Stephen Moyer' s favorite scene from True Blood Season One

In the dvd commentary Stephen Moyer talks about how he loved this scene ..this is after Sookie saves him from The Rattray's.

'Strange Love': the song title song for True Blood Season One Episode one

I recently did a Season 2 Spoiler show for my Blogtalk radio show, where we looked at what we might know about the upcoming episode by examining the title song for that episode.

I can't tell you how many emails I received from folks saying they felt so stupid for not realizing that the True Blood episodes were named for songs. It's OK but I thought it might be a good idea to look back at the song, the artist and the lyrics for each of last season's episode title songs.

So let's look back to Episode one: Season one Strange Love' first aired 9/7/2008

Strange Love - by Slim Harpo ( we have another Slim Harpo song for Season 2 I think HERE)

Sometimes called electric swamp blues written by James Moore, aka Slim Harpo. Crowley, Louisiana, October 1965 Excello Records.

James Moore AKA Slim Harpo Born: January 11, 1924 in the parish of West Baton Rouge, Louisiana. As a figure in the post-war rural blues, his music is often described as Louisiana swamp blues. As a teenager, his parents died, leaving him to raise one brother and three young sisters.

Strange Love

Strange love, cutest thing I ever seen
Strange love, cutest thing I ever seen
You remind me of somethin' that I have seen in a dream

Can I take you out to dinner, some place where we can be alone
Can I take you out to dinner, some place where we can be alone
Tell you how much I love you, then let me hold you in my arm

(Harp solo here)

You asked me there's honey, love to be your honeycomb
You asked me there's any honey, I love to be your honeycomb
Then when the time is right darling there'll be some lovin' goin' on

You can hear a little sample of it here at Amazon or buy a copy for 99c

True Blood Episode one: Strange Love recap from HBO site

I'm going to start posting the episode recaps from the HBO site. I think we should have them in our archive; they are really long so I will also post them in their entirety as a word document to our scribd site. I think they are worth carefully re-examining for clues!

At night on a rural Louisiana highway, a frat boy driving his girlfriend's SUV - while her hand works busily in his lap - notices a neon convenience store sign for Tru Blood and pulls into the lot. Inside, an evil-looking clerk watches Bill Maher interview American Vampire League spokeswoman Nan Flanagan, who deftly parries his questions about vampires' historical violence. "We never owned slaves," she says, "or detonated nuclear weapons.
Since the Japanese perfected synthetic blood, which satisfies all our nutritional needs, there is no reason for anyone to fear us."
The frat boy steps up to the counter and smarts off about the vampires of New Orleans drowning during Hurricane Katrina, and the pale, angular clerk replies that vampires can't drown "because we don't breathe." Frozen in terror, the frat boy mumbles an apology, but a moment later the clerk breaks into a goofy cackle, dropping the act and saying how he "totally had them."
A camo-clad good ole boy in the back of the store isn't amused, however, and when the frat boy asks the clerk about scoring some drug-like vampire blood, the real vampire in their midst reveals himself - and his fangs. As the frat boy flees with his girlfriend, the good ole boy steps up to the counter, slams down a four-pack of Tru Blood and tells the clerk, "You ever pretend to be one of us again, and I'll kill you. Got it?"

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quotes episodes 1, 2 and 3

Quotes Season 1 Episode 3 - Mine

Bill to Malcolm, Liam and Diane: Sookie is mine.

Sookie to Bill outside her house: Oh come on, Bill. I may look naïve but I am not and you need to remember that.

Bill to Sookie: We are all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic is just a little different from yours, that’s all.

Sookie: Why on earth would I continue seeing you.
Bill: Because you will never find a human man you could be your self with.

Malcolm to Bill: Honey, if we can’t kill people what’s the point of being a vampire?

Sam: Do you know who I would really wish to come to Marthaville? Buffy. Or Blade. Or anyone of those bad ass vampire killers to take care of mister Bill Compton.

