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The Best Episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond

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Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter living on Long Island with his wife Debra, daughter Ally, and twin sons, Geoffrey and Michael. Ray's meddling parents, Frank and Marie, and brother, Robert, live directly across the

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Everybody Loves Raymond Season 7 Episode 9 - She's the One
    9.0/10(1003 votes)

    #1 - She's the One

    S7:E9

    Robert think he has finally found "the one," and her name is Angela, an international-trade lawyer. She's bright, speaks four languages, and clearly likes Robert. The girl goes on to endear herself to Debra by complimenting her lemon chicken. Ray is also smitten with Angela, until he sees something disturbing during dinner.

    Director:John Fortenberry
    Writers:Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal

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  2. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 5 Episode 19 - The Canister
    8.9/10(769 votes)

    #2 - The Canister

    S5:E19

    Tempers flare when Marie accuses Debra of not returning a borrowed canister that holds sentimental value. Debra insists that she has already returned the canister, so she is horrified when she discovers that she still has the canister in her possession.

    Director:Gary Halvorson
    Writers:Mike Royce, Jennifer Crittenden

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  3. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 6 Episode 16 - Lucky Suit
    8.8/10(712 votes)

    #3 - Lucky Suit

    S6:E16

    Robert is ecstatic when he is up for a job at the FBI. That is, until he learns that Marie's intrusive ways may be his undoing.

    Director:Gary Halvorson
    Writer:Tucker Cawley

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  4. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 4 Episode 18 - Debra Makes Something Good
    8.6/10(696 votes)

    #4 - Debra Makes Something Good

    S4:E18

    Debra throws the Barone family into turmoil when she creates a dish that everyone likes. Ray can't believe it when he tastes Debra's braciola, his wife has finally cooked something he likes. But Marie is not happy when she sees the effect Debra's cooking prowess has on Ray, Robert, and Frank.

    Director:Will Mackenzie
    Writer:Kathy Ann Stumpe

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  5. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 6 Episode 1 - The Angry Family
    8.6/10(699 votes)

    #5 - The Angry Family

    S6:E1

    The Barones clash even more than usual when they get a child's-eye view of all the bickering that goes on in the family. The fireworks begin when the whole family attends an open house at first-grader Michael's school, during which the kids all read stories that they've written themselves.

    Director:Gary Halvorson
    Writer:Phil Rosenthal

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  6. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 7 Episode 22 - Baggage
    8.6/10(675 votes)

    #6 - Baggage

    S7:E22

    Ray and Debra wind up in a two-week stand-off over a suitcase.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Tucker Cawley

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  7. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 9 Episode 15 - Pat's Secret
    8.6/10(687 votes)

    #7 - Pat's Secret

    S9:E15

    Robert discovers Pat smoking and she pleads for him not to tell anyone. When Amy later smells smoke on Robert, she tells everyone that he has been smoking. When Pat doesn't tell the truth, Robert ends up being yelled at. The next day, he tells Ray and Debra the truth, but it doesn't take long for the two to blurt out the secret in front of everyone, which leads to many more secrets being revealed.

    Director:Gary Halvorson
    Writer:Tucker Cawley

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  8. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 6 Episode 5 - Marie's Sculpture
    8.5/10(734 votes)

    #8 - Marie's Sculpture

    S6:E5

    Ray and Debra are horrified when Marie presents them with an abstract sculpture she made in art class, and which resemblance a part of the female anatomy. Frank, on the other hand, is totally mesmerized by Marie's creation.

    Director:Kenneth Shapiro
    Writer:Jennifer Crittenden

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  9. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 6 Episode 10 - Raybert
    8.5/10(683 votes)

    #9 - Raybert

    S6:E10

    Robert meets a beautiful woman who is a big fan of Ray's sports column and who mistakes him for Ray. When he doesn't correct her, he has no choice but to involve Ray in a complicated plot to keep the woman from learning Robert's true identity.

    Director:Gary Halvorson
    Writer:Steve Skrovan

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  10. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 7 Episode 24 - Robert's Wedding (1)
    8.5/10(671 votes)

    #10 - Robert's Wedding (1)

    S7:E24

    Robert and Amy exchange vows in a classic Barone family wedding ceremony.

    Director:Jerry Zaks
    Writer:Phil Rosenthal

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  11. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 5 Episode 3 - The Wallpaper
    8.4/10(692 votes)

    #11 - The Wallpaper

    S5:E3

    Ray finally tells Frank and Marie how he feels about their constant intrusiveness after Marie accidentally drives the car through the front of his house.

    Director:Gary Halvorson
    Writer:Lew Schneider

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  12. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 8 Episode 9 - The Bird
    8.4/10(634 votes)

    #12 - The Bird

    S8:E9

    Robert 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.

    Director:Kenneth Shapiro
    Writers:Tucker Cawley, Mike Royce

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  13. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 9 Episode 6 - Boys' Therapy
    8.4/10(586 votes)

    #13 - Boys' Therapy

    S9:E6

    The women pressure Ray and Frank to accompany Robert to one of his therapy sessions. Instead, the three of them go to the track. However, even though they skip the therapy sessions, the three unwittingly get closer.

