The Underrated of 2006

T.J. Thyne
"Bones," FOX

You know him as: The bearded Dr. Jack Hodgins, resident dirt, plant and bug expert

Why we like him: He used to be the angry rebel and conspiracy theorist, but this season Thyne showed us the softer side of Hodgins, almost breaking our hearts twice: After his first date with Angela when she said she couldn't date a co-worker and later, when he had a total meltdown in the buried-alive episode ("Aliens in a Spaceship").

Where else you've seen him: Everywhere -- "Friends," "24," "The O.C.," "Erin Brockovich," "Ghost World" and a ton of commercials. There was that ad for Chevy where he's singing Shania Twain's "Man, I feel like a woman" and one for Best Buy in which he's kidnapped by a family to fix their home computer.