The Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood 

A corpse found roasted in a neighborhood party barbecue pit is identified as missing dentist Kurt Bissette. He had not only upset neighbors with his windmill and by nearly poisoning the gay... See full summary »

Director:

Gordon Lonsdale (as Gordon C. Lonsdale)

Writers:

Hart Hanson (created by), Kathy Reichs (inspired by the life of forensic anthropologist and author)

Stars:

Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Emily Deschanel	...	Temperance Brennan
David Boreanaz	...	Seeley Booth
Michaela Conlin	...	Angela Montenegro
Tamara Taylor	...	Camille Saroyan
T.J. Thyne	...	Jack Hodgins (as TJ Thyne)
John Francis Daley	...	Lance Sweets
Pej Vahdat	...	Arastoo Vaziri
Leonardo Nam	...	Nate Grunenfelder
Reggie Austin	...	James Perry
Billy Gardell	...	Bob Sayles
Cheryl White	...	Mary Kay Sayles
Paula Newsome	...	Kelly Bissette
Josie Davis	...	Paula Lindbergh
Conor Dubin	...	Elliot Lindberg
Amy Gumenick	...	Paige Sayles

Storyline

A corpse found roasted in a neighborhood party barbecue pit is identified as missing dentist Kurt Bissette. He had not only upset neighbors with his windmill and by nearly poisoning the gay couple's dog but probably was a blackmailer. Trey Johnson, the owners society's handsome young gardener, isn't the only one enjoying residents' infidelity, which isn't the only possible secret or motive either. Meanwhile young Parker seems worried about Booth's lack of female company. Sweets figures out why Arastoo faked his accent.

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Plot Keywords:

day in episode title | gay | gay couple | gardener | barbecue | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 October 2009 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Stage 6, 20th Century Fox Studios - 10201 Pico Blvd., Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Josephson Entertainment, Far Field Productions, 20th Century Fox Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The first episode that Arastoo reveals his real accent to a main cast member. (He did not have his Iranian accent in the episode "The End in the Beginning," but that episode strayed from the usual storyline.)

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Goofs

Hodgins asks Arastoo "How do you balance an archaic religious belief with a life devoted to science?" Hodgins would be aware: 1) that Islam is about 630 years less archaic than Christianity 2) that it was not until 1992 that the Roman Catholic Church accepted they'd really got it wrong in dealing with Galileo Galilei and his theories. 3) that it was in Arastoo's native area that mathematics started to evolve around 2000 years before Islam. I am suggesting that the error is in the use of the word "archaic". Hodgins would be happy to consider the correctness of any fact-based view of the world.

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Quotes

Parker Booth: Couldn't you be his girlfriend?
Special Agent Seeley Booth: Buddy, you're gonna have to quit that.
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: That would be inappropriate.
Parker Booth: Why?
Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan: Because... we work together.
Parker Booth: That's a stupid reason.

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Connections

References Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968)

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Soundtracks

Liliko'i Lover
Performed by Rising Tide

User Reviews

Murder on the Orient Express Revisited

The plot of this episode borrows from Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express crossed with Desperate Housewives. It revolves around a colourful set of characters living in a suburban cul de sac.

It had two gay characters, just in the mix, mildly comic but not derogatory. There is one male eye-candy character Trey the gardener also appealing to the gay viewer. I like it when gays are present without making a big deal of it.

There is one scene where a Muslim makes a claim that his religion is completely compatible with science. The characters on the show know nothing about Islam, so they just let this nonsense slide.

In the 1300s in Moorish Spain, there was a golden era of Islam. Pretty well all learning and scholarship in Europe was done by Muslims. Islam strongly encouraged science. Then fundamentalism and Quranic literalism swept Islam. Discoveries in science and math stopped. Islam started murdering anyone who did not swallow Creationism and other forms of Quranic literalism and magic thinking. Islam has been a pall over the earth ever since.