Sookie is seen reading a book named "Grave Secret", written by Charlaine Harris. Harris is the author of the books on which the TV series is based.
The episode features a vampire being filmed while feeding on a human and the website "www.vamps-kill.com" is tattooed on one of the filmmakers arms. Following the screening of this episode, the True Blood production opened a website at this URL with gruesome videos of vampires feeding on humans.
This episode break's True Blood's tradition of having the closing credit's song also be the episode's title. In this special case, the title song plays during the episode.
The doll that Maxine orders from the shopping channel is an actual doll in the Marie Osmond Adora Belle line.