The Best Everybody Loves Raymond Episodes
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- 1February 04, 2002Robert is ecstatic when he is recommended for an FBI job. That is, until it becomes apparent that Marie's intrusive ways may be his undoing. This time, she may have gone too far and Robert may not be able to forgive and forget.
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Marie's Meatballs
Season 2 Episode 15: Raymond chooses his mother's spaghetti and meatballs over his wife's lemon chicken, Debra gets upset. Ray asks his mom to give Debra cooking lessons. - 3
Debra Makes Something Good
Season 4 Episode 18: Debra throws the Barone family into turmoil when she finally creates a dish that everyone likes. Ray can't believe it when he tastes Debra's braciole. - 4
She's the One
November 18, 2002Robert think he has finally found "the one" or a girlfriend. The girl is Angela, an international-trade lawyer who seems too good to be true. She's bright, speaks four languages and clearly loves Robert. The girl goes on to endear herself to Debra by complimenting her lemon chicken. While Ray, is also initially smitten with Angela, he see's something disgusting: Angela eats a dead fly out of a napkin. After he tells Robert and Debra, the won't believe him. - 5September 24, 2001The Barones clash even more than usual in the sixth-season opener when they get a child's-eye view of all the bickering that goes on in the family. The fireworks begin when the whole gang attends an open house at first-grader Michael's school, during which the kids all read stories that they've written themselves. Most of the students tell tall tales that are obviously fictional. But then Michael gets up and reads the title to his story, ""The Angry Family."" The shocked Barones fear the worst---and for good reason---as Michael begins the saga of a clan that is constantly arguing.
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Marie's Sculpture
Season 6 Episode 5: Ray and Debra are horrified when Marie presents them with an abstract sculpture she made in art class which bears a resemblance to the female anatomy. - 7September 20, 2004Frank and Marie return from a trip down to a retirement home in New Jersey when they tell the family that they plan on moving there. Everyone, besides Frank and Marie, is overjoyed fro hearing the news. Marie and Frank sell their own house to Robert and Amy for $26,000. On they day of their moving, however, Debra reveals some mixed feelings about their moving and doesn't feel right about it.
- 8April 09, 2001Marie gathers Robert's ex-girlfriends Amy and Stefania and his female police partner, Judy, together so they can dissect his character in an effort to help her better understand why her eldest son can't commit to a relationship. Unfortunately, Robert unexpectedly drops in and is forced by his mother to listen to his character being assassinated by the women as they discuss his relationship hang-ups in detail and compare notes on his quirky dating behavior, inability to commit to one woman and his flawed personality.
- 9November 24, 2003Robert and Amy convince their families to spend Thanksgiving together. When the Barones arrive at the Pennsylvania home of Amy's parents, they find that their differing family traditions encourage lots of lively conversation. If only the MacDougals owned a television set! Things start to come together when the families separate into Pilgrims and Indians for the annual MacDougal Thanksgiving Family Pageant. All is well until a bird flies into the house and Pat McDougal decides to ""put it out of it's misery.""
- 10May 05, 2003Ray and Debra wind up in a two-week standoff over a suitcase. When Robert asks Ray if he can borrow a suitcase sitting on the stairway landing for his honeymoon, Ray explains he and Debra have been locked in an ""unspoken"" battle of wills since a weekend trip over who is responsible for putting the suitcase away. Although Robert thinks Ray and Debra are insane, Frank and Marie can easily relate and offer their own words of wisdom – with Frank counseling Ray and Marie advising Debra on how to resolve their marital differences.
- 11May 03, 2004When Robert informs Ray that Amy filled him in on some juicy gossip about him, Ray decides to get even with Debra by sharing some nasty secrets of his own.
- 12November 23, 1998When Marie and Frank get some test results back they find out that they're not as healthy as they thought. So Marie throws out all the unhealthy food and makes Frank go on a diet with her. This doesn't sit well with him and the rest of the family when it comes to Thanksgiving dinner. Instead of the traditional turkey dinner she makes a tofu turkey. So Ray orders a traditional Thanksgiving dinner from a restaurant. Debra thinks that Ray might have hurt his mother's feelings but it's quite the opposite when he catches Marie eating his Thanksgiving dinner in the middle of the night.
