Table of Contents

Art and Architecture
Biography
Drama
Folklore and Fairytales
Games
Kid Lit
Literature
Music
Mythology and Religion
Non-fiction
Periodicals
Poetry
Recipes
Television

Art & Architecture

‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte’ by George Seurat hangs in Nan Flanagan’s office. (Blu Ray 1.01)

‘The Head of Christ’ by Warner Sallman hangs in Theodore Newlin’s office and in the church where the Descendants of the Glorious Dead meeting occured.

Sookie wears a nightshirt with an image of ‘L’Amour et Psyché, enfants by William-Adolphe Bouguereau the night she meets Bill. (1.01)

Dawn’s bondage scene with Jason is an allusion to the myth of Aurora and Tithonus and specifically to Francesco de Mura’s depiction of it. (1.03)

Lafayette has a whole collection of sacred art. (1.03)

It includes several versions of the the Our Lady of Guadalupe.

To the upper right is St. Joseph and with the child, Jesus.

 

The Sacred Heart of Jesus is futher down on the right.

A bronze of Silenus,  the god of drunkeness, sits on Eric’s bookcase. (1.11) H/T Marie Rollande

The Silenus statuette from Pompeii is holding up a circular support which at one time may have held a lamp or a goblet.

To the left of the bookcase is a lithograph of a lion tamer. (1.11)

“Grande Odalisque‘ by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres hangs over Tara’s bed. An odalisque was a female slave in an Ottoman harem.

Maryann has a pair of Dutch still life paintings. (1.12)

Are they by Rachel Ruysch?

 

Lorena and Bill had a very similar painting in the 1930s.

A Pre-dynastic Egyptian fertility goddess from the Brooklyn Museum was the inspiration for Maryann’s ‘Bird Lady’ statue.

The mural of Pan and his human lover was not part of the original property. “It was based on a relief sculpture Alan Ball found from the Roman Empire. We took liberties to make the female figure resemble Maryann a bit more and amped up the already lusty Pan.”

The moderne Mercantile National Bank Building is visible against the Dallas sky when Godric meets the sun.

‘The Last Supper’ by Leonardo Davinci (SSN, TB)

In DTTW, ‘The Last Supper’ hangs on the wall at Crystal’s house.

A verion has migrated from a side wall to over the bar at Fangtasia. There is also a bas relief over Lafayette’s faire place that someones is the Last Supper and sometimes isn’t. 

The s3 cast photo is a recreation of Da Vincini’s masterpiece. (H/T Gigi)

The marble bust of Diana in his office originally belonged to Maryann.

Russell’s palace in Jackson, Mississippi is actually Longwood Plantation in Natchez. (s3)

Oak Alley is depicted on the mural in Russell and Talbot’s dining room.

 

Praxiteles bust of Hermes is in the palace. (s3)

This appears to be a painting of Janissaries with an overlay of Greek and Ottoman grease wrestling to symbolize the Ottoman victory over the Greeks during the Fall of Constantinople. (s3)

Boucher’s ‘Cupid and Venus,’ painted for Madame de Pompadour’s bathroom, hangs in Talbot and Russell’s living room.

Ulfric’s crown is based on a Norse boars helmet. The band is inspired by the cross pieces and the eyebrow ridge is very similar to the original.

A few more of Lafayette’s images came into view s3 including an image of the Carmelite nun, St. Theresa of Liseux, “The Little Flower of Jesus.” by Charles Brosseron Chambers.

Flanagan and Finch with the Georgia State Capitol Dome between them.

At the Jackson Art Museum the land stands between the Native American and conquistador bronzes. The painting is in the romantic style of the Hudson River School. (3.11)

Machu Picchu (SSN)

In DTTW, Bill tells Pam that he visited Machu Picchu in Peru. The Incan complex includes Temple of the Sun. The emperor lived there and was considered a child of the sun.

Biography

Caravaggio (His biography was in Eric’s bookcase s1.)

Countess Elisabeth Báthory (Talbot decorated the guest room with the bed of the countess.)

Owen Glendower (Russell ruined a tapesty that belonged to Owen Glendower, the Lord of Glyndyfrdwy. In Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 he is a character in the traditon fo Merlin, someone who can ”call spirits from the vasty deep.’)

Elvis (SSN)

Henry Gray (Bill joined the 28th Louisiana infantry, which was formed in Monroe in 1862 under Colonel Henry Gray.)

Rudyard Kipling (Russell Edgington repeated a Kipling quote to Bill about cigars.)

Empress Maria of Austria (Lorena’s mother was a lady in waiting to Maria Theresa.)

Sophie Newcomb (In LDID when Portia came to pick up Andy from Merlotte’s she was wearing a Sophie Newcomb T-shirt. The university must be her alma mater.)

Queen Marie of Romania (When Sookie told Russell Edington that she was a waitress, he said that he was Marie of Romania.)

William Shakespeare (Russell Edginton implied that Shakespeare stole spoons from him.)

Games

Dying for Daylight (SSN)

Charlaine Harris’s video game with Dahlia Lynley-Chivers.

Vampire: The Masquerade (TB)

In s2 at the FOTS one of the candidates says that vampires are descendants of Cane. That is part of the mythology in this RPG.

Kid Lit

Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carol (SSN, TB)

In DTTW Sookie describes Pam as looking like Alice in Wonderland in her pale pink sweater. In s3 of TB when Tara bites Franklin he says, “Eat me. Drink me.” (See Eat Me, Drink Me by Marilyn Mason in the Music.)

The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling (SSN, TB)

Mary Poppins (SSN)

In DTTW Sookie compares herself to Mary Poppins and describes Eric as her charge.

The Poky Little Puppy, Jenette Seabring Lowrey (SSN)

Sookie reads this book to Hunter in DITF. As of 2001, it was the single all-time best-selling hardcover children’s book in the US.

Space Tomb (TB)

Fictional comic book Hoyt reads to Jessica on their first telephone call.

Spider Man (TB)

In 1.11 Bill tells Jessica that with great power comes great responsibility. This is a theme in the Spider Man comics and one of Uncle Ben’s famous maxims.

The Wizard of Oz (SSN)

Sookie describes Hallow as the Wicked Witch of the West when she comes in to Merlotte’s.

