of a place of love and i wouldn’t consider it abuse
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Every time the Angelator is used it emits a high pitched noise that is painful.
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S2
E7
A little girl has a very restricted diet and later on the episode her mother says the girl was the one who wanted to do that in order to win beauty contests.
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Throughout the show there are multiple people who can be deemed mentally ill due to their reasonings to do a murder and their overall personality.
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S1
E21
The victim's sister describes his symptoms after returning from war, it isn't named but implied. Lots of soldiers are interviewed about a moment of battle. Booth also is very upset throughout the case.
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S1
E17
Angela sees a "ghost" of Dani out in the desert and the camera and filters make things seem unreal for a moment.
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S8
E9
I'm not sure if this technically fits, but in 'the ghost in the machine' the entire episode is from the perspective of a young murder victim whose soul is trapped in his body, with the characters talking about him in front of him, and even directly to him.
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This episode focus on kids beauty contests and mention in details horrible procedures little girls take to reach adult beauty standards. If those topics disturb you, I recommend you skip this one.
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Many of the main characters are socially uncomfortable enough to react with panic to occasional extreme social/professional situations, and footage of crime victims and perpetrators often features panic and anxiety reactions.
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S1
E11
Someone is said to have Oppositional Defiant Disorder and paranoia
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Neck Back to Top
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S1
E3
A boy is hanged to uncover a homicide pretending is a suicide.
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depicted mostly on cadavers.
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Any episode related to the Grave Digger. Victims are buried alive and slowly run out of oxygen.
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S9
E11
Not shown on screen but the victim is strangled.
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S2
E1
Booth chokes drug dealer
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Noxious Back to Top
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S3
E5
Yes, both when they are in the thousand dead bodies Halloween attraction and when Brennan and Booth go underground near the end of the episode.
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S08e09 is shown almost entirely from the POV of the victim's skull that the team takes to carrying around because some of them believe that the boy's soul is still there. The picture is sometime shakey due to this
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S1
E15
Bomb explodes after Booth goes into Brennan's kitchen for a drink
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There are several episodes where people that find the victims scream for a short time, as they are scared. Usually, this just happens at the start of the episodes.
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S1
E18
Hodgins goes scuba diving multiple times
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Paranoia Back to Top
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S1
E2
-Angela watches Booth's girlfriend from a distance before walking up to talk to her.
- Booth and Brennan watch Farid from a distance before Brennan calls his name.
- Booth and Brennan watch Farid from a distance before Brennan calls his name.
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S8 Episode 5: the entire cast speaks to a skull of a victim as if he were still alive. The audience sees from the perspective of the skull so it seems the characters are talking to the viewer. Could potentially be triggering
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Pregnancy Back to Top
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No, but in the final episode there's a while where they don't know if the baby inside Angela is still alive
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Several characters give birth during the series, three of those happen more-or-less onscreen. SPOILERS:: the most explicit one is when Bones gives birth in s07e07. Her upperbody is shown throughout as well as her legs and the freshly born baby. Angela gives birth in s06e23 in a hospital, she is shown several time during labor and her upper body is shown during delivery but it is clean. The freshly born baby is shown. Daisy gives birth in s10e08. She is shown several times during labor and her cries can be heard during delivery
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S1
E16
Not onscreen, but Harold describes killing a pregnant person in detail
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There is mention of abortion.
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S1
E1
The bones of the victim's fetus are shown on camera.
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Prejudice Back to Top
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E6
There is a man who has dwarfism and Dr. Brennan is very ableist with him through out the entire episode. It is played as a joke more than a prejudice she needs to get over.
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Booth says f****t. Can't find the episode number but it's at the end of the episode where the victim was a gay guy. The murderer called the victim this.
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In s04e07 the victim is a transgender woman who is at first identified as male based on her skeleton. Her wife (who she was married to before she came out or transitioned) refuses to acknowledge her identity. Booth purposefully misgenders her several times while interrogating suspects to manipulate them (either to placate them, or to get a rise out of them). The majority of the main cast as well as the people in the victim's life re supportive.
In s04e23 one of the people assisting on the case "identifies with a subset of an urban Japanese aesthetic known as kei [...] It glorifies androgyny", but the squints spend the episode trying to guess their "real gender". At the end of the episode Angela hugs them and later tells the squints that they are a guy.
In s09e23 the victim is a drag queen and there are several drag queens interviewed during the investigation. There are a few instances that might qualify as misgendering and also where Booth deliberately does t to get a rise out of someone
In s04e23 one of the people assisting on the case "identifies with a subset of an urban Japanese aesthetic known as kei [...] It glorifies androgyny", but the squints spend the episode trying to guess their "real gender". At the end of the episode Angela hugs them and later tells the squints that they are a guy.
In s09e23 the victim is a drag queen and there are several drag queens interviewed during the investigation. There are a few instances that might qualify as misgendering and also where Booth deliberately does t to get a rise out of someone
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Especially the early seasons
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S4
E7
The plot of the episode centers around a murder victim that is a trans woman. Spoilers: ultimately the woman's gender identity has nothing to do with her death & it is overall framed in a supportive light.
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The episode features transphobic jokes from several of the main characters, and doesn't take much care about the language they use, but overall the episode's tone is very positive - the transphobes in the episode are depicted as criminals and villains. Booth makes one transphobic comment, to which someone responds, "Don't say she 'used to be' a man, that makes you sound ignorant." Thereafter, when the rest of the team is having trouble with the victim's pronouns, Booth asserts firmly, "From now on, 'he' is always 'she'. She was a she when she died, so she deserves the respect due to him or her... okay, person!" While this is not the most "optimal" way to be an ally, Booth unmistakably is one, and the overall tone of the episode attempts to be respectful.
