131 Facts About Seeley Booth

Seeley Joseph Booth is a fictional character in the American television series Bones, portrayed by David Boreanaz.

Seeley Booth is a fan of the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team; he has pictures of the team hanging on the back wall of his office, has been seen wearing a Flyers T-shirt when off-duty and is known to become extremely annoyed whenever he is interrupted while watching a Flyers game.

Seeley Booth has been an avid athlete and sports fan since his high school days.

In Season 3 it is stated that Seeley Booth is 35 years old and that Brennan is five years younger than him and, in Season 4 episode The Con Man in the Meth Lab, the "squints" celebrate his birthday.

Seeley Booth mentioned in a Season 5 episode that he had watched Rocketship 7 as a child, a show that had ended in 1978.

In season 11, Seeley Booth are mentioned as now being in their 40s.

Seeley Booth is the older of two boys and has a younger brother Jared.

Seeley Booth is still uncomfortable discussing his childhood and becomes especially defensive when asked about it.

In Season 8, Seeley Booth bluntly tells Brennan that he "grew up in a household of violence and hatred", one of the few times the character has ever openly spoken of his past.

When his younger brother Jared is first introduced, it becomes apparent that Seeley Booth was estranged from his family.

Seeley Booth used to protect Jared from their father when he became violent, and was extremely protective of him.

The boys were essentially singlehandedly raised by their paternal grandfather Hank, whom Seeley Booth affectionately calls "Pops".

Hank had stumbled upon his son abusing Seeley Booth and drove him out of the house.

Seeley Booth calls Booth "Shrimp" as Seeley was a young child then.

Seeley Booth has admitted that he might have killed himself as a kid had it not been for his grandfather.

Seeley Booth was a sniper in the 101st Airborne Division, 75th Ranger Regiment, and Special Forces.

Seeley Booth served in the Gulf War, Somalia, Guatemala, and Kosovo, along with other places.

Seeley Booth stated that he has trained with Delta Force operators and it has been indicated that he has experience in clandestine operations.

Seeley Booth has a Pathfinder Badge in his shadow boxes in his office.

Seeley Booth separated from the army at the rank of master sergeant.

Seeley Booth is offered a promotion to sergeant major and a position as an advisor to the Afghan National Army.

Bones subsequently discovers that he has been tortured while held as a POW in the Middle East, which Seeley Booth never elaborated on and has not been addressed since, after looking at his x-rays.

Seeley Booth is still haunted by memories from his time in the Army, having lost friends in combat and watched his own buddy bleed to death in his arms.

Former priest and Army chaplain, Aldo Clemens, whom Seeley Booth regularly confessed to while he was in the service, told Bones that Seeley Booth was the reason why he left the priesthood and decided that God was his "worst enemy" and a "bastard".

Seeley Booth sought out Sweets for counseling in Season 6 after he was confronted by his former mentor and ex-military sniper-turned-vigilante Jacob Broadsky.

In season 12, while working a case involving his former Army buddies, Seeley Booth admits to Bones that he had been lucky and was only able to move on with her support.

Seeley Booth had a gambling problem which developed as a coping mechanism after leaving the military.

In Season 4, it is stated that Seeley Booth has been in the FBI for twelve years, which implies that he would have joined the Bureau around 1996.

Seeley Booth often refers to himself as a jock, having played football and several other sports in high school and college.

Seeley Booth is portrayed as a patriot and has a strong sense of duty to his country and job.

Seeley Booth takes his oath and position as a federal agent seriously and holds himself to an equally high standard; he is especially distressed whenever a law enforcement officer is involved and refuses to participate in cover-ups.

Seeley Booth is fiercely loyal and protective towards his friends and family to the point where he will not hesitate to physically threaten and intimidate anyone who attempts to harm them.

Seeley Booth is occasionally over-protective, often to Bones' annoyance, of his family and people he cares about.

Seeley Booth once told Sweets that while he has killed, he has never murdered.

One of Seeley Booth's noted characteristics is his respect for life.

In subsequent episodes Dr Wyatt uncovers the guilt and anger Seeley Booth has been harboring for so long.

