FR. Its so upsetting. This is why people who make autistic characters need to learn about subtext bc all good media portraying autistic characters is ones where the character wasnt made with autism in mind, or characters made by actual autistic people
@Pumpkin.Crowz_ 100% agree. This made me think - It is wild how they act like all autistic people are a monolith....when I pick up on subtext and have better critical thinking skills, than the vast majority of my family. &it is also weird af, because afab people/ women and amab people / men, present differently, and your socioeconomic background and how much help you recieve/d as a kid, also makes a difference.
To be sure, I've known plenty of prejudiced and cognitively-rigid autistic people, but I've also known plenty of autistic people who were infinitely more "woke," sensitive, and thoughtful than a lot of NTs, to the point of often being resented by said NTs. What really stands out as unrealistic in retrospect is that Bones is a *woman* who has seemingly managed to get away with making these kinds of extremely-inappropriate comments throughout her life, because most of the autistic and ADHD AFABs I've known have been absolutely *pummeled* for less.
Its crazy that they lump autism in the same breathe as being an asshole..??or racist its like..."What" Shes just awful adult human being lmao. The fact that we dont have actual autistic characters playing these roles..either? I am glad that we live in 2024 and people have outgrown this stupid notion of misrepresentation.
Unfortunately, Bones was one of my comfort shows as a tween… Arastoo (AIR-uh-stoo) ends up becoming a great character! He is revealed to be American, and faked his accent so his religiosity would be taken more seriously (which is a… unique… plot point). He was easily the first Asian-American / Muslim / Brown character I saw be *both smart AND cool.* He ends up marrying their gorgeous boss, Cam, in one of the very few mixed TV relationships that doesn’t include a white person. I just love seeing POC taken seriously as romantic figures! At the end of the day, Bones was a mid-2000s show made by h0rny nerds. While we continue to reflect on the layers of prejudice the writers injected, I still appreciate Bones’s progressive arcs that are bolder and lengthier than most procedurals will consider.
@@comfyghostyeah when he talked about the choices of songs I was like but he isn't an immigrant he is American that was supposed to be your first clue.
It always bothered me that Bones was such a bigot at times because like…. Girl. Understanding that cultures and subcultures don’t evolve along a shared timeline is like a day one topic for social anthropology 101
I have a history degree so not exactly anthropology (and i actually did rly badly at my one anthro class lol) but in history we do have a very similar day one conversation about not holding people from different cultures (and eras) to the exact standards of a 21st century American person. people outside of history and related studies REALLY don’t grasp this concept (and even some people in my history classes really struggled with it). i guess that’s sort of why bones turned out the way it did, lol
I feel so bad for the intern. Its his first day at a new job and he tries to join in the conversation, mishears a name and tries to join the conversation, only to get attacked for no reason, before even getting a chance to respond to the revelation that he misheard the name and got the gender wrong. Like we don’t even know at this point if he IS muslim, just that he appears to be middle eastern. And he didn’t even say anything homophobic, just misheard a name 😭😭😭. This poor man
It’s okay. It comes out later that he’s faking his accent and is actually American, and he thought pretending to be foreign would mean he’d be judged less for being Muslim
Bones suffered from a lot of the same obnoxious "Sheldon Cooperisms" where an autistic coded character is just unacceptablly and irrationally rude or ignorant and its either played off as a joke or as them being socially inept and quirky. Like "oh haha the neurodivergent weirdo doesn't understand social ettiquette enough to not be racist"
it’s wild that she’s both assuming that he’s homophobic _and_ devoutly religious, and also just kinda insulting whatever religion she thinks he is. He literally just misheard what the other lady said, and she just leaps into being a jerk to him instead of even waiting to see how he reacts after being corrected.
It's also annoying the fact that when Angela is talking to the group as getting a dog none of them referred to roxy's gender or pronouns. So he had no way of knowing that Roxy wasn't a man. He just made a natural assumption based of the time (usually people are straight and those that weren't kept it low key) and made a brief comment of how cool "Rocky" is for a name. Then she jumped straight to rudely correcting him and making off handed and reductive islamaphobic comments, assuming that he is being homophobic without giving him a chance. Which I think is quite indicative of a lot of the problematic issues of bones.
Something that bothers me about the depiction of Arastoo is that I have had several Muslim coworkers and they have never prayed in public like that. At my former place of work I never came across them praying and in my new place of work where there are fewer places to go off to the side, I've come upon them a few times and I always feel like the intrusive one. It makes me think the writers never knew a single Muslim person.
Every Muslim coworker I’ve ever had and one of my friends, who is also Muslim, have gone to a private area to pray. Not sure if that’s just their personal preferences or not, but I’ve never seen them pray in public areas.
@@luv4tajhanb it's not a preference, its for "الخشوع بالصلاه" ",Humility in prayer" . So basically there's no point of praying in front of everyone because that will be distracting, and the prayer will be flawed.
I watched almost every episode of it, which means I will watch every video about it that Willie chooses to produce. 😀 I honestly wanted to quit watching as soon as they made Zack into a serial killer. It was so dumb, and I liked that character. But I kept watching until almost the last season. I think the reason I stopped was that I couldn't find it as easily and just lost interest in looking for it. And Bones & Seeley were much harder to endure as a married couple.
My favorite part is how in every episode, Dr. Bones says "To the Bones Mobile!" and then they all jump into the Bones Mobile and drive to the scene of the crime.
Willie, if you haven't seen the Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover, do yourself a favor and watch it. Magic and ghosts are canon to the Bones-verse. It recontextualizes the entire series
@@danielnemesio3388 We can pin Booth seeing the ghost but not Brennan speaking to the ghost at the cemetary at the end of that episode. It even gets mentioned how most of the things he describes are two person activities
How on earth does the Jeffersonian museum not have some kind of private prayer room/wellness room/private employee room for Arastoo/other employees to pray in? Where are people breastfeeding or pumping in this museum??
Maybe the room is stuck in some odd vortex where East doesn't exist? I'm not serious obviously... You do have a good point. Such a room surely exists. It is just harder for them to flaunt his religion to use it as a teaching tool. The episode wants to evoke discussion on religion, not how breastfeeding is literally the feeding of a child and not a sexual act. They aren't ready for that one yet. Therefore, the "room" only exists for them.
Does the Smithsonian have those places? I always assumed based on the names and locations that it was meant to be some sort of analog for the Smithsonian. If they do, that’s super rad, but from my experience most employers don’t have a prayer room but might have some kind of employee lounge with a fridge and a table, maybe a vending machine, and that’s potentially the best you’re gonna get. Since they do work on stuff that requires cleaning and keeping sterile, there’s also a chance there’s some kind of locker/shower room? And unfortunately most places in the US just expect you to pump or breastfeed wherever you can sit down, and will also do very little about the stupid judgment random passerby have and might join in on telling the lactating person to gtfo of their sight while doing it without offering an alternative.
@@averyeml I work in corporate america; all of our office buildings have a "wellness room" like this. I would assume a large government building would as well.
As someone who's worked with cadavers, you will just end up having casual conversations around them for two reasons, first is that you're pulling shifts over 10 hours at times, you're eventually just going to converse with your co workers, second is that it would mentally destroy anyone's mental health focusing on the cadaver and their history for days at a time. You have to disconnect in a way in order to do your job. However for cops, death is not their exclusive work so I can't speak on their comments but I'd believe they would and have made jokes about the cadavers and that's not something I've witnessed on the research side.
As someone who has witnessed firsthand cops responding to a death call, some of them do make comments and jokes about the deceased. And yes, you do just get used to working with the dead. I would often talk to the deceased so you can bet I was also talking to my coworkers. Granted I worked in the funerary industry, not forensic, but my county had no morgue so we held bodies for the cops, and you either learn how to handle the things you see or you don’t make it in the industry (which is fair, it can mess you up).
It’s not the same, but as someone in healthcare/EMS… Yeah. This is true. You sadly become desensitized to some things in an effort to not let it destroy you.
@@MeCooper this is really true. it's an uncomfortable truth, but an important one. at the same time, i'd love for cops and EMTs to understand that making those jokes in front of bystanders is off-putting and contributes to the prevalence of suspicion and resentment towards those vocations (of course cops earn the great bulk of it but too many EMTs act like cops for them to be safe).
