IMHO "True Blood" (2.11): Frenzy

It was another chaotic episode of True Blood last night, but we had some great scenes with the Vampire Queen, who revealed more about Maryann's intentions, and Lafayette and Sookie trying to rescue Tara ... again.

Look below for the top ten reasons why this episode earns an up arrow (and also for the little bone I have to pick with Alan Ball.)

10.: Jason just keeps getting funnier and hotter. He and Andy (who's sounding more and more like Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade ... I keep expecting him to break out with "I like them french fried potaters") decide to arm themselves against the marauding townsfolk, which leads to a trip to the Sheriff station for guns & ammo, and Jason trying to resist the advances of a horny girl.

9.: When Andy laments how easy it is for Jason to get women, he responds "You think it's easy? I work out like a mother***er ... and watch a lot of porn to learn stuff".

8.: Jessica and Hoyt are having a rough go of it, and she's not making things better by taking a bite out of her possible future mother-in-law. But c'mon ... Mama had it coming.

7.: Sam finds himself in charge of Arlene's kids, and takes them to Fangtasia to ask Eric for help. Eric is fascinated with the kids, calling them "teacup humans".

6.: Awesome moment of the night: Eric bids the kids adieu, and flies away.

5.: Pam remains criminally underused. Not only is she dressed like an undead Solid Gold dancer (or Ann-Margret in Tommy), but she says that the kids smell, and that Maryann still owes her a pair of shoes.

4.: Lettie Mae lets Tara go, and Tara promptly runs back to Eggs, and despite her best effort, again succumbs to Maryann's magic. In the annals of "bad ideas from the get-go", Sookie and Lafayette decide to try and rescue Tara once again from Maryann's clutches. It ends as well as you expect, with Lafayette working his new black eyes, and Sookie screaming bloody murder.

3.: Bill visits the Vampire Queen, and while her appearance was a bit shaky at first, by the end of the episode, I was hooked. Maybe it was her one-liners, or the fact that she goaded Bill into partaking the Vampire Bite That Dare Not Speak Its Name, but she ended up a total hoot.

2.: Someone has laid an egg. I don't mean it metaphorically. Someone literally laid an egg, and it's being protected by Maryann's familiars. WTF?

1.: The Vampire Queen of Louisiana ... who is thousands of years old ... and lives in a mansion with beautiful prey ... spends her time playing Yahtzee.

What did you think? I'm glad that we finally learned the backstory of Maryann, and why she's obsessed with Sam, and what her ultimate goal is ... she's waiting for her God to arrive.

But I do have a bone to pick with Alan Ball (who wrote this episode). Sookie and Lafayette discuss Eric, and they admit to each other that they have sex dreams about him. So why do we only get Lafayette's description, but whenever Sookie dreams about Eric, we see it all in lush soft-core? The closest we get to a Lafayette/Eric pairing in this episode is when Lafayette hallucinates that Eric is Lettie Mae (which admittedly, was pretty funny).

But seriously, where's the hot Eric/Lafayette dream sequence?