The Best Episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond

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   9.0/10(1039 votes)

   #1 - She's the One

   S7:E911/18/2002

   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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   Director:John Fortenberry

   Writers:Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal
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   8.9/10(797 votes)

   #2 - The Canister

   S5:E194/9/2001

   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, David Regal

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   Director:Gary Halvorson

   Writers:Mike Royce, Jennifer Crittenden, David Regal
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   8.8/10(759 votes)

   #3 - Lucky Suit

   S6:E162/4/2002

   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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   Director:Gary Halvorson

   Writer:Tucker Cawley
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   8.6/10(729 votes)

   #4 - Debra Makes Something Good

   S4:E182/28/2000

   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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   Director:Will Mackenzie

   Writer:Kathy Ann Stumpe
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   8.6/10(726 votes)

   #5 - The Angry Family

   S6:E19/24/2001

   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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   Director:Gary Halvorson

   Writer:Phil Rosenthal
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   8.6/10(703 votes)

   #6 - Baggage

   S7:E225/5/2003

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

   Director:Gary Halvorson

   Writer:Tucker Cawley

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   Director:Gary Halvorson

   Writer:Tucker Cawley
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   8.6/10(702 votes)

   #7 - Pat's Secret

   S9:E155/9/2005

   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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   Director:Gary Halvorson

   Writer:Tucker Cawley
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   8.5/10(766 votes)

   #8 - Marie's Sculpture

   S6:E510/22/2001

   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.

   Directors:Kenneth Shapiro, Randy Suhr

   Writer:Jennifer Crittenden

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   Directors:Kenneth Shapiro, Randy Suhr

   Writer:Jennifer Crittenden
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   8.5/10(713 votes)

   #9 - Raybert

   S6:E1011/26/2001

   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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   Director:Gary Halvorson

   Writer:Steve Skrovan
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    8.5/10(675 votes)

    #10 - Robert's Wedding (1)

    S7:E245/19/2003

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

    Director:Jerry Zaks

    Writer:Phil Rosenthal

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    Director:Jerry Zaks

    Writer:Phil Rosenthal
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    8.4/10(649 votes)

    #11 - Robert Moves Back

    S3:E255/17/1999

    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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    Director:Brian K. Roberts

    Writers:Lew Schneider, Aaron Shure
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    8.4/10(719 votes)

    #12 - The Wallpaper

    S5:E310/9/2000

    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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    Director:Gary Halvorson

    Writer:Lew Schneider
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    8.4/10(632 votes)

    #13 - The Bird

    S8:E911/24/2003

    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, Jeremy Stevens

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    Director:Kenneth Shapiro

    Writers:Tucker Cawley, Mike Royce, Jeremy Stevens
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    8.4/10(620 votes)

    #14 - Boys' Therapy

    S9:E611/15/2004

    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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    Director:Kenneth Shapiro

    Writer:Phil Rosenthal
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    8.4/10(869 votes)

    #15 - The Finale

    S9:E165/16/2005

    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, Lew Schneider, Ray Romano, Tom Caltabiano, Jeremy Stevens, Aaron Shure, Leslie Caveny, Phil Rosenthal

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    Director:Gary Halvorson

    Writers:Tucker Cawley, Steve Skrovan, Mike Royce, Lew Schneider, Ray Romano, Tom Caltabiano, Jeremy Stevens, Aaron Shure, Leslie Caveny, Phil Rosenthal
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    8.3/10(687 votes)

    #16 - The Ride-Along

    S2:E172/23/1998

    Raymond decides to accompany his brother Robert, who is a policeman, on a ride-along. Initially, spending night shift in the back of Robert's patrol car bores Raymond, but his boredom quickly turns to terror during a chance visit to Nemo's restaurant.

    Director:John Fortenberry

    Writer:Jeremy Stevens

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    Director:John Fortenberry

    Writer:Jeremy Stevens
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    8.3/10(660 votes)

    #17 - The Invasion

    S3:E19/21/1998

    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:Ellen Sandler

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    Director:Will Mackenzie

    Writer:Ellen Sandler
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    8.3/10(674 votes)

    #18 - How They Met

    S3:E265/24/1999

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

    Director:Gary Halvorson

    Writers:Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal

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    Director:Gary Halvorson

    Writers:Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal
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    8.3/10(732 votes)

    #19 - Bad Moon Rising

    S4:E225/8/2000

    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:David Clark Lee

    Writers:Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal

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    Director:David Clark Lee

    Writers:Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal
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    8.3/10(875 votes)

    #20 - Italy (1)

    S5:E110/2/2000

    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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    Director:Gary Halvorson

    Writer:Phil Rosenthal
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    8.3/10(614 votes)

    #21 - The Skit

    S6:E172/25/2002

    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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    Director:Gary Halvorson

    Writer:Lew Schneider
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    8.3/10(599 votes)

    #22 - The Plan

    S7:E183/10/2003

    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.

    Directors:Jerry Zaks, Gary Halvorson

    Writer:Tucker Cawley

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    Directors:Jerry Zaks, Gary Halvorson

    Writer:Tucker Cawley
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    8.3/10(600 votes)

    #23 - Favors

    S9:E101/17/2005

    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:Gary Halvorson

    Writer:Aaron Shure

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    Director:Gary Halvorson

    Writer:Aaron Shure
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    8.2/10(690 votes)

    #24 - The Letter

    S2:E1112/8/1997

    When Marie crashes and ruins her Tupperware party, Debra decides that she's had just about enough of her mother-in-law's constant interference. She puts pen to paper and writes a letter to her mother-in-law.

    Director:Gary Halvorson

    Writer:Kathy Ann Stumpe

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    Director:Gary Halvorson

    Writer:Kathy Ann Stumpe
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    8.2/10(719 votes)

    #25 - Marie's Meatballs

    S2:E151/19/1998

    When Raymond chooses his mother's spaghetti and meatballs over his wife's lemon chicken for dinner, Debra blows a gasket. With good intentions, Ray asks his mom to teach Debra how to make her world-famous dish.

    Director:Brian K. Roberts

    Writer:Susan Van Allen

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    Writer:Susan Van Allen