1x01 Strange Love - True Blood Episode Guide

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True Blood

- Episode 01x01

Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: Strange Love
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 101
First Aired: Sep. 07, 2008

Season 1 » Episode #01 - Strange Love

Summary: One random night while Sookie is working the night shift at her local bar, a mysterious man walks in. Immediately she knows something is different about him, because she cannot get any sort of mental reading off him. But when he orders blood, Sookie realizes that she has finally met her first vampire.

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Guest Stars:

Jason Stackhouse	played by Ryan Kwanten
Rene Lenier	played by Michael Raymond-James
Dawn Green	played by Lynn Collins
Adele Stackhouse	played by Lois Smith
Mack Rattray	played by James Parks
Denise Rattray	played by Karina Logue
Maudette Pickens	played by Danielle Sapia
Frat Boy	played by Josh Kelly
Sorority Girl	played by Jessica Stroup

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Episode Quotes

Season 1 / Episode 1: - Strange Love

Bill Compton: [leaning in close] Do you realize that every person in this establishment is staring at us right now?
Sookie Stackhouse: [shyly] Oh, their just staring at me because my brother is in some kind of trouble with the police. Bill, did you know Maudette Pickens?
Bill Compton: I did not. They are staring at us because I am a vampire and you... are mortal.
Sookie Stackhouse: Well, who cares what they think?
Bill Compton: Well, I want to make this town my home, so... I do.

Season 1 / Episode 1: - Strange Love

Sookie Stackhouse: [seeing Bill for the first time] I've been waiting for this to happen ever since they came out of the coffin 2 years ago.

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TRIVIA

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.
The book Sookie's grandmother is reading when we see her for the first time is by Charlaine Harris, the author of the Sookie Stackhouse series.
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.
"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.
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.