When investigating a crime, Seeley Booth relies on intuition and instinct honed from his training and experience, something which the rational empiricist Bones is unable to understand.

Seeley Booth eventually concedes that the interpersonal aspects of the job and interrogations are still exclusively Booth's area of expertise.

Seeley Booth is often frustrated by the scientific and highly technical jargon Bones and the other scientists, and sometimes Sweets, tend to use, as shown when he abruptly cuts them off in the middle of a sentence and tells them to "translate" into layman's terms.

Seeley Booth tends to keep his personal and professional life as separate as possible and is quite territorial, especially in regards to his personal life and what he considers his personal space.

Seeley Booth is extremely guarded and taciturn about most aspects of his personal life, namely his abusive father, troubled childhood, "love life" and traumatic experiences in the military.

Bones herself commented that Seeley Booth being assigned to a desk job was akin to "caging an animal" and that he was "meant to run free".

Seeley Booth tends to shy away from the limelight when it comes to taking credit for solving a case.

Seeley Booth tends to be a kinesthetic person who favors the physical aspects of his job, such as chasing down suspects or leading a SWAT team, and would throw around a ball or putt a golf ball into a cup in his office while thinking through his cases.

Seeley Booth is a fan of classic rock and arena rock music.

Seeley Booth has expressed great affection for the group Foreigner, and poked fun at Bones for her interest in world, rap, and hip hop music.

Seeley Booth is familiar with country music as his grandfather "raised [him] on Grand Ole Opry".

Seeley Booth despises new age innovations, feeling that technology dehumanizes everything.

Seeley Booth dislikes reading news on a tablet, preferring to hold the newspaper in his hands, and had a vintage fridge in his kitchen at his old apartment.

Bones told Hannah that Seeley Booth has always wanted an old-fashioned rotary telephone, as he believes that it is what a phone should be: sturdy and heavy enough to knock someone out.

Seeley Booth believes that the mechanics of it make it human.

When traveling through a haunted house, Seeley Booth is frightened of an evil clown mannequin; Brennan is bewildered by his behavior and Seeley Booth feels ashamed when he purposely avoids walking by the mannequin.

Seeley Booth wears a "Cocky" belt buckle in episodes following "The Boneless Bride in the River", which is absent in the first episode of season five after recovery from surgery.

Toward the end of season 4, Seeley Booth suffers from a brain tumor that leads him to hallucinate conversations with Stewie Griffin.

Seeley Booth was eventually made the liaison between the Jeffersonian and the FBI, much to his chagrin, but he soon develops a close working relationship with the Jeffersonian team of scientists, whom Booth and his fellow FBI agents call "squints", a nickname which has since become a term of endearment Bones and her team associate him with.

Seeley Booth once referred to the Jeffersonian team of scientists, whom he affectionately calls the "squint squad", as "my people".

Seeley Booth is characterized as a "hands on" agent and makes no secret of his distaste for paperwork and formal documentation.

Seeley Booth mentioned in "Fire in the Ice" that he does not have a "wrong hand", implying that he is comfortable using either hand to shoot despite being predominantly right-handed.

Seeley Booth is equally proficient with vintage firearms, demonstrating the double tap technique with a replica World War II-era Carcano for one of Hodgins' experiments in "The Proof in the Pudding" and completing the shooting contest at a cowboy competition with ease using 19th-century guns and rifles in "The Cowboy in the Contest".

Seeley Booth is a skilled knife thrower and is familiar with various types of explosives and weapons.

However, Seeley Booth is not technically responsible for Epps' death, so as of "The Man in the Cell" his official kill count is at 49.

Seeley Booth has killed serial killer Christopher Pelant and two of the three Delta Force assassins sent to kill him in "The Recluse in the Recliner".

Seeley Booth generally tries to keep his personal and professional life separate.

Seeley Booth dislikes bringing his work back home and tries to avoid discussing a case after hours.

Broadsky points out that Seeley Booth has no definite proof that would allow him to feel comfortable shooting his old teacher.

Seeley Booth is comforted by the news that Brennan does not see him and Broadsky as identical and later successfully arrests him without having to kill him.

