After the Bones episode was over I made Jan watch the "Enhance It" video on YouTube so she understood why I was laughing so at one point in the show.
Bones is entertaining enough that I've learned to mostly ignore the horrific science and evidence handling. But this one was too much--it involved victims being given illegally obtained bone grafts that were from a deceased person with virulent cancer, so all the recipients were coming down with the same cancer.
So they want to ID the original "donor" so analyze the bones. Hey look, lack of flouridated water in this guy's life! So he's from Appalachia. And there's a larger than normal amount of some chemical that is part of Teflon. Hey, there's a factory that manufactures Teflon products in West Virginia. Okay so now we have it narrowed down to 3(!!) guys who died of that kind of cancer around a year ago. Dig 'em up! Two are undisturbed, so this guy MUST BE OUR GUY!
So I already have a massive problem with this convenient chain of reasoning, any defense attorney would have a field day with it. On top of it, the widow of the 3rd guy won't let them dig up her yard (where his ashes were scattered) to find bone fragments they could link to the victims' cases. Come back with a warrant!
No judge in the world would grant a warrant based on what they had at that point. And then within 20 minutes they have a warrant, dig up a yard in West Virginia, do the comparison and yep, it's their guy.
Not to mention the overdone treacly B-story of one of the victims, 15 year old dying of the cancer from the bone graft, and this was one of my less liked episodes of Bones.