Bones/Trivia

• Actor Allusion: Towards Avatar, Angel and various other things other people did.
• Hey, It's That Guy!
  • Angel is an FBI agent.
  • Tess and Danko appear in the same episode.
  • Allison Blake investigated a serial kidnapper.
  • Sam Weir is a cheerful young FBI psychologist.
  • Who was preceded by General Melchett.
  • Daisy is Libby!
  • Halfrek/Cicely
  • Michael Guerin is Booth's brother
  • Hamilton is the dirty FBI Agent Kenton.

• Retroactive Recognition
  • Victoria was a defense lawyer before becoming a vampire.
  • Before she was a rival doctor of House, a friend of Betty Draper, and the spy's sister, Anne Dudek was Booth's lawyer girlfriend.
  • Before Agent Pete Lattimer was in the Secret Service retrieving artifacts, he was previously FBI Special Agent Tim Sullivan before being Put On A Boat.
  • Azita Ghanizada/Rachel before she was designated an Alpha has a brief cameo using her super vision to watch men play basketball.
  • Before Phil worked at Veridian Dynamics he decided to participate in a Strangers on a Train Plot Murder inspired by Bones' book.
  • Simon Lee before being a mole in the CIA for Sophia, was training to be an astronaut. Probably to get him back to his home planet. (YMMV on whether Ian Anthony Dale is currently big enough now to warrant this.)
  • The man or Percy is a Jeffersonian Institute bigwig. (YMMV, depending on where you saw him first, since Xander Berkeley has been in everything to varying degrees from Miami Vice to Terminator 2 to Twenty Four.)
  • Avatar Korra was a car saleswoman in a past life.
  • Jack Hodgins also worked at Wolfram and Hart and was accused of stealing money during a store robbery on CSI. He also worked as a bookstore owner and was arrested for murder on CSI: NY.
  • Gary Bell was Vincent Nigel Murray in a past life!
  • Grampa Gene tried to kill Bones and Russ and Angela used to date Jill Tracy.
  • And there's General Beckman as the victim's mother in the pilot.
  • Also in the pilot, Sam Merlotte tried to set Brennen on fire.
  • Hardison plays a shell-shocked veteran in Season 1 and Phil was Brennan's publisher's assistant.

• Shout-Out: Bones creator Kathy Reichs appeared as one of the doctors Zack Addy defended his dissertation to in one episode.

• What Could Have Been
  • Cam was supposed to be killed off way back in season two and if season three hadn't been cut short, Zack would have been a victim of the Gormogon.
  • Supposedly, the Gormogon would have been Sweets. In fact, the whole Gormogon arc was a string of What could have beens derailed by the Writer's Strike.
  • This receives a Mythology Gag in the Season 4 finale and alternate universe episode "The End in the Beginning":

Sweets: Um, I mean the name of the band is Gormogon. Some people think I'm Gormogon, but I'm not.

• • Season three was supposed to have an episode dealing with Booth's childhood. It was never made due to, again, the writer's strike.
  • In season five, there was supposed to be a Noir Episode. This was called off due to Fringe beating them to it.