| 1 | * HairTodayGoneTomorrow: |
| 2 | ** Robert has a moustache in the flashback episodes. He's also been said to have had an afro in high school. |
| 3 | ** Robert's afro is there in the flashback episode where he first meets Debra and is TongueTied. |
| 4 | ---> Raymond? GIRL! |
| 5 | * HairTriggerTemper: Often times Debra, [[TookALevelInJerkass especially in the later seasons]]. |
| 6 | ** One of the guys at the lodge didn't respond well to what Robert meant as a joke in "Who Am I?": |
| 7 | --> '''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?\ |
| 8 | '''Robert''': ''(laughing with the group)'' Why don't you take your ''wig'' off?\ |
| 9 | '''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)'' |
| 10 | * HalloweenEpisode: "Halloween Candy". |
| 11 | * 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? |
| 12 | * HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday - Uncle Mel, full stop. |
| 13 | * HeelFaceTurn: Peter originally was a deceptive, rude, underhanded ManChild who's biggest goal was to keep Amy and Robert from getting married. However, by the end of "Peter on the Couch", he and Robert had found common ground and more-or-less made peace. And in "A Date For Peter", he's played relatively normal and not hostile towards Robert at all. |
| 14 | ** Ray and Peggy ''somewhat'' made peace in "Sleepover at Peggy's" (after a big misunderstanding, of course). Unfortunately, the two were back to being enemies in "The Party Dress" and "A Date For Peter". |
| 15 | * HeelRealization: In "Season's Greetings", Robert realizes how obsessive and petty he's been by keeping a Christmas card (where Ray got more lines than he did) for ten years. |
| 16 | * HenpeckedHusband: [[{{ButtMonkey}} Ray]]. |
| 17 | ** And Frank too. |
| 18 | ** Robert during his brief first marriage to Joanne. To the point where Robert hid out at Ray and Debra's because he didn't want to face her nagging and insults. |
| 19 | * HereWeGoAgain: The ending to "I Wish I Were Gus", where Marie and Aunt Alda appear to have finally made up, but then they start arguing again. |
| 20 | ** In the last couple minutes of "Bad Moon Rising", it appears that Ray and Debra have made up; Debra admits that she's been cranky and doesn't mean to lash out at him, while Ray promises to be more caring and understanding during her time of the month. But then, Ray runs to get the pills to treat PMS, and holds the pill in front of her. Debra knocks the pill out of his hand and accusingly says, "Why don't you just lock me in the attic for a few days?!" Bam, we're right back to Ray and Debra at odds, like how it was the rest of the episode. |
| 21 | --> '''Ray''': (once Debra leaves) [[BrickJoke Come on, comet]]. |
| 22 | * HeyYou: One of the recurring bits is that Ray has a hard time calling Lois by her name, so he resorts to, "Hey... you." One episode, "Call Me Mom", begins with his efforts to get closer to Lois by calling her "mom". |
| 23 | * HiddenBadass: Ray is awestruck when he discovers that Robert is this, while tagging along with Robert and Judy on their police patrol. While they take a break from patrol at Nemo's Pizzeria and Judy goes to the bathroom, Ray notices that there is a man threatening Nemo (with what may or may not be a gun in his jacket pocket) and demanding cash. Robert simply tells Ray: "Get down. And whatever happens, ''stay'' down," before crawling across the floor, sneaking up behind the robber, throwing a tray with a hot pizza onto the robber's face and then physically subduing him. Later on, Ray tells Debra: |
| 24 | -->'''Ray:''' ''I...I've never seen him like that before. One minute he's my brother who eats like this (makes the crazy-chin motion)...and then the next minute he's this...cop''. He later notes that he's really glad he saw that and that he's proud of Robert. |
| 25 | * HiddenDepths: While Frank was presented as a boorish ignoramus for most of the series, it is noted in a couple episodes that he was actually an educated professional who had a successful career in the accounting field. For somebody born in the early 1930s, those are pretty substantial credentials. |
