Babies taste like Fish: the new were there Statues at the Nightclub?

I was so excited to find that my last post was NOT about Bones, so I can post about the season premiere without worry that I'll have to post a spin off blog entitled Prancers Investigates Bones (inevitable). (I just noticed, while re-reading my posts and musing about my brilliance, that I made this same joke in the last Bones-related post. Anyone else who noticed gets a cookie in appreciation of your careful attentiveness.)
Let me just say first that Bones + Vanished is weird as shit. Already. Don't worry, I'm not going to get into it. Suffice it to say that there is now a tech who's been to Iraq and dismissed for reasons unknown, a mysterious ship's captain husband from a tribal marriage that must be anulled, an abandoned bank vault containing the silver-plated bone edition of Wheel of Fortune, an Illuminati conspiracy involving a virtuoso violinist and the head of the Secret Service, and a crazy baby eater. That's one episode folks.
An ex of mine always wanted to write a movie called The Crazy Baby Eater. He thought it was funny to state that a person who eats babies is also crazy - independent of the baby-eating. He also wrote a short called The Planet of the Robots and of the Zombies. Clearly redundancy is a theme for him. Anyway, this crazy baby eater was brought in because some suspicious scrapes on the bones (the bones) indicated to Bones (the person) that the killer/eater must have a diamond stud in his tooth. Of course since this is Fox, the crazy cannibal who has a diamond stud in his tooth is played by an attractive 19-year-old white dude. They give him what looks like a toilet paper dowel made of pink wax for him to bite into, explaining to him that his stud gave him away and this will allow them to compare his bite to the bones (the bones). At this point CBE gets to explain his motives to us, to make us understand why oh why he would do such a thing. And it would be great if said explanation included some clue to the massive Bermanian conspiracy ahead of us, since so far the episode has been like fast forwarding through an Is It Real? marathon on the History Channel, and since this character will later die naked via antique knife in his holding cell. Instead:

"It doesn't taste like chicken or pork like people say. It's more like beef. The faces are sweeter. The younger the better. Except babies. Babies taste like fish."

Then CBE takes this giant bite out of the wax while glaring intensely into the camera in extreme close-up. I mean, I can see how a writer-producer could get seduced by the poignancy of a statement like that. How it could LURE him away from banal alternatives like character or plot development. That's like a poem. I'm going to go write it up on the Elliot Smith wall as soon as I post this. PS, the kid is 19! How many babies has he really eaten? And does anyone believe that babies taste like fish? FISH? They aren't even mammals! And they're all muscle. How much muscle tone do you think the average baby has? Bones should KNOW this! We all know soft tissue is not her specialty, but COME ON. She knows all about dolphins, so you'd think she'd have an opinion. Nope. Even Bones is mesmerized by this youthful, bestudded cannibal and his meaty hubris. And we know when Bones abandons science it's time to go back to the nightclub and look for statues, because the WORLD has gone to HELL.