History EverybodyLovesRaymond / TropesQToZ

* StopHelpingMe: In "Working Late Again", Andy keeps trying to "help" out Ray by saying it's easy to get set up to work from home, annoying Ray, who wants to keep working at the office.

* RantInducingSlight: In "Wallpaper", Marie drives a car through Ray and Debra's house. Debra is understandably upset, but Ray (still in shock) barely reacts to this, frustrating Debra, who wants him to back her up. After the doorway is repaired and the wallpaper replaced, Ray examines the new wallpaper... and loses it, because the stripes aren't the same thickness as the old ones.
** In "The Sitter", Marie doesn't react well to the news that Ray and Debra have hired a sitter instead of asking her for help. But she chuckles nervously, puts on a fake smile, and says she's happy for them. But then Robert comes in and says he turned down the heat on the stove...
--> '''Marie''': Don't tell me how to cook! I know how to cook! I'm not that old! And who are you to turn down my meat?!
** In "The Christmas Picture", Ray's been dealing with trying to make everybody happy (and failing) the whole episode, and an innocent comment from Lois sets him off:
--> '''Lois''': Raymond, I just noticed that this background is blue. Do I have time to change into my gray pashmina?\\
'''Ray''': ...'''Get back in your place!'''

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: "Cruising With Marie", for a couple reasons: Debra isn't in the episode at all, and Ray/Marie's plot is completely separate from Frank/Robert's plot. It's also one of the few episodes to feature a brand new location; that is, the cruise ship.

** ''The Wedding'' Parts 1 and 2: Ray and Debra's marriage.

* SophisticatedAsHell: In "The Kicker":

** In "Silent Partners," Debra asks Ray to read a novel called "Devilwood" which features a paraphrase of Creator/BarbaraKingsolver's ''Literature/ThePoisonwoodBible'''s famous opening line: "Imagine a rain so beautiful it must never have existed."[[note]]The original quote: "Imagine a ruin so strange it must never have happened."[[/note]] Ray comments that the book is like a "horse tranquilizer."

* YouWouldMakeAGreatModel: Robert Barone is scammed this way by a con-artist who insists that for $2,000 dollars he can get Robert a career in outsize male modelling, as there aren't too many guys of your height and build. Robert succumbs out of vanity and afterwards refuses to file a complaint as it would be too embarrassing to admit in front of other cops that he fell for it.

* TheTheTitle: Several episodes feature this.

** Debra and Marie's feud/standoff at the end of season 6/beginning of season 7, and the various ways that Raymond, Robert, and Frank try to cope with the rift.

* RealSongThemeTune: Season 7 used The Time's "Jungle Love".

'''Robert''': Ya heard me. I love ma more.\\

** In the show where Debra's sister Jennifer reveals she is following her vocation to become a nun, Frank and Marie begin an argument, realise they are in the presence of holiness, and bite it back, substituting faked hand-holding and saccharine expressions of blissful devotion that fool nobody. Contrast this to the unhappily married couple in ''Series/FatherTed''. John and Mary hate each other with a passion and are forever fighting and swearing - except in front of the local priests, where they make a suspiciously similar pretense of being happily married. The Barones are Italian-American and practicing Catholics - they would fit in very well in an Italian Craggy Island. (''La Falesia Isola''?)

--> '''Ray''': I throw this out... and you can call me an idiot.
--> '''Debra''': ({{Beat}}) ...Deal. (Ray hesitantly walks over to the garbage and throws the sandwich in it) Idiot.

* SmellyFeet: Ray [[RunningGag frequently]] accuses Robert of having smelly feet.

* SeductionProofMarriage: This causes Ray Barone serious angst. first when he loses his wedding ring and a woman comes onto him at the airport; second when he (mistakenly) thinks Peggy the Cookie Nazi has made a pass at him. Both times he stays faithful to Debra.

-->'''Ray:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny ''But I love her!'']]