"Been Been There, Done That"
Joxer's question of "Is that a hickey?" was Lucy`s idea.1
"Purity"
Lucy Lawless was asked...
'What is your favorite practical joke or blooper that happened during Xena?'
Lucy: My favorite was when I was pregnant and we were playing a trick on Ted Raimi. Instead of saying "Joxer, stop being such an idiot," I said "Joxer, you know I've always loved you...I've always wanted you." And I went in as if I was going to French kiss him and stick my tongue down his throat. Ted freaked out. On a really fundamental level, everything about that was wrong for Ted. Not only was I Lucy his friend but I was his friend's [producer Tapert] pregnant wife! It grossed him out--as it should".2
"When Fates Collide"
Claire Stansfield is close friends with Ted...
Claire: He poked fun at me when we did the episode because I did one of those Joan Crawford exits, where your head whips to the side
and you march off. He kept doing impressions of me being Joan Crawford. He was like, 'Check out your exit, Claire!' and I'm like, 'F*** off, Ted!'
More on "Fates" with writer Katherine Fugate...NEW
Katherine: "The only thing that happened very late in the day - when I was actually
in New Zealand - was that we added Ted Raimi," ... "He'd arrived in New Zealand
a week earlier for Soul Possession, so we took a minor character role and let Ted do it. We
didn't expand his role in any way, we just put him in it. So that was kind of fun, because
now we had Joxer in the episode too, although he's not the Joxer of Xena's world."
"Apparently, the crew were at the table read of the draft, and they were saying
to the director, John Fawcett, 'Who should we cast for this character?'" Fugate explains
of the decision to put Raimi in the episode. "They were going through headshots and
things like that, and the director said, 'Well, is Ted here yet?' Ted had got there
early, so they said, 'Well, if Ted is here, let's use him!' It wasn't like they were
forcing anybody."
"So it ended up being a nice cameo, which" would have been a surprise for fans at the
time, When I saw Ted on the set, I said, 'Look, no pasta strainer, no hat, and no old
age make-up!' He didn't have to worry about any of those things." 4