    Director:Kenneth Shapiro
    Writer:Phil Rosenthal

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  14. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 9 Episode 10 - Favors
    8.4/10(573 votes)

    #14 - Favors

    S9:E10

    Debra wants Ray to clean up after himself and not leave things around the house, Ray wants Debra to stop moving his things. So when Robert stop by with a gift for Raymond, a letter from his idol, Mohammed Ali, Ray makes a point of putting the letter in the kitchen drawer. Unfortunately, when Debra later goes looking for a coupon in that same drawer, she finds it a mess and decides to dump its content in the trash.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Aaron Shure

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  15. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 9 Episode 16 - Finale
    8.4/10(834 votes)

    #15 - Finale

    S9:E16

    Ray fears getting his adenoids removed, but Debra convinces him to go through with the surgery. At the hospital, while Marie is in the bathroom, and everyone else in the waiting room, the nurse comes out and tells Debra that Ray isn't waking up from the anaesthesia.

    Director:Gary Halvorson
    Writers:Tucker Cawley, Steve Skrovan, Mike Royce, Jerramy Stevens, Lew Schneider, Ray Romano, Tom Caltabiano, Aaron Shure, Leslie Caveny, Phil Rosenthal

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  16. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 1 - The Invasion
    8.3/10(619 votes)

    #16 - The Invasion

    S3:E1

    When Ray’s house is tented for termites, he and his family moves into his parent’s house and gives Frank and Marie a taste of their own medicine. Marie’s initial excitement that “Raymond has come home!” quickly fades, when the world’s greatest home intruders start to feel intruded upon.

    Director:Will Mackenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 25 - Robert Moves Back
    8.3/10(617 votes)

    #17 - Robert Moves Back

    S3:E25

    When Robert and Amy have sex in Robert's apartment, they forgot to close the curtains. It doesn't take long for the other tenants to launch a partition to make curtains mandatory. Humiliated, the loving couple are desperate to find a new make-out spot. Debra wants Ray to help them, so he offers Robert and Amy the Barone household basement.

    Director:Brian K. Roberts
    Writers:Lew Schneider, Aaron Shure

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  18. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 26 - How They Met
    8.3/10(643 votes)

    #18 - How They Met

    S3:E26

    Memories of how they first met flood back when Ray and Debra prepare Ally for her first play date with a boy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal

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  19. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 4 Episode 4 - Sex Talk
    8.3/10(620 votes)

    #19 - Sex Talk

    S4:E4

    Ray and Debra are discouraged when they realize that their sex life isn't what it used to be. They reassuring each other that it's not an unusual occurrence for older couples to experience since the kids are always underfoot, they're sleep deprived, etc. Trying to make themselves feel better, they approach Frank and Marie asking them what constitutes a "normal" sex life for an older couple.

    Director:Will Mackenzie
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 4 Episode 22 - Bad Moon Rising
    8.3/10(693 votes)

    #20 - Bad Moon Rising

    S4:E22

    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 desperate attempt for a "quick fix," he makes a bad situation worse by suggesting that a simple pill will help with his wife's insufferable mood swings.

    Director:Unknown
    Writers:Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal

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  21. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 5 Episode 1 - Italy (1)
    8.3/10(840 votes)

    #21 - Italy (1)

    S5:E1

    When Marie surprises the family with the news that she's treating them all to a two-week vacation to Italy, everybody loves the idea except Raymond. Not willing to let his sour mood spoil it for the rest of the family, Debra, Frank, Marie, Robert, and the kids go on their merry way and soak up the atmosphere, the sights, and tastes of the country.

    Director:Gary Halvorson
    Writer:Phil Rosenthal

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  22. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 6 Episode 17 - The Skit
    8.3/10(572 votes)

    #22 - The Skit

    S6:E17

    Thinking it would be hilarious to show the party-goers a typical day in the life of Frank and Marie, Ray and Debra do a dead-on impersonation of the two that brings down the house at the party. But when Frank and Marie turn the tables and do a Ray and Debra imitation, the couple finds it much less funny.

    Director:Gary Halvorson
    Writer:Lew Schneider

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  23. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 7 Episode 18 - The Plan
    8.3/10(570 votes)

    #23 - The Plan

    S7:E18

    Yet another bump appears on the rocky road to Robert and Amy's wedding, when the bride-to-be puts her betrothed in charge of writing the wedding invitations. Ray and Frank can't believe Robert let himself get roped into planning the wedding, they nevertheless come up with a plan to help ensure that Robert will never have to help out with the wedding again.

    Director:Jerry Zaks
    Writer:Tucker Cawley

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  24. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 8 Episode 14 - Lateness
    8.3/10(568 votes)

    #24 - Lateness

    S8:E14

    Fed up with his wife's constant lateness, Ray leaves Debra at home rather than take her to the ESPY Awards. While Debra is seething 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.

    Director:Jerry Zaks
    Writer:Steve Skrovan

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  25. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 9 Episode 1 - The Home
    8.3/10(592 votes)

    #25 - The Home

    S9:E1

    Upon returning from visiting friends at a retirement community in New Jersey, Frank and Marie tell the family that they plan on moving there. Not unsurprisingly, everyone is overjoyed hearing the news.

    Director:Kenneth Shapiro
    Writers:Tucker Cawley, Jeremy Stevens

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Best Episodes Summary

"She's the One" is the best rated episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond". It scored 9/10 based on 1003 votes. Directed by John Fortenberry and written by Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal, it aired on 11/18/2002. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Canister".