"Bones" May Be Pro-Gay Propaganda, But We Love It Anyway

David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel in Bones

If you needed any proof that FOX entertainment and FOX News are entirely separate entities, all you had to do was catch last week's Bones. The FOX series featured an episode involving the murder of a gay football playing dentist and actually got called out by that hotbed of right wing paranoia known as NewsBusters.org for pushing "liberal group think" and injecting "standard talking points about the inequity of gays being unable to marry and the threat of physical violence from straight men."

That sort of thing is right up our alley around here, so of course I had to watch the episode! Damn them for making me sit through yet more TV this week.

You know what? NewsBusters.org may have a point, albeit a minor one. And hey, even a broken clock (with a date display) is right once a month. But I will give it to NewsBusters that the show sounded a wee bit preachy when it came to gay issues.

It was so preachy in fact, that it almost seemed like the show was having fun with it. They knew it was over the top, but they were making a game out of the rat-a-tat-tat of pro-gay bullet points. Honestly, it might have been a record.

Check out this clip and you'll see what I mean...

Whatever the show's motives, I absolutely loved the pro-gay messaging that this Bones episode contained. It was made all the more sweet by the knowledge that it made the good folks over at NewsBusters apoplectic! And looking beyond the hyper-didacticism I can honestly say I really enjoyed the show for its overall wit and rock solid cast. I think this was the first Bones episode I ever caught, but I'll probably tune in again.

Here's another relentlessly pro-gay clip from "Dentist in the Ditch". And just to entice you, this one features guest star Robert Gant as a coach along with his team of macho gay football players:

You can watch the entire "Dentist in the Ditch" episode online here.  You can also watch a new episode of Bones tonight on FOX at 8:00pm EST.