In season 1, episode 8, “The Girl in the Fridge,” Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is forced to compete with her former lover and professor from Northwestern University, Dr. Michael Stires (Josh Hopkins), when she testifies in a case involving a woman whose body was found in a refrigerator. Originally aired on November 29, 2005, the episode ends with a shot of Booth (David Boreanez) and Brennan conversing while standing on some scaffolding. As things draw to a close, the camera pulls back to reveal the pair are actually suspended half-way up the Washington Monument.

Evidently, that particular setting caused some issues. In the book “Bones: The Official Companion,” it’s revealed that “The Girl in the Fridge” actually caused some friction between Fox and the showrunners. Creator and showrunner Hart Hanson spoke to the book’s author Paul Ruditis, explaining how using the Washington Monument caused controversy:

“That was something. We had to fight with the studio because they thought it was going to cost a fortune –- but it didn’t. The little chunk that they were standing on was built onstage out of nothing, just some scaffolding and a white wall. The two of them were sitting there with fans going to blow their hair. And then as you pulled back, the green screen CGI kicked in and it was great.”

So, it seems the production teams’ ingenious fix for this particular problem was to just use CGI and do it anyway — which, in fairness, seemed to work.