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Why does everybody love Raymond?
- Thread starter Moist_Owlet
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I'm happy the only time I see Brad Garret and Ray Romano is in quick clips playing the WSOP Main Event.
The dirtiest? In what way? It had some coy references to sex and whatnot, but no more than any other sitcom in that time period. It was probably one of the cleanest, really.
I don't think it was necessarily all that popular with conservatives specifically, more that it was in an era where there was a lot more bleed over in what people watched than the fractured viewing habits of today.
He wrote all the time, he was a sports columnist after all, there were entire episodes based on him in his basement office writing and episodes where that was highlighted.
The show worked because it was not the typical happy family, everyone was neurotic and crazy in there own way. Unfortuantely as with many shows that overstayed their welcome, the characters became bloated stereotypes of their worst characteristics over time.
Still one of the best sitcoms ever made
Why is ray always DTF? Like literally always
Everybody Loves Raymond was my first experience with sitcoms, around the age of 15, I got all 9 seasons on DVD and watched the everloving shit out of it, I would litterally put on a random episode before I went to bed EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, it'll always have a special place in my heart
Everybody Loves Raymond was my first experience with sitcoms, around the age of 15, I got all 9 seasons on DVD and watched the everloving shit out of it, I would litterally put on a random episode before I went to bed EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, it'll always have a special place in my heart
Once you get older and have to deal with inlaws, aging parents, kids, You will understand.
Ray is a pretty shitty lazy entitled husband though. In that sense it has become a bit dated
Ray is a pretty shitty lazy entitled husband though. In that sense it has become a bit dated
I liked how they'd have episodes entirely around their kids' events without once showing the kids.
Whenever I saw the kids I'd be like "oh yeah they have kids"
Whenever I saw the kids I'd be like "oh yeah they have kids"
Deborah deserves better
Her husband is unreliable, her in laws are constantly over and trying to control their lives, she raises the kids all by herself and they are a racket.
I feel bad for her most of the time because the shows antics relies on ray screwing up her day somehow
I have just never understood this. I swear in every discussion about Everybody Loves Raymond, the show gets shit on and then King of Queens gets brought up as the far superior show. Like I'm totally supportive of people enjoying whatever they enjoy but... King of Queens was a very average sitcom. Half the jokes in that show boil down to "Doug is fat!" Does it even have any quoteable lines? ELR was not great but it had its moments.
well I'm sure your mother and father love you as much as they love your brother Raymond, but he complains so much less than you do, Robert.
It's so interesting watching this show and The Middle back to back at times and seeing Patricia Heaton go from the "smart" and logical spouse to the comical spouse who has none of her shit together. Her characters in the two shows have polar opposite personalities.
He's an idiot, and she's a nag. It works for the show but I don't enjoy spending time with those types of couples. She's Marie 2.0. Plus, wasn't moving across the street from the in laws Frank and Marie's idea that Deborah was cool with and Ray was sceptical of?
Yeah, mothers and mother in laws are like that in real life. People liked it because it was relatable.
Couldn't get into it when I was younger, much like Seinfeld, I just needed to get a little older to relate more to it.
Hated it when it was airing live. Came back to it's reruns like 10 years later and can enjoy it for the most part. Also enjoy King of Queens.
Edit:
There is an episode based on someone absolutely hating Ray and Ray being pathetic by having a hard time dealing with it. The episodes that mocked Ray for having something slightly inconvenient were usually pretty funny
Edit:
There is an episode based on someone absolutely hating Ray and Ray being pathetic by having a hard time dealing with it. The episodes that mocked Ray for having something slightly inconvenient were usually pretty funny
Yeah, their season finales were great. I like that this show didn't have arcs. It was just life.
I remember enjoying the show when it first aired but I don't care much for it now. It's palatable for maybe half an episode before I'm sick of everyone and need to change the channel.
I don't remember the exact reason for the title, but it wasn't pitched by Ray and he actually hated it. Dunno if it grew on him or not. I believe he did an interview with Chris Hardwick on Nerdist like, six years ago.
I don't remember the exact reason for the title, but it wasn't pitched by Ray and he actually hated it. Dunno if it grew on him or not. I believe he did an interview with Chris Hardwick on Nerdist like, six years ago.
I remember things from this sitcom, which means I must have liked it more than almost every other. I remember Marie asking Deborah if she was making herself "available" to Ray, and when Ray was sick in bed Marie being unsatisfied with the accuracy of the thermometer reading from Ray's mouth and telling him to roll over.
I'd always assumed his wife was waiting for the ideal time to smother him with a pillow in his sleep.
I guess that must be it, cause he's a horrible person in the show.
Edit: It's kinda like with Friends tbh, if you look past the jokes they are pretty horrible to each other a lot of the times. Maybe Phoebe is OK.
It is.
Man i love this show, my wife loves it too. And yes 'we' also love Kings of Queens. Since we watched both series a couple of times we never got into many other sitcoms again, except The Middle and Big Bang Theory. We miss a show like everybody loves Raymond. Any tips?
I would watch an episode before school with my pa.
It was a good show. I'm sure a lot of it hasn't aged too well. But it wasn't necessarily about the audience liking Ray, maybe he's closer to a British sit com character.
It remined me of 'My Family'; an often underrated British sit com that's largely forgotten now.
It was a good show. I'm sure a lot of it hasn't aged too well. But it wasn't necessarily about the audience liking Ray, maybe he's closer to a British sit com character.
It remined me of 'My Family'; an often underrated British sit com that's largely forgotten now.
I associated Everybody Loves Raymond with Home Improvement from the 90s as pretty standard nuclear family sit cons that are explicitly 'not about th kids'.
Raymond has a better supporting cast in the parents and Robert that gives it more vatiety in stories. The core relationship between Ray and Debra is a lot weaker though. At least with a Home Improvement, you can feel why they are together and that they loved each other. Ray and Debra can be so mean to each other and lie all the time for no reason. People on the show also often call Ray a 'great father' but i'm Not sure why.
Raymond has a better supporting cast in the parents and Robert that gives it more vatiety in stories. The core relationship between Ray and Debra is a lot weaker though. At least with a Home Improvement, you can feel why they are together and that they loved each other. Ray and Debra can be so mean to each other and lie all the time for no reason. People on the show also often call Ray a 'great father' but i'm Not sure why.
Some family-based-ish British sitcoms:
My Family
Outnumbered
Miranda
Not Going Out
Citizen Kahn
My 2nd favorite sitcom behind How I Met Your Mother. Robert might just be my favorite sitcom character. Absolutely hilarious. He can just stand still by himself and it would get a chuckle out of me.
I LOVE Everybody Loves Raymond. This show is my "Friends". Have it in the background playing sometimes when I'm doing stuff.
There was one arc in ELR. Season 6-7. The last 3 episodes of season 6 had Marie and Debra not talking to each other, and it ended on the first episode of season 7.