Drama

(Plays, Films, and Series)

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, 1958 (TB)

The movie Lafayette is watching when Eric comes to visit.

The whole Sinbad myth cycle is an old, wise, and wealthy Sinbad telling a poor laborer who is also named Sinbad how he became wise and wealthy. I think this could foreshadow Eric and Laffy’s future relationship.

The movie plot has to do with an evil magician who manipulates a beautiful princess for his own purposes. Of course Sinbad comes to her rescue which leads to his voyage. From Laffy’s POV, the evil magician would be Eric with his miraculous blood. In a post modern twist, on True Blood, it is the princess who rescues Sinbad and leaves him at home while she goes adventuring in Dallas with the evil magician.

I also think that at least part of the V storyline may have been derived from Sinbad. In the original myth, Sinbad’s 7th voyage finds him praying on elephants and getting rich by selling their ivory. Compare this to Laffy dealing praying on vampires to get V. When the elephant king catches him, what should be his punishment actually turns into a windfall beyond his wildest dreams. The king takes him to the elephant graveyard where he can harvest more ivory than he knows what to do with. Sinbad’s experience with the elephant king seems very close to Lafayette’s with Eric setting him up to get rich dealing V.

The Accused (TB)

See conversation at True Blood Underground (H/T Amil)

The Adams Family, 1991 (SSN)

DUD Sookie says many of the female patrons at Fangtasia were Morticia Adams wannabes.

Agamemnon, Aeschylus (TB)

TB identifies Tara with Cassandra, the seer who warns of doom but is never believed.

Alien (TB)

Sookie tells RE that the chain wrapped around Mack’s neck like that thing from Alien.

Angel (SSN)

In DTTW Sookie says that she has the Buffy series, but not Angel.

The Apartment, 1960 (TB)

See article.

The Bacchae, Euripides (SSN, TB)

Dionysian worship including orgies and performing sparagmos and omophagia on loved ones.

The Bad and the Beautiful, 1956 (TB)

Lafayette watches this movie in s1.

Basic Instinct (SSN)

In DUD Sookie says Ginger crossed her legs like  Sharon Stone.

The Birds, Aristophanes (TB)

Maryann’s storyline and her identity as a hoopoe bird come from this play.

The Birds, 1963 (TB)

The Black Swan,1942 (SSN?, TB)

Blade, 1998 (TB)

When Sam reads that Marthaville is getting a Starbucks, he says he wishes Blade or Buffy would come to town.

Blue Hawaii, 1961 (SSN)

In DUD Sookie watched Blue Hawaii the night Jason was in jail, Bill was in New Orleans, and Bubba was watching the house.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (SSN)

DUD Sookie sees a movie poster on her first visit to Fangtasia.

Braveheart, 1995 (SSN)

In DUD before watching Blue Hawaii, Sookie considered Braveheart. She said that Mel Gibson in a kilt was always a mood raiser.

Bride of the Monster, 1955 (TB)

See article

Buffy the Vampire Slayer series (SSN, TB)

Tara gave Sookie the first season and Amnesia Eric watch it in DTTW.  In TB, Sam wishes for Buffy or Blade to come to town (1.03). Lorena threatens to wear Sookie’s ribcage as a hat (3.06)

Cabaret, 1972 (TB)

Yvetta’s costume and pole dance,  and the editing of the scene references Liza Minnelli’s performance of ‘Mein Herr‘ inCabaret, which is set during the build up of Nazi Germany. This foreshadows the the Nazi storyline s3. Eric’s blue sweater is a reference to the love triangle.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (TB)

See conversation at True Blood Underground (H/T MC)

Camille, 1936

See Camilla in the book section and article

Camille Claudel, 1988

See Camilla and article

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams

Maxine says she feels like a cat on a hot tin roof when the police are taking Sookie and Jason’s statements about Dawn’s murder (1.04).

Christine, 1983 (TB)

3.03 Sam notes that Tommy is restoring the same type of car that Arnie restores in Stephen King’s horror movie, a 1958 Plymouth Fury. King used the setting from George Romero’s Dawn of the Dead, Monroeville, PA and dedicated the novel to him. The novel ends with the supernatural self-repairing car Christine in pursuit of the people who tried to destroy her. The last words in the novel:

“His single-minded purpose.

His unending fury.”

The Countess, 2009

Talbot puts Bill in the room with Erzsébet Báthory’s bed, and Bill’s torture scene references one in this movie. Bathory is in love with a young man named István (like Lorena’s maker), and when she unrightfully thinks she has been spurned by him, she cuts herself a deep wound above her heart (near the spot where Lorena cuts Bill) and sews in a lock of hair she had cut off his head previously (like Lorena puts her own blood into the wound), so he will be with her until she dies. (Melody)

Creature from the Black Lagoon (SSN)

In DTTW, Sookie tells Jason not to talk about Crystal like she’s from the Black Lagoon.

The Crucible, Arthur Miller

The magister mocks Eric’s excuse with the line, “I saw Goody Osborn with the devil” (3.04).

Dawn of the Dead, 1978

See Christine and Oral Histories of the Zombie War

A pandemic of unknown origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh in Monroeville, PA. Cultural and film historians read significance into the film’s plot, linking it to critiques of large corporations as well as American consumerismand of the social decadence and the social and commercial excess present in America during the late 1970s. In 2008, Dawn of the Dead was chosen by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time,along with its predecessor, Night of the Living Dead.

Dracula, 1931 (SSN)

DUD Sookie sees a movie poster on her first visit to Fangtasia.

Ed Wood, 1994 (TB)

See article

Symbolism used in TB includes diamond patterns, quatrefoils, and reflections.

Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (TB)

See conversation at True Blood Underground (H/T Amil)

Exterminating Angel, 1962

Writer and director Luis Buñuel’s firmest conviction was that most people were hypocrites–the sanctimonious and comfortable most of all. The dinner guests are put into a supernatural situation in which their true colors are unmasked. In the same sense, vampires are given awesome supernatural powers which reveal their true characters, and the humans, in their dinteractions with the supernatural, reveal their true colors. (H/T MC)
Review by Roger Ebert and commentary by Midnight Charm

Fido, 2006 (TB)

Latin for ‘I trust.’
Mack points a gun at Sam in dog form and says, “Fuck you, Fido.” Denise continues the alliteration with, “Show your fuckin face freak.”
he film takes place in a 1950s-esque alternate universe where radiation from space has turned the dead into zombies. This resulted in the “Zombie Wars”, where humanity battled zombies to prevent a zombie apocalypse, with humanity the ultimate victor. The radiation still plagues humanity, as all those who die after the original contamination turn into the undead, unless the dead body is disposed of by decapitation or cremation. In order to continue living normal lives, communities are fenced with the help of a governing corporation named Zomcon. Zomcon provides collars with accompanying remote controls to control the zombies’ hunger for flesh so as to use them as slaves or servants.
In the town of Willard, whose name is a reference to the town in the original 1968 Night of the Living Dead, housewife Helen Robinson buys a zombie in spite of her husband Bill’s zombie phobia, as Bill has had bad experiences with zombies having been a veteran of the Zombie Wars. Their son, Timmy, befriends the zombie, naming him “Fido”. One day Fido’s collar malfunctions and he kills their next door neighbor.

Fingers at the Window, 1942 (TB?)

Frenzy, 1970 (TB)

The entire series is AB’s tribute to this penultimate Hitchcock movie.

Funny Games, 1997, 2008 (TB?)

The film frequently blurs the line between fiction and reality, especially highlighting the act of observation. The character Paul breaks the fourth wallthroughout the movie and addresses the camera in various ways.

Paul also frequently states his intentions to follow the standards of movie plot development. When he asks the audience to bet, he guesses that the audience wants the family to win. After the killers vanish in the third act, Paul later explains that he had to give the victims a last chance to escape or else it would not be dramatic. Toward the end of the movie, he postpones killing the rest of the family because the movie has not yet reached feature length. Throughout the film, Paul shows awareness of the audience’s expectations.

However, Paul also causes the film to go against convention on a number of occasions. In thriller movies, one sympathetic character usually survives, but here all three family members die. When Anna successfully shoots Peter, as a possible start to a heroic escape for the family, Paul uses a remote control to rewind the film itself and prevent her action. After Georgie dies, Paul regrets killing him first because it goes against convention and limits the suspense for the rest of the film. At the end of the film, the murderers prevent Anna from using a knife in the boat to cut her bonds. An earlier close-up had pointed out the knife’s location as a possible set-up for a final-act escape, but this becomes a red herring. At the end of the film, Paul again smirks triumphantly at the audience. As a self-aware character, he is able to go against the viewers’ wishes and make himself the winner of the film.

After killing Anna, Peter and Paul argue about the line between reality and fiction. Paul believes that a fiction that is observed is just as real as anything else, but Peter dismisses this idea. Unlike Paul, Peter never shows an awareness that he is in a film.

Michael Haneke states that the entire film was not created to be a horror film. He says he wanted to make a message about violence in the media. He had written a short essay revealing how he felt on the issue, called “Violence + Media.”

Glen or Glenda, 1953

See article

The Godfather (SSN)

In DTTW Sookie and Jason makes several Godfather allusions including “sleeping with the fishes,” “going to the mattresses,”

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (SSN, TB)

In DTTW Sookie wonders if Eric would like to watch GWTW.

Hamlet, Shakespeare (SSN)

In DITF, Eric says ‘There’s the rub’ and Sookie comments that Eric read Shakespeare. Ulfric makes an allusion to Hamlet when he says, ‘Who’s at the door?’ in 3.05. The post-mortem of that episode also quotes Hamlet, “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” The play about a prince who sets aside his love because he is set on avenging his father’s murder has echoes in s3 of TB. Bill’s existential angst echoes Hamlet’s, “To be, or not to be;” also Sookie and Hamlet are both presumed to be mad because they are concealing supernatural experiences, reading minds and seeing ghosts. “Satan in a Sunday hat,’ is a paraphrase in Hamlet of the lines, “May be the devil: and the devil hath power To [assume] a pleasing shape,” which is based on an English proverb, which is in turned based on II Corinthians 11:14, “Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.”

Henry IV, Pt. I

3.03 Talbot is upset that Russell used the tapestry from the Lord of Glyndyfrdwy to put out the fire Bill started. Owain Glyndŵr, anglicised by William Shakespeare as Owen Glendower was a Welsh ruler and the last native Welsh person to hold the title Prince of Wales. In Henry IV Shakespeare portrays him as wild and exotic; a man ruled by magic and tradition in sharp contrast to the more logical but highly emotional Hotspur.

Heroes (TB)

Eddie watches Heroes on Monday nights before Lafayette comes by.

Horror of Dracula, 1958 (TB)

Trailer

A clip of this movie plays as Jason flips through the channels s1 after his big fight with Dawn. A stake is driven through the heart of a female vampire as her brother watches in horror. (H/T Gee)

The Hunger, 1983 (SSN)

DUD Sookie sees a movie poster on her first visit to Fangtasia.

I Spit on Your Grave, 1978 (TB)

Tara reenacts a scene from this film when she spits on the grave of the man who raped her. (H/T Midnight Charm)

Interview with a Vampire (SSN)

DUD Sookie sees patrons at Fangtasia dressed up as characters from this movie.

Invasion

In the aftermath of a hurricane, a Florida Park Ranger and his family deal with strange occurrences, including luminescent creatures in the water and people that somehow seem to have changed after surviving the night of the disaster out in the open.

AB says Merlotte’s was built for this short lived tv show in his 1.01 commentary.

Jail Bait, 1954 (TB?)

See article

Kiss Them for Me, 1957

See article.

L’Âge d’Or

See conversation at True Blood Underground (H/T Amil)

The Lion King, 1994

Sookie plays the video for Hunter in DITF.

A Little Princess, 1939 (TB)

Love at First Bite (SSN)

DUD Sookie sees a movie poster on her first visit to Fangtasia.

Macbeth, Shakespeare (SSN, TB)

In DTTW Sookie alludes to Lady Macbeth when she says she cannot wash Debbie’s blood off her hands. Eggs made the same allusion in TB in 2.12.