The FBI intends to open a field office in Germany, where the US has a major military command and, according to Seeley Booth, would be a prime location for counter-terrorism activities.

Seeley Booth was being considered for a promotion to head the new field office on a 2-year assignment.

Bones calls an ambulance in time but Seeley Booth is charged with killing three FBI agents supposedly sent to serve an arrest warrant and is handcuffed to his hospital bed.

Seeley Booth is taken into custody for questioning on the orders of Deputy Director Stark after vehemently protesting that the "FBI agents" were in fact Delta Force assassins and that Booth was "defending himself".

Seeley Booth was released from prison in the Season 10 premiere and reinstated despite concerns from Brennan and Sweets that he was coming back to work too soon.

Seeley Booth's wife decided the case would be her last with the Jeffersonian.

Season 11 begins with Seeley Booth having taken up a position as a freelance instructor at the FBI Academy.

Seeley Booth tended to be "over-protective" of Jared, which the latter resented, when they were growing up and it added to the animosity.

In Season 4, Seeley Booth sacrificed credit for a major crime bust and potential promotion to keep Jared from getting arrested after he was caught drunk-driving as another DUI would cost him his Navy career.

Cam has said that Jared had a history of getting into trouble and Seeley Booth having to constantly bail him out.

In "The Dentist in the Ditch", he introduces his fiancee Padme to Seeley Booth and asks him to be his best man at their wedding.

Later, when discussing Jared's death with Bones, Seeley Booth commented on their contrasting lives and that the only reason why he, a recovering gambling addict, did not turn out like his brother was because he had her support.

Seeley Booth is close to his grandfather Hank, whom he affectionately calls "Pops".

For many years, Seeley Booth resented his parents and the mere mention of them, particularly his father, would elicit a hostile response from him.

Seeley Booth detested his father for physically abusing him and Jared when they were young and, by his own statements, had not seen him for twenty years.

In Season 7, when Seeley Booth learns of his father's death from Hank, he showed little emotion and repeatedly dismissed his colleagues' and the Jeffersonian team's concern throughout the day.

In Season 8, when his mother Marianne reappears after 24 years to ask Seeley Booth to give her away at her wedding to her fiancee, he was reluctant to do so as he was still angry with her for abandoning the family.

Seeley Booth is characterized as a doting father to his three children, Parker, Christine and Hank Jr.

Seeley Booth has a son named Parker with his ex-girlfriend, Rebecca, who refused to marry him.

Seeley Booth is characterized as a doting and occasionally over-protective father.

Seeley Booth was named after Brennan's mother Christine Brennan and their co-worker and friend Angela Montenegro.

On multiple occasions in the series, characters have stated that Seeley Booth is a direct descendant of infamous assassin John Wilkes Seeley Booth.

Max, in particular, strongly believed that Seeley Booth was the right man for his daughter despite the fact that Seeley Booth has had to arrest him a number of times for trying to take the law into his hands to protect Bones.

Seeley Booth was dismissive of his religious beliefs and would take the opportunity to downplay it.

In Season 2 Seeley Booth expelled her from the interrogation room after she repeatedly made insensitive remarks, despite her good intentions, during an interview with a parish priest.

Seeley Booth has several heated arguments over various issues, especially religion.

Seeley Booth gradually comes to respect and admire his faith when she realizes that it was his way of coping with the trauma and violence he witnesses on a regular basis at work.

Seeley Booth often takes Bones along to his investigations and interrogations, despite his superiors' and Caroline's initial reservations about a "squint" being in the field.

Seeley Booth taught her some investigative techniques and "black ops stuff", such as using a credit card to break open a locked door.

Seeley Booth is extremely protective of her, and is often defensive of her to the point of physically assaulting those who pose a threat to her safety.

Likewise, Bones has defended him whenever his ability is called into question and repeatedly made known that Seeley Booth is the only FBI agent she tolerate working with.

In Season five, Seeley Booth realizes his love for Brennan as he recovers from his tumor.

