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I had a request. I had a request to write/describe the relationship between Bones & Booth on the hit forensics tv show Bones. 

“Of course I will write that,” I said. Because I absolutely love that show. 

Bones is one of those cop/forensic type shows that basically swept the primetime viewing in this last decade. It’s much like CSI (Miami, Las Vegas, New York), NCIS, Law & Order (SVU, Criminal Intent, Los Angeles, London), Cold Case, Without a Trace, and to a certain extent The Ghost Whisperer. And those are just the ones I can think of. 

Bones, however, is my favorite of them all. Its hilarious and gross. What other show will have a whole episode exploring the carny culture in a circus? Don’t answer that. 

Bones is based off of an actual forensic anthropologist who is a best selling author. Her name escapes me because I honestly have never looked up who she is. I just love Bones. The character. 

But I’m not here to tell you what happens in all 6 seasons of Bones. No, if you really want to know you should watch it. It’s not like it isn’t widely available. Watch it on TNT every night for 4 hours (a reason why I had to cancel my cable), or Netflix, or Hulu. 

Seriously. Watch it. Its so good. Not life changing, but good. Also, can I just say, I love the titles of the episodes? HAVE YOU EVEN NOTICED THAT? 

BONES & BOOTH SEASON 1 - The One Where We Get To Know Them.

Bones, otherwise known as Temperance Brennan, is a forensic anthropologist who has a very limited world view. Much like your typical scientist, she is very literal. She is a very strong female and doesn’t apologize for who she is. 

Enter Booth. 

Seeley Booth is an FBI agent. He’s the American mans-man, religious, courageous, and fought in the Iraq war as a very successful sniper. 

They are partnered together to work on and solve a murder and eventually just partnered for good to solve a whole BUNCHA murders. And these are the most gruesome murders because, why not? 

This season Booth comes up with the nickname for Dr. Brennan - Bones. She doesn’t like it. 

They don’t really understand each other, but each teaches each other about their respective worlds. At the end of this season they have each shown that they are more complex than what you see. Brennan is very excited to learn about interrogation and guns etc, and Booth gets …well….smarter. 

BONES & BOOTH SEASON 2 - The One with Howard Epps & The Gravedigger

Oh man, serial killers really know how to bring people together. 

Bones & Booth do a lot of talking in the car. They have to travel to all the different places that people get murdered in you see. And this is where and when they get to know each other. They have great debates over relationships (Bones is all about the casual sex partner, Booth is all about the relationships) and religion (Bones doesn’t understand believing in something that isn’t there, Booth is catholic)

Its in this car that we also get to know them, get to like them, and have the great debates with them (see how much l like this show?)

In Season 2 B&B are bonding. 

Remember how I said Bones was very literal? Well she finds out that Booth has a son and an ex-girlfriend. She outright asks her why she didn’t accept Booths proposal. I mean, she doesn’t even KNOW her!

Booth also finds out that Bones was a foster child and was abandoned by her real parents (who we later find out were escaping certain death and were protecting her). 

As we get deeper into the season Bones has a very interesting relationship with a friend of Booths…who is also an FBI agent named Sully. I say very interesting because in the end Sully asks Bones to run away with her and sail the world. SHE SAYS NO.

This is when we first see that glimpse of a “oh..wait..I like her, you can’t like her” from Booth, but is disguised as an “older brother” type of interest in her personal life. 

Bones and Hodgins - the bug & dirt guy, who is infinitely rich - also get buried alive in a car and only have 10 hours to live (or something like that). You get to see Booth really upset and will not stop to find her alive. 

Howard Epps almost kills one of the teammembers Cam - the head of the forensics team/ex autopsy cop - and we find out that Booth and Cam once had a relationship. Bones sees Booth for more than just a FBI agent.

Also, a whole bunch of people throughout the season keep hinting about how much they like each other and they’re like all “Oh, what? No, we’re just partners”

BONES & BOOTH SEASON 3 - The One with Zack Addy & Gormogon

So. Gormogon is a cannibal that is eating people throughout the whole season.

Zack Addy is the assistant forensic guy that is super awesome and I love him. And he has something to do with Gormogon…but I won’t say anymore about it. 

Bones and Booth have to undergo psychiatric evaluation because in the last season Booth arrested Bones’ father because he’s guilty of murder. 

