Trivia: True Blood S01 E01 1x01 Strange Love

• Vampire Bill Compton is 173 years old. 

• The frat boy and sorority girl, Kelly, pull over at the "GrabbitKwik" convenience store. Maudette Pickens, the murdered woman, is mentioned to be an employee at "GrabbitKwik". 

• Nan Flanagan of the American Vampire League is shown on television doing an interview with Bill Maher. Bill Maher is host of the talk show Real Time with Bill Maher which also airs on HBO. 

• The camo-clad hunter/vampire purchases the synthetic drink "Tru Blood" in the form of a 4-pack of bottles. Typically wine coolers are sold in 4-packs, beer is generally sold in 6-packs. The tag line for "Tru Blood" is "Real Blood is for suckers!" 

• When Sookie comes home from work the first night, her grandmother is reading Last Scene Alive, written by Charlaine Harris who also wrote the Sookie Stackhouse books "True Blood" is based on.