After taking a few week off to make room for the election Bones kicks off this week with two drunk teens finding a corpse inside a crushed car. Why is it always drunks, stoners or people trying to have sex who find these insane corpses? Is it some sort of penance? Bones and Booth discover the victim is an artist who uses the crushed cars in industrial sculpture.

The artist’s hangers-on get an injunction keeping the crew from tearing the car apart as it is apparently “historic art”. The artists and artistic community is also pretty much a one-note joke about overly tattooed, oddly dressed, pretentious freaks. The tangled web of the murder is eventually unraveled by sweat on an axe handle and a woman who wears kabuki makeup with a second set of eyebrows drawn on.

Angela’s sexual peccadilloes make an appearance this week as we learn that she not only has had sex at least once every six weeks since she was sixteen but she also had a year long serious relationship with another woman. Its a little insulting to find out a character we’ve known as straight exposed as having a gay relationship. I’m aware that there are legitimately bisexual people in this world, but sexuality isn’t a light switch that you can turn off when its inconvenient. Booth compounds the damage by playing the flummoxed jock who is ridiculed for being surprised that someone he’s known for years has had a long term homosexual relationship. Its hard to imagine how he wouldn’t be surprised.

Speaking of Angela, her breakup with Hodgins rears its ugly and useless head again. Its like a rash. It pops up every now and again to annoy then receding into the background without any long term effects.

As a bonus this week, the super annoying intern Daisy made a return. She’s both helpful and annoying to every member of the crew and eventually, Sweets is asked to fire her. As he’s letting her go, the two kiss and reveal thier hidden relationship. For a split second I considered the possibility that this relationship would finally give Sweets something to do other than annoy the crew. Then, I remembered this is Bones and true character development is off the table. Bones continues to be the Halloween candy of crime scene investigation programs, sugary and shallow but always welcome even if it won’t fill you up.