“Bones” True Or False: The 150th Episode!

You may already know that tonight’s 150th episode of Fox’s Bones is a change-of-pace episode in that the entire story is told from the point of view of a crime victim. What you may not know is that at 150 episodes, tonight’s “Ghost In The Machine” is just as solid and compelling as the best Bones episodes! Here’s to 150 more!

So here are some statements about tonight’s episode. Which are true and which are false? Well, you’ll have to tune in to find out for sure! Let me know what you think of tonight’s episode!...

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Bones Celebrates 150 Episodes: Does Brennan Believe in Ghosts?

The Bones producers freely admit that when they conceived Monday's episode, they had no idea it would wind up being the Fox drama's milestone 150th episode. But they're pleased with the happy accident...

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Bones by the Numbers – A Preview of the 150th Episode

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Photopalooza: Go Behind the Scenes fo BONES...

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BONES 150th Episode: 6 Teases For ‘The Ghost in the Machine’

BONES celebrates episode 150 next week with “The Ghost in the Machine,” and after viewing the hour (which was written by series creator Hart Hanson), I figured I’d tease a little bit about what’s to come…

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Exclusive Bones Video and Photos: Cyndi Lauper Returns for Twisty 150th Episode

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BONES: Tamara Taylor Teases the 150th Episode

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The Art of the Press Release: Executive Producer Hart Hanson Previews the 150th Episode of BONES

Continuing our penchant for highlighting press releases that cut through the clutter comes a few choice words from executive producer Hart Hanson, who is about to give fans even more of a reason to get excited for BONES’ 150th episode airing this Monday December 3rd on Fox (GlobalTV in Canada). See for yourself, after the jump.
 
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Conference Call Tweets

TV Tango ‏@TVTango

 

#Bones @squarechicken says: "We didn't want to lose what the original theme was. They [Crystal Method] did a phenomenal job on new song."

#Bones @squarechicken says: "He [Pelant] is going to be around all season. He's going to color S8 a little bit. Nobody will rest easy." 

#Bones @HartHanson says: "They are currently negotiating through at least season 9. We're confident they'll come to an agreement." 

#Bones @HartHanson says: "David is a mischievous guy. He loves lobbing hand grenades out. It's part of the game to him. No serious bile."  

#Bones @HartHanson says: "It's a gulch hanger, not a cliff hanger" @squarechicken: "It's just to raise questions." about season opener. 

#Bones @squarechicken says: "We will be meeting new interns sometime this season. We love having that revolving door in the lab."  

#Bones @squarechicken says: "Brennan's dad will be back." @HartHanson says: "I hope Billy Gibbons will be back." 

#Bones @HartHanson says: "We're very interested in having Booth's mom meet Brennan. That's in the bin" for the last nine eps of this season.  

#Bones @HartHanson says: "It is not someone you won't recognize. It's not a brand new person" about Cam's love life. 

#Bones @HartHanson: "Nothing better than having actors [David, Emily] tell u they want to do more not less. Wanted to wreck more furniture."  

#Bones @HartHanson: "We loved the idea that just because a decision is the most rational, it's still painful. Maybe tougher if nobody wrong" 

#Bones @HartHanson says: "Two of our people are not scientists and tend to realize that people are more complex and not just rational."  

#Bones @squarechicken says: "Now they have to deal with the relationships in their lives, as well as Pelant. Pelant is not going away." 

#Bones @HartHanson says: "@squarechicken and I, every morning, have a cup of coffee and argue about politics & families & movies & books."  

#Bones @squarechicken says: "They [writers] are giving us murders and body finds that we've seen b4. We try to follow character's leads." 

#Bones @HartHanson: "Every hiatus we meet with actors one-on-one. We want them all connected and vested in what they're doing. We're lucky."  

#Bones @HartHanson says about Booth-Brennan wedding: "They're might be." @squarechicken adds: "You know it's only S8. We're just beginning." 

#Bones @squarechicken says: "We find out who Cam is with" in episode 5. "Brennan and squints go up against someone who eliminates evidence."  

#Bones @HartHanson says: "We owe a huge debt to many pairings in TV history who had that dynamic -- Sherlock Holmes, STAR TREK, X-FILES." 

#Bones @HartHanson: "Someone came up to me & he was grateful that religious people in our show are not portrayed as superstitious morons.  

#Bones @HartHanson says: "It was the 1st time I'd co-written an episode w/ @squarechicken and it was an absolute nightmare." on S8 opener 

#Bones @HartHanson says: "We discussed at great length at what happens when the 1st see each other & hangover from 3 month separation."  