I can only speak to this from my perspective as nurse but like yeah to be frank at a certain point you've seen enough dead bodies that it's kind of whatever. Obviously you don't do it in front of family members or anything like that but otherwise it's just a lump of dead flesh and bone
Bones was wild to me because the titular character was, like, the worst possible atheist. She doesn't fully understand her arguments so she's convinced by bad counters and she's immediately cruel to people with other beliefs.
@caffetiel Yes, it was so weird. Like, it's okay if she grew as a more tolerant person, but the writers didn't want to give her that without her specifically losing her strong position in atheism.
It makes her as a top anthropologist so weird too? Like… peak old school colonial anthropologist, the disconnect between her being completely uninterested in (or just opposed to) understanding religion and blatantly disrespectful of it, and somehow also being a great field anthropologist… even in post-9/11 gov propaganda tv it’s hard to imagine her shallow and condescending takes getting her that much renown? Can’t imagine she’d be tolerated for long, or get real insight, in closed cultures while she’s treating everyone like foolish children either, tbh
@@caffetiel , as an atheist myself, I hate how a lot of media has historically depicted us as smug jerks who make hollow cardboard arguments that can be easily defeated by the "faith and pixie dust" crowd.
One of the interns of the week was fat, and was the only one ever to be turned away for being incompetent. I had Opinions on that, which is why I even remember.
Goddd I forgot about that one till you mentioned it. The one that stuck with me was that serial killers abusive mom they interrogated who was fat. bones called her morbidly obese to her face iirc, and went on to say the bad smell in the room was because of the mold that grows in the fat folds, and the woman was cruel and horrifically abusive to her son, and like. That’s disgusting in itself. They coulda left it there. But instead, nah, we gotta make her VISIBLY disgusting. What’s disgusting? Ohhhhh fatties. Let’s talk about how she stinks, too. I just… why, y’all?
Rant: Alongside the racist/xenophobic/islamophobic part of Bones' staffs' hatred toward the intern (as well as his weirdly infantile portrayal) is how stupid it is to be mad that he prays multiple times a day. She says "this isn't going to work" as though his prayers are going to be a major disruption. But you know who seemed to always get a pass (at least back in the day) despite taking tons of breaks? Smokers. I'm an atheist too; but seriously lady, relax! This is part of my personal bias, but I always *hated* that most of my jobs would allow our coworkers who smoked to go out and take multiple smoke breaks every day, but would tell me I can't just go sit in silence in the back office for the same amount of time. Same folks would likely be against Muslims doing their prayers, or folks who needed to make a personal call. The weird privilege that a "smoke break" allowed some folks was so frustrating! Just let us take a couple small breaks, damn! Why do we need the excuse of killing ourselves with cancer sticks just to get a moment to sit down? 😡😭 Only vaguely related to the video, but I wanted to rant about it. Well made as always, Willie! And best wishes and good luck to Winnie!
Two of wildest work experiences I have had involve coworkers who smoked. One felt he was being treated unfairly for being told not to smoke around a gas pipeline. The other said he was being excluded for not being allowed to commute to the job site with two coworkers with asthma. 😅
True story, my grandfather was a small business owner who made headlines in my city and got his 15 minutes of extremely questionable fame when he declined to hire someone _because they were a smoker._ Certainly got people talking though (and at the time, which was the early '90s, I think ~2/3 of people were on his side).
As somebody who used to watch Bones religiously (I didn't actually care about it, I was just desperate to fill the David Boreanaz-shaped void in my heart following the series finale of "Angel") and also watched Family Guy at the time, I am 1000% convinced that the only reason Stewie was Booth's hallucination is because in the Family Guy christmas episode where Stewie and Brian go to the north pole to meet Santa, David Boreanaz (the real human man, not an animated version) shows up to give them directions- it's a joke about "the Aurora Boreanaz"- and that introduced this weird idea that it's normal for him to talk to Stewie. Because if I had seen that episode of Bones without having first seen that episode of Family Guy, I would've been super confused, but for some reason, the FG thing just made me go "yeah, no, that makes perfect sense, actually. He exists in their universe as a real human being they can communicate with; why wouldn't Stewie exist as a cartoon he can communicate with in his?" Maybe that's just my autism speaking, tho.
I was going to leave a comment about the video title, that I didn't remember Bones being *that* weird... But your comment has given me new context. Suddenly, the title doesn't seem inaccurate anymore.
Oh ... They did a family guy cross over? I mean it was cute when they did that with another series that was similar in nature _(Can't even remember what that show was)_ but that just sounds... Gross. So basically the problem is that the writers and producers are a bunch of whores?
I watched 10-20 episodes of this show spread over many seasons. Many episodes I watched contained something wildly rascist or bigoted. The show's depiction of Japanese people, in an episode featuring a serial killer, was especially baffling. It featured a non-binary person that the team kept on trying to gender and a Japanese cop acting like some stereotypical samurai out of a 1980s ninja action flick.
@@haphazardlark1502honestly I don’t think they did and I think that’s actually a bit of a good thing. I mean obviously they did things that were always offensive but the show was made nearly 20 years ago. They had a far amount of progressive topics in the show and were obviously at least trying. I think if anything the fact that we can look back at so many older shows and movies, even ones like this that honestly aren’t that old, and see so many more problems shows that despite everything we are moving forward. I guess I just find that it’s easy to see something or look back on it and think “this is so horrible how did I or anyone ever like this” instead of seeing that being able to tell that things in it were wrong is good growth. Especially when it’s something that was really popular and now most people agree that it’s got problems. Maybe it’s no longer worth watching but I think that’s a better way to think about it.
Also, taking care of yourself is the why the airplane safety talk about the putting your mask on first before helping someone else. If you don't you won't be necessarily be able to help them because you are incapacitated. Always a good reminder, so thank you.
The lack of oxygen is crazy. Evolution didn't prepare you for that, and there are zero ways for you to feel it. Always help yourself first with the mask. If you ever watch training videos, it takes so little time before the instructors say "if you don't put on a mask right now you will die". (At 10k the "useful" time is about 10 seconds, and then you're done). And people fail to follow the instructions at this point, even when they know they will die and putting the mask on is the thing practiced here. Take care of yourself. Then help others.
19:56 granted, if my co-workers kept openly harassing me, I'd either get a word in with HR or do my best to avoid confrontation. So him ignoring their comments is weirdly realistic for a person who is being persistently being racialised for his religion. Which is weird given how much they don't take his POV.
And even then, HR is not your friend, so even that is a risky, delicate situation to handle a lot of the time. People put up with so much for their own safety, and then it’s used as “evidence” that they don’t actually mind.
@@haphazardlark1502yeah but a lot of the times HR is also on the lookout for these super obvious lawsuit opportunities. HR is not your friend but if someone comes in and says “I’m being harassed in a way that will have the government on you if I tell the right person” they’re going to stomp it out or (less positively) get you to quit for vague fiddly stuff you can’t sue over
17:00 Wow. The way Bones treats that intern is just... damn. Way to make your main character a total bitch, writers. I'm a trans atheist with a lot of resentment towards organized religion as a whole, and even I think that jab at his religion after his one line was *so uncalled for.*
For real. Bones is abrasive, blunt, flawed and hurts peoples feelings by accident plenty. Flaws! Love ‘em! But oops I guess this is one of the episodes where she’s suddenly an outright bigot for a while
Aristoo prolly didn't feel comfortable calling her out just given the era. Anti-Muslim bigotry was really bad during the 2000s, and the one doing it was his superior. Sadly, poor dude probably had to put up with so much Bs all around
Bones had soooo much problematic stuff in it. Brennan was extremely aggressive with a little person, she and Booth talked shit about a fat lady right in front of her, racism, just so much terrible stuff. This show would not be made like this today.
Hi! Kathy Reichs fan here! Im slowly but surely reading through her Temperance Brennan series. The best thing I love about the TV series is that Temperance Brennan [an anthropologist] writes a crime/romance novel series about a foresnic anthropologist ,Kathy Reichs. EXCEPT that IRL, Kathy Reichs is an ACTUAL forensic anthropologist who writes mystery/romance novels about a foresinc anthropologist, Temperance Brennan.
