LOS ANGELES – Temperance and Seeley are the couple we took for granted. We knew they were meant to be together before they did, beamed when they finally gave in to the inevitable, celebrated milestones with them — and then slowly let them drift out of our lives.
Now it's too late. Well, almost too late.
Tuesday evening, the married couple will officially move on when "Bones" — one of the 20 longest-running dramas in network history — airs its series finale.
Despite a 12-year run, Fox's most durable procedural is going out with about as much fanfare as you'd give a goldfish on its second birthday. No retrospective special. No final laps on the talk-show circuit. No commemorative edition from Entertainment Weekly.
On a recent episode of "Billy on the Street," truTV's hilarious series in which New Yorkers are accosted with obscure pop culture references, host Billy Eichner spent four minutes trying to find "Bones" fans to share in his mock dismay over the show's cancellation — with little success.
Emily Deschanel was flattered.
"I thought it was hilarious," said the actress, whose portrayal of Temperance "Bones" Brennan was overshadowed ages ago by little sister Zooey Deschanel's "adorkable" star turn on "New Girl." "It was so fun that he included us, even if we were the butt of the joke. Some people are passionate about the show and others have no idea what it is, which is kind of awesome. Half the people I encounter when I go grocery shopping and stuff don't know who I am, which is nice."
For the uninitiated — or forgetful — we first met Brennan in 2005 as an emotionally distant but savvy forensics anthropologist, recruited by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) to aid in the case of the week. Some 250 corpses later, the pair have gotten married, had two kids and, as of last week, withstood a terrorist explosion that destroyed much of their crime-fighting lab and, possibly, some of Brennan's brain cells.