| 26 | * HiddenHeartOfGold: Frank. This turns out to be the case in several episodes. |
| 27 | * HideYourPregnancy: Debra's presence during the middle of season 3 is drastically reduced (and in a few cases, she's absent entirely) due to Patricia Heaton's pregnancy. In the episodes where she appears, they mask it by having her in bed, holding things in front of her body, wearing loose-fitting clothing, or merely shooting her from the chest up. This gives the first part of season 3 a distinctly claustrophobic feeling. |
| 28 | * HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: |
| 29 | -->'''Frank''': I never told you this, but I used to think of you as kind of a weak little mama's boy.\ |
| 30 | '''Ray''': You told me that. |
| 31 | * HintDropping: In "The Bigger Person", when Frank and Ray are using the fight between Marie and Debra to get pampered: |
| 32 | --> '''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. |
| 33 | * HotGuyUglyWife: Robert is considered "classically handsome", while his on-again/off-again girlfriend/later wife Amy, is... let's face it... she is rather [[HollywoodHomely homely]]. |
| 34 | * HotSauceDrinking: [[ButtMonkey Butt Gorilla]] Robert Barone at first refuses to believe his father has lost his sense of taste and smell. He argues that the bottle of jalapeno sauce under debate has been hanging around his mother's kitchen since before the Korean War and has denatured. He then proves his argument by taking a long swallow. Thirty seconds later he is hanging on his back underneath the kitchen cold tap and Debra is berating him to at least use a glass. |
| 35 | * HowAboutASmile: In "Hackidu", Ray is impatient to get out of Russell's shop with the Scramisaur card, but before Russell will let him have it, he demands, "Let's have a little smile." Ray struggles to force a smile, and after Russell says, "That's what it's all about, man", he says he owes him well over $200 for the purchase. |
| 36 | ** In "The Christmas Picture", Ray tells Robert to get over into the picture. |
| 37 | --> '''Robert''': What?\ |
| 38 | '''Ray''': Get over there.\ |
| 39 | '''Robert''': "Get over there..."\ |
| 40 | '''Ray''': ...Please?\ |
| 41 | '''Robert''': There ya go, Raymond. You'll find a little courtesy goes a long way. |
| 42 | * HowWeGotHere: This trope was used in an early episode that actually used this phrase as its title. The episode was a flashback to how Ray and Debra ended up living across the street from Frank and Marie, revealed that it was actually ''Debra'' who had strongly insisted that they live there, while [[{{CassandraTruth}} Ray had desperately attempted to convince her that they should live somewhere else, because he knew how crazy his family could be]]. |
| 43 | * HypocriticalHumor: In "Counseling": |
| 44 | --> '''Ray''': All I want to do is relax, ''for once'', and Debra tells me to shampoo the rug!\ |
| 45 | '''Frank''': What? You can't help out a little?\ |
| 46 | '''Ray''': What?! ''You'' don't help out!\ |
| 47 | '''Frank''': [[BrickJoke Ass]]. |
| 48 | ** In "The Skit", a similar exchange occurs when Frank refuses to write a speech for Lee and Stan's anniversary and then criticizes Ray for not wanting to do it either. |
| 49 | ** In "Peter on the Couch", after Robert agrees to get Peter his old apartment: |
| 50 | --> '''Frank''': Those two think their troubles are over. Believe me, you don't want a relative like that living so close to ya. You can ''never'' get rid of them! ''(immediately turns on Ray's TV)'' |
| 51 | ** In "The Mentor": |
| 52 | --> '''Debra''': ''(calmly)'' A lot of the problems in this family wouldn't exist if there was a little more hugging and a little less yelling. So Frank, ''(shouting)'' ''HUG YOUR SONS!!!'' |
| 53 | ** In "Faux Pas": |
| 54 | --> '''Marie''': (to Ray) I tried to teach you. I mean, you should know that words can hurt people.\ |
| 55 | '''Robert''': That's right, Raymond!\ |
| 56 | '''Marie''': No one's talking to you, Robert. You're such a ''busybody''. |
