Drives me crazy!
And the worst part is the family constantly gaslights Debra as well and make her feel like she's in the wrong. Even her own spineless husband!
Marie is borderline evil. She's not Heisenberg evil, but I'll tell you what lads. She's right up there
Even when Marie inevitably does something wrong the family never call her out on it. In fact they just try and blame Debra!
Horrible woman!
So I just finished the second season, and I don't remember the last time I laughed so much watching a TV show. The characters are great, Brad Garrett is what really does it for me though, he steals the scene whenever he is on. Snappy, clever writing that rarely misses the mark. What got me the most is Frank Barone smelling the babies heads.. I have seen my dad do this since the 90's. Great show
** thanks everyone this is my first post to get 100 upvotes( I usually post about cheese bread and my cat lol) but (in Robert's voice) Everybody loves Raymond
So seasons 1-5 dropped. I can't find anything about seasons 6 to 9. I don't want to start watching this if they're not going to have the full series. Does anyone know if and when season 6 to 9 will be put on?
It’s on Netflix now so I decided to revisit the show as I haven’t watched it since I was a kid. It’s totally different now that I’m a father of two young kids. Oh and I almost blew a gasket when Debra said she’s 32 in the pilot. I’m 36 now. She had always been like a mother figure to me, and to think that I’m now older than she was when the show started….
Did Chris Rock have something against Everybody Loves Raymond?
Is it the end of an era? Looks like it’s been replaced by Big Bang theory. Not sure everyone wants to hear ‘Bazinga’ that early in the morning.
Any family comedy shows similar to 'Dick Van Dyke show' or everybody loves Raymond ? I have watched both of these 5-6 times the entire series and love them so much.
Appreciate your recommendations of family comedy similar to the above 2 please.
The show is a paradox: Entertaining "Yes", but I hated it and yet couldn't look away. I got more pissed off at the protagonist with each and every episode. The star of the show, Ray Barone (Ray Romano), was such a dick and his mom Marie (Doris Roberts) were so toxic and obnoxious that if there weren't for the laugh-track you wouldn't know it was a comedy. Deborah Barone (Ray's wife, played by Patricia Heaton ) is the only thing that holds the show together for most of its 9 seasons. She suffered graciously for the sake of many a mediocre script. Oddly enough, my 50-something (single-and-always-will-be) son - liked Ray and his mother, and thought Deborah Barone was just a bitch. She wasn't - just the opposite. Ever the fall-guy/straight-man, Deborah was the only non-dysfunctional character in the show: the attractve, caring, and attentive wife committed to a selfish, ignorant, pansy mamma's boy husband named Ray. It's really more of tragicomedy then a comedy. Would I recommend the show? That depends on your mind set. David Letterman bankrolled the show because he liked Ray Romano's stand-up shtick on the The Late Show With David Letterman. There. I said it.
Ray Curto was so amiable with the Feds, and harbored bitterness against the family. He seemed to be well liked and respected by all the guys and is a captain. Tony even suggested that he should be boss. Despite all that he seems to almost relish running his own gossip column for god knows how long.
Where could this resentment against the family come from, are there any clues i may have missed? My question isn't why he cooperated ( I'm sure we weren't told that, presumed they had something on him), what confuses me is why he apparently had no qualms ratting.
Maybe it's my age/nostalgia, but it sure feels like after looking around that it's a lot harder to find modern shows like this. It can be a fine line and a lot of shows come close but still "try too hard" or go a bit off the rails, etc.
I just want something where the comedy is the same you'd get with funny or quirky people in real life, with relatable likable characters doing mostly everyday normal things, and some amount of ongoing story and normal real life drama.
For one example that almost fits but doesn't - The Office. When I'm in the mood for pure comedy, it's brilliant, but most of the characters just aren't "likable" - hilarious but not likable.
Title. Just a little confused because they were friends and Everybody Loves Raymond, but then they act like they just met in King of Queens. Thoughts??
I absolutely hate the dynamic of the relationship in this show. Raymond is just about the nicest person in the show. Honestly any time he messed up in the show was generally out of stupidity and not malice. Debra will tear into him for the slightest infraction. She genuinely does not show a mutual respect for Raymond at any point in the show.
Side note: Where the heck are the kids and why don't they get any lines? In my experience kids talk.
It used to play on TBS around 5/6 am but that has stopped. Do you know a network it plays on or some streaming service I can see it on?
(It's on AppleTV but only if you pay extra for it). Thanks!!
That show was just not funny. It was an agonizing cringe fest. I felt bad for the brother who was ignored by his parents throughout his life because they favored Raymond, the mother-in-law (Marie?) whose husband acted like she was a ball-and-chain whom he didn’t love, and the wife who had to endure the mother-in-law’s undermining actions and emotional torture (Marie? Who could forget the wife’s tortured crying of that name) . Contrast this with Frasier- the sons and father argue and have different perspectives but want the best for each other; they argue mostly about what would get that for them. I never got that feeling from any of Everybody Loves Raymond; they all just want to spite each other and make the other person smaller. The brother’s fiancé should have run away the first time she met his family.
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