“The Princess and the Pear,” last Thursday’s episode of the Fox show Bones, opened with a group of eighth graders dressed like wizards and warriors playing Dungeons & Dragons in a sewer.
And my first thought was, “Oh, God, here we go again with the tired stereotypes of fantasy 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 or rodeo riders.
Soon the apparent murder is being investigated by Dr. Temperance ‘Bones’ Brennan (Emily Deschanel)....
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