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"Everybody Loves Raymond" (1996)
39 out of 57 people found the following comment useful :-
I am loving this!, 14 October 2002
Author: elizabethbennett from United States
This show is by far one of the best comedies I have seen in a long time! Great acting, writing....everything and what makes this show so good is the fact that it is based on the life of Ray Romano (unless you KNOW it, do not write it). I consider this family to be the poster children for dysfunctional families but are so funny and entertaining in the process. Loving this!
23 out of 30 people found the following comment useful :-
This series took me ages to get into, 5 January 2006
Author: fee_tambo from United Kingdom
...but now I'm hooked, and I've even bought 5 DVD boxsets of it! Its weird because its both subtle AND sharp humour.
Its about Ray Romano, a sportswriter who just wants a quiet life...but he has 3 kids (a girl and twin toddler boys) and Debra (his wife) who struggles to juggle housekeeping and being a mother because Ray just will do anything to stay out of her way and not help! Debra is not your typical sitcom mum. She's independent and opinionated, and a very good match for Ray - she keeps him in line!
His Italian American parents (Marie and Frank) and divorced 40 year old brother (Robert) stay in the same street and facing across from Ray & Debra's house. And they are never away from there - The parents are very loud, expressive, overbearing people, but they don't mean to be....It's just their way. The brother is quirky to say the least! he's 7 foot tall and has a voice like Eeyore from the winnie the pooh movies (he IS the voice from the cartoon). He has weird little habits and is a little obsessive compulsive and insanely jealous of his younger brother Ray. However, at heart they are good, caring people and the family are extraordinarily close...but you'd never know it by the drama and shouting that goes on all the time! This is where the comedy comes from....
Now, I am married to an Italian man and I know from experience what Italian in-laws are like! so this might be why I find this so funny....watching Marie (Rays mum) is like watching my MIL (only its not so funny in real life, believe me!!)
If you like Seinfeld, King of Queens (another sitcom which took ages to grow on me), CLASSIC Woody Allen movies, the film Mambo Italiano or My Big Fat Greek Wedding, then you'll like this. Give it a go, watch more than one episode and you'll end up hooked like me - I promise!
29 out of 45 people found the following comment useful :-
Funny, with good dialogue., 12 January 2001
Author: DancingPotato from Jonquiere, Canada
This show is about a man named Raymond Barone, a sports columinst, who has a wife (Debra) and 3 kids. He lives in a big house, makes money, has beautiful kids and wife. No problem, right? Wrong. He lives across the street from his parents and brother. The family from HELL. (Wou-wou-wou-wouuuu)
His mother is always complaining about Debra, his dad is going senile and his brother is a jealous giant. This show, on paper, seems weird, but is actually fairly normal. It deals with real life problems (of some sort) and the characters are pretty realistic.
The show has above-average acting, especially from a standup-turned-TV star. Peter Boyle, as Ray's dad, has by far the funniest moments, followed by 6 foot 8 Garret as his brother.
The only real problem I can find here is that almost every episode starts out the same.(But unwinds differently.)
A good show that you should probably check out,if you aren't already.
28 out of 44 people found the following comment useful :-
wonderful sitcom, 17 January 2000
Author: Geordie-4 (tnrcooper@compuserve.com) from Oakland, California, USA
I'm not a big fan of TV. I think most of it is terribly contrived and has very little to do with the lives of normal people. This show is different. The fights they get into, the disputes, everything is true and funny. Ray is the beleaguered protagonist and his parents and brother are absolute scene stealers. This show is just wonderful. The writing is good and I can really see these sorts of things happening in my family. It is much easier to watch when it is someone else's family though.
14 out of 22 people found the following comment useful :-
This show rocks, 7 April 2006
Author: mtrboatnsob609 from United States
when i first saw this show i was laughing to the max this show is perfect Frank Is the funniest followed by Robert then Raymond i give this show two thumbs up and i think you should do the same because this is the best stay home television show since sienfeld you will pee in your pants laughing at how thes actors mix for the perfect combination of family love when your down in the dumps and you think television will cheer you up put on Ray and you wont be so glum you will be as happy as me when i watch this show for example i scream in laughter because i give this show a 10 out of 10 100 out of 100 because like i said once like i said twice Ray is so Funny funny or like tbs would say it very funny
16 out of 26 people found the following comment useful :-
Marie's 'representation' of seniors, 26 July 2006
Author: smooth_op_85 from United States
Someone once posted a comment about Marie being a disappointment for seniors everywhere. The big part of it is this, that Raymond's mother is an exaggerated form of Phil Rosenthal and Ray Romano's Mother also, I don't get why people believe like with The Cosby Show (as far as black representation) that the seniors on the show have to represent ALL seniors or the majority of them.