#Bones @squarechicken says: "It was difficult to find a way to do a standard episode and be the re-introduction of Brennan." 

#Bones @HartHanson says about avoiding FBI: "I think I would fail miserably. Going on the lam and off the grid is hard."  

#Bones @squarechicken says: "A massage. That's a lot of episodes" about 150th episode 

#Bones @HartHanson says: "It's a weird episode. Told from the point of view of the victim. Very tricky to shoot." about 150th episode 

#Bones @HartHanson says: "Cyndi Lauper is in it as our resident psychic and is trying to help find what the victim needs" in 150th ep. 

#Bones @squarechicken jokingly says: "Now we're planning the 300th ep. It will be from my and @HartHanson perspective."  

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This season the opening credits of #Bones are different @BonesonFox 

@HartHanson talks about Crystal Method doing a remix of the theme for them. @SquareChicken adds they didn't want 2 lose what original was  

@SquareChicken Pelant will be around all season on #Bones @bonesonfox - most interesting murder had on the show 

.@SquareChicken Pelant will "color it red" with the season #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@HartHanson thinks that we will see @emilydeschanel & @David_Boreanaz next season they are in negotiations. They are confident.  

.@HartHanson @David_Boreanaz is a mischievous guy ; it's all part of the game to him #Bones @BonesonFox

.@SquareChicken thinks @David_Boreanaz wants to come back as much as they want him to  

@HartHanson the end of next episode was the natural end 2 extend the Pelant story #Bones @BonesonFox

@HartHanson will still have a revolving gang of interns & always check on their availabilites #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@SquareChicken says we will see old interns that we haven't seen in awhile & also some new interns this season of #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@HartHanson they hope to have Angela's dad back this season. Also have story 4 Hodgin's brother they might use. Also Booth's mom maybe  

.@HartHanson says Zoey Deschanel is very busy so they don't know that they will have her back. #Bones @BonesonFox

.@SquareChicken Cam's love interest this season is someone that fans will recognize - hopefully won't see it coming. #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@HartHanson talks abt Brennan/Booth reunion actors wanted 2 go further so they upped energy (me: is hot) @David_Boreanaz @emilydeschanel 

And now I'm wondering if they are talking about a different scene then I am thinking of lol #Bones 

.@SquareChicken will see some evidence in 2nd ep of how Brennan leaving affected Booth #Bones @bonesonfox 

.@HartHanson just because something is the right & rational decision, it doesn't make it easy - will be addressed ep 2 of #Bones @bonesonfox 

@HartHanson Booth, Angela & Sweets are not scientists so they stand apart a bit from "smartest thing to do" etc. #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@HartHanson everyone reacts differently Angela & Booth are closer to Brennan so they get angry at times #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@SquareChicken focusing more on doing "great murders" this season, but all personal lives have been altered by what happened #Bones 

.@SquareChicken now they have to deal w that stuff & Pelant but it won't be in every episode #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@SquareChicken "If the characters stay fresh the show stays fresh because they lead the way." #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@HartHanson adds that they listen to the actors - meet which each one on one - who do you like scenes with, etc. #Bones @BonesonFox 

@SquareChicken says they have been married many years to their wifes, and #bones is another marriage (& successful)  

.@HartHanson & .@SquareChicken tease there could be a wedding coming up...#Bones @BonesonFox

.@SquareChicken "We're having sex with #Bones, what's crazy about that?" rofl @BonesonFox (it's their other wife)  

@HartHanson they did not tell Reed Diamond about the plans for his character #Bones @BonesonFox

.@SquareChicken in crime scene clean up we'll find out who Cam is w. Also someone is wiping up evidence. #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@HartHanson part of what appealed to him about #Bones is he would get do do series rational thought vs. emotion, etc. @BonesonFox 

@HartHanson lists #TheXFiles as an example that does that.  

.@HartHanson & .@SquareChicken talk abt the religious issues on show & how B/B are so different but they come together, raise a child etc 

.@HartHanson Brennan has an ability to concentrate on what's in front of her, here "retreat." so she is not someone 2 worry - that's Booth  

.@HartHanson when Brennan is looking at bodies, etc. Booth is always looking around for other things. So Pelant will affect Booth more 

.@HartHanson by the end of the season opener Brennan will go back to work @ the Jeffersonian #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@SquareChicken adds that nothing is safe though because Pelant is still out there #Bones @BonesonFox 

@HartHanson says he has no memory of cowriting with .@SquareChicken before (joking) #Bones 

