BEWARE! SPOILERS AHEAD! Eating Raoul perfectly satirized an "ordinary, run-of-the-mill" couple who tried to reach their dream while they coped with the swingers' way of life in 80s Hollywood. As Raoul, a professional criminal posing as a locksmith (excellently portrayed by Robert Beltran), "worms" his way into Paul and Mary's life (and Paul's wife!), he takes full advantage of their naiveté. But, Raoul gets his in the end!! In this writer's opinion, there was something eerily amusing about Raoul missing from the final "dinner" scene...in the normal physical sense, of course! Cheers to Paul and Mary Bland and their achievement of the "great American scheme dream"!!