The Best Episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond

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#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:Phil Rosenthal, Ray Romano
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Director:John Fortenberry
Writers:Phil Rosenthal, Ray Romano
8.9/10(805 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:Jennifer Crittenden, Mike Royce, David Regal
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Director:Gary Halvorson
Writers:Jennifer Crittenden, Mike Royce, David Regal
8.8/10(762 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
8.6/10(733 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
8.6/10(731 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
8.6/10(709 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(707 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
8.5/10(772 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
8.5/10(718 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
8.5/10(680 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
8.4/10(877 votes)
#11 - 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:Steve Skrovan, Phil Rosenthal, Lew Schneider, Ray Romano, Aaron Shure, Tom Caltabiano, Tucker Cawley, Jeremy Stevens, Leslie Caveny, Mike Royce
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Director:Gary Halvorson
Writers:Steve Skrovan, Phil Rosenthal, Lew Schneider, Ray Romano, Aaron Shure, Tom Caltabiano, Tucker Cawley, Jeremy Stevens, Leslie Caveny, Mike Royce
8.4/10(724 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
8.4/10(651 votes)
#13 - 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
8.4/10(638 votes)
#14 - 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, Jeremy Stevens, Mike Royce
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Director:Kenneth Shapiro
Writers:Tucker Cawley, Jeremy Stevens, Mike Royce
8.4/10(626 votes)
#15 - 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
8.3/10(879 votes)
#16 - 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
8.3/10(737 votes)
#17 - 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:Phil Rosenthal, Ray Romano
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Director:David Clark Lee
Writers:Phil Rosenthal, Ray Romano
8.3/10(692 votes)
#18 - 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
8.3/10(676 votes)
#19 - 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:Phil Rosenthal, Ray Romano
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Director:Gary Halvorson
Writers:Phil Rosenthal, Ray Romano
8.3/10(663 votes)
#20 - 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
8.3/10(630 votes)
#21 - The Home
S9:E19/20/2004
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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Director:Kenneth Shapiro
Writers:Tucker Cawley, Jeremy Stevens
8.3/10(616 votes)
#22 - 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
8.3/10(606 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
8.3/10(605 votes)
#24 - 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
8.2/10(750 votes)
#25 - Italy (2)
S5:E210/2/2000
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.
Director:Gary Halvorson
Writer:Phil Rosenthal
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Director:Gary Halvorson
Writer:Phil Rosenthal