Marnie, 1964 (SSN)

Maw and Paw Kettle (TB)

Sookie and Sam watch a Maw and Paw Kettle movie in 1.11 before Bill returns to Bon Temps. (H/T LTBID)

The Merchant of Venice, 2004 (SSN, TB, TBCB)

Do We Not Bleed?
Portia
Jessica, Shylock’s Daughter

Series Wrap Up

In DTTW, Sookie talks about Portia having a suitor who is probably after her inheritance.

Metamorphosis, 2007 (TB?)

This film turns Elizabeth Bathory as a modern day vampire.

Nightmare on Elm Street (SSN)

In DTTW, Sookie tells Jason not to talk about Crystal like she’s Freddy Krueger.

Nosferatu

An image of Count Orlock is used in the logo for The Fang Files.

Plan 9 from Outer Space, 1959

See article

Pride and Prejudice, 2005 (SSN, TB)

Jane Austen’s classic is one of Charlaine Harris’s favorite books. The theme of first impressions is explored in the SSN, which can be viewed as Pride and Prejudice with vampires. CH’s twist is that her heroine met Mr. Wickham before meeting Mr. Darcy.

When Sookie puts on the ring Hugo gives her for their fake engagement, she exclaims, “Yes! Yes! A thousand times, yes!” quoting Jane when she accepts Mr. Bingley.

Psycho, 1960 (TB)

The psycho Bill theory is based on this movie.

Salo, or 120 Days of Sodom, 1975 (TB)

In the commentary for ‘Frenzy,’ the director compared the imagery of Sophie Anne’s poolside smorgasbord to this film based on the last work of the Marquis de Sade.

The Screaming Skull, 1958 (TB)

The movie Tara and Eggs watch on the sofa in ‘Release Me.’ See the episode recap at True Blood Underground for its significance.

Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus (TB)

Inspiration for the award winning title sequence.

Silence of the Lambs (TB)

To lure Sam back to the bar, Arlene says that Mary Ann has gone all Hanibal Lector.

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Timon of Athens by Shakespeare (SSN, TB)

Shakespeare uses the historical Alcibiades (Alcide) as a character in his play (See The Symposium). CH alludes to Timon of Athens in CD with the joke about Debbie and Sookie being prostitutes since Shakespeare made a similar joke about Alcibiades’s two women.

Vertigo, 1958 (TB)

The Werewolf, by Montague Summers (TB)

He republished the original pamphlet describing the trial of Peter Stumpp, the Werewolf of Bedbug in his book.

The Wickerman, 2006 (TB)

Maryann’s explanation to Sookie about why Sam is the perfect sacrifice comes from this movie.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?  Edward Albee (TB)

The Wrong Man, 1956 (TB)

The X Files (SSN)

In DUD when Pam fetches Ginger to assuage Eric’s bloodlust after Long Shadow has been killed, Sookie says Ginger eyed him like he was David Duchovny. Since Agent Mulder is much more Bill’s physical type than Eric’s, this seems to indicate that Sookie is more attracted to brunettes to blonds.

Folklore and Fairytales

Jack and the Beanstalk

In DTTW, when Sookie and Eric watch Hallow and her brother cast a spell to break into Bill’s, she thinks, “fee, fie, foe, fum,” when Mark says that he smells someone.

The Little Mermaid

In the ladies room at Fangtasia

Little Red Riding Hood (TB)

In the ladies room at Fangtasia

Reynard the Fox (SSN, TB)

The fictional Renard Parish alludes to these folktales which are still a told in Louisiana. By locating Bon Temps in Renard Parish, CH connects SSN to Nietzsche. See Twilight of the Idols

Robinhood (SSN)

In DTTW Sookie describes Eric as the sheriff of Nottingham.

Three Little Pigs (SSN,TB)

In Gift Wrap, Sookie quotes several lines when a Were demands entrance to her house. In s3 Debbie Pelt alludes to The Three Little Pigs when she breaks down Sookie’s door.’

Games & Recreation

Bourré–Card game Sookie plays in LDID while waiting for Merlotte’s to reopen the day she finds Lafayette’s body in Andy’s car.

Baseball–In S2 there are photos around Maxine’s tv of Hoyt playing baseball in hs.

Chess–S3 Eric and Talbot play chess.

Dog Fighting–S3 Joe Lee enters Tommy in a dog fight.

Fishing–s1 Terry and Andy go fishing.

Flag Football–The version of American football Jason plays at the Leadership Conference s2.

Football–Jason played quarterback in high school, the same position Kitch Maynard plays in S3.

Kaiser Spiel–S3 Eric thinks he is going to play Kaiser Spiel with Talbot, but  says they’re playing Karnöffel.

Karnöffel–S3 Eric plays this ancient card game with Talbot.

Piano Playing–Bill is playing ‘Hard Hearted Hannah’ when Eric and Pam drop off Jessica at the end of S1.

Poker–S2 Maryann, Eggs, and Tara are playing poker when Lettie Mae and Lafayette come to get Tara.

Pool–S1 Hoyt and Rene play pool at Merlotte’s. S3 Kitch plays and so do Lafayette and Jesus.

Rodeo–In S2 the night that MA takes over Merlotte’s she blamed the choas on the rodeo, which just let out.

Scrabble–Sookie and Alcide played Scrabble in CD.

Square Dancing–Bud won a square dancing contest.

Swimming–S2 Sam and Daphne swim in a pond.

Wii–S1 Eric, Pam, and Chow interrupt Bill playing Tiger Woods PGA Tour.

Wii–S2 Maxine plays wii at Bill’s house.

Yahtzee–S2 Sophie Anne plays a game to 5 million.

History

Civil War

Fall of Constantinople

Spanish Conquest of the Aztecs

Wehrmacht

Literature

Alumut, Vladimir Bartol (TB)

When Amy says, “Nothing is real. Everything is permitted” (1.07), she is misquoting the maxim of this novel, the assassins creed. “Nothing is true, everything is permitted.” The novel tells the true story of how Hassan-i Sabbāh got his soldiers high on hashish and convinced them that he had the power to send them to heaven if they died fighting for him.

Camilla, Fanny Burney (TB)

Stripper Destiny’s chosen name, see article

Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (TB)

Hotel Carmilla is named for the first vampire in literature.

Dracula, Bram Stroker

RE’s refers to Marie of Romania (3.6). She had her heart preserved and returned to her home, Bran Castle, which is associated with the Dracula legend and Vlad Tepes. (For more on Marie of Romania, see Not as Deep as a Well in the poetry section and Baha’i in Mythology and Religion.)

