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The Best Episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3

Every episode of Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3!

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

    #1 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 2 - Driving Frank
    7.7/10(598 votes)

    #2 - Driving Frank

    S3:E2

    After Frank has one car accident too many, Debra decides that the kids can’t ride with him anymore, which makes Ray realizes that his dad is getting older.

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  3. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 3 - The Sitter
    7.5/10(550 votes)

    #3 - The Sitter

    S3:E3

    Feeling overwhelmed with her responsibilities, Debra decides to get a babysitter. But when Lisa, the babysitter, becomes the smash hit at “Space Station Barone” with her alien-catching games and endless energy, Debra starts to get jealous.

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  4. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 4 - Getting Even
    7.6/10(565 votes)

    #4 - Getting Even

    S3:E4

    After Raymond begrudgingly agrees to be the auctioneer at the Our Lady of Faith School auction, he’s pleasantly surprised with the laughs he gets at Debra’s expense. Debra tells him that she’s going to get even, but later retracts her warning, but it’s too late, Ray is convinced that Debra is plotting her revenge.

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  5. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 5 - The Visit
    7.4/10(550 votes)

    #5 - The Visit

    S3:E5

    When Debra’s mother comes to visit the family for a week, she is disappointed that her mother doesn't want to help around the house or that she doesn't show any interest in her grandchildren. Debra finds herself shocked to discover that she wishes her mom was more like Marie.

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  6. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 6 - Halloween Candy
    8.1/10(628 votes)

    #6 - Halloween Candy

    S3:E6

    After Debra suggests that she might be more consistently romantic if she weren’t in charge of the birth control, Ray decides to “cut the wires.” But after a discussion with Robert and other guys, chickens out. But he does muster enough courage to go to the drugstore and buy “the stuff.”

    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 7 - Moving Out
    7.9/10(576 votes)

    #7 - Moving Out

    S3:E7

    Feeling pathetic because he lives with his parents, Robert finally musters up the courage to move out on his own. Encouraged by Ray, and much to his parents’ horror, Robert packs up his bags, takes his dog and moves into a garage apartment.

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  9. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 8 - The Article
    6.9/10(520 votes)

    #8 - The Article

    S3:E8

    It has been Ray’s life long dream to get an article published in Sports Illustrated. So when his friend and coworker Andy, the “stats guy” at work and novice sportswriter, sells a piece to the magazine, Ray is devastated.

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  10. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 9 - The Lone Barone
    7.8/10(575 votes)

    #9 - The Lone Barone

    S3:E9

    Raymond is in a bad mood. Forced to wait home all day for the delivery of Debra’s new curtains, he can’t go play golf and laments to his brother, that marriage is like a prison. So, when Amy breaks up with Robert, everyone blames Raymond.

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  11. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 10 - No Fat
    8.1/10(639 votes)

    #10 - No Fat

    S3:E10

    Since Debra’s parents will be out of the country on Thanksgiving Day, she, Ray, and the kids make plans to spend the holiday at Frank and Marie’s house. But their dreams of turkey with sausage stuffing and yams with marshmallows on top are quickly shattered by Marie’s new heart-healthy diet.

    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 11 - The Apartment
    8.2/10(645 votes)

    #11 - 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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  13. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 12 - The Toaster
    8.1/10(674 votes)

    #12 - The Toaster

    S3:E12

    Ray is overjoyed by the reaction he is getting from friends and family who received a personalized “Barone” toaster from him for Christmas, even Debra’s parents seemed thrilled with it, but not having heard from them, Ray decides to visit his parents to find out what they truly think about present.

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  14. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 13 - Ping Pong
    7.6/10(586 votes)

    #13 - Ping Pong

    S3:E13

    When Ray finds out that his father let him win a game of ping pong when he was twelve, he challenges him to a new game.

