Bones: Season 4, Episode 23

The Beaver in the Otter (30 Apr. 2009)

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The remains of a college student are found in a mascot costume from a rival college. As the squints investigate how the body got in there, Booth finds out what his brother plans on doing with his life after his court martial.

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When the Middlesex university team publicly burns its Otters adversary's stolen mascot, it's discretely shot and a corps falls out. It's not from anatomy, but James 'Beaver' Bouvier, a popular member of the Delta Beta Sigma fraternity. Sweets analyzes frat-life, Bones looks down upon it, Booth enjoys the male bonding memories. Beaver also was a bookie and involved in hacking to steal test questions. His disputed sex-life also provides suspects. Meanwhile Seeley worries that his brother Jared, who just was paroled, refuses a job interview, desiring to travel India by motorbike. Written by KGF Vissers

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Arastoo Vaziri: I have never seen so many foreign objects in human remains. Arrows, marbles, jacks, various coins, cutlery. My best guess is: nuclear explosion just as the victim entered a 99 Cent Store.
Angela Montenegro: Well, uh, close. He was shot by a blenderbus, pelted by an angry mob, and then burned.
Dr. Camille Saroyan: Now that's what I call team spirit.
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Dr. Camille Saroyan: I'm a wisecracking Pathologist with a dark sense of humor.
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19 March 2013 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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