The Beaver in the Otter

Love seeing Arastoo again! Love the sheets dialogue from Hodgins.

"Beaver, otter, cougar. This case is like a day at the zoo" Bones always making us laugh!

The frat peeps and wierd bonfire situation was a bit bleh for me. Overall, college life depicted poorly to some degree and it makes it kinda boring at times.

Hi bones booth!

Everyone is being an ass in this episode. I think bones was the only person to call out that these people are terrible.

There is a weird frat boys sheets experiment that wasn't needed and no one asked for.

Bones got me with the code too. Beaver is a Taurus not a Scorpio.

I love that Booth leaves the money at the end.

Hated Animal House et al of it Mimickers. Watching adults behaving like hyper-active 8-year-olds on crack just offends me. Amplifying that is my long-standing contempt for the practice of extending adolescence into our late teens, a practice dating to the late 19th Century in America and initially restricted to the affluent. The poor and working classes couldn't afford it and it wasn't til the 1920s that, prompted by free secondary education, the idea seeped throughout the middle classes. Even then, Andy Hardy still matured.

Irresponsibility related to Greek college students follows a parallel line beginning with Fitzgerald, carries through to the mid/late 50s, took a break from the late 50s to Animal House (1978), which devolved that irresponsibility to the level of 8-year-olds on crack.

Personally, I got lucky, going to a large state university where Jocks and Greeks were (self) isolated from the larger community and most of us gloried in our first autonomy as adults. That was 1968 and, during my undergraduate years, I neither saw nor imagined the kind of behavior displayed in either Animal House or this episode of Bones; on our campus, it wouldn't have been tolerated even within the confines of Greek/Jock Row. A kegger on the Snake River was as close as it got.

Bottom line, I'm extremely prejudiced on the subject and only gave this episode a 2 because I love Bones - and the fact that Jared took his first small step towards turning into a Human Being.

Unlike virtually every other episode, there is nothing here I like; no little bit of banter, not even the arching of an eyebrow.

A caveat to latter generations - my generation (or large parts of it) embraced the classic American values and the revolutions of the 60s were based on making those values real, especially the notion of individual autonomy (which we now call empowerment). That was our context. Contexts change, as demonstrated by Animal House. Generation Gaps emerge so, if you don't find that change in context offensive, if you enjoyed its new set of parameters, you might actually like this episode.

As for myself, I feel no grief that the Beaver's dead and figure he deserved his fate.

I have a prejudice against Fraternities. It's not rational. In college, many of the guys I knew would go to filing cabinets full of tests accumulated over time. I'd see guys crawling, military style, over construction dump sites as others taunted them and abused them. I knew girls who went to parties and were assaulted by these guys. I know that's a broad brush, but this episode didn't do much to lower my feelings. First of all, if a death had occurred and it was traced back to a frat, it would by national news. The lack of any sort of administrative response to this was ridiculous. And those guys! Of course, every bit as disgusting is Booth defending them and saying it's necessary to their growth. Once again, I start to like the guy and he turns into this.