Bones

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Episode
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Anonymous
Season 4 Episode 3 The Finger in the Nest
The dog is part of an illegal dog fighting ring and his master commanded him to kill someone. Because of this, the dog is put down.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
Yes
35
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amespin
In season 1 episode 4, the first scene shows a dead bear laying flat on its back, with a woman examining the contents of its open stomach
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GentleZacharias
Season 4, Episode 3 focuses on an illegal dog-fighting ring, so features discussion of dogs being abused and neglected, but all of that happens offscreen and no dogs are abused on-screen.
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LJKS
S4E3 focuses on an illegal dog fighting operation
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csbyron1
S1
 E4
A bear, very first shot
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Yes
0
No
14
Yes
1
No
24
2
JElle
Season 8 Episode 4 they find the remains of a Tiger that was killed shortly before they arrived.
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Does a pet die?
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Yes
6
No
24
Yes
0
No
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gonzogm
S3
 E5
A girl is kidnapped and eaten by tarantulas BUT it happens in the past off screen. The idea of it is a little scary, but no spiders are shown.
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OneirosDream
S2
One episode has a dead alligator with human remains.
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Anonymous
Yes, they're used as a torture method in season 3 episode 5 The Mummy In The Maze especially

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Yes
1
No
24
3
gretchen.roberts
Yes there is bugs in most episodes they are normally seen in with the character Jack
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MentallyFine
Temperance’s parents left her at age 15 without saying goodbye, leaving her to asume they were dead.
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Yes
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No
14
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csbyron1
S1
 E9
In depth discussion of Brennan's parents' disappearance and what the first day without them was like
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csbyron1
S1
 E12
Wife of an abuser defends him
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Yes
8
No
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andstrolls
In season 2, Bones's father continues to contact her and in some cases follow her or come into her apartment despite her asking him to stop
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csbyron1
S1
 E12
Neglectful
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DepressoEspresso2000
Sweets mentions that before he was adopted, he suffered emotional (and possibly physical) abuse with the foster families he was placed with. Bones also suffered emotional abuse in her foster placements as a child and was once even locked in the boot of a car for ‘misbehaving’, which allows her to empathise with others who went through the same thing.

In Season 9 Episode 3 “El Carnicero en el Conche” the victim’s murderer, a teenage boy named Javier Alvarado is slapped quite hard by his mother Maria, the victim’s girlfriend after she learns the truth. Maria is arrested for child abuse and gang related activities.
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Fernfire
S9
 E11
SPOILER ALERT: A daughter is hurt by her father and she in turn attacks and kills her friend
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csbyron1
S1
 E5
Discussion of an offscreen character's drug addiction
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csbyron1
S1
 E14
Mention of the plane crash victims having used alcohol, viagra, and cocaine
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1
devoralie
Episode 6x18 Vincent is in AA and apologizes to people for stuff he’s done which is awkward and kind of endearing.
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1
MentallyFine
Brennan was tied up and gagged in season 1 as someone tries to kill her.
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csbyron1
S1
 E14
Jesse tries to kiss Brennan twice and she swerves him uncomfortably both times, Angela however encourages her to hook up with him
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csbyron1
S1
 E18
While Hodgins is scuba diving, the killer holds a knife against the oxygen line to threaten Brennan and Booth. He is unaware of the situation but very much stuck there and threatened with drowning
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csbyron1
S1
 E5
The victim is determined to have been sexually assaulted
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csbyron1
S1
 E3
A mother sleeps with a 15 year old
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Yes
9
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18
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csbyron1
S1
 E3
Not beaten up, but lots of discussion of the bullying the victim went through
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Squiid
S8
 E5
At the very last few minutes, Booth seemingly makes light of male genital mutilation.

"Ugh, you're not talking about circumcision are you." When Bones says something about a man's choice if I remember correctly.
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csbyron1
S1
 E15
Brennan is gagged when in the warehouse
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csbyron1
S1
 E3
Statutory rape seen on a sex tape, both parties are consenting but one is 15
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csbyron1
S1
 E9
bone saw :)
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csbyron1
S1
 E1
Not onscreen
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csbyron1
S1
 E3
Head falls off of body in scene 1, quite graphic
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Squiid
S8
 E5
Mention of circumcision at the very end.
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csbyron1
S1
 E8
Very end of the episode, Booth and Brennan go to examine a different body which they say is a burn victim
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csbyron1
S1
 E10
One girl is missing a fingernail, it is healed over
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csbyron1
S1
 E19
Rather graphic
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ElizabethZ
There is a long running arc with a killer who burries people alive. There is an entire episode set inside a car that has been buried with it's occupants still alive. The show continues to talk about the trauma caused by the events even after they occur.
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7
1
postermug
Season 3's main bad guy is a cannibal.
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csbyron1
S1
 E15
Lots of description of eyes being gouged out
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Yes
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Sebastian_Barton
Maybe not specifically body horror but the corpses are often incredibly mutilated, or decomposed to the point of becoming soup.
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Mortilix
It depends on your definition of gore. There are always bodies shown, that could be considered gore. However normally you only see the aftermath, not the actions that result in the bloody mess.
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Yes
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No
8
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Fernfire
S9
 E11
Not shown on screen but the victim is strangled.
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postermug
Any episode related to the Grave Digger. Victims are buried alive and slowly run out of oxygen.
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csbyron1
S1
 E3
Man is punched three times and knocked unconscious, he is fine in the next scene with just a black eye
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Anonymous
Trigger warning

