History NightmareFuel / EverybodyLovesRaymond

** "And then she ''[[ChewingTheScenery AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE IIIIIIIIIIIIIT!]]''" Ray sounds practically demonic when he says that line. Making things worse, in the behind the scenes feature on the DVD, Ray said that he nearly had to be rushed to the hospital after that line delivery because he nearly fainted and had trouble breathing.

** There's also his growl later in that scene, "LISTEN TO ME, WOMAN!!!" It's kinda funny but also pretty unnerving.

* Marie is often sweet if just as often passive aggressive, so you wouldn't imagine she'd be nightmare fuel, right? Not if the way she deals with Robert's ex-wife in "Robert's Divorce" is any indication. While she uses any words that a mother would use when she finds out her daughter-in-law is a BitchInSheepsClothing, she delivers said words in a completely low-pitched and unsettling voice that we are NOT used to hearing at all, and when she is called a [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]] is any indication, Ray has to physically restrain her. When the ex-wife shows up later in present day and Marie delivers some SarcasmMode in her direction, she understandably gets a tad worried. Ray doesn't lie during this exchange:

-->'''Ray:''' I'll tell you what you ''don't'' do. [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu You don't call mom a bitch.]]

* "Lucky Suit" isn't the only time Robert can be funny and scary at the same time. In "Jealous Robert", when Gianni is dating Amy, the pair run into Robert. Gianni greets him awkwardly, and Robert responds by simply stating Gianni's name in an unnervingly deep voice. In the commentary for a later episode, Jon Manfrellotti inquires as to why the Amy/Gianni relationship never went anywhere after this episode, and Phil Rosenthal explains that the writers felt that if it continued, Robert would have ''killed'' Gianni. Called back to in "The Contractor", in which Robert, angry due to Gianni's shoddy contracting work and being reminded of his past with Amy, greets him with a low and menacing, "Hello, Gianni..."

[[caption-width-right:350: '''Debra:''' Okay, Marie, why don't you go into the kitchen, and Robert, why don't you ''blink a few times''.]]

* Marie is often sweet if just as often passive aggressive, so you wouldn't imagine she'd be nightmare fuel, right? Not if the way she deals with Robert's ex-wife in ''Robert's Divorce'' is any indication. While she uses any words that a mother would use when she finds out her daughter-in-law is a BitchInSheepsClothing, she delivers said words in a completely low-pitched and unsettling voice that we are NOT used to hearing at all, and when she is called a [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]] is any indication, Ray has to physically restrain her. When the ex-wife shows up later in present day and Marie delivers some SarcasmMode in her direction, she understandably gets a tad worried. Ray doesn't lie during this exchange:

* Debbie's an ''embarrassment'' to all ''decent'' women and a female ''Lucifer''!

--> '''Marie:''' Oh, Robbie, you scared me! How did your interview go?
--> '''Robert:''' [[FalseReassurance Come here, let me tell you about it...]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Pro-tip: '''DON'T''' ruin his job interview.]]

** "And then ''SHE '''AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTEEEEE IIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTT!'''''" Ray sounds practically demonic when he says that line. Making things worse, in the behind the scenes feature on the DVD, Ray said that he nearly had to be rushed to the hospital after that line delivery because he nearly fainted and had trouble breathing.

* "Lucky Suit" isn't the only time Robert can be funny and scary at the same time. In "Jealous Robert", when Gianni is dating Amy, the pair run into Robert. Gianni greets him awkwardly, and Robert responds by simply stating Gianni's name in an unnervingly deep voice. In the commentary for a later episode, Jon Manfrellotti inquires as to why the Amy/Gianni relationship never went anywhere after this episode, and Phil Rosenthal explains that the writers felt that if it continued, Robert would have ''killed'' Gianni. Called back to in "The Contractor", in which Robert, angry due to Gianni's shoddy contracting work and being reminded of his past with Amy, greets him with a low and menacing, "Hello, Gianni..."

