Are you ready for Thanksgiving? I know I am, I'll be visiting friends for a week, going on some ghost tours, probably eating too much, seeing new sights, drinking, just enjoying time with friends during this crazy time of COVID. Well how about this week we dive into an episode of Bones, what's better than crime and turkey? This episode of Bones originally aired November 19th of 2015, 5 years ago and it's available to watch on Hulu and on Amazon Prime.
Thanksgiving Themed Cocktails (delish.com) I chose 3 to share, but more are available:
Thanksgiving Jungle Juice
- 2 bottles red wine
- 4 c. ginger ale
- 3 c. cranberry juice
- 2/3 c. Fireball
- 2/3 c. whiskey
- 2 c. frozen cranberries
- 1 orange, sliced into rounds
- 1 apple, cut into thin slices
- Combine all ingredients in a punch bowl, stir together and serve.
Pecan Pie Martini
- 3 tbsp. caramel, microwaved until pourable
- 1/4 c. toasted chopped pecans
- Cool Whip, for garnish
- 3 whole pecans, for garnish
- Sprinkle of cinnamon, for garnish
- 6 oz. rumchata
- 6 oz. creme de cocoa
- 3 oz. bourbon
- Ice
- Place caramel and toasted chopped pecans on separate small shallow plates. Dip the rim of each glass first into caramel and then into chopped pecans to coat.
- Combine rumchata, creme de cocoa, and bourbon in a large cocktail shaker. Fill with ice and shake until cold, 30 seconds. Pour into martini glasses and top with a dollop of whipped cream, a whole pecan, and a sprinkle of cinnamon.
Leftover Pecan Pie Bourbon Shake
- 3 scoops vanilla ice cream
- 1/2 c. milk
- 2 oz. bourbon
- 1/2 c. chopped pecan pie
- In a blender, combine vanilla ice cream, milk, bourbon, and chopped pecan pie.
- Blend until desired consistency. (Add more ice cream if mixture is too thin, more milk if it’s too thick.)
- Pour into glass and garnish with crumbled pecan pie.
Bones Drinking Game (full rules at drinkiwiki.com, edited because show notes are limited):
One Drink
- Brennan questions someone’s position
- Hodgins gets excited about any piece of evidence
- Hodgins is paranoid or explains a conspiracy theory
- Brennan doesn’t understand an obvious pop culture reference
- Booth doesn’t understand something & they have to explain it in simpler terms
- Angela calls someone Sweetie
- Brennan cites something anthropological to refute something Booth said
- Someone swipes a keycard to get onto the forensics platform
- Brennan states a fact that someone finds offending
Two Drinks
- Someone says “I know what happened”
- The victim was murdered by someone in their family
- Cam gets mad at Hodgins & [intern] for doing an experiment
- Any part of the victim is found in water
- Brennan & Cam fight about cleaning the body
- The victim died protecting something or somebody
- The victim was raped
- Booth figures out what happened to the victim
- Brennan over-acts while undercover (i.e. weird accent, shouting)
- Clark asks everyone to remain professional
- One of the team gets evidence on them and has to wait to have it removed
Finish Your Drink
- You see someone get shot
- Max is the murderer
- Someone on the team (i.e. Booth or Brennan) kills someone
- The killer gets away and the episode will be continued
