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Posts: 778 (11/19/2009 7:59 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	BONES Episode 8: "The Foot in the Foreclosure" Booth's grandfather Hank (guest star Ralph Waite) comes to live with him and tags along as Brennan and Booth investigate ashes and charred remains found by a real estate agent while showing a property to prospective buyers. The team identifies the victims as plus-size lovers, neither of whom seemed to have many enemies. Meanwhile, Hank tries to play matchmaker for Booth and lets Brennan in on some family secrets in "The Foot in the Foreclosure" episode of BONES airing Thursday, Nov. 19 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Spoiler [+] while Clark is not my fave intern, it was nice to see him open up a bit about himself...and Pops was adorable
guesswhatelse		#1	[-]
Posts: 27901 (11/19/2009 9:01 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Spoiler [+] His grandfather was in town all of six minutes and he just knows Bones is perfect for Booth. GMAFB. I'm soooo sick of that. The writers do that a lot. Have some damn imagination.
Random Sandwiches		#2	[-]
Posts: 4072 (11/19/2009 4:17 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	"Plus-size lovers"? Oh great. Now we're going to get crude fat jokes. I love Bones, but they always have something snarky to say about people in a niche. I was surprised there weren't more jokes in last week's dwarf episode. (Although I'm sure plenty of little people were offended at having their type portrayed as leprechauns and hokey wrestlers.)
guesswhatelse		#3	[-]
Posts: 27905 (11/19/2009 5:47 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	^^ They were actually pretty good about it. I'm not plus-sized, but other than one scene that may have been questionable, I didn't notice anything that made me raise my eyebrows.
LuvBug		#4	[-]
Posts: 7771 (11/20/2009 3:09 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	Great episode as usual.
Random Sandwiches		#5	[-]
Posts: 4074 (11/20/2009 11:05 AM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	guesswhatelse wrote: ^^ They were actually pretty good about it. I'm not plus-sized, but other than one scene that may have been questionable, I didn't notice anything that made me raise my eyebrows. Are you talking about the nightclub scene? I only just flipped over for a second, but that made me cringe. Stereotypical "big black woman" macking on Booth and telling him what he's missing. I'll have to watch the whole thing before I can continue to comment. But they've done this before. The girl who became obsessed with Booth and shot him when Bones was singing in the karaoke bar? She was plus-sized. Of course she was! Because a thin person would never have to resort to stalking/obsession to get a man!
LuvBug		#6	[-]
Posts: 7781 (11/20/2009 3:14 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I've never been offended by the show.
Random Sandwiches		#7	[-]
Posts: 4077 (11/20/2009 5:40 PM) Reply Quote More Recent Posts	I'm not offended by the show specifically, per se, just TV's treatment in general of plus-sized people. I think Drop Dead Diva is the only show that tackles this head on and treats people like people and not "types." Generally speaking I love Bones and its offbeat snarkiness, it's just these few little things that bother me from time to time.

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