Bones

The Man in the Mud

Season 3, Episode 10, Aired 4/14/08

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A body is discovered at Homestead Natural Hot Springs in a spring filled with mud. Booth and Brennan go to investigate the scene and find that the body is that of Tripp Goddard, a sexy motorcycle racer who had been murdered about two weeks ago after a race. Sweets' girlfriend is also introduced.moreless

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Michaela Conlin

Angela Montenegro
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sweets, booth, bones, april. Double date? Oh my.

10

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By notababyduck, Feb 07, 2011 Report Abuse

Murdered, dumped in a mud pool and then found by a couple. Could this murder's dumping destination be any more unique? This is something I have never seen on another show, cutos the the writers for thinking up something original. Also a good point, that all they talk about is work.

A double date. Sweets and his fish-loving girlfriend and Booth and Bones. Who knew Booth could make such an awesome horse. Their "date" was a cute moment between the three and of course, April. I loved it when they started throwing the clay at each other. It was nice to learn that sweets likes to kill people in video games at night too. What a kid at heart.

Shocking age difference between Booth and Bones. I wouldn't have guessed five, but I suppose it is probably true. I loved this part of the episode, because Brennan was taking with April.

The ending was perfect. They were going to take Sweets to the Bowling "rink". I loved it when Booth dragged Sweets in his rolling chair. The moment when they were like "he's lying" about not knowing they were there, and then not wanting to sit down was so cute. Sweets was a great addition to the show. They made no mistake. He brings out so many cute Booth and Bones moments.moreless

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Another good episode

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By vicky24c, May 23, 2010 Report Abuse

In this episode of Bones, the following happens. A young couple discover a body at Homestead Natural Hot Springs in a spring filled with mud. And so Bones and Booth are called in to investigate. When Booth and Bones go to see Sweets he tells them that he wants to see them together in a social situation and so he asks them both to go with him and his girlfriend. Kind of like a double date. Soon the body is IDed as that of Tripp Goddard, a sexy motorcycle racer, who hadn't been seen since he won a big race 2 weeks ago. Son we see the victim's bike being passed onto the 2nd best driver. As he drives, the bike won't slow down and soon he flips and the motorbike catches on fire and Danny dies. When they check out his bike, it has been rigged. The night of the double date arrives, and we see them all at a ceramics evening. But of course it doesn't go well, for Sweets and his girlfriend, April. Soon on the case, evidence points towards Danny's sister, as the killer. She soon admits to it, and she is arrested. We end with Booth and Bones together discussing the case and Sweets comes in and we learn that he and April have broken up. They are going out bowling and so they invite him along.moreless

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Interesting case and a fun double date.

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By whiteraven2005, Jul 07, 2009 Report Abuse

Interesting dumping ground for a body and the bike storyline was enjoyable.

That mud is just nasty who knows what could be in it? As our lovebirds found out. Aside from the dead body, there could be stones, metal, condoms, yuck!

Liked the story about the bikes, very nicely filmed too. The scene where the brother died was very well done. Not all the questions were answered, like what happened to the contract and how did a girl her size manage to get a body into the box in the very large 4x4 and then get it out again at the mudhole?

Liked the ceramic double date. Worked great for Booth and Brennan but not so well for Sweets and April. Booth's horse was beautiful.

Good episode, nice balance between the case and the stuff with Sweets.moreless

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Booth and Brennan double date? Sounds like fun!

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By OnePerCentClub, May 08, 2008 Report Abuse

I love how Booth and Brennan love to give Sweet a hard time and you know what? He seems to enjoy it.
Zack and Hodgins are great together. They're good colleagues but better friends. I see this is another episode where we don't have Angela and Hodgins honey moments that could be annoying.
The whole ceramics class scene was good to see. You have two examples of a good and a bad relationship. You see how easy things happen between Booth and Brennan and how forced words come out in Sweets and April's conversation. They actually seem to enjoy seeing B&B and somehow envy their chemistry.
The case was one of many caused by jealousy, envy and greed. But the cast's performance is worth watching any episode.
The last scene is very nice. You have B&B discussing the case, without arguing, looking very relaxed. Then Sweets shows up, dumped by April. And how nice was from them to ask him to join them. I mean, considering that sometimes they can't stand him or his sessions (although Brennan seemed to have enjoyed this one).