Aaahhh thank you for this comment, I had fully forgotten that the person this was kinda based on wrote books. I meant to read them and them life happened and I fully forgot they existed. New library quest on my calendar for next week.
@haphazardlark1502 They're great as audiobooks. My library offers digital checkouts for audio and ebooks, typically with an app like Hoopla or Libby. You learn a bit about the science of forensic anthropology too, which makes watching crime shows or true crime podcasts fun
Does the wildly racist content and Temperance's bigotry exist in the books? I've always wondered, but the character in the TV show is so insufferable I never worked up the nerve to try reading them.
@Fuffydud Absolutely not, at least not on Brennan's side. She is a North Carolinan, but her well traveled nature and college education leaves her pretty unbothered by what people do or believe. It's usually the good ole boy cops or already annoying people she comes across who express any backwards ideas. She simply cares about seeing people's lives being dignified and tries to restore that for the victims she helps. There was a really interesting case about someone who was intersex because they had an extra sex chromosome. It made the ID based on skeletal remains and forensics more challenging. But they never played off this person's life as a joke.
I think the misgendering/wrong pronouns thing was supposed to be the writers trying to make the character of Arastoo look like a silly little guy who calls everyone mister or miss even a band. At that time ( 2009) the band was called Antony and the Johnsons, and the frontwoman of the band admittedly had not made any pronoun preference known to the media. She also didn't changed her name to Anhoni until several years after this episode aired, and the name of the band didn't change until they got back together last year. So silly little guy Arastoo called them "Mister Antony and the Johnsons" simply because it was silly to do such a thing to a band name. The writers were only using information known to the general public at the time of writing the episode. If the episode came out this year and he said that, then there's a very clear issue to be taken.
Good vibes for Winnie and Robin and family... And good vibes for all of us affected by * waves hands at everything * On another note, wow, Bones sure is a show
My goodness what a beautiful sponsor message. Sending strength and support to Winnie! You've got this! Just take everything a day, an hour, a minute, a second at a time.
2:47 - wow your intro speech reminded me of a song by the german band "Wir sind Helden" (we are heroes, called "Nichts was wir tun können" (nothing we can do). The lyrics go "there is nothing we can do besides resting". The song and the whole album "Bring mich nach Hause" (take me home) carried me through a hard time in my life. Its very powerful for grieving. Give it a try, even if you don't understand the language. The songs sound very powerful. Sad, exhausted and angry.
I can speak as a first generation Iranian immigrant that I WOULD put together that playlist as a teenager but probably not Dust In The Wind. It doesn't feel like the right vibe. What I'm shocked by is the fact he didn't list Gole Yakh ONCE in that playlist 🤧
Hi Algorithm. Mr Rithm. Al, if I may. I just need it to be known that Willie is good at videos and funny at commentary. I've never seen a minute of Bones before, and Willie's thoughts on it are fun to hear about.
Hi, I don't know you, but this comment here... I need you to know that you are loved. Your sense of humuor is exceptionally reminiscent of my slightly older brother who I'm sure you don't know at all and therefore cannot draw context, but trust me bro? You're a cool kid, keep it up.
From one Mountain Goats fan to another, i hope for the best for you, Winnie. I used to work with the deceased as a transporter (I would pick up and deliver the dead from hospitals/nursing homes/hospice to funeral homes). Almost every mortician and funeral director had as bad a sense of humor or worse than what we see from the cast of Bones. The ones that didn't were some of the creepiest people you'd ever meet. Working with the dead changes you. It's such an innately traumatic line of work that you develop coping mechanisms that seem ghastly by normal standards. I can't speak for investigators, but I imagine they would be similar.
Okay I don't like this show, but there is exactly one thing I will always respect about it, and that is the Stewie hallucination brain tumor. So so so many shows have had characters experience silly wacky crazy hallucinations multiple times and just think nothing of it. Bones is the only show I've seen that has a character go "Hmm, I've had two really weird hallucinations, and that's not normal for me. Maybe I should get this checked out."
I consumed a lot of Bones back in the day... A phrase that could be read very badly, i now realize but will not take back. Gonna watch any such video you put out
Stupid nitpick but when Angela showed her gf da pic of the dog & says to look into da dog's eyes I just can't help but notice that the bars in the foreground perfectly obscured the dog's eyes. Like Angela what are you talking about I literally can't even see the dogs eye colour why choose such a photo in the first place???
i don't know winnie and robin, but i can only surmise that such a loving message would be borne from someone that has been shown strength, care, and persistence in their relationship. you got this winnie.
I don't know what Winnie is going through but I put myself into a very nice mental health hospital (holistic) a year ago when I was going through a very hard time. I had to take short term disability from work and take some funds from my home equity line. I was lucky to have it available. But those 6 weeks in patient and roughly 6 weeks partial inpatient was integral to me being mostly ok right now. We have to trust in ourselves when we feel like we need any kind of help. Physical, mental, and spiritual.
My mother is a big crime show fan, so I’ve seen a lot of episodes from these kinds of shows. It’s so good to hear people talk about these shows while addressing where the showrunners were trying to be progressive and where the showrunners very much failed.
Every time i rewatch this series my hatred for Booth makes a reappearance. The pregnancy pact episode always drives that home so i end up spending the rest of the series shit talking him :/
Ok, I can see how they'd make the jokes they make...I feel like a lot of people who work either with the dead or in medical field sort of...develop a bit of darker humor because you've got to cope somehow. However...the whole rest of the show is crazy and, I feel like sometimes they try to shoehorn in a lesson or moral like it's a show for kids XD. Like the 'thinking about the future' (and you're right looking forward/not looking backwards are two different things. Tho, I think the Lot's wife thing was more because salt rather than what she got punished for. Writers did not think about it more than that).
For me the thing has always been that the Bones crew from the clips I've encountered over the years is that like they like beat you over the head with their jokes or really they're just kinda lame & corny in a way that makes it feel less like they are desensitized to death due to their occupation & more like they are all failed stand up comedians workshoping their jokes at their day job
So as that person who "Read the Books" This is NOT true to Temperance Brennans character. She is a middle-aged divorced mother of a college student who works in both Canada and The US consulting on forensic cases. She is also a proffesor at a university on her subject. She is loosely Christian, and pretense much onky prays when shes in a life or death situation. Temperance feels the loss of each victim very, very personally. ESPECIALLY children and women. She greives them and atteneds their burial and funeral services whenever she can. She would never be so cold or standoffish as she is in the TV. Now, I'm waiting to read 206 Bones, but so far she doesn't comment on the LGBTQ+ community or Islamic faith whatsoever as I've seen. There's a cult mystery in one novel, but that wasn't tied to any denomination. Temperance cares more about the fact that people deserve to feel safe and protected, to the point where se helps a US state and a Canadian province to seek justice for those whove had their safety stolen. Each character depiction is its own, but I HATE how they're not the same.
I was gonna ask if the piece you're working on was Winnie-the-Pooh themed on purpose, then I read through the comments to see if anyone else had brought it up, and was reminded that this episode was dedicated to Winnie, by Robin. So, maybe?
Im sorry youre dealing with copyright stuff on top of the rest of everything. Im glad you made another Bones video though! I never watched Bones, but i loved your last video for Bones!
You said to let you know if we wanted more of the Bones videos… me and 4 of my 5 rats do!!! (The fifth rat has a broken elbow rn so she doesn’t really wanna talk about any kind of bones)
When they cut to Angela in bed with Hodges, I realized I def watched this episode. When I was 11 and probably too young to be watching this sort of show. And I also recall the “secret Fiji husband” thing. I wonder why I had such skewed ideas about bisexuality back then 🤔🤔🤔
I just found this channel and I would LOVE to see you go through the whole insane series of Bones with this delivery. Your presentation style is fantastic.
I haven't watched a video in a while (and for that I am sorry) but as someone that never got Bones and only heard bad stuff about it recently I am excited for this deep dive! on another note I just deleted twitter, and with that the tweets that I send to you back when you did the spooky show, where I found some random cups, mugs and candles that fit the theme of the spooky show and tweeted them at you Why am i telling you this? well, you always replied and that was so sweet and they are the only reason why I hadn't left twitter up until now because that is honestly a sweet memory from a (personally) bad time so thank you for being you!
