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Strange Love
- Vampire Bill Compton is 173 years old.
- The frat boy and sorority girl, Kelly, pull over at the "GrabbitKwik" convenience store. Maudette Pickens, the murdered woman, is mentioned to be an employee at "GrabbitKwik".
- Nan Flanagan of the American Vampire League is shown on television doing an interview with Bill Maher. Bill Maher is host of the talk show Real Time with Bill Maher which also airs on HBO.
- The camo-clad hunter/vampire purchases the synthetic drink "Tru Blood" in the form of a 4-pack of bottles. Typically wine coolers are sold in 4-packs, beer is generally sold in 6-packs. The tag line for "Tru Blood" is "Real Blood is for suckers!"
- When Sookie comes home from work the first night, her grandmother is reading Last Scene Alive, written by Charlaine Harris who also wrote the Sookie Stackhouse books "True Blood" is based on.
The First Taste
- The license plate on the vampires vehicle is "Fangs 1".
- Sookie's parents died in a flash flood just before her 8th birthday.
- The fictional television station the debate between the Reverand Theodore Newlin of "The Fellowship of the Sun" and Nan Flanagan of the "American Vampire League" airs on is called TBBN.
- Vampire Mythology revealed in this episode: - Vampires require an invitation to enter a human's home. That invitation can be revoked. - Some vampires can turn into animals, Bill cannot. - Vampires can put glamors on humans to feed on them and they will not remember after wards. - Their blood can cure/heal humans.
Mine
- Vampire mythology: - Hepatitis D is a Hepatitis mutation relatively harmless to humans, and is the only blood-born pathogen vampires are susceptible to. It makes vampires weak for around a month. The real danger is being captured and staked during this time. - Vampires' bodies have no electrical impulses. No brain waves, no heart beat, no need to breathe. They are dead. - When vampires live in nests, the vampires become more cruel and more vicious.
Escape From Dragon House
- It's revealed that Sookie is 25 years old.
- The young Jason has blue eyes, while the adult Jason has brown eyes.
- A sign on the wall in Fangtasia reads: "No Biting on Premises".
- When Eric summons Bill and Sookie in Fangtasia, he speaks in Swedish to Pam. What he says is "Vår lilla djurpark börjar växa till sig." which means "Our little zoo is starting to grow." Pam replies "Jag vet." which means "I know."
Cold Ground
- It's revealed that Tara's middle name is Mae, just like her mother's.
- Sookie stumbles upon Bill's grave while at the funeral of her Grandmother. It reads "William Thomas Compton - Beloved Husband - Brave Soldier"
- This is the first time we see or hear mention of Sookie's Uncle Bartlet.
- Sookie's cat appears to purr during two odd moments: once when Sookie is masturbating and again when the cat is licking up Adele's blood.
Burning House of Love
- We learn that contrary to popular legends vampires are indeed reflected into mirrors, and that crucifixes, holy water and garlic don't harm them. Bill tells Sookie that vampires themselves invented these myths so they could "prove" they were human if they needed to.
The Fourth Man in the Fire
- Eric is vampire sheriff of area five and Bill hates using cell phones to text.
Plaisir D'Amour
- Time Index 48:13 and several seconds after. During the scene you can see a piece of equipment, presumably a camera stand, moving around and out of the shot in the lower right corner of the screen.
I Don't Wanna Know
- We learn that Sam's shape shifting ability is hereditary and that many thousands of shape shifters exist.
To Love is to Bury
- The painting behind the bed Tara slept in is by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and is called The Grand Odalisque.
You'll Be the Death of Me
- What Alexander Skarsgård says in the end of the epidode is "O du ljuva frihet", which is Swedish and means "O sweet freedom" in English.
Nothing But the Blood
- The second season is based on Charlaine Harris's second Sookie Stackhouse novel Living Dead in Dallas. However in the book Lafayette was found dead in Andy's car, while in the series it was Miss Jeanette.
- This was the first episode with an actor (in this case, Adina Porter (Lettie Mae)) credited as a "Special Guest Star".
- Nothing But the Blood is a play on the line Nothing but the truth which can be heard in court cases when a person is sworn in to testify.
