# TRUE BLOOD: "Trouble" July 18, 2010 (open spoilers)

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**Created:** [July 19, 2010, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-trouble-july-18-2010-open-spoilers/547195 "2010-07-19T04:48:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-trouble-july-18-2010-open-spoilers/547195/61 "2010-07-22T18:19:32Z")

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Did anyone see the post-mortem (I don’t remember if it was from this episode or the last) where some foreign vampire is asking for asylum in the US, and offering up vampire secrets to the government in return? There’s a pretty good little jab in there when the vampire is talking about how much political power vampires have in the world, and how many people they have in high places. The government agent doing the interview then says, “Dick Cheney, right? I KNEW it.”

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-trouble-july-18-2010-open-spoilers/547195/62 "2010-07-22T18:45:45Z")

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> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#):
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> Did anyone see the post-mortem (I don’t remember if it was from this episode or the last) where some foreign vampire is asking for asylum in the US, and offering up vampire secrets to the government in return? There’s a pretty good little jab in there when the vampire is talking about how much political power vampires have in the world, and how many people they have in high places. The government agent doing the interview then says, “Dick Cheney, right? I KNEW it.”

I saw that and couldn’t tell if the vampire was Russell. Was he?

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**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-trouble-july-18-2010-open-spoilers/547195/63 "2010-07-22T19:13:40Z")

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I don’t think so.

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**Author:** ![kombatminipig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5ac83/32.png) [@kombatminipig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kombatminipig)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/true-blood-trouble-july-18-2010-open-spoilers/547195/64 "2010-07-23T13:27:35Z")

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> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Interesting use of the term 'visited". :).

Well, I was trying to be diplomatic 😉

> [@John\_Mace](#):
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> Why? Modern English sounds almost nothing like Old English, which is the language similar to Old Norse. They should get some Icelandic actors if they really want the correct effect.

Because modern English speaking actors trying to pronounce modern Swedish for some reason don’t sound too far off, for some weird reason 🆒 Interesting idea though. On one hand, Icelanders come cheap these days, on the other hand they’re all like Björk.

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