Quotes Season 1 Episode 2 - The first taste

Tare to Lafayette on the phone: What do you mean if you get lucky? Your standards are so low, you always get lucky.

Sookie to Bill after he licked blood from her forehead: Do I taste different from other people?

Bill to Sookie: May I ask you a personal question?
Sookie: Bill, you were just licking blood out of my head, I don’t think it gets much more personal than that.

Sookie to Bill outside her house: You might want to remember for next that that tornados hop, they don’t just land in one place.

Bill to Sookie outside his house: I can smell the sunlight on your skin.

Diane to Sookie at Bill’s house: Well hey there, little human chick.

Quotes Season 1 Episode 1 - Strange Love

Arlene at Merlotte’s: Do you even know what’s between a woman’s legs, Lafayette?

Sam about Tru Blood at Merlotte’s: Would you be willing to pass up all your favourite foods and spend the rest of life drinking Slimfast?

Bill at the parking lot after Sookie wraps the silver chain around her neck: oh, but you have other very juice arteries, there is one in the groin that is a particular favorite of mine.

Bill at Merlotte’s: They are staring at us because I am a vampire and you are mortal.

The unaired Original True Blood pilot with the other Tara

Watch the full length video of the unaired True Blood pilot.

This episode includes the other actress as Tara (Brook Kerr) instead of Rutina Wesley.

There is also the "blue eyes ladies in the woods" (who we think might be Claudine, her fae cousin ) during the Sookie/ Mack Rattray fight.

This episode also has missing scenes and has very different music.

More great documents- scripts and texts from True Blood episodes

Are you trying to figure out what they say in a particular scene ? I know we do all the time on the wiki chat thread so I've created and posted word docs of the "closed captioning " text for the episodes 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.
I also have episode 7 for those wiki-folks who are in honor of Eric learning to speak Swedish during the show hiatus. ha!

You can find them as well as a full transcript of episode 1.

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Closed Captioning Ep 12

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Closed Captioning Ep 7 in Swedish

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Music from True Blood Episode 1 - Strange Love

Song: Y'all'd Think She'd Be Good 2 Me
Artist: C.C. Adcock
Album: Lafayette Marquis
Scene: Intro scene where couple in truck see Tru Blood sign

Song: Goodbye Good Lookin'
Artist: Robbie Fulks
Album: Revenge!
Scene: Inside Merlotte’s, we meet Sookie


Song: Soulful Garage
Artist: Southern Culture On the Skids
Album: Mojo Box
Scene: Sookie talks to Sam while leaning on the bar


Song: The Dreaming Dead
Artist: Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter
Album: Oh, My Girl
Scene: Sookie turns around, as Vampire Bill sits down at a table


Song: Until I Wake Up
Artist: Dishwalla
Album: And You Think You Know What Life’s About
Scene: plays when Sookie sees Bill for the first time (In pre-air screeners only, not in broadcast episode)


Song: Strange Love
Artist: Slim Harpo
Album: The Best of Slim Harpo
Scene: Sookie talks to Tara as she drinks her margarita


Song: Lake Charles
Artist: Lucinda Williams
Album: Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Scene: After fighting off the Ratray’s, Sookie and Bill get acquainted


Song: Still Beating
Artist: Josh Ritter
Album: The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Scene: Jason comes into Merlotte’s looking for Sookie, wants to go home with Dawn


Song: Dang Good Stuff
Artist: Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars
Album: Kim Lenz & Her Jaguars
Scene: Jason interrupts Sookie’s sun-bathing


Song: Bar Exam
Artist: The Derailers
Album: Here Comes The Derailers
Scene: played in Merlotte’s during the scene just prior to Sookie seeing Bill again (Pre-air screeners only)


Song: Stumble And Pain
Artist: Joseph Arthur
Album: Our Shadows Will Remain
Scene: plays when Sookie and Bill meet for a second time


Song: Bones
Artist: Little Big Town
Album: The Road To Here
Scene: plays as credits roll

Recap "Strange Love" episode 1 aired Sept 7