The Best Episodes Written By Jonathan Collier

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   10.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Arlen City Bomber

   S9:E103/27/2005

   Peggy follows Luanne onto a roller-derby team, where the tight-fisted owner prompts her to lead a revolt and form a team on borrowed money.

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   9.1/10(12 votes)

   #2 - The Conspiracy in the Corpse

   S10:E19/25/2014

   Brennan and the team attempt to absolve Booth and get him released from prison. The remains of a man who has been dead for over sixteen years prove to be significant.

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   #3 - Escape from Party Island

   S3:E173/16/1999

   Hank takes his mother and her friends to a museum of miniatures in Port Aransas, and they get stuck in the middle of MTV's Spring Break. Meanwhile, Bill tries to put the moves on Peggy while Hank is away.

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   8.3/10(9 votes)

   #4 - The End in the End

   S12:E123/28/2017

   With Kovac still at large, the team searches for evidence to track him down. After Brennan experiences a setback, the rest of the team must figure out how to find Kovac without her, putting everything she has ever taught them to the test. When all signs point to Kovac having outside help, as well as a hideout, Booth and Brennan go searching for him.

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   8.1/10(10 votes)

   #5 - The Loyalty in the Lie

   S11:E110/1/2015

   Booth goes missing six months after he and Brennan left their careers behind, but a case with ties to the couple pulls Brennan back into the world of forensic analysis, which brings her into contact with a member of Booth's family and Arastoo Vaziri, who's taken the lead at the Jeffersonian in her absence. Meanwhile, the FBI investigate Booth's disappearance, but one agent's tactics are bad for the team's morale.

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   8.0/10(2 votes)

   #6 - 12 Seconds

   S22:E510/27/2022

   Cosgrove and Shaw piece together the clues of what happened to a murdered law student, uncovering a web of blackmail and lies; Price fights to have a piece of shocking testimony thrown out.

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   #7 - Hank and the Great Glass Elevator

   S5:E112/11/2001

   Bill and former Texas governor Ann Richards hit it off after a chance meeting resulting from Hank's reluctant prank in an Austin hotel.

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   7.9/10(34 votes)

   #8 - 22 Short Films About Springfield

   S7:E214/14/1996

   Bart and Milhouse wonder if anything interesting happens to the citizens of Springfield, which leads to a series of interconnected vignettes.

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   7.9/10(35 votes)

   #9 - Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'

   S7:E224/28/1996

   When a fellow veteran dies, Grandpa Simpson and Mr. Burns fight for buried WWII treasure as the only surviving members of their battalion.

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    7.8/10(39 votes)

    #10 - Lisa the Iconoclast

    S7:E162/18/1996

    While researching into Jebediah Springfield's past for an essay, Lisa discovers that the town founder wasn't the hero that everyone thinks he was.

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    7.7/10(39 votes)

    #11 - The Homer They Fall

    S8:E311/10/1996

    When Moe sees that Homer can absorb massive blows to the head, he turns him into a prizefighter and sets up a match with heavyweight champion Drederick Tatum.

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    7.7/10(18 votes)

    #12 - The Corpse on the Canopy

    S8:E121/21/2013

    After Hodgins and Angela are drugged and wake up to a bloody corpse hanging in the canopy of their bed and flower petals around their son Michael's crib, they are forced to believe that Pelant is back for revenge against Hodgins. Although Hodgins wants to go after Pelant directly, Booth knows it's best to work within the system and not go against protocol. Meanwhile, as the Jeffersonian team investigates the corpse, they discover the victim was a Special Forces agent working for the world's biggest supplier of mercenaries, and Angela and Hodgins decide to start an investigation without the rest of the Jeffersonian team for the sake of their family.

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    7.6/10(34 votes)

    #13 - The Springfield Connection

    S6:E235/7/1995

    Marge joins the police force after thwarting a criminal, and Homer thinks he now has a free ride as a cop's spouse.

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    7.6/10(8 votes)

    #14 - The Source in the Sludge

    S9:E163/10/2014

    When a CIA informant is found murdered, Booth and CIA Agent Danny Beck (guest star Freddie Prinze Jr.) must work together to track down an Afghani terrorist. Meanwhile, Brennan wants to work more closely with Booth in the field, and the duo must confront the implications of what that means to their family.

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    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #15 - Husky Bobby

    S2:E611/9/1997

    Much to Hank's dismay, Bobby becomes a plus sized model.

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    7.3/10(37 votes)

    #16 - Bart's Girlfriend

    S6:E711/6/1994

    Bart learns that the good Reverend Lovejoy's daughter is really bad.

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    7.2/10(13 votes)

    #17 - El Carnicero en el Coche

    S9:E39/30/2013

    The Jeffersonian team investigates the murder of Jamie Delcampo, a member of the Estrellas Locas gang, whose remains were found in a burnt out car. Meanwhile, having taken time off from the FBI in the wake of Pelant's latest assault on the team, Sweets ultimately decides to help with the investigation when he discovers that a young boy from the center where he volunteers is the son of one of the gang members.

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    7.2/10(14 votes)

    #18 - The Sense in the Sacrifice

    S9:E410/7/2013

    The team devises a plan to use a donated cadaver to draw out Pelant; Sweets returns to work and believes Agent Flynn isn't who he seems.

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    7.1/10(12 votes)

    #19 - The Price for the Past

    S12:E41/24/2017

    The team investigates the murder of someone from Booth and Brennan's past. Meanwhile, Aubrey faces a moral dilemma of his own when he discovers his dad is back in the picture.

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    7.1/10(13 votes)

    #20 - The Prisoner in the Pipe

    S7:E74/2/2012

    The remains of an escaped convict are found in a residential sewer, but an examination of the sewer pipes indicates that the murder occurred within prison walls. Brennan insists on solving the crime despite Booth's pleas for her not to overexert herself and the expectant couple experiences a very untraditional arrival of their baby daughter.

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    7.1/10(17 votes)

    #21 - The Gunk in the Garage

    S8:E310/1/2012

    An investigation of human remains found in the aftermath of an explosion in a hotel garage hits a snag when the team learn their assumptions about a man's fate are incorrect. Meanwhile, Sweets gets a temporary partner at the FBI.

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    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #22 - Mr. Monk Goes to the Hospital

    S5:E163/2/2007

    Monk goes to the emergency room for a bloody nose, but when a doctor in the hospital turns up dead, Monk joins the murder investigation, and soon his own life is in grave danger.

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Keeping Up with Our Joneses

    S1:E104/27/1997

    Hank and Peggy's love of cigarettes is rekindled after Hank catches Bobby smoking, but Luanne is determined to nip their habit in the butt.

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    7.0/10(3 votes)

    #24 - King of the Ant Hill

    S1:E115/4/1997

    Hank's burning mad when he discovers fire ants on his lawn on the eve of the neighborhood block party.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Pigmalion

    S7:E91/12/2003

    A local pork producer is impressed by Luanne, who goes to his home for a job interview but comes away as his girlfriend.

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