As someone who has lived in two different Arab countries and also has taught the English language for a number of years: the crew thinking Arastoo would be defensive about his religion and him being preachy is quite a normal thought. Is it right to expect those things? I guess it all depends on what type of religious people you've been exposed to. A number of zealous religious people tend to be defensive and preachy regardless of the religion they ascribe to. On the idea of him not actually listening to those songs and those songs being what the creators of the show might listen to... I have to say... the most accessible and effective way for people to learn a language is through their entertainment, so movies, shows, and music were the most popular for decades and decades. Now we can add podcasts and audiobooks and such to the list, but let me say, the people I know that learned English through rap and hip hop have a much better understanding of the nuisances of the language ( idioms, words with more than one meaning, more informal speech in general, etc.) So yes, I really do think Arastoo would be listening to this array of music, absolutely, and not only would he be listening but studying the lyrics closely and really trying to learn from it. Not only is he someone trying to learn a different language but he's also a scientist.
Case in point: just started season 10. Episode three opens with two privileged private high school girls walking to a soup kitchen for community service because it’ll look good for their college applications. Well they’re cutting under this overpass and they see the lower half of a man who appears to be stuck from the waist up and trying to get out based on his legs kicking. They pull him out only to find his upper body has been eaten by ferrets (who have then moved down to his legs and were encased by his pants explaining the kicking) and one of the girls, who had been complaining the entire time, turns to the other and says “you’re right, this is going to look great on a college essay.” Chef’s kiss
My older brother introduced me and my younger sister to you with your video on Barbie: Princess and the Pauper (me and her favourite Barbie film) and I'm glad he did. I love your commentary and your knitting!! All the love to you!!
Im sure at least a few other people have also pointed this out but the real life high school pregnancy pact was not a pact! and then according to the most trusted source on the internet, wikipedia. all of the girls involved got pregnant independently of each other and were lumped together into a dumb pact by the principal (who also accused one of the teenage girls of sleeping with an older homeless man to get pregnant??? which is so weird?????) and then some news sources/parents got that information and went nuts about it. Some of the girls did come together to support each other through school and raising of their children since their community obviously wasnt giving that to them?
yes the only packte that existed, if you want to call it that, was for the girls to support each other after they got pregnant / when they found out. And that was a pretty good thing and mature. But of course we can't have that when it comes to teenage girls, can't we?
To be fair to the writing (even though I'm not sure it's earned this kindness), planning to get a dog doesn't necessarily indicate someone is thinking of the future because it could have been something she was contemplating doing on a whim, which would show she wasn't thinking of the actual logistics and responsibilities involved if she followed through. Similar to those girls getting pregnant and that boy being their sperm donor without actually thinking through the real future burdens that having a child brings.
I had a huge realization while watching this video, and it made me realize feelings I had repressed for years. I don't know why, but I swear, something about Willie is so truly comforting to me.
I grew up in the DMV area and you are 100000% correct about the bizarre portrayal of Bones being totally scandalized by the presence of a Muslim person. Whoever wrote this crap was not at all familiar with DC, which is a major international melting pot.
Is it just me or did they accidentally make Arastoo kinda GNC or queer-coded? Like they tried so hard to make him non-threatening that they ended up writing a character who transgresses a lot of our society's Big Tough Man gender norms. A soft-spoken and emotionally expressive guy who spontaneously shares his breakup playlist with the nearest queer person is wonderful, but we don't live in a world that properly respects that kind of softness in men. It would take guts to be a guy like Arastoo IRL. (especially when also dealing with racism/islamiphobia!)
I only watched bones on occasion when my grandparents had it on when I was a kid. I would think it was out of pocket sometimes even when I was a kid, so these recaps really make me feel sane and are so funny lol
Sorry for not commenting before (I was high when I watched it live), but I love the sweater and I love you talking about bones! Had a small hyperfixation on it as a teen
I clicked this because my parents are rewatching this and I was mildly interested. The second I heard your voice I was like, "Oh! WILLIE willie. Hell yeah"
I believe the very point of the mix tape was also to play into the "you expected this based on his background, but you were wrong". So it very purposely was that kind of music. But also, I can imagine him being like "oh hey, what from my CDs would a sad American like"
Loved the video! I watched the series on and off as a kid and do not remember it being as unhinged as it so clearly is. Love watching this series and being reminded of the absolutely unhinged things that were said/done on the show
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I hate when they make "autisic-coded" characters like Bones dislike something just so they can learn a lesson like an ignorant child.
FR. Its so upsetting. This is why people who make autistic characters need to learn about subtext bc all good media portraying autistic characters is ones where the character wasnt made with autism in mind, or characters made by actual autistic people
@Pumpkin.Crowz_ 100% agree. This made me think - It is wild how they act like all autistic people are a monolith....when I pick up on subtext and have better critical thinking skills, than the vast majority of my family.
&it is also weird af, because afab people/ women and amab people / men, present differently, and your socioeconomic background and how much help you recieve/d as a kid, also makes a difference.
autistic characters are usually always infantilised in a weird way too
To be sure, I've known plenty of prejudiced and cognitively-rigid autistic people, but I've also known plenty of autistic people who were infinitely more "woke," sensitive, and thoughtful than a lot of NTs, to the point of often being resented by said NTs.
What really stands out as unrealistic in retrospect is that Bones is a *woman* who has seemingly managed to get away with making these kinds of extremely-inappropriate comments throughout her life, because most of the autistic and ADHD AFABs I've known have been absolutely *pummeled* for less.
Its crazy that they lump autism in the same breathe as being an asshole..??or racist its like..."What"
Shes just awful adult human being lmao.
The fact that we dont have actual autistic characters playing these roles..either? I am glad that we live in 2024 and people have outgrown this stupid notion of misrepresentation.
"A child has DIED, booth!" Feels like it needs to be said way too often in this show
the way i can hear her say it
Then he goes about bullying the other kid at the end ...like some abusive holier than thou preacher puritanical father
I want this as a text tone that obviously i will never hear because whose phone makes noise anymore but I'd know it was there
Mine does. I just use the default noises. @@Rae-Nbow
Winnie's initials on the trans pride flag was a KILLER choice, it looks SICK ❤
Thank you
My name in Live Chat is Robin Ruthless, didn't realize it'd show up as @harrypuddles here lol
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I want a merch design !!
I want a full sized edition so bad I been looking up outdoor durable flag material. Winnie pride flag FTW
Unfortunately, Bones was one of my comfort shows as a tween… Arastoo (AIR-uh-stoo) ends up becoming a great character! He is revealed to be American, and faked his accent so his religiosity would be taken more seriously (which is a… unique… plot point). He was easily the first Asian-American / Muslim / Brown character I saw be *both smart AND cool.* He ends up marrying their gorgeous boss, Cam, in one of the very few mixed TV relationships that doesn’t include a white person. I just love seeing POC taken seriously as romantic figures!
At the end of the day, Bones was a mid-2000s show made by h0rny nerds. While we continue to reflect on the layers of prejudice the writers injected, I still appreciate Bones’s progressive arcs that are bolder and lengthier than most procedurals will consider.
Even better because I love Arastoo and Cam
Omg I forgot he faked his accent 😭 I was so thrown off watching this video when he started speaking with an accent
that would explain his very american music tastes
@@comfyghostyeah when he talked about the choices of songs I was like but he isn't an immigrant he is American that was supposed to be your first clue.
The good parts/progressive arcs were probably written by the women writers
It always bothered me that Bones was such a bigot at times because like…. Girl. Understanding that cultures and subcultures don’t evolve along a shared timeline is like a day one topic for social anthropology 101
I have a history degree so not exactly anthropology (and i actually did rly badly at my one anthro class lol) but in history we do have a very similar day one conversation about not holding people from different cultures (and eras) to the exact standards of a 21st century American person. people outside of history and related studies REALLY don’t grasp this concept (and even some people in my history classes really struggled with it). i guess that’s sort of why bones turned out the way it did, lol
😂😂😂 bigot?