In almost all the episodes, the bones examined by the doctors are cracked, dented, snapped or fractured in some way

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Fernfire
S9
 E11
The victim is strangled but it is only mentioned.
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csbyron1
S1
 E10
One girl is missing a fingernail, it is healed over
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csbyron1
S1
 E11
A finger is cut off offscreen - when Booth receives an envelope that says "BACK OFF," the finger is shown in a box and is analyzed in the lab in the next scene
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csbyron1
S1
 E1
Some teeth are missing from the victim's skull
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Fernfire
S9
 E11
Not shown on screen but father admits to pushing daughter down stairs.
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5
Anonymous
SPOILERS
There is a character that Booth and Brennan tried to save but couldn't, and he fell to his death. He deserved it though.
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csbyron1
S1
 E3
A dead body's head falls off after decomposing in scene 1, quite graphic
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gretchen.roberts
In one of the cases, Cam is pressured to cut into a head, a powder comes out and causes her to have a seizure
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csbyron1
S1
 E21
One of the witnesses is found hanging in his office. Close ups.
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OneirosDream
S2
A baby is stolen from his mother when she is murdered in a season 2 episode.
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Yes
3
No
22
2
DepressoEspresso2000
There are a few episodes where the victims are children under the age of 17
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Yes
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No
14
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csbyron1
S1
 E18
Not to the death, but one character shows a scar he has from trying to save the victim's life a few years prior
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csbyron1
Every episode
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Yes
2
No
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2
emsdog28
S1
I don't know people are saying no, it's definitely said. In the 3rd and 11th episode of season 1 so far.
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csbyron1
S1
 E5
Not onscreen but discussed
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DepressoEspresso2000
Dr. Brennan’s mother died prior to the show beginning, but her murder investigation is the season 1 finale and season 2 prologue. Later in Season 12 Brennan’s father Max dies in surgery after being mortally wounded defending his grandchildren from Assassins sent to kill them for revenge against Booth.
Booth’s father also dies during the show’s runtime, though this is off screen
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csbyron1
S1
 E10
The victim was a prostitute and didn't tell her boyfriend, and later a girl thinks that she is after her man for being hired by him
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Yes
6
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1
csbyron1
S1
 E1
We meet the victim's parents
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DepressoEspresso2000
In Season 2 Episode 9, Bones and Hodgins are kidnapped by the Gravedigger and buried alive in a car. They manage to escape by using the car’s airbags to create an explosion to loosen the sediment above them
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Yes
15
No
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0
csbyron1
S1
 E22
In the background in the bone room for some reason, completely irrelevant
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csbyron1
S1
 E9
We see Hodgins and Zack run to the decontamination shower and in the next scene see them in towels, but we don't see them actually in the shower
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csbyron1
S1
 E10
A few scenes at the beach
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gretchen.roberts
Yes in 'Mummy in the Maze' episode there is a clown with a gun
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csbyron1
S1
 E10
Many surgical supplies
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PoisonInsect
Season 2 Episode 10

