EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND

EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND...

Everybody Loves Raymond! I am serious. It is true: everybody does love Raymond. It was always the highest rated show when it aired over television from 1996 to 2005. And it still remains fresh and watchable today.
Sure, we only get to see the reruns now. But anyone who watches the show would agree that the show is a classic and the jokes are still very, very funny today.
This classic sitcom stars Ray Romano as Raymond Barone, a sports writer. He is happily married to Debra (Patricia Heaton). Constantly waltzing into their lives is Raymond’s more-than-a-handful family which comprises his mother Marie (Doris Roberts); brother Robert (Brad Garrett); father Frank (Peter Boyle) and sister-in-law Amy (Monica Horan).
As a mother and mother-in-law, Marie is a juicy piece of work indeed. She is forever scheming and plotting to get the upper hand in her family. Doris Roberts plays Marie to a perfectly pitched and highly stereotypical Italian mother whom Raymond at times rebels against and whom Debra keeps at arms length, in case the old bag spits her priceless mother-in-law
venom into her eyes.
The beauty of Everybody Loves Raymond is the constant tension between speaking their minds against each other (as bickering family members always do) and still maintaining the invisible bond that comes along with blood ties is funny beyond words.
The recent episode had Raymond making a fool of himself as he tries to correct a social faux pas when he unwittingly insults a janitor. The janitor is Raymond’s sons’ playmate and the janitor becomes a hapless, trapped guest in the Barone household when he comes to pick up his son.
Safe to say, as guilt overcomes Raymond, he manages to put both feet into his politically incorrect mouth with a stupendous and alarming alacrity.
To make things worse, Raymond’s elderly parents enter the fray. Marie being the big busybody and hypocrite that she is, gets caught in her own politically incorrect words when her husband Frank rats on her and repeats the rude, stereotypical remarks the old woman had made earlier about the janitor. Frank, needless to say, is another priceless creation in the show thanks to his utter lack of tact and the abandonment of the concept of fatherhood. It’s every-man-for-himself with Frank, even when it involves his two sons Raymond and Robert!
Poor Debra, being caught in such a nutty family of in-laws, she is forced to unleash the occasional barbs that draw laughter. Confronted with a janitor who is increasingly uneasy with the way the Barone clan is unfolding around him on the one hand and the increasing level of political incorrectness that leap out of the mouths of her huband and his family, she snaps and describes her husband and his family as a bunch who deserve to be tagged as “the flying fauz pas!”
Needless to says, sometimes things end unresolved in the show, but the last sound you will hear is your own laughter as the credits roll.