Bones (TV Series) The Cinderella in the Cardboard (2009) User Reviews

On love

[mitchrmp · 8/10 · 29 July 2016]

We watch Brennan learn a few things about love. As a woman's body is found in smashed cardboard, Booth and Brennan join the rest of the team to find out who did the deed. It leads Brennan on a quest to examine her thoughts on love. When she and Booth see Daisy at a bridal shop trying on a dress, they conclude she's cheating on her fiancé with Sweets.

After watching the show all the way through, it's interesting to go back and watch these to see how far Brennan has come. She is still not able to recognize love (though we know she's probably been in love with Booth for years). She fights with her beliefs and declares she would never marry.

At the end, Brennan has a moment with Booth where she admits to wanting that connection to another person. Booth assures her it would happen to her someday...

always tell

[actuallyalostboy · 8/10 · 10 July 2022]

It's interesting to watch this show again, with a different perspective. The murder itself was not too complicated to follow and only served the A plot better; which in this case I consider to be the whole honesty-and-monogamy conversation. I spent what felt like the whole episode mentally screaming at them that honesty is always the best policy. Not telling a friend that you saw their SO maybe cheat on them is infinitely worst in my experience. In this case, they made up a whole scenario about Daisy cheating on Sweets. If Brennan had just told Sweets that she saw Daisy at the bridal shop, Sweets could've had a conversation about it with Daisy without getting all worked up and almost breaking up with her. I have alot of feelings about this but I'll resume by «always tell your friend» and «it's not true that you'd know if you were being cheated on».

And also... Can we talk about that magical evidence? «i'm just gonna change the lighting a little and we'll see tire tracks appear on that flatten corpse» Died laughing. And also when they used the Angelator to recreate the accident and they BRACED for impact like the body was actually coming at them. Comedy gold.

Love the B&B scene at the very end. It was so sad and cute.

Pizza, anyone?

[ctomvelu-1 · 8/10 · 19 April 2009]

B&B have about as nasty a corpse to deal with as has ever been seen on this show: a smooshed body has been found in the midst of a pile of compressed cardboard sheets due for recycling. Worse, the head has been run over by a very large car tire. The remains are even more nauseating than the guy who was thrown out of an airplane. Tryng to remove the remains from the cardboard sheeting proves tricky, until the latest intern falls back on his days as a pizzeria worker. I will leave the rest to your imagination. Sometimes, I think BONES and NCIS are competing for the grossest corpse prize on a commercial TV show, if there is such a thing. Meanwhile, Brennan thinks Sweets' gal pal is cheating on him and wants desperately to tell Sweets, but not if Booth can help it. Much comedy ensues. A very good episode, if you can stand a corpse that looks like a giant smooshed pizza. Mayim "Blossom" Bialik has a small part, and I'm sorry to say she still hasn't gotten her nose fixed.

Get the Facts

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 2 February 2023]

Solving the murder wasn't so much what this episode was about. It was pretty mundane. It took some high tech stuff to indicate how the woman (bridezilla) had been killed. It then meant looking for the right vehicle. Much more of the story is about trust. Daisy and Sweets have a thing, but while in a bridal shop Booth and Brennan see Daisy trying on a wedding dress. Of course, MS Facts only jumps to a conclusion and chooses to impart her information to the detriment of a friend. We find that Hodgins has signed up for a dating service, making him look quite sad. There is a nice scene at the end as Brennan is beginning to see that life isn't just dry and scientific.