** "AAAAANNNDDDDD THEN SHE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTEEEEE IIIIIIIIIIIIIITTTTTT!!!!!" Ray sounds practically demonic when he says that line. Making things worse, in the behind the scenes feature on the DVD, Ray said that he nearly had to be rushed to the hospital after that line delivery because he nearly fainted and had trouble breathing.

* In a throwaway line, Robert mentions that Ray once tried to convince the postman to babysit. That's kind of a nadir of bad parenting right there. Good thing it happened offscreen.

* Frank and Marie driving the car into Ray's house. The couch gets blasted clear across the room--the couch where Ray and Debra had been sitting a few seconds earlier. If they hadn't decided to go upstairs at that moment, they probably would have been killed!

* In "Lucky Suit", after Marie sends a fax that ruins Robert's FBI interview, he returns home with an exquisitely furious DeathGlare on his face that's as terrifying as it is hilarious. It's one of the few times he ''looks'' like the 6'8" giant he is. Ray and Debra notice him before Marie does, and seem genuinely disturbed, and his overall bearing is that he's out to murder somebody.

* Marie is often sweet if just as often passive aggressive, so you wouldn't imagine she'd be nightmare fuel, right? Not if the way she deals with Robert's ex-wife in ''Robert's Divorce'' is any indication. While she uses any words that a mother would use when she finds out her daughter-in-law is a BitchInSheepsClothing, she delivers said words in a completely low-pitched and unsettling voice that we are NOT used to hearing at all, and when she is called a [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]] is any indication, Ray has to physically restrain her. When she shows up later in present day and Marie delivers some SarcasmMode in her direction, she understandably gets a tad worried. Ray doesn't lie during this exchange:

-->'''Ray:''' I'll tell you what you ''don't'' do. [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu You don't call mom a bitch.]]

-->'''Ray:''' I'll tell you what you ''don't'' do. [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulu You don't call mom a bitch.]]

-->'''Ray:''' I'll tell you what you ''don't'' do. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu You don't call mom a bitch.]]

* In "Lucky Suit", after Marie sends a fax that ruins Robert's FBI interview, he returns home with an exquisitely furious KubrickStare on his face that's as terrifying as it is hilarious. It's one of the few times he ''looks'' like the 6'8" giant he is. Ray and Debra notice him before Marie does, and seem genuinely disturbed, and his overall bearing is that he's out to murder somebody.

* The pilot episode ends with Ray musing on how Frank suspects one of the twin sons is a little bit "odd". Ray then goes into a spiel on what might happen if the twins grow up and Frank is right and one really does turn out to be odd, or ugly, or not quite "right"... he expounds on this at length and in detail. This becomes a recurring theme in the show. Fast forward nineteen years and in real life one of the twin brothers who played Geoffrey and Michael shoots himself dead. You wonder if growing up playing a character explicitly portrayed as "borderline strange" had anything to do with it. A TV character seen by millions who se early life-stages could be confused with your own...

* The [[RedBaron frog woman of Massapequa]]. Robert starts feeling uneasy about her when he clearly tastes something odd on her breath - Ray had witnessed her eating a fly, which Robert didn't believe - and then goes into her bedroom, where she keeps dozens and dozens of frogs in terrariums all over the walls. The DramaticThunder in the scene doesn't help, and then she walks in on him trying to escape.

* The pilot episode ends with Ray musing on how Frank suspects one of the twin sons is a little bit "odd". Ray then goes into a spiel on what might happen if the twins grow up and Frank is right and one really does turn out to be odd, or ugly, or not quite right... he expounds on this at length and in detail. This becomes a recurring theme in the show. Fast forward nineteen years and in real life one of the twin brothers who played Geoffrey and Michael shoots himself dead. You wonder if growing up playing a characxter explicitly portrayed as "borderline strange" had anything to do with it.

* Frank and Marie driving the car into Ray's house. The couch gets blasted clear across the room--the couch where Ray and Debra had been sitting a few seconds earlier. If they hadn't decided to go upstairs at that moment, they probably would have been killed!