Heart Sick (TB)

Maryann reads this novel about a female serial killer as she waits in Gran’s clothes for Tara to come home after worl.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Alexander Dumas (SSN)

When Sookie and Bill turn from the first trip to Fangtasia, Bill says that Sookie reminds him of one of God’s fools in her naiveté and she takes that to mean he is equating her with Quasimodo.

Intrigue and Love, Friedrich Schiller

A young noble man “falls in love” with a girl who is not of noble birth. The “love” he feels for her is just a construct of his own mind, though. Just the same as Bill is a self-loathing vampire, he is a self-loathing noble who despises court for its hedonism and rejects the advances of and demonizes a good-hearted court woman, while he projects all positive aspects of life onto the third estate. He doesn’t actually listen to Luise, the woman he pretends to love, he only attributes to her everything that he wants in a perfect woman instead of seeing her as an individual who also exists as an individual personality outside of the constraints of social standings. He never realizes that he treats non-nobles like unemancipated children who supposedly cannot fend for themselves and keeps secrets from Luise in order not to offend the simple mindset he believes she must have. The same as Bill sees Sookie as a stereotypical “perfect” Southern Belle, a damsel in distress, the ideal of womanhood of when he was still human, an ideal that society taught him to admire, even though this is not at all who Sookie is. (Melody)

Last Scene Alive, Charlaine Harris (TB)

The book Gran is reading while she is waiting for Sookie to come home from work.

The Atlanta suburb of Lawrenceton is the set of a TV movie about a serial killer who terrorized the town ten years earlier. Interestingly, it happened to be Aurora Teagarden’s first mystery to solve. Moreover, Aurora’s ex, true crime writer Robin Crusoe, who helped Roe solve the crime, has written the screenplay. Adding drama to the whole circus, Aurora’s unfriendly stepson Barrett is starring in the film.

But the show must go on–or so Roe believes until she meets Celia Shaw, the catty actress portraying Roe. Worse, she’s also Robin’s latest squeeze. Soon the real-life script takes a deadly turn: Celia is murdered and Barrett is accused of the crime. Now, as threatening letters, deranged fans and renewed feelings for Robin compete for Roe’s attention, she discovers that a killer is halfway through a script with a bloody ending, and she’s got a starring role.

Lovers & Players, Jackie Collins (TB)

Eggs reads this book in Sookie’s bed while he’s waiting for Tara to return from work. (H/T LTBID)

Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (SSN, TB)

See Harry Potter for the Norris connection. Themes of incest and claustrophobia and the name ‘Norris’ in Hotshot allude to this novel.

The Metamorphoses, Ovid (SSN, TB)

North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (SSN, TB)

This novel sets up the north vs. south dynamic that plays out in the series. The northern hero’s name is Thornton, like Tara, and he has one of the nastiest mothers in literature, like Tara. The heroine becomes involved in a murder investigation and is afraid of telling Thornton the truth because she is afraid of giving him that power over her, the same reason Sookie keeps Debbie’s death from Eric.

Of Mice and Men (SSN)

In DTTW during the witch war, Sookie quotes her grandmother, “The best-laid plans of mice and men…,”and wonders where she got that from.

The Oral History of the Zombie Wars (CH,TB)

See World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Wars

Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

See Drama

The Source, James A. Michner

In Michener’s The Source, there is a wonderful story entitled Psalm of the Hoopoe Bird. You’ve probably read it, but if not:

The protagonist is nicknamed Hoopoe (due to his demeanor and walking style he is made fun of by the villagers) and he engineers a previously unheard of architectural feat. He digs an underground tunnel, bringing water to the village of Makor to make it less susceptible to invasion. He struggles between belief in two Gods – the ancient Baal who rules over nature and more popular, modern Yahweh (precursur to Adonai). He craves approval and understanding from his wife, his mayor, the visiting general and from his king. Eventually King David hears of his work, but is unimpressed when he sees the tunnel (which becomes the life force of the village in later years). His wife sadly leaves him and runs off to Jerusalem with a musician.

I think the first parallel I’m drawing here in this comparison is that Michener’s Hoopoe is waiting for his God Baal the same way Maryann is awaiting hers. He’s a creature living in the wrong time, clinging to a God who no longer speaks to him. (Skarlove)

The Tempest, Shakespeare (TB)

Eric has an image of Ariel on his bookcase behind his desk. Ariel was a sprite who was enslaved to the evil magician Prospero.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Wars, Max Brooks (CH, TB)

This is one of Charlaine Harris’s favorite novels.

Jason talks about this book when he is gearing up for battle at Merlotte’s in s2 to fight MA’s zombies. World War Z was inspired by The Good War, an oral history of World War II by Studs Terkel; and by the zombie films of director George Romero. Brooks used World War Z to comment on social issues like government ineptitude and American isolationism, while also examining themes ofsurvivalism and uncertainty. Critics have praised the novel for reinventing the zombie genre.

See Dawn of the Dead in the drama section

Music Section

True-Blood.tv Music Guide

True Blood Underground s3 Music Guide

‘Beyond Here Lies Nothin’,’ Bob Dylan (TB)

You Tube, Lyrics
Title and closing song 2.12
Inspired by Ovid’s poems in exile (see Metamphoses in Book section)

Billie Holiday

Lafayette wore a yellow Billie Holiday T-shirt s3 and episode 3.06 is entitled, “I Got a Right to Sing the Blues,” which is a Billie Holiday song.