Afraid that his feelings for her are related solely to his tumor and coma, Seeley Booth is conflicted about whether or not to tell Brennan.

Seeley Booth agrees to respect her wishes and attempts to move on as they continue to work together.

Brennan departs for a year-long anthropological expedition to the Maluku Islands, while Seeley Booth agrees to spend a year in Afghanistan, training soldiers to apprehend terrorists.

When Brennan admits that she still has feelings for Seeley Booth, he turns her down and says that he loves Hannah.

At the start of season seven, a very pregnant Brennan and Seeley Booth are in a relationship and going back and forth between apartments.

Seeley Booth suggests that they should have their own place; Brennan wants Seeley Booth to move into her apartment.

Seeley Booth tells Brennan he loves her and left it to her to decide when she wants to get married.

Seeley Booth tells Bones that she would be the one to ask him to marry her since he believed in marriage and she was the one who needed the make the decision.

Seeley Booth puts up a facade but was still resentful and bitter over the separation.

Seeley Booth calls off the wedding, but does not explain the real reason to Brennan.

Seeley Booth then reiterates his marriage proposal, which she happily accepts.

Bones agreed to a church wedding after realizing the sacrifice Seeley Booth had made as the Catholic church does not condone co-habitation; Aldo had told her that Seeley Booth was willing to sacrifice his soul and "live in sin" if it meant being with her.

Seeley Booth rationalized the decision, saying that she could see the "beauty" behind the ceremony and tradition associated with a Catholic wedding and added that she knew Latin.

When she became pregnant, Seeley Booth proposed but Stinson did not accept.

Seeley Booth resolves to end their liaisons after Rebecca assuages his doubts that he was a good father to Parker.

However, Seeley Booth ends the relationship for the second time after an intense case nearly costs Saroyan her life.

Seeley Booth asserts that on-the-job romantic relationships endanger the team in high-pressure situations.

Seeley Booth has known Saroyan for some length of time; in Season 4, it is stated that she has known Seeley Booth and his brother Jared for some 15 years.

Seeley Booth moved to Washington DC to be with Booth and they eventually moved in together in Booth's apartment.

Seeley Booth gradually develops a close working relationship and becomes friends with them outside of work.

The rest of the team have since accepted Seeley Booth, as shown in several episodes where Seeley Booth's life was threatened and the "squints" all go the extra mile to ensure his safety.

Seeley Booth soon earns his respect when he lets Hodgins accompany him to rescue Bones, who was being held captive by a rogue FBI agent, and Hodgins witnesses Seeley Booth shooting the perpetrator as the latter was about to kill Bones.

Seeley Booth has the tendency to cut Hodgins off in the middle of a conversation whenever the latter starts using scientific jargon, although Hodgins generally tolerates it.

Seeley Booth intentionally ignores Hodgins' "insane conspiracist ravings" and uses Hodgins' knowledge to his advantage, especially while investigating the Gormogon murders.

Seeley Booth often gave both of them tips on how to get along with and appease the other.

Seeley Booth has threatened to shoot Addy on several occasions out of exasperation.

Seeley Booth convinces Addy that ignoring one another is a form of male bonding in order to deter Addy from continuously asking him anymore awkward questions and so that he could avoid hurting Addy's feelings.

When fellow FBI agent Dr Lance Sweets first joined the team, Seeley Booth treated him in a condescending manner, due to his youth and boyish looks.

Seeley Booth consults Sweets on a number of issues, including his feelings for Bones.

When Seeley Booth was suspended from the field, he consulted with Dr Gordon Wyatt instead of Sweets, who is the department's designated psychologist, in order to avoid having to put Sweets in a difficult position of having to choose between their friendship and his professional responsibility.

Seeley Booth is generally wary of most of the "squinterns" due to their eccentric personalities, especially Aubrey's one-time love interest Jessica Warren and Sweets' girlfriend Daisy Wick.

Seeley Booth is good friends with Wendell Bray, one of Brennan's favorite interns, and they play ice hockey together on the same amateur team.

In Season 9, Seeley Booth is visibly distraught when Brennan tells him that she suspects Wendell has Ewing's sarcoma.