I think it’s a case of just digging a little deeper, y’know? One of the biggest mistakes that people make when they put music into film and television is they think that they should put in music that reflects what’s already on the screen. There’s a very tired cliché about a guy walking in the rain so you put a sad song about a guy walking in the rain. The problem with that is that it basically doesn’t add anything. If you’re good, you look for the subtext that isn’t there on the page, or in the dialogue. It’s just the trick of not going with the easy answer and trying to always find something unique. Adding something counter-intuitive or something that has another angle to it will often create a really interesting dynamic in the scene.

Now we know what stunt they were talking about. Last week TMZ reported that a scene that forced contestants to drink donkey semen had been hotly debated — and then given the thumbs-up — by NBC. The scene was taped last summer. “Producers typically make the case to network censors that a gross food item on the show is always a delicacy in some part of the world (horse semen is consumed in Australia and New Zealand),” Entertainment Weekly said.