Lol ya'll are something else
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And they put it under the guise of “she’s autistic so it’s fine” when that’s not how that works…
@kettlecorn2197 There is just sometbing so obnoxious about the way you talk/write. I can't quite place my finger on it
I feel so bad for the intern. Its his first day at a new job and he tries to join in the conversation, mishears a name and tries to join the conversation, only to get attacked for no reason, before even getting a chance to respond to the revelation that he misheard the name and got the gender wrong. Like we don’t even know at this point if he IS muslim, just that he appears to be middle eastern. And he didn’t even say anything homophobic, just misheard a name 😭😭😭. This poor man
It’s okay. It comes out later that he’s faking his accent and is actually American, and he thought pretending to be foreign would mean he’d be judged less for being Muslim
@@ShuhPond...that makes it ok?
@@marcel870 I was being facetious, but also, it’s highly likely he pretended to mishear the name as part of his act
Bones suffered from a lot of the same obnoxious "Sheldon Cooperisms" where an autistic coded character is just unacceptablly and irrationally rude or ignorant and its either played off as a joke or as them being socially inept and quirky. Like "oh haha the neurodivergent weirdo doesn't understand social ettiquette enough to not be racist"
And also, we get to make fun of them, because they haven't been formally diagnosed in-universe.
it’s wild that she’s both assuming that he’s homophobic _and_ devoutly religious, and also just kinda insulting whatever religion she thinks he is. He literally just misheard what the other lady said, and she just leaps into being a jerk to him instead of even waiting to see how he reacts after being corrected.
It's also annoying the fact that when Angela is talking to the group as getting a dog none of them referred to roxy's gender or pronouns. So he had no way of knowing that Roxy wasn't a man. He just made a natural assumption based of the time (usually people are straight and those that weren't kept it low key) and made a brief comment of how cool "Rocky" is for a name. Then she jumped straight to rudely correcting him and making off handed and reductive islamaphobic comments, assuming that he is being homophobic without giving him a chance. Which I think is quite indicative of a lot of the problematic issues of bones.
Something that bothers me about the depiction of Arastoo is that I have had several Muslim coworkers and they have never prayed in public like that. At my former place of work I never came across them praying and in my new place of work where there are fewer places to go off to the side, I've come upon them a few times and I always feel like the intrusive one. It makes me think the writers never knew a single Muslim person.
A Muslim will never be praying in an open space like that.
It's like "hey look at me I'm praying" which is not the point of praying.
Every Muslim coworker I’ve ever had and one of my friends, who is also Muslim, have gone to a private area to pray. Not sure if that’s just their personal preferences or not, but I’ve never seen them pray in public areas.
@@luv4tajhanb it's not a preference, its for
"الخشوع بالصلاه" ",Humility in prayer" .
So basically there's no point of praying in front of everyone because that will be distracting, and the prayer will be flawed.
I have never watched a single episode of this show, which means I will watch every video about it that Willie chooses to produce.
I watched almost every episode of it, which means I will watch every video about it that Willie chooses to produce. 😀
I honestly wanted to quit watching as soon as they made Zack into a serial killer. It was so dumb, and I liked that character. But I kept watching until almost the last season. I think the reason I stopped was that I couldn't find it as easily and just lost interest in looking for it. And Bones & Seeley were much harder to endure as a married couple.
My favorite part is how in every episode, Dr. Bones says "To the Bones Mobile!" and then they all jump into the Bones Mobile and drive to the scene of the crime.
I tried to watch the first episode, and I'd rather just watch any video about it Willie chooses to produce.
Same here. Never watched the show never will.
Winnie's patch is both badass and a gift to us all! We have no choice but to keep moving forward and be excellent and care for each other
Willie, if you haven't seen the Bones/Sleepy Hollow crossover, do yourself a favor and watch it. Magic and ghosts are canon to the Bones-verse. It recontextualizes the entire series
I mean, there is an entire episode from the point of view of a ghost and turns out the ghost was real
When I think about the original serial killer?? That ritual was gonna work with the context of magic being real
The most concrete ghost stuff we get outside of that is booth on the boat imo. It was always hinting at supernatural elements really
@@mildlydazed9608 We can still pin that on the tumour and him thinking he was going through something spiritual
@@danielnemesio3388 We can pin Booth seeing the ghost but not Brennan speaking to the ghost at the cemetary at the end of that episode. It even gets mentioned how most of the things he describes are two person activities
How on earth does the Jeffersonian museum not have some kind of private prayer room/wellness room/private employee room for Arastoo/other employees to pray in? Where are people breastfeeding or pumping in this museum??
Maybe the room is stuck in some odd vortex where East doesn't exist? I'm not serious obviously... You do have a good point. Such a room surely exists. It is just harder for them to flaunt his religion to use it as a teaching tool. The episode wants to evoke discussion on religion, not how breastfeeding is literally the feeding of a child and not a sexual act. They aren't ready for that one yet. Therefore, the "room" only exists for them.
Does the Smithsonian have those places? I always assumed based on the names and locations that it was meant to be some sort of analog for the Smithsonian.
If they do, that’s super rad, but from my experience most employers don’t have a prayer room but might have some kind of employee lounge with a fridge and a table, maybe a vending machine, and that’s potentially the best you’re gonna get. Since they do work on stuff that requires cleaning and keeping sterile, there’s also a chance there’s some kind of locker/shower room?
And unfortunately most places in the US just expect you to pump or breastfeed wherever you can sit down, and will also do very little about the stupid judgment random passerby have and might join in on telling the lactating person to gtfo of their sight while doing it without offering an alternative.
@@averyeml I work in corporate america; all of our office buildings have a "wellness room" like this. I would assume a large government building would as well.
As someone who's worked with cadavers, you will just end up having casual conversations around them for two reasons, first is that you're pulling shifts over 10 hours at times, you're eventually just going to converse with your co workers, second is that it would mentally destroy anyone's mental health focusing on the cadaver and their history for days at a time. You have to disconnect in a way in order to do your job. However for cops, death is not their exclusive work so I can't speak on their comments but I'd believe they would and have made jokes about the cadavers and that's not something I've witnessed on the research side.
As someone who has witnessed firsthand cops responding to a death call, some of them do make comments and jokes about the deceased.
And yes, you do just get used to working with the dead. I would often talk to the deceased so you can bet I was also talking to my coworkers. Granted I worked in the funerary industry, not forensic, but my county had no morgue so we held bodies for the cops, and you either learn how to handle the things you see or you don’t make it in the industry (which is fair, it can mess you up).
It’s not the same, but as someone in healthcare/EMS… Yeah. This is true. You sadly become desensitized to some things in an effort to not let it destroy you.
@@TheSheWolf48 Most cops enjoy gallows humor, Same with EMTs.
You kinda gotta to get through it. We're not actually built for that kinda stuff.
@@MeCooper this is really true. it's an uncomfortable truth, but an important one. at the same time, i'd love for cops and EMTs to understand that making those jokes in front of bystanders is off-putting and contributes to the prevalence of suspicion and resentment towards those vocations (of course cops earn the great bulk of it but too many EMTs act like cops for them to be safe).
I can only speak to this from my perspective as nurse but like yeah to be frank at a certain point you've seen enough dead bodies that it's kind of whatever. Obviously you don't do it in front of family members or anything like that but otherwise it's just a lump of dead flesh and bone
Bones was wild to me because the titular character was, like, the worst possible atheist. She doesn't fully understand her arguments so she's convinced by bad counters and she's immediately cruel to people with other beliefs.
The writers just wanted her there to make shitty arguments so Booth could Jesus at her. smh
@caffetiel Yes, it was so weird. Like, it's okay if she grew as a more tolerant person, but the writers didn't want to give her that without her specifically losing her strong position in atheism.
It makes her as a top anthropologist so weird too? Like… peak old school colonial anthropologist, the disconnect between her being completely uninterested in (or just opposed to) understanding religion and blatantly disrespectful of it, and somehow also being a great field anthropologist… even in post-9/11 gov propaganda tv it’s hard to imagine her shallow and condescending takes getting her that much renown? Can’t imagine she’d be tolerated for long, or get real insight, in closed cultures while she’s treating everyone like foolish children either, tbh
@@caffetiel , as an atheist myself, I hate how a lot of media has historically depicted us as smug jerks who make hollow cardboard arguments that can be easily defeated by the "faith and pixie dust" crowd.
