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The Best Episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond

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The Best Episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond

Ray Barone is a successful sportswriter living on Long Island with his wife Debra, daughter Ally, and twin sons, Geoffrey and Michael. That's the good...

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  1. Background image for She's the One
    9.0/10(953 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.

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  2. Background image for The Canister
    8.8/10(741 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.

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    8.6/10(634 votes)

    #3 - Baggage

    S7:E22

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

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    Director:Unknown
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    8.5/10(660 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.

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    8.5/10(649 votes)

    #5 - Robert's Wedding (1)

    S7:E24

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

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    Director:Jerry Zaks
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    8.4/10(606 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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  8. Background image for The Invasion
    8.3/10(593 votes)

    #7 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Robert Moves Back
    8.3/10(589 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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  10. Background image for How They Met
    8.3/10(611 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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    8.3/10(664 votes)

    #10 - 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.

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    8.3/10(813 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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    8.3/10(666 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #14 - 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.

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    8.3/10(544 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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    Director:Jerry Zaks
  17. Background image for Pat's Secret
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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    8.2/10(630 votes)

    #17 - The Letter

    S2:E11

    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.

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    8.2/10(650 votes)

    #18 - Marie's Meatballs

    S2:E15

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Ride-Along
    8.2/10(628 votes)

    #19 - The Ride-Along

    S2:E17

    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.

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    8.2/10(612 votes)

    #20 - The Apartment

    S3:E11

    Robert has moved into a new apartment, and Raymond is jealous. Not because of the apartment, but because everywhere he looks, beautiful women are coming out of the woodwork, and they all seem to come by Robert's apartment.

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    8.2/10(596 votes)

    #21 - 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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Tenth Anniversary
    8.2/10(581 votes)

    #22 - The Tenth Anniversary

    S4:E16

    On the 10th. anniversary of their wedding, Ray and Debra sit down in the living room to watch their wedding video, but the romantic evening soon turns sour when the wedding video has been recorded over. Instead of a wedding, they are watching the 1991 Super Bowl. Debra gets really angry at Ray, and their marriage looks to be in serious trouble.

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    8.2/10(682 votes)

    #23 - Italy (2)

    S5:E2

    Ray is complaining about the heat, Debra is getting tired of following Marie's strict schedule and of Ray's pessimistic attitude, Robert meets Stefánia's father, who is not thrilled with his daughter choice of man, and Frank is enjoying himself playing pétanque. After going on a long walk with his mother, Ray slowly starts to enjoy himself and appreciate where he is, no thanks to Marie.

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  25. Background image for Just a Formality
    8.2/10(540 votes)

    #24 - Just a Formality

    S7:E14

    The six-year on-again, off-again relationship between Robert and Amy is reaching a pivotal moment. Robert wants to propose to Amy, but there's one small formality the hopeful groom-to-be must take care of first: asking Amy's devout churchgoing parents for their daughter's hand in marriage.

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    8.2/10(545 votes)

    #25 - 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.

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    Director:Jerry Zaks

Best Episodes Summary

"She's the One" is the best rated episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond". It scored 9/10 based on 953 votes. Directed by John Fortenberry and written by Ray Romano, Phil Rosenthal, it aired on 11/18/2002. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Canister".