Everybody Loves Raymond

[lame54]

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[bigwillq]

1. Hysterical

reminds me so much of my family.
My parents are so Frank and Marie (but in a good way!)

[Denninmi]

2. No, not everybody LOVES Raymond.

I could/can barely tolerate it. Mostly a lot of screaming and yelling between family members. In real life, the wife would have walked out and divorced him years ago because of the mother in law's constant insults and meddling. Or she would have made him take a job in a city far, far, far away from the in-laws.

[Locrian]

9. Everybody hates Raymon

Can't STAND that and other shows about 'dysfunctional families'. Puke.

[zanana1]

16. Exactly.nt

[HappyMe]

3. I think it's funny.

[CBGLuthier]

4. I never watched during its initial run. Have since watched and found it to be funny

Particularly the time we saw Georgia Engel smoking. I am not sure I have ever seen anything funnier than her with a cigarette hanging from her mouth.

Watch and see

[bigwillq]

10. That smoking episode was hysterical

[mia]

17. I missed this one.

Thanks for posting it!

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. Brad Garrett and (especially) Peter Boyle could do no wrong.

[OriginalGeek]

6. I'm with this guy^^^

But my favorite episodes where when Fred Willard and Georgia Engel and Chris Elliot showed up.


I also never watched during it's initial run but have seen a ton of reruns.

[LeftinOH]

7. Get rid of Raymond, his wife and kids.. and keep the old folks

plus Brad Garrett. They're funny, but Raymond himself isn't.

[OmahaBlueDog]

8. Peter Boyle & Doris Roberts were the ultimate inlaws/grandparents

Generally, I found the show funny.

I separate Patricia Heaton's acting from her politics.

[UTUSN]

12. Peter BOYLE brought down the house with one, understated line at the Actor's Studio

The whole cast was interviewed together, the lead actors in the first row, the supporting actors behind them. Since the show is technically ROMANO's, while being ensemble, LIPTON had to shift back and forth between highlighting the star and the rest of the cast. ROMANO was not a hog, is low wattage, lets the others take the attention.

So late in the interview, LIPTON needed to shift back to ROMANO for a plug for his latest project, asking him to do a recitation as the new character.

BOYLE was in the second row behind ROMANO. He was looking down, polishing the lenses of his glasses, when ROMANO stood up to do his thing.

And BOYLE said quietly, without ever looking up, "Wait till you see THIS transformation."


ROMANO and everybody cracked up. Sure enough, his new character was indistinguishable from his real self or the "Raymond" character.

[lame54]

19. but in the new show itself...

the character is different

too bad it only made it through 2 seasons - it was a great show

[KamaAina]

11. Raymond: funny. The raft of copycat shows: not funny.

King of Queens. Yes, Dear. Still Standing. Let's put a middle-class white ethnic family in front of the camera and let the yuks begin! Never mind the dark, almost macabre edge that Doris Roberts in particular brought to Raymond. Who needs it?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

13. One hell of a lot funnier than some "classic sitcoms" like "Three's Company."

Many episodes were hilarious, a few were stupid and ill-conceived. A better hit-or-miss ration than most shows.

[Rhiannon12866]

14. Loved Doris Roberts!

She's great in pretty much everything!

[linux80386]

15. don't like it at all

absolute tripe

[DawgHouse]

18. Funny most of the time

Two episodes stand out in my mind:

The one when Frank passed out condoms on Halloween, believing they were wrapped chocolates. The writers doubled-down on this episode by having Boyle in costume as Frankenstein's monster.

Second, the episode called The Angry Family, where one of their boys had written a story and the teacher and family assumed it was about the Barone's.

[geardaddy]

20. Everybody but his wife.

She's not funny.

[edbermac]

21. Just started watching it on TV Land, pretty funny

They just had the episode where the big brother's new girl kills a fly and eats it and Raymond just stands there in shock for 5 minutes.