Name some priceless scenes...

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For you from the show.

I’ll start

When Joanne calls Marie a bit## and when Marie finally says that someone has to save this family. And says it’s time to take out the trash and pushes Joanne out the door.

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I really liked Who's Next (season 7, episode 20), which revolves around the death of the woman Marie picked for Frank if he became a widower. Debra gets caught in a lie at the wake when she and Ray run into Bernie and Linda, who she canceled a dinner date with because Ray liked Deb's replacement choice of Linda a little too much. They, Robert, and Amy make a scene about replacements, while Frank and Marie argue about Harriet Lichtmann. After Frank declares he wouldn't be caught dead with Rose Caputo (who the wake was for), the 8 of them take a Centipede-style walk of shame out of the funeral home!

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Originally Posted by SledgeBarone

I really liked Who's Next (season 7, episode 20), which revolves around the death of the woman Marie picked for Frank if he became a widower. Debra gets caught in a lie at the wake when she and Ray run into Bernie and Linda, who she canceled a dinner date with because Ray liked Deb's replacement choice of Linda a little too much. They, Robert, and Amy make a scene about replacements, while Frank and Marie argue about Harriet Lichtmann. After Frank declares he wouldn't be caught dead with Rose Caputo (who the wake was for), the 8 of them take a Centipede-style walk of shame out of the funeral home!

God Marie and Frank really do carry dysfunctionality to the Nth degree.

Another classic: when Ray catches Angela eating the fly and then taking a swig of water.(LOL: SHE ATE A FLY!!!)

[SledgeBarone]

That was great. Also hilarious when Marie believes Ray when he says Angela ate a fly, but not after he clarifies that it wasn't in Debra's cooking.

Another good one is the vacuum cleaner episode, when Marie takes the plastic covers off of her sofa. It's funny watching the guys nervously lower themselves onto the couch, then trying unsuccessfully to relax while Marie's around (for example, Ray eating the finger snacks, then having to hold his palms upward so the crumbs don't fall inside the sofa).

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Originally Posted by SledgeBarone

That was great. Also hilarious when Marie believes Ray when he says Angela ate a fly, but not after he clarifies that it wasn't in Debra's cooking.

Another good one is the vacuum cleaner episode, when Marie takes the plastic covers off of her sofa. It's funny watching the guys nervously lower themselves onto the couch, then trying unsuccessfully to relax while Marie's around (for example, Ray eating the finger snacks, then having to hold his palms upward so the crumbs don't fall inside the sofa).

Yes, poor Debra and her cooking. And having to put up with Marie’s passive-AGRESSIVE insults.

And the cooking makes me think of that classic ep, where Debra, the quintessential BAD cook, makes a bracciole that’s out of this world- and it drives Marie CRAZY. (Love it when Frank says to Marie “you should ask Debra for the recipe”. ROTFL

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Yeah - Debra makes one good dish, and everybody's lives are turned upside down.

One of my favorite physical episodes is when Ray chases Debra around and tackles her so he can pull a splinter out of her finger. "That's the wrong hand!"

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When Peter tells his parents that Robbie already took Amy’s virginity, and Robbie says but she wanted to, and Pat McDougall nearly faints.

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When Marie explains the "Big Fork and Spoon" to Debra.

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Stephania and Amy calling Robbie a bastardo, with Marie coaxing things along.

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The fork-and-spoon scene was great! "Oh - I had always assumed that those were Robert's baby utensils." There's a pretty big continuity error in that one - Debra switches between hands held together and hands-on-hips several times without any transitions. (Yes, I am obsessed with this show. )

How humiliating was the "all-you-can-eat character assassination" of Robert, led by his mother? I especially love at the end when after Robert makes a heartfelt apology to Amy and Stephania, Marie cheerfully tells him that he's not helping anymore, so he should leave! And then when he heads to Ray and Debra's house, Deb tells him he's never going to find that special girl, and Robert says she's looking for the meeting across the street? LOL

Another one that leaves me rolling is Pants on Fire, when Marie begins favoring Robert after Ray admits to having a teenage party when his parents were out of town. Robert is soaking in the mama's boy treatment when Marie starts believing that Ray was covering up for Robert, and turns on him. It always gets me when she rushes out the door to talk to Raymond, then rushes back into her house. The camera slowly pans to Robert handing her his make-up 1st birthday party cake to give to Ray, since he knows exactly how he's going to get screwed!

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When Marie drove the car into Ray & Debra’s house. LOL nobody can ever accuse Narie of not making a dramatic entrance!

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Snow Day - when everyone is stuck at Marie and Frank's house, and drunk Ray tries to convince Debra that she should think she's better than the Barones, by bashing every single member of his blood family.

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I know it's generic but the 'Fruit of the Month Club'

Also the Tom Sawyer scene from "Homework"

When Marie tells Raymond that 'all parents lie to their children for their own good' in "Ray's on TV"


In "Somebody Hates Raymond" when Robert tells off Jerry Musso

When Ray visits the priest in "Neighbors" and the priest realizes that Ray's parents are Frank and Marie Barone


In "The Disciplinarian" when Ray reveals what him and Robert got away with as teens, and when Ray spills how Debra once took her top off at Mardi Gras.

In "Jazz Records" when Robert reveals that it was him who moved Frank's records.


Can't forget the entire discussion between the adults in "Talk to Your Daughter", especially Robby questioning about space and the beginning of time and Frank telling him how he needs to find himself a broad, and how "the fruit part's the same" when he compares himself to the fruit fly.

"Get back in your plaaaace!" from "The Christmas Picture"

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Robert & Amy’s floor show!

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Frank & Marie imitating Ray and Debra in The Skit