Bones 8.5: Applesauce on Election Eve

Well, the election eve had nothing do with tonight's Bones 8.5, but since that's when I saw it - tonight - it felt right to put it in the title.   That, I wanted a chance to mention Donald Trump again, because Bones' mention of him was one of the funniest lines of the last episode.

Applesauce did have a lot to do with tonight's episode, but wasn't the best part.  That belonged to the opening piece - an opera-singing sanitation guy and his partner, who preferred Kanye.  They end up singing a pretty mean Pagliacci, with some good notes, until they see, well ... that's where the story proper begins, as their operatic notes segue seamlessly into screams.

A young woman turns up dead in the trash with multiple, deep cuts and flesh removed.  She was a partner in a charming artismal applesauce store. At some point, Colin muses that the killer may be a Jack the Ripper copycat.  But since the cuts all were made at the exact same angle, with the same depth, I figured the weapon was a machine not a solitary knife.  Had this been science fiction, it could have been some stainless steel terminator.  But as it was, it was an apple blender that did the deed -  the victim's partner pushed her without meaning to kill her during an argument.

The relevance of applesauce to tonight's episode was also that it was a Sweets show - and apples are usually partially to very sweet, right?   Sweets is at loose ends after breaking up with Daisy.  Booth invites him to stay at chez Bones & Booth, and we get some good scenes.

But the best scene was at the very end of the show, with Bones and Sweets dancing, and Sweets pulling a good move when Booth says elevator.

So ... I miss the Bones with real serial killers, but on election eve I'll take the Pagliacci and the dancing.

See also Bones 8.1: Walk Like an Egyptian ... Bones 8.2 of Contention ... Bones 8.3: Not Rotting Behind a Desk

And see also Bones 7.1: Almost Home Sweet Home ... Bones 7.2: The New Kid and the Fluke ...Bones 7.3: Lance Bond and Prince Charmington ... Bones 7.4: The Tush on the Xerox ... Bones 7.5: Sexy Vehicle ... Bones 7.6: The Reassembler ... Bones 7.7: Baby! ... Bones 7.8: Parents ...Bones 7.9: Tabitha's Salon ... Bones 7.10: Mobile ... Bones 7.11: Truffles and Max ... Bones 7.12: The Corpse is Hanson ... Bones Season 7 Finale: Suspect Bones

And see also Bones 6.1: The Linchpin ... Bones 6.2: Hannah and her Prospects ... Bones 6.3 at the Jersey Shore, Yo, and Plymouth Rock ... Bones 6.4 Sans Hannah ... Bones 6.5: Shot and Pretty ... Bones 6.6: Accidental Relations ... Bones 6.7:  Newman and "Death by Chocolate" ...Bones 6.8: Melted Bones ... Bones 6.9: Adelbert Ames, Jr. ... Bones 6.10: Reflections ... Bones 6.11: The End and the Beginning of a Mystery ... Bones 6.12 Meets Big Love ... Bones 6.13: The Marrying Kind ... Bones 6.14: Bones' Acting Ability ... Bones 6.15: "Lunch for the Palin Family" ...Bones 6.16: Stuck in an Elevator, Stuck in Times ... Bones 6.17: The 8th Pair of Feet ... Bones 6.18: The Wile E. Chupacabra ... Bones 6.19 Test Runs The Finder ... Bones 6.20: This Very Statement is a Lie ... Bones 6.21: Sensitive Bones ... Bones 6.22: Phoenix Love ... Bones Season 6 Finale: Beautiful

And see also Bones: Hilarity and Crime and Bones is Back For Season 5: What Is Love? and 5.2: Anonymous Donors and Pipes and 5.3: Bones in Amish Country and 5.4: Bones Meets Peyton Place and Desperate Housewives and Ancient Bones 5.5 and Bones 5.6: A Chicken in Every Viewer's Pot and Psychological Bones 5.7 and Bones 5.8: Booth's "Pops" and Bones 5.9 Meets Avatar and Videogamers ... Bad Santa, Heart-Warming Bones 5.10 ... Bones 5.11: Of UFOs, Bloggers, and Triangles ... Bones 5.12: A Famous Skeleton and Angela's Baby ... Love with Teeth on Bones 5.13 ... Faith vs. Science vs. Psychology in Bones 5.14 ... Page 187 in Bones 5.15 ...Bones 100: Two Deep Kisses and One Wild Relationship ... Bones 5.17: The Deadly Stars ...Bones Under Water in 5.18 ... Bones 5.19: Ergo Together ...  Bones 5.20: Ergo Together ... Bones 5.21: The Rarity of Happy Endings ... Bones Season 5 Finale: Eye and Evolution

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