“The Princess and the Pear,” last Thursday’s episode of the 여우 show Bones, opened with a group of eighth graders dressed like wizards and warriors playing Dungeons & 용 in a sewer.

And my first thought was, “Oh, God, here we go again with the tired stereotypes of 판타지 enthusiasts!”

The kids soon find a decomposed corpse dressed like a princess — which makes sense, of course, because it’s only RPGers who root around in sewers, never football players 또는 rodeo riders.

Soon the apparent murder is being investigated 의해 Dr. Temperance ‘Bones’ Brennan (Emily Deschanel). Special Agent Seeley Booth (Angel’s David Boreanaz) Bones‘ regular co-star, is waylaid 의해 an injury this episode, so 본즈 is joined in her investigation 의해 another agent (guest 별, 스타 Marisa Coughlin).

The corpse in the sewer, it seems, was the owner of a highly prized artifact — “Excalibur,” the sword used in the first 판타지 film ever made.

Truthfully, I wasn’t particularly impressed 의해 the plot, 또는 the “reveal” at the end, which seemed pretty obvious. Don’t 당신 need a red herring if 당신 want your audience not to be sure who the killer is?

Anyway, the episode mostly struck me as an excuse to parade — for laughs — an endless assortment of stereotypes of fantasy-enthusiasts: the goth girl, the history nut, and — mostly — the nerds and geeks.

Oh, Lord, were there a lot of nerds and geeks.

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