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  15. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 14 - Pants on Fire
    7.5/10(537 votes)

    #14 - Pants on Fire

    S3:E14

    When Marie discovers that Ray held an unchaperoned party at their home some 20 years ago, she is hurt and disappointed that her favourite son lied to her. Unable to forgive or forget, Marie can no longer put Ray on a pedestal, and he’s been bumped for big brother Robert, and it’s killing the needy Raymond.

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  16. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 15 - Robert's Date
    7.8/10(625 votes)

    #15 - Robert's Date

    S3:E15

    Robert’s entire demeanour changes when he starts clubbing with his patrol partner, Judy, and her friends. When he starts using expressions such as “this is so whack” and “I’m down with it,” and showing up in mustard coloured suits, the Barone family find it hard to believe how much Robert is changing in order to fit in with his new friends.

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  17. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 16 - Frank's Tribute
    7.7/10(577 votes)

    #16 - Frank's Tribute

    S3:E16

    Frank is elected Man of the Year down at the Lodge, and Marie enlists the reluctant Ray and Robert to prepare his tribute.

    Writer:Eric Cohen

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  18. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 17 - Cruising with Marie
    7.4/10(580 votes)

    #17 - Cruising with Marie

    S3:E17

    Just as Frank and Marie are about to embark on a Caribbean cruise, Frank hurts his knee and can't go. Ray, not wanting to disappoint his mother, accompanies her on the cruise. Marie is having the time of her life soaking every ounce of fun in the sun, while back home, Robert is just about out of patience being the caretaker for the injured Frank.

    Director:Unknown

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  19. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 18 - Ray Home Alone
    7.8/10(597 votes)

    #18 - Ray Home Alone

    S3:E18

    When Debra and the kids go away for the weekend, Ray is looking forward to a couple of days of bachelor living. But instead of enjoying himself, the night is turns into a harrowing experience, and Ray is forced to confront the real reason he doesn’t want to stay home alone.

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  20. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 19 - Big Shots
    7.2/10(518 votes)

    #19 - Big Shots

    S3:E19

    Trying to impress Robert when they visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Ray uses his “weight” as a sports writer for Newsday to jump to the front of the line to meet the members of the ’69 Miracle New York Mets.

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  21. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 20 - Move Over
    7.4/10(529 votes)

    #20 - Move Over

    S3:E20

    When Ray confides to Debra that her constant need to cuddle and “be on top of him” when they are sleeping is causing him many sleepless nights, Debra is more than happy to comply with his request to give him his space in bed.

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  22. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 21 - The Getaway
    7.1/10(501 votes)

    #21 - The Getaway

    S3:E21

    Debra and Ray feel tremendous pressure to show each other a good time on a romantic weekend getaway in Vermont. From the moment they set foot in the quaint bed and breakfast, it’s apparent that Debra and Ray are trying a bit too hard for this to be a perfect weekend.

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  23. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 22 - Working Girl
    7.1/10(525 votes)

    #22 - Working Girl

    S3:E22

    When Debra gets a part-time job at an AD agency, an unhappy Ray is left to fend for himself and Marie is left wondering what’s to become of the children, the house, and her beloved son now that they will be neglected.

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  24. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 23 - Be Nice
    7.4/10(531 votes)

    #23 - Be Nice

    S3:E23

    When Ray and Debra realize they're nicer to strangers than to each other, they vow to change their ways.

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  25. Everybody Loves Raymond Season 3 Episode 24 - Dancing with Debra
    7.7/10(606 votes)

    #24 - Dancing with Debra

    S3:E24

    After Ray urges Debra to go swing dancing with Robert, he can’t believe how infatuated the two become with their new hobby, and it’s starting to tick him off. Meanwhile, Ray sees a side of Marie that he never expected.

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

    #25 - 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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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"The Invasion" is the best rated episode of "Everybody Loves Raymond" season 3. It scored 8.3/10 based on 619 votes. Directed by Will Mackenzie and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/21/1998. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Driving Frank".