Captain Danger

Flyers posted on pillar at Fangtasia 3.01

From his bio: Captain danger points out the dragons that lurk around us everyday…like a big city Don Quix

CD on  YouTube singing ‘Halliburton‘

‘Devil Woman’ Marty Robbins (TB)

You Tube, Lyrics

When Maryann walked into the police station hunting for Sam, Marty Robbins’ “Devil Woman” was playing on the radio. The subject of the song is a metaphorical devil woman, but some of the words are apt: “Devil woman you’re evil like the dark coral reef, Like the winds that bring high tides you bring sorrow and grief.” (Millarca)

‘Dig,’ lyrics Alan Ball and music Bruno Coon(TB)

Dig
–
Another day
of making my pay
Working for the man
takes my soul away
(alternate lines in credits–Working for the man sets my soul away)

Never been a hustler
shit out of luck
(alternate line in credits–Working for a buck selling shit that don’t work)
The whole bloodsucking world
is a clusterfuck

You got to dig down deep
down deep til you sleep
Until you work on wall street
and make the meat
To the other side
where all the dark things hide
Made dig deep
Til you open wide
You got to dig down deep
and down below
Down to anything
now a while to go
Down past the things
that you think you know
You got to dig dig deeper,
much much deeper
Dig deep and underground
Everything you ever lost
can be found
Where all those numbers end
and knows no bound
You got to dig dig deeper
much much deeper

‘Dixie’ (TB)

You Tube

Someone plays this song on the piano after Bill’s talk at the Descendants of the Glorious Dead meeting.

Eat Me, Drink Me, Marilyn Manson

When Tara bites Franklin he says, “Eat me. Drink me.” (See Alice in Wonderland in the Children’s Section.)

1.	“If I Was Your Vampire”	5:56
2.	“Putting Holes in Happiness“	4:31
3.	“The Red Carpet Grave”	4:05
4.	“They Said That Hell’s Not Hot”	4:17
5.	“Just a Car Crash Away”	4:55
6.	“Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)“	5:05
7.	“Evidence”	5:19
8.	“Are You the Rabbit?”	4:14
9.	“Mutilation is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery”	3:52
10.	“You and Me and the Devil Makes 3″	4:24
11.	“Eat Me, Drink Me”	5:40

 

 

 

 

 

Garth Brooks

In DUD Sookie wore a Garth Brooke T-shirt.

Hawaii Five-O Theme

Andy’s ringtone s1

‘La Belle et la Bad Boy’

Played in the car during Lafayette and Jesus’s tête-à-tête.

La Bohème, Puccini (TB)

In s1 and 2 a La bohème poster hangs in Eric’s office to the left of the door.

‘Night on the Sun’ Rebel Beat Factory, Modest Mouse (TB)

See post about the thematic use of eclipse.

‘Revolution 9,’ The White Album, The Beatles (TB)

See article

Rigoletto, Verdi (TB)

In 1.09 a Rigoletto poster hangs to the right of the shelving units. In subsequent episodes it disappears.

‘Softly and Tenderly Jesus is Calling,’ William Lamartine Thompson

You Tube, Lyrics
Hymn sung at Gran’s funeral. It was also sung at MLK’s memorial.

Tuvan Throat Sining (TB)

You Tube
This music was playing on the return from Sookie’s first trip to Fangtasia. (They listened to Cambodian music on the way there.)

“Wind Beneath My Wings”

Jason mocks that Andy is “the wind beneath his wings.” (3.02)

‘You Are My Sunshine’

Eric’s ringtone 3.11

‘Youkali Tango,’ Roger Fernay (TB)

You Tube, Lyrics

This cabaret song was playing during Russell and Eric’s car trip to New Orleans (3.06). True Blood Italy explains the significance. An English translation is below the Italian.

Mythology and Religion

Bahá’í

RE refers to Marie of Romania (3.06). She was a follower of the Baha’i faith and believed that it was the answer for uniting mankind in religious harmony.  RE’s plans to unite all supes echoes her desire. (For more on Marie of Romania, see Not as Deep as a Well in the poetry section.)

Buddhist

Dhammapada

Dharmacakra Pravartana Sūtra

This is the Buddha‘s first discourse after he reached Enlightenment in which he identifies the Four Noble Truths.

1. Suffering (dukkha) involves birth, aging, illness, death, being with what is displeasing, being separated from what is pleasing, not getting what one wants, and “in brief” the fiveaggregates-of-clinging (pancupādānakkhandhā).
2. Suffering’s origin (dukkhasamudayo) is craving (tanhā) for sensual pleasures, existence and extermination.
3. Suffering’s end (dukkhanirodho) comes from the relinquishment of and freedom from this craving.
4. The path leading to suffering’s end is the aforementioned Noble Eightfold Path.

Lafayette refers to the 4 Noble Truths when he tells Tara that life is suffering.

Christian

Holy Bible (SSN, TB)

The Compton family Bible, Lettie Mae’s Bible

1 Corinthians 14:34-35

In 2.09 when Steve tells Sarah that she should read some Saint Paul, he is alluding to this verse.

Let the women keep silent in the churches. For they are not permitted to speak, but should be in submission, as the Law also says. If there is anything they desire to learn, let them ask their husbands at home. For it is a disgrace for a woman to speak in church.

II Corinthians 11:14

Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.

In ‘Hamlet,’ Shakespeare alludes to a proverb based on this scripture with the lines, “May be the devil: and the devil hath power To [assume] a pleasing shape.” In True Blood this becomes, “Satan in a Sunday hat.”

See Hamlet

Job 38:3

“Gird up now thy loins like a man; For I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.” In DTTW Sookie talks about ‘girding her loins’ to prepare for the witch war.

John 1:5

In DUD Bill remarks, ” You look like a white candle in a coal mine,” when Sookie enters Fangtasia for the first time in her white dress.  This is an allusion to John 1:5, “And the light shines on in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out.” Shakespeare also alluded this passage in Merchant of Venice, “ How far that little candle throws his flame. So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”

See Merchant of Venice

Luke 10:25

In DTTW three times Sookie describes herself as a good Samaritan.

Psalms

Lettie Mae and Lafayette pray a psalms  together in 2.10 (TB)

Lettie May prays Palm 7 in 2.11 when Tara tries to persuade LM to release her

¹ LORD my God, I take refuge in you;
save and deliver me from all who pursue me,
² or they will tear me apart like a lion
and rip me to pieces with no one to rescue me.

Temptation of Eve and Expulsion from Paradise (SSN, TB)

The essay ‘Sookie’s Sojourn‘ explains the Christian allegory in the series.

Woman Washes the Feet of Jesus (SSN, TB)

Luke 7:36-48

Sarah Newlin recounts this story to Jason as she helps him with his bath. Sookie washes Eric’s feet in DTTW.

