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Bones: Death in the Saddle

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The team investigates a decomposed body that was discovered in the woods with bound arms and missing feet. Things get kinky when Booth and Brennan are led to a lodge that's used as an S&M retreat for "jockeys" and their "horses". Meanwhile, Angela tries hypnosis in an effort to figure out her elusive husband's name so she can finally divorce him. Read full recap »

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Writers:: Josh Berman

Director:: Craig Ross Jr.

Stars:: T.J. Thyne (Dr. Jack Hodgins); Eric Millegan (Zack Addy); David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seeley Booth); Tamara Taylor (Dr. Camille Saroyan (Season 2+)); Emily Deschanel (Dr. Temperance Brennan); Michaela Conlin (Angela Montenegro)

Guest Star:: Anne-Marie Johnson (Dr. Jasper); Miles Heizer (Joey); Dave Marlin (Aaron); Bess Meyer (Alice Milner); Bashir Salahuddin (Counselor); Christina Cox (Annie Oakley); Jay Jablonski (Tom Mularz); Rik Young (Calvin "Thor" Johnson); Michael Cudlitz (Lucky)

The product placement in the butcher's shop was painfully obvious. Cheez-It crackers and Town House crackers were placed in plain sight on two separate columns of shelves. Stores rarely if ever place the same product in two different areas, especially if they're small stores that have limited shelf space, like the butcher's shop did. edit »
Goof: Once again, as in The Widow's Son in the Windshield, the mistake of calling a berimbau a flute (it's actually a single-stringed musical bow) is made. This time the mistake is made by Brennan though, which is surprising since she knows so much about foreign cultures. edit »
Goof: When the team follows the trail of blood to the victim's feet in the beginning scene, the blood is bright red, but the decomposition of the body shows that some time had passed. This means that the blood would be dried by then, and should have been a much darker color, closer to dark brown. edit »

International Air Dates:
Denmark: November 20th, 2007 on TV3
UK: November 22nd, 2007 on SKY1
The Netherlands: November 28th, 2007 on RTL 4
Spain: January 17th, 2008 on La Sexta
New Zealand: April 14th, 2008 on TV3
Australia: July 31st, 2008 on Network 7
Belgium: September 15th, 2008 on 2BE
Germany: September 25th, 2008 on RTL edit »
Michael Cudlitz (Lucky) starred in a Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode called The Zeppo, the series in which David Boreanaz got his big break. edit »

Lucky: The Ambassadora is a place where people come to indulge in pony play fantasy twenty-four hours a day without fear of judgment. Mr. Ed is a pony.
Booth: (looking at Brennan) Is this some kind of a sex thing?
Brennan: How'd you get there so quickly?
Booth: The man said "fantasy," I just took a leap. edit »
Cam: Read the Stanford University study. It's not a party trick.
Angela: You read that?
Cam: And I've been hypnotized.
Angela: Why?
Cam: I was in Vegas. I got called up on stage and apparently I clucked like a chicken in front of three thousand people, but I have absolutely no memory of it.
Angela: Was this little episode in the Stanford study?
Cam: No, but it should have been. For the next three days every time someone said "coffee" I'd cluck. Awkward...
Angela: Okay, why am I not feeling better about this? edit »
Cam: Guys, contents of the victim's stomach are corn, raw oats, and dried molasses...
Booth: Horse food?
Cam: FYI, there's such a thing as too much fiber. edit »
Cam: Trauma to the forehead...
Booth: Eyes full of maggots and all you see is the boo-boo on the forehead. edit »
Hodgins: (holding two melons) What's going on?
Angela: You first.
Hodgins: (teasingly tossing a melon) Cantaloupes. Zack and I need them for an experiment.
Angela: Of course you do. edit »

Annie Oakley: My name in the world is Anne Marie Ostenbach. Here, I'm Annie Oakley.
Booth: Naturally.

In the Irving Berlin musical comedy, Annie Get Your Gun, Annie Oakley sings a song titled "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly". edit »
Booth: Might wanna take a look in the mirror there my friend Flicka.

This is an allusion to the book by Mary O'Hara entitled My Friend Flicka about a boy and his horse, which was later turned into a TV series (that ran from 1956 to 1958). The book was also turned into a movie, originally in 1943 and then again in 2006. This allusion goes along with the TV series theme of Mister Ed. edit »
Cam: As in, a horse is a horse, of course of course...

This is an allusion to the theme song from the 1960's television show Mister Ed, which starred a talking horse named Mister Ed. This allusion is one of the many such allusions in this episode. edit »
Booth: Coats, manes and tails oh my.

This is an allusion to a line from The Wizard of Oz: "Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!" edit »
Booth: Turns out I'm smarter than a 5th grader.

This is an allusion to the show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? in which contestants are asked questions from a first grade level up to a fifth grade level to win increasing amounts of money. The million dollar question is always at a fifth grade level. edit »

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gabell73
member since: Aug 20, 2008
Death in the Saddle
The Bottom Line: "Well written"
This was a one in a kind episode. I have never heard of anything like this episode. Who knew that there were people who treated other people like horses? I was baffled through the whole episode. ...Continue »
08/25/08 02:08pm | report abuse
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Collegebound06
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Death in the Saddle
The Bottom Line: "Silly"
the death of a man leads down a kinky trail as his death is similar to the way to kill a horse ...Continue »
06/09/08 05:15pm | report abuse
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saintzrulz
member since: Apr 9, 2008
Death in the Saddle
The Bottom Line: "Well written"
Great episode. Hilarious and had the good old motives of love and infidelity. When B&B go investigate the murder of a man that was killed with his feet bound and horse food in his stomach things take a twist. ...Continue »
06/04/08 07:00pm | report abuse
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T_Brennan
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Death in the Saddle
The Bottom Line: "Silly"
Pony Play? Of course this episode is hilarious. ...Continue »
05/13/08 08:01pm | report abuse
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sapphyreseas
member since: Jun 18, 2005
Death in the Saddle
The Bottom Line: "Revealing"
Challenging comfort levels! ...Continue »
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