Bones nor Booth really want therapy, but Dr. Sweets is the cutest youngest psychologist ever. 

If you hadn’t gotten the hint that Bones and Booth totally love each other by now, Dr. Sweets would help you out.

Bones & Booth are very close and say that if they didn’t have these jobs anymore, they would probably go out for coffee. Well, Booth says it….and Bones eventually agrees.

There is an episode in Season 3 wherein Bones walks in on Booth as he is relaxing in a bathtub on an evening off. She has to ask him very important questions that cannot wait and when she walks into the room, neither of them really care that he is sitting naked in a bathtub. Booth is wearing a beer hat, smoking a cigar, and reading the Green Lantern. No real relevance there, just thought I’d paint the picture a bit better. 

Another episode shows Bones’ attitude towards relationships (She has 2 boyfriends) and Booth doesn’t like either of them. Of course shadowed in this “older brother/partner protector” way.

BONES & BOOTH SEASON 4 - The One Where the Gravedigger Returns

So, continuing on with the hints of how much they love each other and the crazy places that they go to bond together, Bones & Booth HAVE to get together soon right?

wrong. But oh how I love the teasing. 

As they themselves said in an episode, Bones & Booth can’t get together. People who don’t have common ground can’t like each other…can they?

Bones is finally thinking she wants a child and is fully wanting to raise the kid alone. She outright tells Booth that he makes a good gene pool for the kid and convinces him to donate his sperm so she can have a baby…but the gravedigger comes back…Booth is kidnapped and put on a ship about to be destroyed. (just suspend your disbelief for a second okay?)

Bones is like “No way, I can’t lose him”

Booth is on the ship and is being guided out by a dead soldier whom he was in Iraq with. This dead soldier is very real to Booth. Actually throughout the season Booth keeps seeing some weird apparitions, one in the form of Stewie from Family Guy. 

At the end of the season, Booth has to go into surgery for a brain…tumor? Which had been causing his hallucinations. The very last episode takes place during Booths surgery. Bones & Booth are MARRIED club owners (very much in love) and the rest of the forensics team filling out the cast. OH its super fun. 

BONES & BOOTH SEASON 5 - The One Where Booth has a Crush

Booth realizes he totally loves Bones. 

Towards the end of the season he tells her he loves her and says “lets give us a chance” and she’s like “I can’t” and he’s all “What? Okay, well I can’t keep liking you, I have to move on” and she’s all “Okay, I’m fine with that”

Booth then gets sent back to Iraq to train Iraqis and Bones goes to an island to find the oldest human skeleton. 

BONES & BOOTH SEASON 6 - The One Where Bones has a Crush

In a whirlwind of a first episode, the characters are brought back to the Jeffersonian and a new season can begin.

Booth did move on. He found a lovely pretty girl in Iraq. A reporter named Hannah. 

Booth is totally in love with her and she comes back to D.C. to stay with him and work in America. They’re all lovey dovey. 

Bones realizes, “oh now I get it, I Love Booth. Dammit. He has moved on. What a crazy time we live in.”

Booth then loves Hannah so much he proposes to her! With FULL* support from Bones.

*not so full

Hannah is a douche and says no. And man, is this so sad. Booth is devastated. What has he done wrong? Why does no one like him? He says to Bones, as she tries to comfort him, that he only needs a friend right now and she says okay. 

The Gravedigger is back, but she is instantly killed by a sniper. A sniper that used to work closely with Booth in the war. (the actual killing was SO shocking and awesome)

At the end of the season the sniper is trying to kill Booth. He ends up killing someone else, who is so awesome and great, and it is SO SAD. 

So sad in fact that Bones can’t sleep alone in her house so she’s at Booths house. She is so sad that she crawls into bed with Booth and…well…the never SAY what happens. But I’m sure we can all figure it out. 

And of course. Bones is now pregnant and Booth is the father. 

I have faith that the show will deal with this as well as they’ve dealt with all the other relationship stuff and it won’t ruin the show. 

Really, according to me, nothing can ruin this show. 

So that is in all its glory, a recap of Bones and Booth and their relationship. But hell, they aren’t who they are without the rest of the team. I mean, don’t even get me started on Angela and Hodgins. Or Cam and all her boyfriends. Or Sweets and Daisy. Or all of the interns.

Don’t even get me started.