It is alluded to that the killer of the episode was possessed to commit the murder
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csbyron1
S1
 E22
The skull at the beginning has a ton of small circular labels stuck to it
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ElizabethZ
On a few occasions one of the main characters, Booth, sees ghosts, however it is unclear if the ghosts are real or due to a brain injury that is revealed later in the series.
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Yes
15
No
23
Yes
0
No
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1
Lilla.h
S6
 E11
one character admits to soiling/wetting herself after seeing someone's head being blown off
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csbyron1
S1
 E2
Dead body is eaten by beetles
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gretchen.roberts
One of the cases, Bones makes someone vomit because they swallowed evidence but you can see it coming because fingers go down his throat.
Also a science guy for children comes in and he vomits quite early in the episode
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Yes
0
No
14
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csbyron1
S1
 E9
Not gore, but there is a bone saw at the beginning that makes pretty awful noises
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jocie
S8
 E6
This entire episode is based on someone who died through 9/11. Temperance also mentions how she identified bodies after 9/11.
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csbyron1
S1
 E22
Talk of Russ being on parole
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OneirosDream
Basically, any time Booth gets mad at a suspect the audience is supposed to loathe and want to see hit.
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Yes
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No
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0
csbyron1
S1
 E10
Nothing directly transphobic. But Brennan bashes plastic surgery to a point that could be offensive to people who have gotten elective surgeries done to feel more at home in their bodies
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csbyron1
S1
 E22
Not in a trans way, but two people are revealed to have been born with different names than they use. Causes a little identity crisis in one of them.
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csbyron1
S1
 E10
Dr. Goodman and Hodgins are working on authenticating a 1500-year-old skeleton, and Goodman insists they don't dismantle it
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Sebastian_Barton
S4
In s4 e5 or e6 Booth tells Sweets that if anyone asks why Zach was out of the facility, he should tell them he took Zach for electro-therapy.
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rockyrock
*spoiler* In season 9, Wendell Bray (a squintern) is diagnosed with Ewings-Sarcoma after Dr. Brennan looks at his x-rays after he broke his arm. He, after some debate, decides to go through chemo. He ultimately survives.
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Anonymous
One of the main characters gets sent to a mental institution, (he's fine though) and there's some scenes in it.
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csbyron1
S1
 E5
Margaret describes finding someone dead with a needle in their arm
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Yes
0
No
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0
csbyron1
S1
 E4
No characters ill, but doctors are interviewed there
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mackthompson5
autistic-coded characters sometimes get playfully picked on for their “quirks” (which are actually traits of autism), but it’s typically out of a place of love and i wouldn’t consider it abuse
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PoisonInsect
Throughout the show there are multiple people who can be deemed mentally ill due to their reasonings to do a murder and their overall personality.
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csbyron1
S1
 E12
bonesaw :)
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GentleZacharias
Many of the main characters are socially uncomfortable enough to react with panic to occasional extreme social/professional situations, and footage of crime victims and perpetrators often features panic and anxiety reactions.
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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csbyron1
S1
 E3
Lots of discussion on reasons the victim may or may not have wanted to kill himself
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Emsmovies
^ A bullied girl dies by suicide but tries to frame her bullies for her "murder".
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Yes
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No
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0
csbyron1
S1
 E11
Someone is said to have Oppositional Defiant Disorder and paranoia
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yeckh
There is an episode I recall with a child pageant where the murdered child is said fo have refused food/etc. I recall several other mentions of eating disorders, but usually they are not explicitly shown.
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csbyron1
S1
 E13
Brennan describes an extremely traumatic event she went through that she says is shaping how she conducts the investigation, then insists she doesn't need therapy
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postermug
A serial killer called the Grave Digger buries people alive, you might want to avoid any episodes related to that. s2e9, s4e14, s4e26, s5e21, s6e11, s6e11.
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Ricky
Someone cuts her hand to find out if a man has vasovagal syncope
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mysterysaturn
S4
 E4
Not directly but Hodgins mentions that he'd rather drive off a bridge than talk to Sweets.
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SzonKlin
S08e09 is shown almost entirely from the POV of the victim's skull that the team takes to carrying around because some of them believe that the boy's soul is still there. The picture is sometime shakey due to this
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Yes
0
No
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1
gonzogm
S3
 E5
Yes, both when they are in the thousand dead bodies Halloween attraction and when Brennan and Booth go underground near the end of the episode.
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csbyron1
S1
 E15
Bomb explodes after Booth goes into Brennan's kitchen for a drink
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csbyron1
S1
 E18
Hodgins goes scuba diving multiple times
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csbyron1
S1
 E11
Toddler cries
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csbyron1
S1
 E5
The perpetrator is seen in the background of many scenes if you look closely enough
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S8 Episode 5: the entire cast speaks to a skull of a victim as if he were still alive. The audience sees from the perspective of the skull so it seems the characters are talking to the viewer. Could potentially be triggering
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SzonKlin
No, but in the final episode there's a while where they don't know if the baby inside Angela is still alive
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Yes
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No
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csbyron1
S1
 E9
Talk of pregnancy and parenthood, a couple of toddlers
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Kelseygirl326
There is mention of abortion.
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SzonKlin
Several characters give birth during the series, three of those happen more-or-less onscreen. SPOILERS:: the most explicit one is when Bones gives birth in s07e07. Her upperbody is shown throughout as well as her legs and the freshly born baby. Angela gives birth in s06e23 in a hospital, she is shown several time during labor and her upper body is shown during delivery but it is clean. The freshly born baby is shown. Daisy gives birth in s10e08. She is shown several times during labor and her cries can be heard during delivery
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csbyron1
S1
 E16
Not onscreen, but Harold describes killing a pregnant person in detail
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GentleZacharias
The episode features transphobic jokes from several of the main characters, and doesn't take much care about the language they use, but overall the episode's tone is very positive - the transphobes in the episode are depicted as criminals and villains. Booth makes one transphobic comment, to which someone responds, "Don't say she 'used to be' a man, that makes you sound ignorant." Thereafter, when the rest of the team is having trouble with the victim's pronouns, Booth asserts firmly, "From now on, 'he' is always 'she'. She was a she when she died, so she deserves the respect due to him or her... okay, person!" While this is not the most "optimal" way to be an ally, Booth unmistakably is one, and the overall tone of the episode attempts to be respectful.
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csbyron1
S1
 E4
Native Americans are referred to as Indians throughout the episode
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postermug
Someone says several very Islamophobic things to a Muslim intern. This happens in the first few episodes the intern appears in but stops.
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csbyron1
S1
 E3
Not onscreen, but talk of a Deaf child being bullied
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csbyron1
S1
 E22
Brennan jokes that if she and Booth keep eating Chinese food they will get fat
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No
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postermug
Booth says f****t. Can't find the episode number but it's at the end of the episode where the victim was a gay guy. The murderer called the victim this.
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SzonKlin
In s04e07 the victim is a transgender woman who is at first identified as male based on her skeleton. Her wife (who she was married to before she came out or transitioned) refuses to acknowledge her identity. Booth purposefully misgenders her several times while interrogating suspects to manipulate them (either to placate them, or to get a rise out of them). The majority of the main cast as well as the people in the victim's life re supportive.