| 57 | ** In "The Game", while playing a board game called Scruples where you're asked morality questions: |
| 58 | --> '''Frank''': Am I the ''only'' one here with scruples? |
| 59 | ** What Marie ends up being in "Liars". She admonishes Ray and Debra for lying to her, only to be one herself, since she said she wanted to watch a sports game with Ray but merely had a list of complaints that she wanted to discuss with him: |
| 60 | --> '''Ray''': No wonder she's so good at finding out we're lying. It takes one to know one.\ |
| 61 | '''Marie''': I do not lie.\ |
| 62 | '''Ray''': No? So if we were to go over your house right now, we wouldn't find any notes?\ |
| 63 | '''Marie''': Absolutely not! And I would like to say I can't believe that you're all ganging up on an elderly woman who hasn't been feeling very well lately. I need to lie down.\ |
| 64 | ''(Marie heads for the door)''\ |
| 65 | '''Ray''': Ah, you wouldn't, uh, you wouldn't be going to destroy those notes, would you?\ |
| 66 | '''Marie''': Please. ''(leaves)''\ |
| 67 | ''(Debra watches from the window)''\ |
| 68 | '''Debra''': Wow. For a "sick old lady", she can really move. |
| 69 | ** Gianni is one of several characters prone to slinging the insult "Big-nose" at Ray. Jon Manfrellotti's nose is much more noticeably oversized than Ray Romano's. |
| 70 | ** In "The Bird", Frank is deeply disturbed over Pat killing a wounded bird ("That bird was one of God's creatures!"), but when she brings in the Thanksgiving turkey, he immediately changes his tune: "All right, break me off a leg there!" |
| 71 | ** In "Jazz Records", Frank's been stubbornly refusing to listen to the [=CDs=] Ray bought him, since he's a fan of vinyl instead. Toward the end, Ray asks what he's supposed to do with the [=CDs=] now. Frank tells him to take them and listen to them, and maybe he'll like them. |
| 72 | --> '''Frank''': You should keep an open mind about things. |
| 73 | * IAmBigBoned: In "Who's Next?", Bernie is offended that Debra wouldn't take him as a husband if Ray dies, and instigates: |
| 74 | --> '''Bernie''': It's because I'm heavy, isn't it? I know I have trouble with weight. I ''happen'' to have a glandular problem! |
| 75 | * IAteWhat: In "Thank You Notes", Ray and Robert both drink from something in the fridge out of nervousness of the impending chew-out from Marie. They don't realize what they drank until after they do so. |
| 76 | --> '''Ray''': What is this??\ |
| 77 | '''Robert''': Vanilla extract. |
| 78 | * IdenticalGrandson: Or, in this case, Identical Son. In a flashback to Ray and Robert's childhood, young Frank was played by Ray Romano. |
| 79 | ** Let us not forget "baby Ally". In a flashback to Debra being pregnant with the twins, the child playing Ally looks suspiciously like one of the twins dressed as a girl... |
| 80 | * IgnorantAboutFire: Raymond runs into trouble when attempting to prove to Debra that he is a responsible parent and husband. He buys a can of potent insect spray and liberally applies it everywhere in the kitchen, so as to avoid the expense of calling Rentokil. While he is on the phone, the inflammable spray catches light from the stove. Soon, the kitchen is ablaze. When he finally notices he runs out for the garden hose only to discover it doesn't stretch that far. Debra walks right past him and picks up a fire extinguisher... |
| 81 | * IHaveNoSon: The "brothers" variant. In "Robert Needs Money", after Robert reveals that he's going to spend the $1,000 check from Ray and Debra on a Vegas vacation: |
| 82 | --> '''Ray''': You take that money, and you go to ''Vegas'' with it? You're not my brother. |
| 83 | * ImAHumanitarian: Played for laughs in "The Mentor", when Amy blocks Frank's exit from Ray and Debra's kitchen: |
| 84 | --> '''Robert''': (to Amy) What are you doing? He'll ''eat'' you. |
| 85 | * ImGoingToHellForThis: In "Angry Sex", when Ray tells Robert to leave so he can have more "angry sex" with Debra: |
| 86 | --> '''Robert''': Oh you are going ''straight'' to Hell.\ |
| 87 | '''Ray''': And ''you're'' going back to live with mommy and daddy.\ |