It was an interesting aspect of her character, especially considering all the supernatural elements of the show
One of the interns of the week was fat, and was the only one ever to be turned away for being incompetent. I had Opinions on that, which is why I even remember.
Goddd I forgot about that one till you mentioned it. The one that stuck with me was that serial killers abusive mom they interrogated who was fat. bones called her morbidly obese to her face iirc, and went on to say the bad smell in the room was because of the mold that grows in the fat folds, and the woman was cruel and horrifically abusive to her son, and like. That’s disgusting in itself. They coulda left it there. But instead, nah, we gotta make her VISIBLY disgusting. What’s disgusting? Ohhhhh fatties. Let’s talk about how she stinks, too. I just… why, y’all?
Rant: Alongside the racist/xenophobic/islamophobic part of Bones' staffs' hatred toward the intern (as well as his weirdly infantile portrayal) is how stupid it is to be mad that he prays multiple times a day. She says "this isn't going to work" as though his prayers are going to be a major disruption. But you know who seemed to always get a pass (at least back in the day) despite taking tons of breaks? Smokers. I'm an atheist too; but seriously lady, relax!
This is part of my personal bias, but I always *hated* that most of my jobs would allow our coworkers who smoked to go out and take multiple smoke breaks every day, but would tell me I can't just go sit in silence in the back office for the same amount of time. Same folks would likely be against Muslims doing their prayers, or folks who needed to make a personal call. The weird privilege that a "smoke break" allowed some folks was so frustrating! Just let us take a couple small breaks, damn! Why do we need the excuse of killing ourselves with cancer sticks just to get a moment to sit down? 😡😭
Only vaguely related to the video, but I wanted to rant about it. Well made as always, Willie! And best wishes and good luck to Winnie!
Two of wildest work experiences I have had involve coworkers who smoked. One felt he was being treated unfairly for being told not to smoke around a gas pipeline. The other said he was being excluded for not being allowed to commute to the job site with two coworkers with asthma. 😅
True story, my grandfather was a small business owner who made headlines in my city and got his 15 minutes of extremely questionable fame when he declined to hire someone _because they were a smoker._ Certainly got people talking though (and at the time, which was the early '90s, I think ~2/3 of people were on his side).
funny. there's only 2 mandatory prayers are on working hours, and one of them coincide with lunch break!
As somebody who used to watch Bones religiously (I didn't actually care about it, I was just desperate to fill the David Boreanaz-shaped void in my heart following the series finale of "Angel") and also watched Family Guy at the time, I am 1000% convinced that the only reason Stewie was Booth's hallucination is because in the Family Guy christmas episode where Stewie and Brian go to the north pole to meet Santa, David Boreanaz (the real human man, not an animated version) shows up to give them directions- it's a joke about "the Aurora Boreanaz"- and that introduced this weird idea that it's normal for him to talk to Stewie.
Because if I had seen that episode of Bones without having first seen that episode of Family Guy, I would've been super confused, but for some reason, the FG thing just made me go "yeah, no, that makes perfect sense, actually. He exists in their universe as a real human being they can communicate with; why wouldn't Stewie exist as a cartoon he can communicate with in his?" Maybe that's just my autism speaking, tho.
I also jumped on to the Bones Train (lol) to watch Boreanaz after the end of Angel. It was a long, weird ride.
I was going to leave a comment about the video title, that I didn't remember Bones being *that* weird... But your comment has given me new context. Suddenly, the title doesn't seem inaccurate anymore.
The fact that there's at least 4 of us who were watching this show for our Boreanaz fix makes me wonder about the numbers for this show
Oh ... They did a family guy cross over? I mean it was cute when they did that with another series that was similar in nature _(Can't even remember what that show was)_ but that just sounds... Gross.
So basically the problem is that the writers and producers are a bunch of whores?
@@DarkxxPixie count me in and make that 5!!
I watched 10-20 episodes of this show spread over many seasons. Many episodes I watched contained something wildly rascist or bigoted. The show's depiction of Japanese people, in an episode featuring a serial killer, was especially baffling. It featured a non-binary person that the team kept on trying to gender and a Japanese cop acting like some stereotypical samurai out of a 1980s ninja action flick.
It’s all the more jarring when it’s all alongside the parts where they were trying to be progressive. Like. Did they not… notice????
@@haphazardlark1502honestly I don’t think they did and I think that’s actually a bit of a good thing. I mean obviously they did things that were always offensive but the show was made nearly 20 years ago. They had a far amount of progressive topics in the show and were obviously at least trying. I think if anything the fact that we can look back at so many older shows and movies, even ones like this that honestly aren’t that old, and see so many more problems shows that despite everything we are moving forward. I guess I just find that it’s easy to see something or look back on it and think “this is so horrible how did I or anyone ever like this” instead of seeing that being able to tell that things in it were wrong is good growth. Especially when it’s something that was really popular and now most people agree that it’s got problems. Maybe it’s no longer worth watching but I think that’s a better way to think about it.
Also, taking care of yourself is the why the airplane safety talk about the putting your mask on first before helping someone else. If you don't you won't be necessarily be able to help them because you are incapacitated. Always a good reminder, so thank you.
The lack of oxygen is crazy. Evolution didn't prepare you for that, and there are zero ways for you to feel it. Always help yourself first with the mask.
If you ever watch training videos, it takes so little time before the instructors say "if you don't put on a mask right now you will die". (At 10k the "useful" time is about 10 seconds, and then you're done).
And people fail to follow the instructions at this point, even when they know they will die and putting the mask on is the thing practiced here.
Take care of yourself. Then help others.
Islamophobia was not on my bingo card for where this was going
Kind of gave me whiplash, can’t lie
The show is copaganda from less than 10 years after 9/11 frankly it’s surprising it wasn’t more often showcased imo
Bones is against all religions.
@@cutienerdgirl That doesn't mean the choices aren't insensitive to different religions in specific ways.
You're surprised about Islamophobia in an American production?
19:56 granted, if my co-workers kept openly harassing me, I'd either get a word in with HR or do my best to avoid confrontation. So him ignoring their comments is weirdly realistic for a person who is being persistently being racialised for his religion. Which is weird given how much they don't take his POV.
And even then, HR is not your friend, so even that is a risky, delicate situation to handle a lot of the time. People put up with so much for their own safety, and then it’s used as “evidence” that they don’t actually mind.
@@haphazardlark1502yeah but a lot of the times HR is also on the lookout for these super obvious lawsuit opportunities. HR is not your friend but if someone comes in and says “I’m being harassed in a way that will have the government on you if I tell the right person” they’re going to stomp it out or (less positively) get you to quit for vague fiddly stuff you can’t sue over
@@averyeml oh for sure. It’s a tricky situation, cause you gotta engage with it, just a lotta pitfalls to watch out for.
17:00 Wow. The way Bones treats that intern is just... damn. Way to make your main character a total bitch, writers.
I'm a trans atheist with a lot of resentment towards organized religion as a whole, and even I think that jab at his religion after his one line was *so uncalled for.*
For real. Bones is abrasive, blunt, flawed and hurts peoples feelings by accident plenty. Flaws! Love ‘em! But oops I guess this is one of the episodes where she’s suddenly an outright bigot for a while
@@haphazardlark1502 And apparently every other character just rolls with it...
@@KianaWolf It's fuckin' depressing honestly
Aristoo prolly didn't feel comfortable calling her out just given the era. Anti-Muslim bigotry was really bad during the 2000s, and the one doing it was his superior. Sadly, poor dude probably had to put up with so much Bs all around
Bones had soooo much problematic stuff in it. Brennan was extremely aggressive with a little person, she and Booth talked shit about a fat lady right in front of her, racism, just so much terrible stuff. This show would not be made like this today.
Hi! Kathy Reichs fan here! Im slowly but surely reading through her Temperance Brennan series.
The best thing I love about the TV series is that Temperance Brennan [an anthropologist] writes a crime/romance novel series about a foresnic anthropologist ,Kathy Reichs.
EXCEPT that IRL, Kathy Reichs is an ACTUAL forensic anthropologist who writes mystery/romance novels about a foresinc anthropologist, Temperance Brennan.
Aaahhh thank you for this comment, I had fully forgotten that the person this was kinda based on wrote books. I meant to read them and them life happened and I fully forgot they existed. New library quest on my calendar for next week.
