True Blood

Sitting at her kitchen table waiting for Eric, Sookie is reading Grave Secret, a Harper Connelly mystery, by Charlaine Harris. Harris also wrote the Sookie Stackhouse aka Southern Vampire Series upon which True Blood is based.

The company Eric owns that bought Sookie's house is called AIK. Alexander Skarsgård, who plays Eric, is from Sweden and AIK (Allmänna Idrottsklubben) is one of the oldest and biggest sports clubs in Sweden.

Eric's ringtone is "Ain't We Got Fun?", a popular foxtrot published in 1921. Richard A. Whiting wrote the music with Raymond B. Egan and Gus Kahn providing the lyrics. The song reflected the mood that dominated much of the decade called the Roaring Twenties.

In the scene where Jason sees Tara at the bar, she's pouring him a beer from a tap labeled as Abita Turbodog. The problem is that the beer that comes out is a light-colored beer, like a Coors or something. Abita Turbodog is a dark ale, the beer should be almost black in color.

Also, between shots, the mug goes from half to full several times.

When Sam and his newly found brother Tommy Mickens are first seen outside with the '58 Plymouth Fury, we see Tommy's red and white tool box is fully open. The box is seen to be of the type that has two flip lid internal covers, then two fold and push close cascading sides, with two final flip close outer side covers. When Tommy throws his tools into the toolbox, he is then seen flipping his left inner side lid closed, and heard flipping the right inner side lid closed. He is then immediately seen flipping the right outside case lid closed, which would be impossible without first having cascaded the two outer side extensions back into the middle of the toolbox.

It's revealed that vampires can eat regular food, so long as it is made with blood. For example: blood soup, blood ice cream and blood wine.

First appearance by Zeljko Ivanek ("The Magister") since the season 1 episode "I Don't Wanna Know".

It was revealed that Lorena's last name is Krasiki.

Jessica calls Hoyt from a cellphone, but when she hangs up on him there is a click sound. Unless she slammed the cell phone, they do not make click sounds when hung up, they make tone sounds.

Terry's shirt says the following: WARNING

I SUFFER FROM OCCASIONAL LOSS
OF MENTAL STABILITY AND BECOME
VERY VIOLENT WITH ONLY SLIGHT
PROVOCATION. THE VETERANS
ADMINISTRATION HAS DETERMINED
THAT BOTH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL
HARASSMENT OF MY PERSON MAY BE
HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH AND
WELL BEING. SO STAY THE HELL
OUT OF MY FACE. Thank You

Eric can fly, unlike the rest of the vampires.

Goof: Tara was tied up at Lafayette's, but after she recovers she goes to hug her mother without having ever been untied.

It seems odd that Jason could hear Andy whispering, but could not hear Sam talking in a normal to shouting voice.

It's revealed that the older a vampire is, the quicker he or she will be destroyed by the rays of the sun.

When Godric says goodbye to Eric he calls him "Father, brother, son". This refers to when Godric turned Eric into a vampire and told him "I'll be your father, your brother, your son".

While Lorena cries blood in this episode, both Jessica and Isobel also cry during this hour (Isobel even sniffles) but we do not see any blood stream down their cheeks.

Based on what happened to Jessica, we can surmise that whatever state a person's body is in when they are turned is the state that their body will return to whenever they are injured.

Vampire Mythology

In this episode, we find out that older vampires may require very little blood to survive.

The black-and-white movie that Tara and Eggs watch at Sookie's house is the 1958 film The Screaming Skull. The b-movie is best known for having appeared on Mystery Science Theater 3000.

In this episode, it is revealed that Maryann is a Maenad. As correctly stated in the episode, a Maenad is a female follower of Dionysus, the god of wine and the inspirer of ecstasy.