Christian Symbolism

Bon Temps–Paradise, The Garden of Eden
The Kingfisher Arms, (DTTW)–The name of Holly’s apartment complex.
Norcross (DTTW)–The name of the pine processing plant Calvin Norris works at.
Tall Pines Cemetery (SSN)–As evergreens and particularly Christmas trees, pines are associated with everlasting life and the the cross.

Greek

Alcides (Hercules) (SSN, TB)

Apollo and Artemis (TB)

Apollo and Artemis were the twins of the nymph Io and Zeus. The jealous Hera attempted to prevent their birth, as she does in many myths with the birth of Zeus’s bastard children. (See the myths of Callisto and Hermes.) Bill has a bust of Hera in his office making him her follower and setting him up against Eric (follower of Artemis), Sam (associated with Apollo), and RE (associated with Hermes).

Apollo and Daphne (TB)

Aurora and Tithonus (TB)

The Caledonian Boar (TB)

Cassandra and Ajax (TB)

TB identifies Tara and Franklin Mott with Cassandra and Ajax. See Agamemnon in Drama.

Cassanandra was Gifted and Cursed by Apollo (TB)

See Agamemnon in Drama

Cupid and Psyche (SSN, TB)

Dionysus

See Protogonos and Zagreus

Dionysus and Ariadne (TB)

Hermes and Apollo (TB)

RE has a bust of Hermes prominently displayed in his living room. This associated him with that god just as Bill’s bust of Hera and Eric’s statuette of Artemis link them with goddesses. In the earliest myths he was clever, tricky, a thief, and, with a wand that could awaken people or put them to sleep, the original sandman. This is why RE touches Bill’s forehead with this index finger in 3.03 and tells him to ‘sleep on’ their conversation. Hermes was a thief who stole his brother’s herd of cattle. This could relate to RE stealing Ulfric’s pack of wolves. Jealous Hera (Bill) hates him as one of Zeus’s illegitimate children and tried to prevent him from being born.

King Tereus (TB)

See The Birds in Drama

Lycoan and Callisto (SSN, TB)

CH made few explicit references to this myth (other than using the name Callisto), but it seems to underlie some of the elements she introduced into the series. In any case, TB is  use of this myth. Lycoan was a king who Zeus turned into a ravenous wolf to match his exterior to his violent and hate filled interior. Callisto was his daughter, a follower of Artemis who was raped by Zeus and gave birth to a son. The jealous Hera transformed into a bear. Many years later, Zeus saved her from being hunted by her own sun by glorifying her in the stars and she became the constellation Ursa Major.

TB identifies Eric as a follower of Artemis, like Callisto. He has a bust of her in his office and wears a bear claw around his neck. Foreshadowing also identifies Eric as a berserker in his human life. They wore bear skins and their name is derived from the animal. Also the name ‘Pamela’ means honey, a favorite of bears. (We know TB is making use of Pamela’s name because Lafayette called her honey comb.) See the myth of the birth of Apollo and Artemis for how Bill fits into this.

Pasiphae and the Bull (TB)

Priapus (TB)

In s1 Jason is plagued with priapism when he overdoses on V. Priapus was a minor fertility god with a large, permanent erection. The myth of Priapus and Lotus is told in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

Protogonos (TB)

Orphic god, who was the first incarnated being in the world. He was created by Night and Darkness and hatched from the world egg. He was reincarnated as Zagreus and later as Dionysus.

Pyramus and Thisbe (TB)

Jessica, Shylock’s Daughter

The River Styx

Zagreus

Son of Zeus and Persephone who was torn to pieces by the Titans on Hera’s orders and later reincarnated in Semele’s womb as Dionysus. (See Protogonos)

Gnostic

Sophia, the goddess of wisdom (TB)

Sophie Ann is probably in part based on this myth in which the Snake in the Garden of Eden who tempted Eve is the hero.

Icelandic Sagas (SSN, TB)

Eric Bloodaxe and his father Harold Fairhair

Islamic

Qur’an

King Solomon and the Hoopoe Advisor

Native American (TB, TBcb)

In volume 1 of the TB comic, Ted is a Chactaw spirit, an Imp Shaloop, who feeds on shame.

In s3 Lafayette recites an Inuit song–

I think over again my small adventures, my fears.” These small ones that seemed so big.
For all the vital things I had to get and to reach.
And yet there is only one great thing.
The only thing.
To live to see the great day that dawns.
And the light that fills the world.”‘

Ugaritic (TB)

Mot is the Ugaritic God of Death

TB AVG invitations were written in Ugaritic before s1 aired.

Non-fiction

Beneath the Surface, Michael Phelps (TB)

On Sam’s coffee table when he serves hoe cakes to Tara 3.12.

Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche (TB)

Godric’s lesson to Eric about there being no right and wrong is based on this book. IMO the series is introducing Neitzsche’s most common ideas and refuting them. That’s why in the end, Godric says that he was wrong.

Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Frued (TB)

The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, Friedrich Nietzsche (SSN, TB)

Nietzsche sets up the Dionysian and Apollonian dichotomy that the Sookieverse explores by contrasting the nature oriented, feelings driven maenad and werewolves with the coldly calculating vampires. Neitzsche raised the Dionysian over the Apollonian. The series shows that society cannot function that way and suggests a balance of the two poles.

The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley

The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, written by Aldous Huxley about his experiences with mescaline and LSD, are probably the most widely known accounts of psychedelic drug use that the writers could draw on for the experiences that Jason had when taking V. (Anna Tsogyal)

The Ego and the Id, Freud (TB)

Female Serial Killers, Peter Vronsky (TB)

This book includes accounts of Elizabeth Bathory and Jane Toppan, a serial killer from Massachusetts who is probably the reason Amy and Maryann were both from that state.

Periodicals

Men’s Health 10/09

Lettie Mae reads this magazine at Lafayette’s while Tara is supposed to be showering.

Obama Interview

Inquiry (TB)

Fictional tabloid in TB. Several copies are on Lettie Mae’s coffee table.

Cover Stories: ‘Angelina Adopts Vampire Baby’ and ‘Can True Love Survive Hollywood?’

Star

Sookie reads an issue of Star when she babysits Russell Edgington.

Time

In DUD Sookie has a subscription to Time.