@@haphazardlark1502 My library has an audiobook digital checkout option through Hoopla and Overdrive. They're nice to listen to as well 😁
@haphazardlark1502 They're great as audiobooks. My library offers digital checkouts for audio and ebooks, typically with an app like Hoopla or Libby. You learn a bit about the science of forensic anthropology too, which makes watching crime shows or true crime podcasts fun
Does the wildly racist content and Temperance's bigotry exist in the books? I've always wondered, but the character in the TV show is so insufferable I never worked up the nerve to try reading them.
@Fuffydud Absolutely not, at least not on Brennan's side. She is a North Carolinan, but her well traveled nature and college education leaves her pretty unbothered by what people do or believe. It's usually the good ole boy cops or already annoying people she comes across who express any backwards ideas. She simply cares about seeing people's lives being dignified and tries to restore that for the victims she helps.
There was a really interesting case about someone who was intersex because they had an extra sex chromosome. It made the ID based on skeletal remains and forensics more challenging. But they never played off this person's life as a joke.
I think the misgendering/wrong pronouns thing was supposed to be the writers trying to make the character of Arastoo look like a silly little guy who calls everyone mister or miss even a band. At that time ( 2009) the band was called Antony and the Johnsons, and the frontwoman of the band admittedly had not made any pronoun preference known to the media. She also didn't changed her name to Anhoni until several years after this episode aired, and the name of the band didn't change until they got back together last year. So silly little guy Arastoo called them "Mister Antony and the Johnsons" simply because it was silly to do such a thing to a band name. The writers were only using information known to the general public at the time of writing the episode. If the episode came out this year and he said that, then there's a very clear issue to be taken.
Good vibes for Winnie and Robin and family... And good vibes for all of us affected by * waves hands at everything *
On another note, wow, Bones sure is a show
Very true. It is one of the shows of all time.
It sure was recorded for tv
I could have been setting this live the whole time?!?!?
teehee
The dogs eyes on the picture Angela shows to Roxy are not even visible because of the cage bars
right???
My goodness what a beautiful sponsor message. Sending strength and support to Winnie! You've got this! Just take everything a day, an hour, a minute, a second at a time.
"Ashley was worried that she'd smell like raspberries."
That part sent me.
Sounds like a plus, not a worry to me.
Not to overthink Bones but… pregnant people tend to be more sensitive to scents
2:47 - wow your intro speech reminded me of a song by the german band "Wir sind Helden" (we are heroes, called "Nichts was wir tun können" (nothing we can do). The lyrics go "there is nothing we can do besides resting". The song and the whole album "Bring mich nach Hause" (take me home) carried me through a hard time in my life. Its very powerful for grieving. Give it a try, even if you don't understand the language. The songs sound very powerful. Sad, exhausted and angry.
i love German language music so ty for the rec friend!
I can speak as a first generation Iranian immigrant that I WOULD put together that playlist as a teenager but probably not Dust In The Wind. It doesn't feel like the right vibe. What I'm shocked by is the fact he didn't list Gole Yakh ONCE in that playlist 🤧
Hi Algorithm. Mr Rithm. Al, if I may. I just need it to be known that Willie is good at videos and funny at commentary. I've never seen a minute of Bones before, and Willie's thoughts on it are fun to hear about.
Hi, I don't know you, but this comment here... I need you to know that you are loved. Your sense of humuor is exceptionally reminiscent of my slightly older brother who I'm sure you don't know at all and therefore cannot draw context, but trust me bro? You're a cool kid, keep it up.
From one Mountain Goats fan to another, i hope for the best for you, Winnie.
I used to work with the deceased as a transporter (I would pick up and deliver the dead from hospitals/nursing homes/hospice to funeral homes). Almost every mortician and funeral director had as bad a sense of humor or worse than what we see from the cast of Bones. The ones that didn't were some of the creepiest people you'd ever meet. Working with the dead changes you. It's such an innately traumatic line of work that you develop coping mechanisms that seem ghastly by normal standards. I can't speak for investigators, but I imagine they would be similar.
You asked to see if members could see the video. I can.
Also, I never watched Bones because i was too busy watching Psych.
Relatable! I watched about half of Bones but all of Psych, personally
C'mon, son!
I preferred Cold Case! I also loved looking at the fashions of whatever time period the victim had died in.
Okay I don't like this show, but there is exactly one thing I will always respect about it, and that is the Stewie hallucination brain tumor. So so so many shows have had characters experience silly wacky crazy hallucinations multiple times and just think nothing of it. Bones is the only show I've seen that has a character go "Hmm, I've had two really weird hallucinations, and that's not normal for me. Maybe I should get this checked out."
I now really want a patch that says "WAR" with the trans flag.
Same. i wish I was even 1/10 that cool.
I consumed a lot of Bones back in the day... A phrase that could be read very badly, i now realize but will not take back. Gonna watch any such video you put out
Stupid nitpick but when Angela showed her gf da pic of the dog & says to look into da dog's eyes I just can't help but notice that the bars in the foreground perfectly obscured the dog's eyes. Like Angela what are you talking about I literally can't even see the dogs eye colour why choose such a photo in the first place???
i don't know winnie and robin, but i can only surmise that such a loving message would be borne from someone that has been shown strength, care, and persistence in their relationship. you got this winnie.
What a beautiful message to Winnie. And well read, Willie.
Heartbeats playing in the scene where he's showing the kid pictures of girls and then also being on the mix CD is so so funny 😂
I don't know what Winnie is going through but I put myself into a very nice mental health hospital (holistic) a year ago when I was going through a very hard time. I had to take short term disability from work and take some funds from my home equity line. I was lucky to have it available. But those 6 weeks in patient and roughly 6 weeks partial inpatient was integral to me being mostly ok right now. We have to trust in ourselves when we feel like we need any kind of help. Physical, mental, and spiritual.
Willie can have a little engagement as a treat
Idk why, but I really like this comment, it's endearing (?)
@@Synth-Gsssshhh they said a little engagement, not 3 individuals commenting in a thread- ohhhh nooooooooo
Shhhh 🎉
34:33 I actually gasped when she said that. RUDE!
And she's supposed to be the chill, woke, open-minded, nice one!
My jaw dropped. She was so rude and for what reason??
0:51 Willie, you trurly never disappoint. I mean it.
My mother is a big crime show fan, so I’ve seen a lot of episodes from these kinds of shows. It’s so good to hear people talk about these shows while addressing where the showrunners were trying to be progressive and where the showrunners very much failed.
Every time i rewatch this series my hatred for Booth makes a reappearance. The pregnancy pact episode always drives that home so i end up spending the rest of the series shit talking him :/
What a pleasant surprise! I started watching bones again a few days ago and have been getting moments of whiplash with some of the scenes.
Ok, I can see how they'd make the jokes they make...I feel like a lot of people who work either with the dead or in medical field sort of...develop a bit of darker humor because you've got to cope somehow. However...the whole rest of the show is crazy and, I feel like sometimes they try to shoehorn in a lesson or moral like it's a show for kids XD. Like the 'thinking about the future' (and you're right looking forward/not looking backwards are two different things. Tho, I think the Lot's wife thing was more because salt rather than what she got punished for. Writers did not think about it more than that).
For me the thing has always been that the Bones crew from the clips I've encountered over the years is that like they like beat you over the head with their jokes or really they're just kinda lame & corny in a way that makes it feel less like they are desensitized to death due to their occupation & more like they are all failed stand up comedians workshoping their jokes at their day job
I am glad I can see it now. It sucked that it was blocked. Here's hoping this is a good sign for the rest of the process.
"Are you gonna quote the Quran?" I'm fucking crying why did they think that was ok lmao
Put on your oxygen mask before assisting others. But.. also assist others.
So as that person who "Read the Books"
This is NOT true to Temperance Brennans character. She is a middle-aged divorced mother of a college student who works in both Canada and The US consulting on forensic cases. She is also a proffesor at a university on her subject. She is loosely Christian, and pretense much onky prays when shes in a life or death situation.
Temperance feels the loss of each victim very, very personally. ESPECIALLY children and women. She greives them and atteneds their burial and funeral services whenever she can. She would never be so cold or standoffish as she is in the TV.
