Million Dollar Password (S01E01)

Two things I learned tonight: 1) Rachel Ray isn’t the brightest mind around 2) Regis Philbin doesn’t know Neil Patrick Harris is gay I’m not old enough to remember the original game show Password, but I have seen an incarnation of Pyramid or $10,000 Pyramid and so I get the general idea of the game. Here’s the general idea: A celebrity is matched up with a regular person. Like charades or pictionary, they are given a word (aka password) to portray to their partner, but in this case, they can only give hints in 1 word doses. For example …

Hodgins knew it was Zack (Bones)

In the aftermath of Dr. Zack Addy’s confession and ultimate depature from Bones, something a lot of people overlooked a particularly great scene.

When I first watched this episode, I took nothing from the fact that Hodgins gave Zack morphine.  I thought it was placed there to throw the fans off the trail.

But it turns out that Hodgins was being Hodgins.  I’ll explain after the click.

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