.@HartHanson says he's not a good cowriter; they toss things back & forth #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@HartHanson talks about discussing things @ great length during the cowriting #Bones 

.@HartHanson Brennan got the advice from her dad to look for his first killing (that way eventually they could bring B/B back together)  

.@HartHanson says .@SquareChicken would surrender if he couldn't get to an ATM (was in hiding) .@SquareChicken says he could eat a squirrell 

.@SquareChicken says also he'd call the writers lol  

.@HartHanson ep 150 is a "weird" ep told from the victim's pov. Was tricky 2 shoot. #Bones @BonesonFox

.@HartHanson needed a heartfelt story because it's from victim's pov - it's of a boy, so it's not funny #Bones @BonesonFox 

 .@HartHanson it shows a side we normally don't get to see. Also Cindy Lauper is back for ep 150. #Bones @BonesonFox

.@HartHanson Adds that Cindy Lauper isn't there to solve the murder, the victim needs something else. #Bones @BonesonFox 

.@SquareChicken everyone's come together for this one - beautiful script, etc. - very rich ep & should be unique for 150. #Bones @BonesonFox 

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Ask Ausiello: August 7

Question: Did you get any scoop/updates on what Hart Hanson & Co. are planning for the upcoming 150th episode of Bones? —Elena
Ausiello: Funny story. I not only raised the topic of the big 150th to exec producer Stephen Nathan recently, but I pitched him a story, too. Basically, I told him the milestone outing — which will likely air around midseason — should climax with Brennan proposing to Booth. His response? “Well, [the engagement issue] will be part of this season,” he confirmed. “That’s been held over their heads for a long time. It won’t resolve itself, but it will be something that we do explore this season.” Looking at Season 8′s big picture, Nathan envisions a tone that’s “a touch darker” than last season. “We kind of looked at last season as everybody came together and became very comfortable. So it was sort of a funnier, very peaceful and kind of loving season,” he notes. “But we don’t want them to get too comfortable. People were broken apart [in the finale] and we’re going to try to see how they come back together — if they come back together. Booth and Brennan have a lot to deal with. She might’ve done the right thing, but she broke up the family [and] went away. She took his daughter. And they’re going to have to get past that.”

Question: Any more details on the Angela-centric Bones bonus episode? —Aaron
Ausiello: Angela meets an artist (played by October Road‘s Jay Paulson) who forces her to “reevaluate her life,” reveals Nathan. “With Hodgins being a gazillionaire, she doesn’t really have to work. Also, what’s kind of been lost in these seven years is that Angela is a temporary employee [at the Jeffersonian]. But because she’s become so close to everybody, she’s working there full time. But that was never her intent. This was always just a sideline [gig] for her, so she’s [questioning whether] she should go off and pursue what she originally wanted to pursue.” Faster than you can say “Holy complication, Batman!” Nathan drops this final tidbit: ”Something will occur with Hodgins where it might not be as simple as she thinks.”

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BONES Scoop: Hart Hanson Teases Brennan’s (Temporary) Replacement, An Extended Season 8, and the Upcoming 150th Episode

BONES doesn’t go back into production until next week (and the series won’t be back on the air for nearly two months), but after speaking with creator Hart Hanson at the Fox All-Star party, there were a few teases he gave that were just too good to hold on to.
Keep reading for Hanson’s take on getting even more episodes for season 8, who will be (temporarily) replacing Brennan at the Jeffersonian, and that milestone 150th episode…

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Ask Ausiello: June 5 - Season 8 Questions Answered

Question: Will Bones be doing anything special for its 150th episode next season? —Patti
Ausiello: I have no idea — those are Hart Hanson’s words, not mine. “We’ll do something fun,” the EP assures of the landmark hour, which will likely air at midseason. “But I haven’t thought that far ahead.”

Question: Any chance some of the Finder cast might land on Bones next season? —Joel
Ausiello: Don’t think the thought hasn’t crossed the mind of the man in charge of both shows. “I would love that so much,” says Hanson. “But you would have to make sure it wasn’t self-indulgent. And I don’t have a sense right now how much the Bones audience would like to see that. And I don’t know if the Finder audience would want it to happen. But I personally think it would be great.” Hanson concedes that he’s still “exceedingly depressed” about The Finder‘s cancellation, confessing, “It’s hard to let go.” He also says that after some “initial wariness,” the Bones cast warmed up to “the Finder upstarts,” adding, “They all became very fond of each other. David [Boreanaz] really liked working with Geoff [Stults]. They got along terrifically well, so it would be fun to have them on [Bones].”

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