The Gamer in the Grease

B&B investigate the murder of a letter carrier whose remains are found in a large tub of used cooking grease. Turns out the mailman was also a champion video game player of an old-school title called "Punky Pong." Could the video game thing have anything do to do with his slaying? While this is going on, Hodgins, Sweets and the hippie intern whose name always eludes me are planning to see AVATAR together, and must hold their place in line. Complications ensue, among them being a sweet young thing who latches on to Sweets while he's holding the place in the AVATAR line, and she insists on having sex with him. Conveniently, the boys have set up a pup tent in the line. But Sweets is conflicted, even though the girl has some swell tattoos across her breasts. Back the ranch, the boss is mystified by the boys' abrupt comings and goings. A funny episode indeed.

For as methodical, logical and evidence driven Dr. Brennan is, she made some major assumptions in this episode. I can accept evidence of De Quervane's Tenosinovitis(?) markers on the bones but she assumed the victim was in too much pain to have played the record-setting game. The only one who could have told her what his pain level was was a pile of bones on her table. She assumed he didn't have the range of motion to have played the game. Since tendons are soft tissue (out of her area of expertise) she couldn't have known by examining the bones. Also, range of motion decreases as the condition worsens, so she also assumed the length of time he suffered from it. And last, she assumed he didn't have the surgery and subsequent physical therapy to restore range of motion, Yes, she could have spoken to his doctor but that's doubtful because the doctor would have cited HIPAA laws to keep the information confidential. For a character that's as evidence driven as Dr. Brennan, she drew conclusions that had little to no evidence backing them.

As a side note, I know this because I suffer from De Quervane's.

This starts out with a man found in a grease depository. It is filled with all the dumpings from a restaurant and is being siphoned for biofuel, I guess. Or just being disposed of. That has nothing to do with anything other than a place to hide a body. This leads us to the world of video game competition. Booth and Brennan argue about sports. Booth says for it to be a sport it has to occasionally produce injuries. Anyway the whole thing centers around a guy who declared himself world champion of some throwback game and the jealousy that ensued. He is the victim. I won't spoil anything. The subplot involves the three men from the lab taking turns holding a spot in the ticket line for Avatar. It leads to an encounter with a hot to trot girl who is very impressed with their credentials. On a totally different note, I never thought Avatar was that big a deal. It's an enjoyable movie but hardly the second coming.

This episode had me in tears due to the fairly recent condemnation of world record holder Billy Mitchell, the "King of Kong" (King of Con more like it...), and the typical hyped movie aspect that's common to find with great movies such as the shown Avatar, Star Wars (the oldies), and many pixar/disney movies.

Simply bravo to the writers and producers

I think it is very funny that Joel Moore, who stars as Colin Fisher in Bones, and in the this episode wins the tickets to Avatar, is in Avatar. He plays Norm Spellman. Obviously Avatar isn't out in theaters yet, but when it is I wonder in "Spellman" will be a similar character to Fisher. I kind of hope he is.

I just think it was clever, and wondered if anyone else picked up on it. I haven't finished this episode yet, but it looks pretty good. Also thought it was funny that Temperance wouldn't look at the body until all the flesh had fallen off.

Anyway, Avatar looks like a great movie.