| 88 | '''Robert''': ...You win. |
| 89 | * ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: Marie's food in general. Also, Debra's braciole in "Debra Makes Something Good", much to Marie's jealousy. |
| 90 | ** Marco's pizza, as revealed in "Stefania Arrives". When Frank takes a bite, he says: "[[CatchPhrase Holy crap!]] This is... ''holy'' crap." |
| 91 | ** The peach gelato Robert tastes while in Italy. |
| 92 | * ImStandingRightHere: In "Who's Next?", while Ray, Debra, Bernie, and Linda are in an argument about Ray and Debra's game about who they'd get to marry if one of them died, Robert spoke up: |
| 93 | --> '''Robert''': Did Debra even consider me?\ |
| 94 | '''Amy''': Hey, I'm right ''here''! |
| 95 | * INeedADrink: Debra has three caterwauling children underfoot and hears the doorbell ring: |
| 96 | -->God, I hope that's a bourbon salesman. |
| 97 | ** Another example, from "Security": |
| 98 | --> '''Amy''': Where do you keep your "After Marie" liquor?\ |
| 99 | '''Ray''': ....We don't have any-\ |
| 100 | '''Debra''': Top cabinet, behind the Cream of Wheat. |
| 101 | ** And again in "The Walk to the Door", after having a drink due to Ray not using his own regret: |
| 102 | --> '''Debra''': ''(to bartender)'' I'll have ''another'' one. |
| 103 | * InadvertentEntranceCue: |
| 104 | -->'''Ray:''' ''(about calling his mother-in-law "Mom")'' No, that wouldn't feel right. "Hi, how was your trip ... Mom ... Mom ... Mom?" |
| 105 | -->''(Marie walks in)'' |
| 106 | -->'''Marie:''' Hi! |
| 107 | -->'''Ray:''' Wow. That ... that is powerful. [[LampshadeHanging Let me try something]]. Series/XenaWarriorPrincess. Xena Warrior Princess. |
| 108 | ** Also: |
| 109 | -->'''Linda :''' I am such sucker for that little-boy thing in men. |
| 110 | -->''(Frank walks in)'' |
| 111 | -->'''Frank:''' Where's Marie? I lost my shoe! |
| 112 | * IneffectualDeathThreats: In "Net Worth", Robert is asked what's involved in a wrongful death settlement. Debra responds, "Good, good 'cause we're about to have one." (referring to Ray) |
| 113 | ** In "Boys' Therapy", Marie told Frank while pointing at the obituaries section of the newspaper, "Frank, you better take a ''good'' look at this section, 'cause you're gonna ''be'' in there tomorrow!" |
| 114 | ** In "Young Girl": |
| 115 | --> '''Debra''': So what, men have to date women twenty years younger than they are? If Ray dies tomorrow, I have to start dating sixty year olds?\ |
| 116 | '''Ray''': Whoa, I'm dyin' tomorrow?!\ |
| 117 | '''Debra''': We'll see. |
| 118 | ** Played with in "Odd Man Out": |
| 119 | --> '''Marie''': I'm gonna kill your father!\ |
| 120 | '''Ray''': (flatly) Oh no, mom, ''don't''. |
| 121 | ** In "The Game", Marie says a hypothetical scenario to see if Ray would let her live with him when Frank dies. |
| 122 | --> '''Frank:''' I died?! How did I die?\ |
| 123 | '''Marie:''' We'll see! |
| 124 | ** In "Christmas Present", after Ray accused Debra of acting like a martyr, Debra replied with: "Do you know how close you are to the end of your life?!" |
| 125 | * InformedAttribute: Warren (Debra's father) was repeatedly described by the other characters as being a rather heavy drinker, but oddly enough, we never actually ''saw'' anything to suggest this onscreen, besides one occasion when Warren accepts an offer by Robert to go out for drinks (along with food) at Nemo's Pizzeria. |
| 126 | * InherentlyFunnyWords: Frank seems to think Lake ''Tahoe'' is this. Not to mention "Milwaukee." |
| 127 | * InnocentInnuendo: In "The First Time", Ray tells his friends that he's watching a movie with Debra. They immediately assume this means Debra wants to have sex with Ray, so they start giving him advice. Robert chimes in with "Check her eggs, man, check her eggs!", which sounds suspiciously like an ovulation reference. But all he meant was: "You check her refrigerator to see if she has enough eggs to make both of you breakfast in the morning." |
