Ep 101: Strange Love

Episode Synopsis

Plot Danglers

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Best Moments

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Best Quotes

• Sookie Stackhouse: [seeing Bill, excited] Oh my gosh. I think Merlotte's just got its first vampire.
  Sam Merlotte: [looking over her shoulder] I think you're right.
  Sookie Stackhouse: Can you believe it? Right here in Bon Temps.
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Episode Trivia

• "True Blood" takes its name from the brand of synthetic blood that the Japanese have patented in Harris' novels. Vampires can actually drink it, thereby bypassing their need for human blood.
  
  
• The book that Gran is reading when Sookie comes home from the bar is by Charlaine Harris, the author of the Southern Vampire Series, on which “True Blood” is based.
  
  
• Sookie's grandmother can be seen reading a Charlene Harris novel.
  
  
• When Sookie arrives home and is telling her grandmother about her evening, her grandmother is reading "Last Scene Alive" by Charlaine Harris, who wrote the Sookie Stackhouse novels.
  
  
• In the first scene where we meet Sookies' granny, Adele Stackhouse ('Lois Smith' (I)), she's reading a book. The book is "Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris, the book the series is based on.

Movie Connections

• Gone with the Wind (1939)
  - Tara jokes that her Mother might have named her after the plantation in the film.

Goofs:

Episode 1, Season 1 : Strange Love Incorrect Fang Placement In the very first episode of the show, the first vampire that we see doesn't have his fangs in the right place. They need to be shifted up where the canine is and not on the lateral incisor.