Xena: Warrior Princess Season 5 Episode 10

Joxer's flamboyant brother Jace was first mentioned in the third season episode "The King of Assassins".

This episode marks the 2nd episode Xena and Draco have used their audience as a battle field. The first occurred in the first episode, "Sins of the Past".

We learn in this episode that Joxer hails from Athens. He also mentions Akmar the meat man, who he also mentioned in "For Him the Bell Tolls".

Nitpick: Why did Joxer ask what was wrong with Draco? He was there when the love spells were cast.

Guitars are often refered to as "axes," so it's appropriate that Draco's band and the Amazon band have axes for guitars.

We see the ancient world's first example of go-go girls dancing in a cage.

At the very beginning of the episode Xena says the Lyre is Terpsichore's way of spreading music. But Terpsichore is really the Muse of dance, not music. Then again, most dancing is done while music plays, so perhaps she wanted to promote dancing indirectly though promoting music.

Xena whistles the theme tune again, and later on in the episode she plays it rock-style on the lyre.

At the end when everyone is on stage singing in the finale, right after Gabrielle does her solo lines, while Xena is singing the line "we've got to show it individually ...", watch Renee -- she nods and raises her eyebrows, acknowledging someone in the audience (it's really quick). Another way of viewing that moment is that Gabrielle is raising her eyebrows in response to Xena's singing "I'll do unto you what you do to me" (subtext alert).

Goof: When Xena says she's going to leave the lyre in Melodia look carefully at the circular part of the lyre. Inside the lyre behind the strings is Xena's chakram. How did that get there? But the chakram is not there at the start of the episode when they show a close up of the lyre.