| 128 | * InnocentSwearing: In "The Nice Talk", Amy [=McDougall=]'s religiously pious father is appalled by Frank Barone's earthy profanity. He cannot bring himself to repeat the word "hell", and creates the euphemism "The Antipode of Heaven". Frank is stunned. |
| 129 | --> '''Frank''': Can I watch TV now?\ |
| 130 | '''Marie''': No, Frank.\ |
| 131 | '''Frank''': Well then [[PrecisionFStrike what the hell]] are we gonna do all night?!\ |
| 132 | '''Hank''': Less cursing, I hope.\ |
| 133 | '''Frank''': Who cursed?\ |
| 134 | '''Hank''': You referred to the antipode of Heaven.\ |
| 135 | '''Frank''': ({{Beat}}) [[IResembleThatRemark What the hell kind of moon-man talk is that?]]\ |
| 136 | '''Hank''': Oh, there it is again. |
| 137 | * InnocuouslyImportantEpisode: "Who's Handsome?" in season 1, where Debra introduces Robert to Amy, who would become a recurring character throughout the series (eventually becoming a regular in season 7). The two would marry in the season 7 finale. |
| 138 | * InsistentTerminology: Robert was gored in the ''upper thigh''. |
| 139 | ** In "Pants on Fire", Ray told a story from his teen years about he had a "fiesta" in the house when Marie and Frank were away. When the story concluded, Marie asked, "You had a ''party'' in my house?" Ray replied, "Not party, ''fiesta''!" |
| 140 | ** In "Counseling", when Ray's trying to get out of couples' therapy: |
| 141 | --> '''Debra''': Ray, we fight ''all'' the time.\ |
| 142 | '''Ray''': Not "fight", "tiffs"! Little tiffs! |
| 143 | * InstantSoprano: In "Halloween Candy", Ray comes home after supposedly getting a vasectomy, and pretends to have a high-pitched voice. |
| 144 | * InstantSeduction: Apparently, Frank's come-on line to Marie is "Hey, c'mere a minute." |
| 145 | ** Frequently parodied; in "Blabbermouths", Ray says to Debra in bed, "Guess who pees when she laughs?" Debra, not realizing that Ray was talking about Amy, responds, "I gotta tell ya, that's your ''worst'' come-on line ever." |
| 146 | ** In "All I Want For Christmas", when Ray is frustrated that he can't read Debra's signals, Debra replies with a rhetorical question: "What am I supposed to say? "Hey you, wanna do it?"" Ray replies, "I would ''love'' it if you talked like that!" |
| 147 | * InsultBackfire: In "Ping Pong": |
| 148 | --> '''Frank''': Marie, get a mop, because after I beat Ray, the floor is going to be soaked with tears.\ |
| 149 | '''Ray''': Yeah, but they're going to be ''your'' tears, because its going to be your funeral.\ |
| 150 | '''Frank''': ({{Beat}}) [[FridgeLogic If it's my funeral, how can I be crying?]] Nice try.\ |
| 151 | '''Marie''': ''I'' thought it was good, Raymond. |
| 152 | * IResembleThatRemark: Ray: "You're calling me self-centered. Me? Me?! ''ME''?!" |
| 153 | ** In "The Article", Ray mentions that he edited a part of Andy's column to be less repetitive. Andy enthusiastically replied with: "I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it, I get it!" |
| 154 | * IronicEcho: In "The Contractor", Ray (and later Debra) both say: "It's not like Van Gogh lost his paintbrush." |
| 155 | ** In "Fun With Debra", Ray tries to cover a passive aggressive remark towards Debra ("I love it [Debra correcting him] at home, why wouldn't I love it on the golf course?") with a "zing zing!" A scene later, Debra did the same towards Ray ("You don't listen to me at home, why would you listen to me on the golf course?......Zing zing.") |
| 156 | ** In "Sweet Charity", when Ray doesn't want to do charity for the church, Debra tries to make him feel guilty by saying "This is between you, and him (points upward, indicating God)." At the end of the episode, after it's revealed that Debra sent Robert to the hospital to steal Ray's thunder because she thought Ray was spending too much time there, Ray says, "I don't think you should be talkin' to me. I think you should be talking to... (points upward)." A minute later, after Robert finds out that Debra lied about liking his ventriloquism, he performs the same action. |
