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Digging Up Family Guy Bones with Actress Emily Deschanel
by Troy Rogers
 Since 2005, Fox's investigative forensic drama, Bones, has steadily climbed the ratings while gaining new and loyal viewers each year. Now in its fourth season, Bones winds down its quad run as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) and forensic anthropology sleuth, Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel), discover dead mascots, animated Family Guy character Stewie Griffin (Seth MacFarlane), metal icons Motley Crue, and former '70s A-list Hollywood heartthrob Ryan O'Neal within the final three episodes of Bones season four. As far as going big with Bones or going home, the end of season four looks to be high in forensic entertainment and mysterious celebrity value.
Leading up to the April 30 episode of Bones, "The Beaver in the Otter," which sees the return of actor Brendan Fehr as Booth's now unemployed brother, Jared, we followed a trail of TV bones to a conference call with other outlets where we found Bones actress Emily Deschanel who filled us in on how Stewie Griffin fits into the series, the Family Guy cross-over, and how a possible child in the relationship between Booth and Brennan could impact future Bones storylines.
 THE DEADBOLT: What can you tell me about the Stewie Griffin guest appearance? Will it look the way we think it’s going to look?
EMILY DESCHANEL: Will he look the way we think he’s going to look?
THE DEADBOLT: Yeah. Will it be like a Mary Poppins kind of thing?
DESCHANEL: A little bit, but like so much more modern and cooler, not that I don’t love Mary Poppins. I mean I thought it was such a brilliant cross-over episode, and that episode ... I mean I haven’t seen the end result, but the script was so funny and moving and it’s got emotion and drama.
Basically, in that episode, I ask Booth to father a child with me and he starts to hallucinate and see Stewie from Family Guy, and the way it’s done is to be believable. I mean, if you’re going to see a hallucination it might as well be a cartoon as easily as it could be another human being. So I think it’s done very well and I thought it was great. It’s a funny show, Family Guy, so I was excited to have Stewie join our cast for an episode.
 THE DEADBOLT: I thought it was interesting because usually the cross-over would go the other way and you guys would be animated on Family Guy.
DESCHANEL: Yeah, and we haven’t done that, so it’s nice to do it this way. I thought it was really clever of the writers to think of that and really think outside the box. I mean 'really' think outside the box with this thing and storylines. But it’s done in a very, for lack of a better word, realistic way and I think that it plays in the world of our show. You know, we have a kind of goofy, crazy side, and I think it works with that.
THE DEADBOLT: With Brennan’s request that Booth father her child, how do you see that panning out, best case scenario? In the future will we see a serial killer grab the kid and hold him or her hostage?
DESCHANEL: Yeah. No, that’s absolutely possible. I think that that is definitely a possibility. I think that just seeing Booth and Brennan interact with a baby in the future - I mean, we did this one baby episode last season, "The Baby in the Bow," and you saw Brennan interact with a child.
 She changed a lot during that episode, at first holding the baby at arm’s length, just trying to give him away as much as possible. And then by the end he kind of grew on her and she was really sad to see him leave. You saw that side of Brennan, so we’ll see.
I mean, I don’t think Brennan [laughs] - If there’s such a thing as a perfect mother, I don’t know if Brennan is anywhere near that. But who is, I guess? That’s the beauty of the show. You see, hopefully, somewhat honest, real characters interacting and things that people can relate to, and that’s something a lot of people can relate to being a parent.
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