In s04e23 one of the people assisting on the case "identifies with a subset of an urban Japanese aesthetic known as kei [...] It glorifies androgyny", but the squints spend the episode trying to guess their "real gender". At the end of the episode Angela hugs them and later tells the squints that they are a guy.

In s09e23 the victim is a drag queen and there are several drag queens interviewed during the investigation. There are a few instances that might qualify as misgendering and also where Booth deliberately does t to get a rise out of someone
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csbyron1
S1
 E16
Doesn't die first, but is the first person Brennan accuses despite hardly seeing the face of the suspect
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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0
csbyron1
S1
 E8
Dr Brennan hooks up with her former professor
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csbyron1
S1
 E5
Bones tells Booth she knows he did the right thing because he believes in heaven
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csbyron1
S1
 E2
Booth and Tessa are seen getting dressed, presumably just having slept together
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
Yes
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No
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Sebastian_Barton
S3
 E1
I could be wrong but I’m fairly sure Yanks in the UK ends up with the victim and her boyfriend actually having been related (with the same father), though neither finds out.
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Yes
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No
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Is there BDSM?
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No
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csbyron1
S1
 E1
In the first scene, Angela flashes someone (with her bra on)
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csbyron1
S1
 E4
Zack and Hodgins lust after a delivery girl, camera sometimes zooms in on her ass
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Yes
0
No
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Yes
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No
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0
csbyron1
S1
 E8
Thyroid disorder that caused the victim's bones to become more brittle. Very important part of the case
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Yes
0
No
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Yes
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No
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0
csbyron1
S1
 E2
Religion is briefly discussed
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csbyron1
S1
 E11
Booth insists Brennan will eventually change her mind about not wanting children
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Yes
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No
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DepressoEspresso2000
Every Christmas episode has Bones rebuffing Santa, and the Season 5 Christmas Special “The Goop on the Girl” had a man dressed as Santa as the victim.
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ElizabethZ
Though most episodes end happy, some don't although the series overall has a positive ending.
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csbyron1
S1
 E14
Offscreen, we see the debris in graphic detail
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SzonKlin
Several victims and in s02e09 Hodgins is hit by a car but survives
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csbyron1
S1
 E2
During a scene transition, everyone is fine
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csbyron1
S1
 E1
Drivers don't watch the road but it's fine
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csbyron1
S1
 E19
The episode begins by examining hundreds of bodies recovered from Hurricane Katrina, many of whom drowned
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LJKS
The entire show could be considered blood and gore. Every episode contains a body, usually far along in decomposition
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csbyron1
S1
 E18
The gun is fired at a computer
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Ricky
Not nuclear but many explosions
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