| 157 | *** Also in "Sweet Charity", Ray asks Debra why he can't just write a check to the hospital instead of actually volunteering there. Later in the first act, Ray visits the hospital and gets queasy from a packet of blood placed on the counter, and is hesitant to enter a patient's room. A surly nurse asks: "Why didn't you just write a check??" |
| 158 | ** In "Season's Greetings", Robert says he wants the Christmas letter to say that he's been known to "boogie the night away". To which Ray replies: "So you've broadened the definition of "dance the night away" to "staying home by yourself eating Wheat Thins"?" Later in the episode, Robert gets his revenge when Ray objects to how his job is described in the Christmas letter: |
| 159 | --> '''Ray''': Look, you may not think my job is so hot, but 600,000 discriminating readers do.\ |
| 160 | '''Robert''': So you've broadened the definition of the word "discriminating" to include people who do their reading with their elbow on a roll of toilet paper? |
| 161 | ** In "Getting Even", Debra says she felt humiliated by Ray's auctioneering (which mostly consisted of making fun of Debra); Ray told her not to feel that way, and she responded, "Don't tell me how to feel!" At the end of the episode, after Ray was convinced Debra was going to get revenge for his auctioneer roast, Ray said he was feeling paranoid. Debra told him not to feel that way, and Ray said "Don't tell me how to feel!" Debra replied: "And there it is. I'll just give you a minute to put it together." (Ray has a hard time doing so, so Debra recounts the IronicEcho) |
| 162 | ** A nonverbal one occurs in "Be Nice": Debra wants Ray to take the kids to the park for an hour and a half, so Ray starts his watch and walks as slowly as he can to get his shoes. At the end of the episode, Ray wants to have sex with Debra and he runs upstairs. Debra says that she'll be right there, and walks as slowly as she can. |
| 163 | ** In "Marie and Frank's New Friends", Marie convinces Ray to stay and entertain her and Frank's friends; Ray tells Debra, "You gotta give the people what they want." As soon as Ray enters the living room, Frank announces that they're going to be late for the senior's jamboree at the VFW. Debra says, "You should go too, Ray.", and when Ray tries to worm his way out of it, she replies: "But you gotta give the people what they want." |
| 164 | ** In "Counseling", after Ray complained about Debra signing both him and her up for therapy, Debra said, "(...)You are coming with me, because we are going to do whatever it takes to ''Heal. This. Marriage''." Later, when the two actually attend therapy, Ray sucks up to the therapist by using the same phrase: "I'm gonna do whatever it takes to heal this marriage.", prompting an eye roll from Debra. |
| 165 | ** In "Boys' Therapy", Frank lied to Marie that one of things he learned from therapy is that everyone needs personal space, a "ten-foot radius". He then told Marie to get ten feet away from him. At the end of the episode, when Frank, Ray, and Robert are caught having lied about attending therapy, Ray tries to apologize to Debra, but she walks away while saying, "I need a ten-foot radius." |
| 166 | * {{Irony}}: Despite their constant sarcasm and bickering, it's made clear on a few occasions that Frank and Marie have the healthiest marriage of any couple on the show. The reasoning for this is that neither one of them are afraid to call the other one out on their bullshit, which frees them from the built-up resentments that are present in the marriages of the younger Barones and the Whelans. |
| 167 | * IrrevocableMessage: The premise to "The Letter": Debra writes an angry letter to Marie about her behavior, and Ray strives to get it back before Marie can read it. |
| 168 | * ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: |
| 169 | --> '''Debra''': You're so typical! All you care about are boobs and butts.\ |
| 170 | '''Ray''': I couldn't care less about butts! |
| 171 | ** In "Robert Needs Money", after Ray asks why he shouldn't feel insulted that Robert wants to use his $1,000 to go to Vegas instead of paying his bills: |
