Bones (TV Series) The Dwarf in the Dirt (2009) User Reviews

A problem solved

[mitchrmp · 9/10 · 4 August 2016]

Love seeing Gordon Gordon! Everyone has such a good rapport with him. Angela and he like to assess Booth and Brennan's relationship. Gordon and Sweets evaluate the relationship from another angle, and they all come to the same conclusion involving Booth and Brennan. Of course, we don't need Gordon's affirmation to know what we've known since Season 1!

Booth also admits to something big in this episode, and it's proved in the last scene. We are getting so much closer, yet it still seems so far away!

Oh, and the main story: it's another age-old money and greed Biblical story.

Hope and Patience

[mediamusings12 · 7/10 · 2 August 2022]

Hi The Bones Booth Pod!

The case itself is not one of my favorites, (it's pretty forgettable) but the episode gains some points with the addition of Gordon Gordon Wyatt. Every episode that Stephen Fry is in, is automatically a better one!

"Bones" is at its strongest when it centers its core relationship between Booth and Brennan, and this episode gives us a lot of forward momentum for their relationship, particularly where Booth's feelings are concerned. Getting Booth to admit to Gordon Gordon how he feels towards Brennan is an important and earned conversation. We as an audience already understand Booth's hesitancy to admit his feelings, (which is at least in part due to a fear that Brennan doesn't love him the way he loves her), but getting him to actually vocalize his fears, is significant. When Gordon Gordon tells Booth to have "hope and patience" when it comes to his relationship with Brennan, it sends a little thrill through my shipper heart every single time! That, and the final scene, are the highlights of the whole episode.

Additionally, I appreciate the conversations between Gordon Gordon and Sweets, and it's nice to see him continue in his mentoring/advice giving role that was introduced in "Mayhem of the Cross". Wyatt helps make Sweets both a better psychologist and better friend to Booth and Brennan.

Fun Fact: Jeremiah Birkett, who plays one of the suspects in the episode, also plays an important role on "Lucifer". It isn't the first or the last time that the two shows will share cast members. I just thought it was an interesting coincidence, seeing as "Lucifer" on the whole, is very much an homage to "Bones".

"I can't think of anything I wouldn't do to help him"

[vampthropologist · 10/10 · 5 November 2022]

This might be in my top 15 favourite episodes of the entire show. The presence of Gordon Gordon would lift any episode up but seeing him interrogate a suspect with Sweets and getting offended by the term "fry cook" is absolute perfection. Not to mention, him point blank telling Booth that he is in love with Brennan and his little conversation in the diner with Angela. It's so great to see a side character make such an impact every time they come back, no matter how infrequent.

Stephen Fry and B&B aside, one of the fun things I love about this episode are all the little Simpsons references/Easter Eggs throughout. Some are a bit more obvious than others, the Bumble Bee Man being one of the wrestlers' names, for example, but it's still a fun game to spot them all during a rewatch.

Something else I noticed about this episode that may or may not be connected to the Simpsons thing, I haven't looked into it, is that there are many interruptions during exposition scenes. Like, in that scene with Cam and Hodgins in his/Zack's 'Ookie Room', someone comes in with something for Hodgins to sign and then it happens again, thrice, with Cam and VNM in the Bone Room later on. It might be nothing but I feel like it happened too often to be ignored.

Didn't care too much about the case, but that happens with most episodes that aren't part of serial killer storylines, for me at least.

Anyway, great episode, great special guest stars, great final B&B scene.10/10.