- 13May 08, 2000Ray's attempts to alleviate Debra's PMS moodiness only make her more irritable. When Ray witnesses Debra's hypersensitive mood and generally annoyed reaction to everything he says and does, he checks the calendar and realizes it's going to be a long couple of days ahead. In his desire to get a ""quick fix"" for Debra's womanly problems – thus making his life a heck of a lot easier – he turns a bad situation worse by suggesting that a simple pill will help with his wife's insufferable mood swings.
- 14May 21, 2001Debra becomes angry when Ray contributes $1,000 to his friends' hair brained scheme to open a go-cart business without first consulting her.
- 15January 07, 2002When Debra grudgingly agrees to let Ray be more involved in daily decision making, Ray starts grocery shopping for things that he likes, and Debra lets him choose where the family will go for their next vacation. However, these newfound powers quickly become Ray's undoing.
- 16February 09, 2004Fed up with his wife's constant lateness, Ray leaves Debra at home rather than take her to the ESPY Awards. While Debra seethes over Ray's actions, Marie and Amy get into a heated debate with Frank and Robert when they air their own grievances about their wives' blatant disregard for the time.
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Wallpaper
Season 5 Episode 3: Ray and Debra lose their cool when Frank and Marie pull the ultimate unannounced visit to their home. Ray finally kicks them out of his house. - 18
Boy's Therapy
Season 9 Episode 6: Debra, Amy and Marie, worried about the men's relationships, convince Ray and Frank to accompany Robert to see his therapist, Dr. Greenberg. - 19October 11, 2004Ray is elected to tell Debra that members of the P.T.A. have problems with the way she dresses.
- 20May 02, 2005Ray's latest manipulative plan involves constantly turning down Debra in the bedroom.
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The Model
Season 8 Episode 21: After a modeling agent tells Robert he has a unique look, he convinces him to pose for head shots with their "in-house" photographer. - 22November 26, 2001Robert meets a beautiful woman who is a big fan of Ray Barone's sports column. But when the woman mistakes Robert for Raymond, Robert doesn't set her straight. Now, Robert has to involve Ray in a complicated plot to keep the woman from learning Robert's true identity. Ray warns him that this could blow up in his face, but Robert keeps it up so he can get her to like him instead of Ray. As Ray expected, things go wrong when she shows up at Ray's house and she tells Debra, who she thought was dead, that she and Ray are dating.
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Cookies
Season 6 Episode 15: When Ray learns that Peggy and her daughter have targeted his parents house as a spot to make their big sale during the competition, it's all out war. - 24
Robert's Date
Season 3 Episode 15: Robert's entire demeanor changes when he starts clubbing with his patrol partner, Judy, and her friends. The family finds it hard to believe. - 25
Humm Vac
Season 5 Episode 18: Ray purchases a new state-of-the-art vacuum cleaner from an attractive saleswoman which ignites a housekeeping war between Marie and Debra. - 26March 10, 2003Yet another bump appears on the rocky road to Robert and Amy's wedding, which was nearly blocked by her disapproving parents. When the bride-to-be (Monica Horan) puts her betrothed (Brad Garrett) in charge of writing the wedding invitation, he seeks input from Ray and Frank. While they can't believe Robert let himself get roped into such a chore, they nevertheless come up with a plan: If Robert makes a mess of the job, it will convince Amy that she should take care of all the wedding plans herself. So the groom drafts an appalling mock invite---complete with the wrong date and names---and waits for Amy's reply...which is worse than he ever expected.
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Halloween Candy
Season 3 Episode 6: After Debra suggests that she might be more consistently romantic if she weren't in charge of the birth control, Ray decides to make a drastic move. - 28
She's the One
Season 7 Episode 9: Robert is excited because he's dating a great new woman, and hints to Ray and Debra that she might even be his "The One". - 29
The Ride Along
Season 2 Episode 17: Raymond goes on a citizen's ride along in his brother's patrol car and sees Robert risk his life during a hold-up, he gains a new respect for him. - 30
Robert's Wedding
Season 7 Episode 24: When Peter attempts to bury the hatchet between himself, Robert and Ray, Robert suspects he's up to no good and assigns Ray to keep an eye on him. Robert and Amy exchange vows in a beautiful wedding ceremony that has the usual Barone family disaster written all over it.
