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** One of the guys at the lodge didn't respond well to what Robert meant as a joke in "Who Am I?":
--> '''Lodge Guy''': Hey Robert, it's hot in here. ''(then joking on Robert's bountiful chest hair)'' Why don't you take your sweater off?\\
'''Robert''': ''(laughing with the group)'' Why don't you take your ''wig'' off?\\
'''Lodge Guy''': ''(stops laughing)'' ...Now what the hell is that supposed to mean? ''(a fight looks like it'll break out between the two; Robert is escorted out)''

* HalloweenSpecial: Peter Boyle and Doris playing Frankenstein and wife is truly scary. A ShoutOut too, reprising Peter's role as the monster in ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. %%Why do we have TWO tropes for the same concept - HalloweenSpecial ''and'' HalloweenEpisode?
* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday - Uncle Mel, full stop.

--> '''Frank''': Hey, you know what the guys at the lodge were just telling me? Apparently if you install it yourself, a satellite dish is actually quite affordable.

--> '''Robert''': What?\\

'''Robert''': "Get over there..."\\
'''Ray''': ...Please?\\
'''Robert''': There ya go, Raymond. You'll find a little courtesy goes a long way.

--> '''Ray''': All I want to do is relax, ''for once'', and Debra tells me to shampoo the rug!\\
'''Frank''': What? You can't help out a little?\\
'''Ray''': What?! ''You'' don't help out!\\
'''Frank''': [[BrickJoke Ass]].

--> '''Robert''': Did Debra even consider me?\\
'''Amy''': Hey, I'm right ''here''!

-->God, I hope that's a bourbon salesman.

'''Ray''': ....We don't have any-\\

--> '''Marie''': I may not be a certified therapist, but I've been told by many people that I could be.\\

--> '''Ray''': What did you put in that one?\\

--> '''Marie''': You know, there's only so much I can do without electricity, but I was able to make some ham and cheese sandwiches, turkey sandwiches, roast beef sandwiches, And, of course, macaroni salad, potato salad, and regular salad. Then there's pies and cookies and cake for dessert.\\

--> '''Ray''': This was my Grandma's! You know how many cookies I've had from this thing?\\

* HairTriggerTemper: Often times Debra, [[TookALevelInJerkAss especially in the later seasons]].

* {{Montages}}: In "Cruising With Marie", there's a montage of Ray/Marie on the cruise and Frank/Robert at home, set to "The Banana Tree".

'''Ray''': Yeah, how 'bout I install my foot right up your-\\

'''Debra''': .......Ray?\\

'''Ray''': ...I already did.\\

** TheUnfavourite: Where else could Robert fit?

'''Ray''': Yeah, stop it, ma, you're freakin' him out.

ItalianAmericanCaricature: The show is centered around a lively Italian-American family in New York, and all its male characters have something of the stereotype about them. Ray Barone is something of a mother's boy who thinks, in his heart of hearts, that women should do all the domestic work and child-rearing. His brother Robert is a competent street cop who can talk the talk but who still lives at home with his parents. Their friend Gianni is a bluff blue-collar worker and would-be Romeo, who shows great respect for the Barone parents. Father Frank Barone is a boorish patriarch who still attends church and has respect for the structures of family life. And Marie is the [[MyBelovedSmother overbearing matriarch]] of the family who sets expectations for everybody and provides the foodstuffs that hold it all together. If not capicola, there is very definitely braciole. With cannoli to follow.

* ObviousBeta: In "Security", Ray is irritated that the alarm system that Robert installed keeps going off for no reason at all.

* MeddlingParents: Is there a better way to describe Frank and Marie?

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: In "The Ingrate", Debra pokes fun at the time Ray unknowingly read "stomach ache" as "sto-ma-cha-cha".

* NotSoDifferent: Marie and Debra. Think about it. Their personalities really aren't very different at all, especially in their desires for complete and utter control over Ray.
** Ray and cousin Gerard. Namely the whiny, nasal voice.
** In "Peter on the Couch", Robert realizes that he and Peter are a lot alike, in that they both lived at home for forty years and were suddenly on their own. Considering that Peter tried to break up Robert and Amy's wedding (and Peter and Robert had a feud in this episode), it's kind of sweet when the two find common ground and Robert agrees to help him find his own place.

--> '''Frank:''' ''Well I don't want it in the house. It's depressing!''\\
'''Marie:''' ''What are you talking about? [[{{IWasQuiteALooker}} I looked beautiful in these pictures!]]''\\[[note]]Photographs of Doris Roberts in her twenties and thirties indicate this would, in fact, have been the case[[/note]]
'''Frank:''' ''[[{{DeadpanSnarker}} That's what's depressing]].''

'''Marie:''' ''What are you talking about? [[{{IWasQuiteALooker}} I looked beautiful in these pictures!]]''\\