In Seinfeld, I know a couple that was similar to George's parents, but that doesn't mean that they are the representation or the unique representation of seniors everywhere. It is a TV show that is based on the families of the writers and the creators of which Phil Rosenthal and Ray Romano are. Also, my mother isn't as overprotective as Marie is but I don't go around yelling about how Marie isn't like her. TV is representative of not only people but of the way writers see them as well as the characters and how they act. Good writing takes this and makes it known to the audience.
Thank you for reading
11 out of 18 people found the following comment useful :-
Holy Crap, This Show Is Good!, 5 October 2006
Author: Chrissie Smith (phantom_lover_1881) from United States
I love this show. It's hilarious. It has the weird, over protective, annoying, critical mother, the gross, dim-witted father who yells a lot, the over-looked first born brother, and the "perfect" second born son who writes for a newspaper and has a wife and 3 kids. In one way or another, you'll be able to relate with this show. I get mad when I miss an episode, even if I've already seen it. They're all so funny. The acting, writing, and directing are all wonderful. I think it's one of the best shows out there. If you like comedies about real life that aren't cheesy (like those so-called Disney channel comedies) you'll love this show just like I do.
19 out of 34 people found the following comment useful :-
Timeless humour in the classic mould., 8 April 2003
Author: John (opsbooks) from Blue Mountains, Australia
It took me a long time to get into this show because most of my friends kept putting it down. I'm now addicted to ELR and bad luck if nobody else I know admits to watching it! Apart from 'Becker' no other current American comedies really appeal to me.
What do I like about ELR? The way Ray sets off events without knowing how, then stands back and watches the results of his unconscious actions. Both the cast and the scripts are first-rate. Robert of course has to be my favourite character; he reminds me in some ways of Jack Benny. Favourite episode has to be the one in which Ray's parents back the car through the front wall. One of the great moments of television!
Long may this series continue.
8 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
A good reason to quit drinking, 17 September 2007
Author: soulassassinx from Sweden
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
This is how you quit drinking!
It's ten o'clock on a Sunday morning and I wake up with a bad hangover or at least I used too. This used to happen too may times and then I found the perfect cure. Do not drink the day before, because if you do you are forced to wake up the next day and face the most obnoxious person in TV-history, Ray Romano.
In the end credits we read: "Based on the comedy of Ray Romano". What comedy? I am not an American but I've seen a few stand up acts from USA and most of it is funny, but in not even in the darkest corner of my imgagination can I even begin to understand how Romano's comedy would be like. Is this Romano's comedy? To go on the Leno show or Letterman and cut his pants legs?
Follow this chain of events and you have every episode of Everybody Loves Raymond:
Ray enters his kitchen and the audience laugh for some unexplained reason. He takes a bottle of beverage and starts to talk to his wife about how cool a game would be to watch. His wife says Ray has to do laundry/cut hedges/pick up kids/ or something along the line.
Rays parents enter and the audience laugh again. Rays mother comments the wife's cooking while his father says something funny about bowel movements and how stupid HIS wife is. Enter two twin (Age around)2 and the audience goes "Oww-aahh!" and then enter the daughter of the house. She shows a drawing; it later becomes a centre piece on the kitchen door.
Enter the brother. Ray's brother is called a cowardly, dumb, retarded bumhole by his entire family, yet again for some unknown reason. Ray's wife stands up for the brother.
Classic sit-com. split storyline. Ray want to see the game and maybe his brother has a problem with a date. Now we see every cliché in history of sit-coms evident and then the writers seem to go back to the drawing board, rinse, repeat.
Don't writers have any dignity, introspection, pride.
There is nothing lower in TV-comedy except the two shows that should not barely be mentioned: All of us and the catastrophe USA High.
8 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
The actual reality TV for many of us, 25 March 2006
Author: blanche-2 from United States
"Everybody Loves Raymond" turns all those '50s comedies on their heads. It's not the Donna Reed Show, not Leave it to Beaver, not Father Knows best. It's family life with all its good points and bad, all the love and frustration, and all the individual foibles. Raymond is a sports writer whose parents, the domineering Marie and the couch potato Frank, live across the street from him. His wife Deborah is beautiful but can't cook and comes under constant criticism from her mother-in-law. Ray's brother Robert is a policeman who is jealous of him because - well, "everybody loves Raymond." This show is hilarious - my favorites are numerous, but one of the best is the lost cannister episode when Deborah swears she doesn't have a cannister of Marie's and then it turns out the kids had it. It falls to Raymond to sneak it into his mother's house, so on Easter Sunday he wears a down coat to hide it. I also loved the tofu Thanksgiving turkey, taping over the wedding with a football game, the fly eating woman dating Robert, Robert hanging out with his black partner and walking around in a yellow suit, the colored condoms on Halloween, the girl scout cookie debacle, and dozens and dozens of others.
It was Ray Romano's goal to go out on top, so the series ended in 2005. It was a great run, a perfect ensemble cast, and will be enjoyed on DVD and in syndication for years to come.
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