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A vacuum after Santa in the Slush.

8.8

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By Angel2408, Apr 29, 2008 Report Abuse

Man in the Mud as a follow-up on the christmas "kiss" episode felt a bit like a let-down.

I didn't expect declarations of eternal love or complete change in Bones and Booth's relationship, but somehow this episode felt kind of strange. The dynamic between our duo seemed off. There were no real memorable moments between them, which is usually not the case, especially this season.

What could have helped Man in the Mud would have been a strong murder case. But unfortunately that was not interesting and boring. There were to many shots of racing motorcycles for my taste.

Fortunately even a weak episode of Bones is still better than lots of things on TV.
But the quantity of rewatching this episode won't be very high in my case.moreless

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- When Booth is talking to Hodgins on the phone about the weapon, he calls Hodgins "Wizard" -- T.J. Thyne was a computer expert nicknamed "Wizard" on Walker, Texas Ranger. Edit
- Goof: At the end of the episode when Booth and Brennan confront the suspect, her lawyer says the court wouldn't accept the forensic evidence. He says that the sample is too small to repeat the test and his client had a twin brother, which might suggest that Danny (the brother) could be the killer. This is not accurate, as Cam did the gender test and the result was female. Edit
- We learn in this episode that there is a 5-year age gap between Brennan and Booth, meaning that Brennan must be 30 or 31 years old (since it was revealed that Booth was 35 years old in the previous season three episode "Soccer Mom in the Mini-Van"). Edit
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- International Air Dates: Denmark: April 15th, 2008 on TV3 United Kingdom: April 24th, 2008 on Sky1 New Zealand: June 2nd, 2008 on TV3 Spain: June 13th, 2008 on FOX TV Spain Sweden: August 3rd, 2008 on TV3 The Netherlands: September 1st, 2008 on RTL 4 Norway: September 4th, 2008 on TV3 Australia: October 6th, 2008 on Channel 7 Belgium: November 3rd, 2008 on 2BE Finland: February 6th, 2009 on Sub Slovakia: June 24th, 2009 on JOJ Czech Republic: November 11th, 2009 on Prima Edit
- The was the first episode to air after the end of the WGA writers' strike, although it was produced before the strike began. "The Baby in the Bough" was supposed to air before it, but Fox decided to air this episode first instead, to provide better plot flow from "The Santa in the Slush." Edit
- Featured Music: "Get It Right" by Mink (right after the motorcycle accident, when Booth and Brennan arrive on the practice track) "Skinny Penny" by The Stereotypes (when Booth shows the Grand Prix videotape to the journalist) "Bones" by The Killers "Pride" by Syntax "Umbrella" by Rihanna ft. Jay-Z Edit
Quotes
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- Zack: Sharper than round, but blunter than sharp. Angela: What?! Cam: That actually made sense to me. Angela: You two have been spending way too much time together. Edit
- April: No, it's just- I meant- I believe that all creatures -- people, fish, dogs -- we're all connected. We all share the same stuff that makes life so beautiful and precious. Brennan: On a quantum level, that's true. Although the word 'stuff' is not accurate. Edit
- Braxton Smalls: Lenny, when was the last time you saw Tripp? Lenny: I told you, at the victory party. Braxton Smalls: You shook hands with him, sat next to him at the bar, did you make out a little? Edit
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- FBI Motor Tech: I blame the Stooges. The Three Stooges was a revolving act of mostly vaudevillian actors who made comedy shorts and films for Columbia Studios (and Fox and MGM) that ran from 1930 to 1970. The actors were referred to as Larry, Moe, and Curly/Shemp. The acts usually contained exaggerated physical comedy (slapping, punching, hitting with different objects, etc.) and one-liners within nonsensical storylines. Edit