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Someone says several very Islamophobic things to a Muslim intern. This happens in the first few episodes the intern appears in but stops.
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S2
E5
Brennan talks a lot about sex being a biological need
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Race Back to Top
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E2
Not explicitly, but there is a lot of stereotyping about the Arabic family
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S1
E16
Doesn't die first, but is the first person Brennan accuses despite hardly seeing the face of the suspect
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Relationships Back to Top
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S1
E8
Dr Brennan hooks up with her former professor
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Religious Back to Top
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Booth is a Christian man, and a frequent topic of discussion he has with Bones involves her dismissing and/or criticizing religion while Booth argues for his ideals. Bones is often subtly portrayed as being unreasonable and/or strange for being an atheist. Many other religions are discussed as well with varying degrees of delicacy.
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S5
E14
The whole episode talks about hell and its depictions. From a summary of the episode: "Brennan and Booth investigate a set of uniquely disfigured remains allegorizing biblical text. As they acquire more information about the victim, a former patient of Dr. Adam Copeland at Havenhurst Sanitarium, they are confronted with suspects who are hard to characterize as either good or evil." (from the Bones WIki page on this chapter).
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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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S2
E1
Death is originally ruled a suicide
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National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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S1
E3
Lots of discussion on reasons the victim may or may not have wanted to kill himself
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S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
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Someone cuts her hand to find out if a man has vasovagal syncope
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S4
E4
Not directly but Hodgins mentions that he'd rather drive off a bridge than talk to Sweets.
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Sex Back to Top
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There is a whole episode covering child beauty pageants.
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National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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S3
E1
I could be wrong but I’m fairly sure Yanks in the UK ends up with the victim and her boyfriend actually having been related (with the same father), though neither finds out.
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S1
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Booth and Tessa are seen getting dressed, presumably just having slept together
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S1
E1
In the first scene, Angela flashes someone (with her bra on)
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Usually the women and especially Angela
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A couple is known for doing BDSM. They use the BDSM equipment to constrain someone without their consent. No sex imagery is shown, only the equipment and the person tied up. The entire episode portrays BDSM as a morally negative thing and the people who enjoy it as unstable.
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Sexism Back to Top
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E3
Now is a good time to remember that if someone is under the age of consent... they can't consent. Both parties can't be consenting as the other comment tries to state. The sex-tape scene is shown at around 31 minutes in and though they are only making out from what is shown, it can be distressing if this is a trigger for you.
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S1
E14
Jesse tries to kiss Brennan twice and she swerves him uncomfortably both times, Angela however encourages her to hook up with him
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S1
E3
A mother sleeps with a 15 year old
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S10
E16
briefly suspected before the idea is discredited by the potential victim
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S8
E5
At the very last few minutes, Booth seemingly makes light of male genital mutilation.
"Ugh, you're not talking about circumcision are you." When Bones says something about a man's choice if I remember correctly.
"Ugh, you're not talking about circumcision are you." When Bones says something about a man's choice if I remember correctly.
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Sickness Back to Top
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S1
E20
A girl has terminal cancer. The episode is very emotional and bittersweet, as the entire crew tries to help her and make her dreams come true. She doesn't die in the episode, but it is implied she did later.
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S1
E8
Thyroid disorder that caused the victim's bones to become more brittle. Very important part of the case
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Social Back to Top
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S2
E2
The killer felt like the victim not wanting her baby meant she should die
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S9
E2
There's a scene where characters wear a fat suit for an obstacle course in the tagged episode, but there's no character played by someone wearing one
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S1
E2
Religion is briefly discussed
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Spoiler Back to Top
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Though most episodes end happy, some don't although the series overall has a positive ending.
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Every Christmas episode has Bones rebuffing Santa, and the Season 5 Christmas Special “The Goop on the Girl” had a man dressed as Santa as the victim.
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Vehicular Back to Top
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S1
E1
Drivers don't watch the road but it's fine
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Several victims and in s02e09 Hodgins is hit by a car but survives
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S1
E14
Offscreen, we see the debris in graphic detail
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S2
E1
First scene, Booth is driving recklessly
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Violence Back to Top
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The entire show could be considered blood and gore. Every episode contains a body, usually far along in decomposition
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S1
E18
The gun is fired at a computer
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S1
E19
The episode begins by examining hundreds of bodies recovered from Hurricane Katrina, many of whom drowned
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Not nuclear but many explosions
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Whole Body Back to Top
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It depends on your definition of gore. There are always bodies shown, that could be considered gore. However normally you only see the aftermath, not the actions that result in the bloody mess.
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S9
E11
The victim is strangled but it is only mentioned.
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Maybe not specifically body horror but the corpses are often incredibly mutilated, or decomposed to the point of becoming soup.
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S1
E21
Victim was burned after death, we see the charred remains in graphic detail
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Season 3's main bad guy is a cannibal.
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S1
E1
Hologram of the victim being stabbed and her fingertips cut off
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S2
E1
Run over by a train
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There is a long running arc with a killer who burries people alive. There is an entire episode set inside a car that has been buried with it's occupants still alive. The show continues to talk about the trauma caused by the events even after they occur.
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S1
E21
Off screen. The victim is killed by being stabbed in the ear with something.
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In one of the cases, Cam is pressured to cut into a head, a powder comes out and causes her to have a seizure
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SPOILERS
There is a character that Booth and Brennan tried to save but couldn't, and he fell to his death. He deserved it though.
There is a character that Booth and Brennan tried to save but couldn't, and he fell to his death. He deserved it though.
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S9
E11
Not shown on screen but father admits to pushing daughter down stairs.
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S1
E3
Man is punched three times and knocked unconscious, he is fine in the next scene with just a black eye
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The dog is part of an illegal dog fighting ring and his master commanded him to kill someone. Because of this, the dog is put down.