In Which She's As Serious As A Gas Attack

Season 3, Episode 10

The Man in the Mud

“Serious as a gas attack” “Heart attack, Bones” Really, nothing to say about this. I just love it when she gets idioms like that wrong.

Although, it can actually be said that her messed up idioms serve a purpose greater than another character trait for Bones; it acts as a way for Booth to correct Bones once in awhile in a concrete way. She corrects him all the time with science; he corrects her when it comes to life in general. We all know she has grown as a person immensely because of him; however, his “corrections” of her in this way are not concrete as are hers with him, but abstract, subjective. So, his correcting of her wrong idioms serve as a way to balance the score, matching concrete correction with concrete correction.

Sweets' point in them only talking about work – when they tend to discuss things and still get along, it's normally about work or stems from a work-related situation. They bicker more when talking about personal things, because it is too close to a conversation about them as a them, which they can't deal with .

NON B&B OBSERVATION: I adore whenever Brennan goes along with Sweets. Obviously, she still doesn't take much stock in psychology, but she accepts his statements from an anthropological point of view – she wants to understand his reasoning. She may not agree with his reasoning, but she understands it. It's the same with religious situations (and this is one way I relate to Bones) – she'll ask religious people questions about their religion not to mock them or tear down their beliefs, as Booth always thinks she is doing (or really, actually, makes like he thinks he thinks she's doing that in case she offends whomever she is asking) but to understand the reasoning better.

Booth, however, DOES take stock in psychology, which is why a lot of the time he is so much more against whatever Sweets is trying to do than Brennan is – he sees a real danger in something being uncovered about them, or, in something being twisted into making like there is something to be uncovered about them. Bones takes little to no stock in psychology, so she sees no danger of it doing anything.

Them both getting on Sweets, using his own terminology on him, perfect example of how he partly serves as a target for them to both bond together against. Gives them a common enemy to bond over that isn't a super-serious issue, like a murderer. Although now, especially with this episode as a turning point, Sweets isn't an enemy to them as much as like, that one annoying kid in the family that you just can't stand sometimes, but other times is super-smart and has those observations only children have the guts to say out loud.

NON B&B STATEMENT: I love Booth and the horse that he makes at the ceramics place on such an irrational level. It's just too adorable.

B&B STATEMENT: I love the clay fight Booth and Bones get into at the ceramics place on such an irrational level. IT'S JUST TOO ADORABLE.