Now, I'm waiting to read 206 Bones, but so far she doesn't comment on the LGBTQ+ community or Islamic faith whatsoever as I've seen. There's a cult mystery in one novel, but that wasn't tied to any denomination. Temperance cares more about the fact that people deserve to feel safe and protected, to the point where se helps a US state and a Canadian province to seek justice for those whove had their safety stolen.
Each character depiction is its own, but I HATE how they're not the same.
I don’t know what line was crazier…”here we go, are you going to quote the Koran?” Or “she was worried she would smell like raspberries”
I was gonna ask if the piece you're working on was Winnie-the-Pooh themed on purpose, then I read through the comments to see if anyone else had brought it up, and was reminded that this episode was dedicated to Winnie, by Robin. So, maybe?
oh yeah!
The ending "well the mic is probably recording this, huh?" Was amazing. Thankful, real, hilarious! Thank you, Willy, for that.
Winnie and Robin are both awesome
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Im sorry youre dealing with copyright stuff on top of the rest of everything. Im glad you made another Bones video though! I never watched Bones, but i loved your last video for Bones!
Winnie's patch goes hard
36:45 thank you for pointing out the silliness of this
I can't wait for Willie to handle where the Aristoo character ends up!
You said to let you know if we wanted more of the Bones videos… me and 4 of my 5 rats do!!! (The fifth rat has a broken elbow rn so she doesn’t really wanna talk about any kind of bones)
Best wishes with the healing for the fifth rat c:
Willie I need you to know that my sister is so thrilled for these she subbed to your patreon
This is my first vid I've seen from you. As soon as I saw the big ass wall of crochet stuff I knew the vibes were gonna be immaculate 🎉❤
When they cut to Angela in bed with Hodges, I realized I def watched this episode. When I was 11 and probably too young to be watching this sort of show. And I also recall the “secret Fiji husband” thing. I wonder why I had such skewed ideas about bisexuality back then 🤔🤔🤔
Thank you for blessing us with another Bones video essay!
‘The Mountain Goats’ quote in Robin’s quote was awesome.
Oh this one is iconic, the patch is perfect and the note is so sweet, I am gonna cry
House is so weird and unhinged and gross like this, please do something similar!
I just found this channel and I would LOVE to see you go through the whole insane series of Bones with this delivery. Your presentation style is fantastic.
OMG the hat reveal needs to become a regular thing!
A banger as always man. I started watching Bones when I was way too young and so it's a bit of a comfort show now. It's awesome hearing your takes.
the sweater is BOSS i can't even tell you how badass the craftsmenship is
I haven't watched a video in a while (and for that I am sorry) but as someone that never got Bones and only heard bad stuff about it recently I am excited for this deep dive!
on another note I just deleted twitter, and with that the tweets that I send to you back when you did the spooky show, where I found some random cups, mugs and candles that fit the theme of the spooky show and tweeted them at you
Why am i telling you this? well, you always replied and that was so sweet and they are the only reason why I hadn't left twitter up until now because that is honestly a sweet memory from a (personally) bad time
so thank you for being you!
As someone who has lived in two different Arab countries and also has taught the English language for a number of years: the crew thinking Arastoo would be defensive about his religion and him being preachy is quite a normal thought. Is it right to expect those things? I guess it all depends on what type of religious people you've been exposed to. A number of zealous religious people tend to be defensive and preachy regardless of the religion they ascribe to. On the idea of him not actually listening to those songs and those songs being what the creators of the show might listen to... I have to say... the most accessible and effective way for people to learn a language is through their entertainment, so movies, shows, and music were the most popular for decades and decades. Now we can add podcasts and audiobooks and such to the list, but let me say, the people I know that learned English through rap and hip hop have a much better understanding of the nuisances of the language ( idioms, words with more than one meaning, more informal speech in general, etc.) So yes, I really do think Arastoo would be listening to this array of music, absolutely, and not only would he be listening but studying the lyrics closely and really trying to learn from it. Not only is he someone trying to learn a different language but he's also a scientist.
I would wear that WAR design on a shirt 100%
Keep more Bones content coming! You are the reason I started watching the series and it has been a ride!
Case in point: just started season 10. Episode three opens with two privileged private high school girls walking to a soup kitchen for community service because it’ll look good for their college applications. Well they’re cutting under this overpass and they see the lower half of a man who appears to be stuck from the waist up and trying to get out based on his legs kicking. They pull him out only to find his upper body has been eaten by ferrets (who have then moved down to his legs and were encased by his pants explaining the kicking) and one of the girls, who had been complaining the entire time, turns to the other and says “you’re right, this is going to look great on a college essay.” Chef’s kiss
Also, i enjoy the idea that being an atheist prevents you from being prejudice 😂.
That intro was exactly what I needed to hear.
My older brother introduced me and my younger sister to you with your video on Barbie: Princess and the Pauper (me and her favourite Barbie film) and I'm glad he did.
I love your commentary and your knitting!! All the love to you!!
The dedication read is so so sweet. And the little bit Willie added about how we have to be nice to ourselves...
Im all emotional now. :')
I think that is the first time I’ve heard my name said out loud, but you got it at the end! ^_^
Willie, thank you for calling out the mustache. I went back and forth like five times, thinking I'd had a stroke or something.
First time viewer! Love the sweater & I love knitting & crochet content! Excited for more!
Willie!!! That is the coolest frikking sweater!!
Im sure at least a few other people have also pointed this out but the real life high school pregnancy pact was not a pact! and then according to the most trusted source on the internet, wikipedia. all of the girls involved got pregnant independently of each other and were lumped together into a dumb pact by the principal (who also accused one of the teenage girls of sleeping with an older homeless man to get pregnant??? which is so weird?????) and then some news sources/parents got that information and went nuts about it. Some of the girls did come together to support each other through school and raising of their children since their community obviously wasnt giving that to them?
yes the only packte that existed, if you want to call it that, was for the girls to support each other after they got pregnant / when they found out. And that was a pretty good thing and mature. But of course we can't have that when it comes to teenage girls, can't we?
To be fair to the writing (even though I'm not sure it's earned this kindness), planning to get a dog doesn't necessarily indicate someone is thinking of the future because it could have been something she was contemplating doing on a whim, which would show she wasn't thinking of the actual logistics and responsibilities involved if she followed through. Similar to those girls getting pregnant and that boy being their sperm donor without actually thinking through the real future burdens that having a child brings.
I had a huge realization while watching this video, and it made me realize feelings I had repressed for years. I don't know why, but I swear, something about Willie is so truly comforting to me.
I grew up in the DMV area and you are 100000% correct about the bizarre portrayal of Bones being totally scandalized by the presence of a Muslim person. Whoever wrote this crap was not at all familiar with DC, which is a major international melting pot.
Sometimes I click a video without realizing it's you and then I hear you talk and I go "oh it's Willie!"
I will admit, the pregnancy pact storyline was the last thing I was expecting
Is it just me or did they accidentally make Arastoo kinda GNC or queer-coded?
Like they tried so hard to make him non-threatening that they ended up writing a character who transgresses a lot of our society's Big Tough Man gender norms.
A soft-spoken and emotionally expressive guy who spontaneously shares his breakup playlist with the nearest queer person is wonderful, but we don't live in a world that properly respects that kind of softness in men.
It would take guts to be a guy like Arastoo IRL. (especially when also dealing with racism/islamiphobia!)
I've watched all of Bones several times, and from memory, yea
I only watched bones on occasion when my grandparents had it on when I was a kid. I would think it was out of pocket sometimes even when I was a kid, so these recaps really make me feel sane and are so funny lol
Sorry for not commenting before (I was high when I watched it live), but I love the sweater and I love you talking about bones! Had a small hyperfixation on it as a teen
I clicked this because my parents are rewatching this and I was mildly interested. The second I heard your voice I was like, "Oh! WILLIE willie. Hell yeah"
I believe the very point of the mix tape was also to play into the "you expected this based on his background, but you were wrong". So it very purposely was that kind of music. But also, I can imagine him being like "oh hey, what from my CDs would a sad American like"
Loved this, hope you're able to do more of these!
Loved the video! I watched the series on and off as a kid and do not remember it being as unhinged as it so clearly is. Love watching this series and being reminded of the absolutely unhinged things that were said/done on the show