Episode Notes
Aside from the "Pilot," this is the first episode title to depart from the typical title formula along the lines of "The (Something) in the (Something)."
Brennan became interested in being an anthropologist after watching the 1932 film The Mummy starring Lon Chaney.
Episode Quotes
Sweets: Dr. Saroyan, I'm having some serious problems with Daisy. Can I ask your advice?
Cam: No.
Sweets: No really.
Cam: Really. I have a 16-year-old and believe me, when it comes to dating advice I am batting a red hot zero.
Sweets: But, you've been through this like, a million times yourself.
Cam: Did you just call me old?
Sweets: Is that what it felt like?
Hodgins: The urine of a red-headed boy.
Cam: We need so much more than that.
Hodgins: From the swab of Dr. Kaswell's eye.
Angela: A red-headed boy peed on her eye?
Angela: Was Booth upset?
Brennan: Yes, I don't know why.
Angela: Brennan, this could screw up the natural order of things. And Booth wishes that you were going out with him.
Brennan: I drink with him all the time. But with Andrew, there's the potential for sex.
Angela: And not with Booth?
Sweets: Karloff was a genius. You could feel the mummy's pain, you know?
Angela: He was dead Sweets. He felt no pain.
Sweets: Emotional pain. That never dies.
Angela: Cheery thought. Thank you.
Sweets: (to Brennan) Wrong-ology. Keep your grubby anthro hands off my psych!
Daisy: Was I too hard on Lance?
Hodgins: Focus, Daisy.
Daisy: Okay. But you're a man. Lance is so cute, isn't he?
Hodgins: Yeah, that'd be a question for a woman.
Daisy: Someone that cute isn't malicious. He can't be.
Hodgins: You really don't need me for this conversation, do you?
Episode Goofs
Jack states that they didn't have redheads in Ancient Egypt. This is incorrect. Ramses II, considered by most to be the greatest pharaoh in Egyptian history, was a natural redhead.
Cam: I guess I'd be angry too if someone pulled my brain out through my nose and stuck it in a canopic jar.
Contrary to Cam's statement, the brain was often discarded by Egyptians, with only the stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver saved in canopic jars.
Cultural References
Cam: I guess I'd be angry too if someone pulled my brain out through my nose and stuck it in a canopic jar.
Canopic jars were used by Egyptians to store organs they believed had a use in the afterlife. However, brains were not typically kept in jars but discarded due to the belief that they had no use in the afterlife; instead, the stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver were kept in canopic jars.
Episode Title: A Night at the Bones Museum
The episode title is a take on the film, A Night at the Museum.