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Most of these reviews are complaining about the 'real' woman being fat-shamed in this episode. Firstly - I'm fat and I can tell you I saw no references to weight at all. The intern was incompetent. The Jeffersonian is for the best of the best, the squints have to be geniuses. Yes, the others make mistakes but if you can't see the difference between their behaviour and Sammy's, maybe you should go back and watch the 11 previous seasons. Second - enough with the 'real' woman BS in the comments. It's seriously offensive. What, a woman can't be real because she's skinny?

To me, this is one of the worst episodes of Bones. I do not care about the rest of the plot, but firing the intern because of a series of mistakes on her first chance to work with the team? Initially I thought, the conclusion of this episode would show some humbleness on Bones side. But no. Just like that out of the door goodbye, you suck.

Bones as a person has so many flaws, and especially flaws that make her entirely inadequate for most aspects of her professional life except the science. With no social skills whatsoever, she should have been fired so often for serious misbehaviour, overstepping her competence, publicly blurting out accusations that in the end had no ground. But no.

All of her missteps end with "I see this now ... I should not have ... " and three episodes further on we see her do exactly the same kind of mess and socially inadequate behaviour again.

And let's be honest, especially with American standards for squeezing money out of situations, many of the wrongly accused could get back at her legally for her terrible behaviour and would win unless the system does not work (eh Booth, ehhh ?). And the Jeffersonian would have to pay big time or FIRE HER. But it makes a good story.

And it probably caters a lot of people to see the weak, non-brilliant, who has a dream and works hard for it get dismissed just the way Sammy was. If you see somebody struggle, you move them into a supporting role, have them observe, do more homework. You can eventual dismiss them entirely, if there is no drive to get better, but you need to give them time. And inviting an intern that clearly is not yet ready for the "stage" to be primary assistant is just unprofessional to begin with.

The series tries to be strong on moral - but is actually super arrogant, stereotypical and fails big time. It started good but ... fell flat towards the end.

I enjoyed the rip off of Pitch Perfect and the fact that Aubrey, love him, sang in college. It was fun and crazy and my escape for the week.

HOWEVER, and it's a BIG HOWEVER, on the one hand you have a female striking forward into a male only environment and then you have a lovely new intern, who looks like a normal woman, who was treated appallingly. Made me angry when Sammy was fired for being inexperienced and trying to learn. The only reason she was in this episode when we've never heard of her before, was so she could be abused by Bones and have her whole life destroyed. She was made to look incompetent when really it was all about her size.

Shame on Bones for tearing down a woman trying to get into forge a career in science. Shame on the show for fat shaming and making a disposable character be a larger framed girl. I'm spotting a trend with the show's treatment of real women. It's not a good one. Not a kind episode and certainly not forward thinking. Left a bad taste. Women are all shapes and sizes, not stick insects or clothes racks. No one's had a go a Bones for not losing the baby weight, so why attack Sammy?

The reviewers trying to defend the episode are entirely missing the point.

***Contains spoilers for other episodes*** The fact is the episode (arguably the whole show) is fatphobic, they CHOSE to cast a larger girl, the only larger intern we ever see, as a complete failure. This is one of hundreds of micro expressions that people are bombarded with shaming body inclusivity.

A few other examples in this very show Howard Epps mother, created a monster, smells of fungus - Played by a very large lady.

The human candle episode, mocks the eater/ feeder lifestyle, the victim while thin now, committed fraud to get thin.

The entire *fat Pam* incident

The entire main cast is thin, to the extreme in the case of Cam Saroyan.

That is what people are complaining about.

I absolutely love Pentatonix. So I enjoyed that portion of the show. That would have been a 10 for me. I agree with most of the other reviewers who said the fat phobia in this episode was annoying. They equated her inadequacies to her body size. No one completing a doctorate could be that ineffective. We didn't see any of that phobia when Emily Deschanel was carrying around that extra 40 lb after her first pregnancy. There are too many storylines in this episode. We had the acapella singing groups, Parker's summer plans, a new intern, and Aubrey's University escapades, and Hodgins application for surgery to reverse his paralysis. Too many to follow.