Vanity Fair, July, 2010

Liz and Dick, the Ultimate Celebrity Couple

Vanity Fair, August, 2010
Cary in the Sky with Diamonds

Poetry

Ariel, by Sylvia Plath (TB)

Eric has an image of Ariel on his bookcase behind his desk. Ariel was a sprite who was enslaved to the evil magician Prospero.

The Conference of the Birds, by Farid ud-Din Attar

The Hoopoe acts as guide to all the other birds on their journey to find the mythical creature called the Simurgh. For the Sufis the Simurgh is a metaphor for God. The Sufi Hoopoe of Attar is described as having “on her breast the ornament which symbolized that she had entered the way of spiritual knowledge; the crest on her head was as the crown of truth, and she had knowledge of both good and evil.”

The Hoopoe says that:
“I am one who is engaged in divine warfare, and I am a messenger of the world invisible. I have knowldge of God and of the secrets of creation.”

The Hoopoe leads the other birds through the various trials that they face on their journey through the Seven Valleys: the quest, love, understanding, independence and detachment, pure unity, astonishment and finally poverty and nothingness.

(Anna Tysogyal)

‘Daffodils,’ William Wordsworth (TB)

René describes Sookie as ‘lonely as a cloud,’ when he asks her to dance at his engagement party.

“Death Fugue,” Paul Celan

Were’s response, “Ja, Meister!” to Russell Edington may allude to a famous line in this poem. “Death is a master from Germany.” (Sarah)

“Grace to Be Said at the Supermarket,” Howard Nemerov (TB)

See article

‘Maenad,’ Sylvia Plath (TB)

Maryann’s black blood comes from this poem. It is also what links the myth of King Tereseus with Dionysus.

Not So Deep as a Well, Dorothy Parker

RE quotes Parker when he tells Sookie, ‘I am Marie of Romania.’

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.

The Odyssey, Homer (SSN)

In CD Sookie notices that Eric wears Ulysses cologne. This may be why S3 Sookie says that Eric smells like the sea. (H/T IATM)

Poems in Exile,  Ovid (TB)

Inspiration for Bob Dylan’s song, ‘Beyond Here Lies Nothin”

‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,’ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (SSN)

In CD, Sookie says, “water, water everywhere,” when she is carried into RE’s mansion.

‘The Road Not Taken,’ Robert Frost (SSN, TB)

The series frequently uses roads as metaphors for life journeys. In TB, a fork in the path from Sookie’s house leads to the cemetary or Bill’s house.

‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,’ Robert Frost (SSN)

In Gift Wrap, Sookie recalls memorizing this poem in high school and misquotes the line, ‘The woods are lovely, dark, and deep.’

 

Recipes

Breakfast

Biscuits
Eggs, Sunny Side Up (Gran’s)
Ham (Sookie’s dream)
Hoe Cakes in Bacon Grease (Lettie Mae’s 1.07, Sam’s 3.12)
Sausage, patties and links
T-bone Steak seared in a Wok (@Alcide’s)

Salads

Fruit Platter (@Godric’s party)
Daylilies (@Talbot’s)

Entrees

Burgers Lafayette (DUD)
Catfish (@Merlotte’s 1.01)
Catfood with Mayo (@ Arlene’s)
Chili (@Merlotte’s 3.01)
Crawfish (@party s1, @Merlotte’s s3)
Chicken Fried Steak (@ Grans 1.01 @Merlotte’s 2.03, s3)
Day Old Pizza (@ Jason’s)
Deluxe Burger with AIDS (Gran’s s1, @Merlotte’s1.05)
Etouffee
Fried Catfish (@Merlotte’s 2.03)
Fried Chicken (Jason eats it for breakfast at Sookie’s 3.01)
Grilled Cheese with Potatoe Chips (Maxine’s 2.09)
Ham Salad (Maxine 1.06)
Hot Dogs (Melinda’s)
Oyster Stew (@Merlotte’s 3.12)
Red Beans and Rice (@Merlotte’s 2.03)
Sandwhiches (@Gran’s 1.02, 3.12)
Smothered Pork Chops (@Merlotte’s 2.03)
Tomatoe Soup (@Sookie’s 3.12)
Stuffed Snapper with Crawfish Topping (@Merlotte’s 2.03)
Tuna Casserole (1.06)
Veggie Burger with Bacon (@Merlotte’s s3)

Sides

Canned Peas (@Merlotte’s)
Deviled Eggs (Maxine 1.06)
Mashed Potatoes (@Merlotte’s)
Okra (@Merlotte’s)
Onion Rings (@Merlotte’s)

Condiments

Ketchup
Mayo
Mustard
Ranch Dressing
Strawberry Jam (Summer’s s3)
Tobasco

Breads

Biscuits (Gran, Summer)
Corn Bread with Bad Juju (1.06)
Corn Fritters in Bacon Grease (Melinda’s)

Miscellaneous

Methamphetamine (Crystal’s s3)

Desserts

Ambrosia (@DOTGD Meeting 1.05)
Banana Pudding (Sarah Newlin 2.03)
Bread Pudding (@Crawdad’s Dinner SSN)
Chocolate Mousse (@Maison de Paris 2.12)
Key Lime Pie (@Crawdad’s Diner 1.05)
Pecan Pie (Gran’s 1.06)
Tipsy Cake (@DOTGD Meeting 1.05)

Beverages

Bud (Mack 1.01)
Dixie Draft
Gin and Tonic (Sookie orders one at Fangtasia. 1.04)
Orange Juice
Margarita (Tara ordered one after being fired. 1.01)
Padron Tequila
Stinger (Jane Bodehouse ordered before Tara sent her home.)
Sweet Tea (1.01)
Tru Blood
Whiskey Sour (Tara mixed them for LM when she was 6. 1.01)

Television

The Adams Family

see Drama

Angel

see Drama

ill Maher

Bill interviews Nan Flanagan in the opening scene of the pilot.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

see Drama

Fang Files

Fictional vampire show Eddie watches.

Heroes

see Drama

Invasion

see Drama

Let’s Make a Deal

3.02 Werewolf Johnson wants to nab Sookie quickly so he will be back in Jackson in time to wathci this show.

National Geographics Vampire Bat

Jason sees part of this video in 1.03 before flipping the channel.

WWE: Smackdown

Arlene watches wrestling with Rene.

The X Files

see Drama