The references to “Bones” are not an isolated case; three seasons later, after the series was canceled by FOX (also the network behind “Bones”) and landed on Netflix, “Bones” is back in a big way. In the penultimate episode of the series, Lucifer’s daughter from the future, Rory (Brianna Hildebrand), shares a bonding moment with her father on “Bones” and her reboot. Which reboot, you ask? Well, one that “Lucifer” invented and which, in a stroke of genius, is called “More Bones”. According to Rory (and the pages of the script shared by TVLine at the time), “More Bones” features Booth’s (David Boreanaz) and Brennan’s (Emily Deschanel) cyborg daughter, Borgie. Of course, the main characters of “Bones” already have children at the end of the series, but Borgie is presumably the third child, unless their daughter Christine somehow turns into a bionic woman later in life.
In any case, Rory tells Lucifer that “More Bones” is great and that the sexual tension between Borgie and his boneless android partner, Agent Andro, is “off the charts.” Hilariously, “Lucifer” co-showrunner Joe Henderson told TVLine that the initial “Bones” reference, accompanied by clips from the show’s early seasons that piqued Luci’s interest, was something he had had to fight. “Part of what she drove [the references] “We fought so hard to get those ‘Bones’ clips,” he told the outlet in 2021. “It was the weirdest fight I’ve ever been in, where I was calling people and saying, ‘I need ‘Bones,’ I need ‘Bones!’” Getting the rights to footage from another TV show can be tricky, even when the two shows share the same network.
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