| 172 | --> '''Robert''': Because you realize that only a heartless dictator, or ''mom'', would tell people how to run their lives.\ |
| 173 | '''Ray''': You're calling me a heartless dictator? ''OR MOM''?! |
| 174 | ** In "Liars", Marie pronounces ESPN as "Espan". |
| 175 | * 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. |
| 176 | * ItMakesSenseInContext: "For once, I'd like to be able to bring a board game into this house without being accused of having sex with my brother!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]In "No Roll", Ray wanted to spice things up in the bedroom, so he bought a board game called "Sensuopoly". Only problem is, Marie, Robert, and Frank found out about it before he showed Debra. Marie was disgusted, and said "Another board game? It's like that one you had as a teenager with the dots." Ray responds, "Twister?" Marie replies, "Don't think I didn't know what was going on downstairs." Ray confusingly replies, "I played with ''Robert''.".[[/labelnote]] |
| 177 | * IWantGrandkids: Marie is this to Robert and Amy, to the point that she doesn't count Ally, Michael, and Geoffrey as grandkids, because she rarely sees them anymore. |
| 178 | --> '''Marie''': I've obviously failed as a mother, and I was hoping for one last chance as a grandmother.\ |
| 179 | '''Debra''': But Marie, you ''are'' a grandmother! What about our kids?\ |
| 180 | '''Marie''': ...Oh? Where ''are'' they?? |
| 181 | * IWasQuiteALooker: Marie. Mentioned in an episode where she discovers that, among other books, Frank is about to throw away her high school yearbook, in which there are several pictures where Marie looks beautiful. Marie snatches it back and says she wants the yearbook... |
| 182 | -->'''Frank:''' Well I don't want it in the house. It's depressing!\ |
| 183 | '''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]]\ |
| 184 | '''Frank:''' [[{{DeadpanSnarker}} That's what's depressing]]. |
| 185 | * JAccuse: Robert says this to Ray in one episode. |
| 186 | * {{Jerkass}}: Mr. Putnam, Ally's math teacher in "Ally's F". When Debra goes to Putnam's classroom to let him know why Ally was having a hard time concentrating in class (she was distracted by a boy), he replies with this: |
| 187 | --> '''Putnam''': Oh, can I tell you something?\ |
| 188 | '''Debra''': Sure.\ |
| 189 | '''Putnam''': I don't care.\ |
| 190 | '''Debra''': Excuse me?\ |
| 191 | '''Putnam''': I don't care what her problem is. Your sister-in-law isn't the only one that knows that Ally likes Tommy Sanders. Everybody knows! Ally likes Tommy, and Suzy likes Tommy, and blah-blah likes Bucky, and who-who likes Beebie, and none of it has anything to do with math! Their, their home lives and their love lives and their social lives are not my problem. ''(points to blackboard)'' ''That'' is my problem. And the answer is pi. You see? Nobody cares about the work, even though that is the business of this classroom.\ |
| 192 | '''Debra''': Okay, I just thought you might be interested.\ |
| 193 | '''Putnam''': I'm not. I'm not.\ |
| 194 | '''Debra''': I understand. I just thought it might help-\ |
| 195 | '''Putnam''': It ''doesn't''. Anything else? I have 30 distracted chatterboxes on their way in here to get this wrong! If, if you really wanna help, be a parent at home and let me be the teacher here. |
| 196 | * [[JerkassHasAPoint Jerkass(es) Ha(ve) A Point]]: The elder Barones make the point in a handful of episodes ("Pilot," "Wallpaper," and "No Thanks") that if the younger Barones were simply honest with them about behavior that annoys them, they would be more than happy to comply with their wishes and wouldn't take offense. |
| 197 | ** "The Skit" explores this interesting dynamic between the two couples...Frank and Marie are shown to be remarkably thick-skinned and even willing to laugh at their own flaws, whereas Ray and Debra are particularly thin-skinned and sensitive when the tables get turned. |
| 198 | ** In "Pat's Secret," every married couple--Ray and Debra, Robert and Amy, and even Amy's parents--reveal that they all have secret coping mechanisms for dealing with the stresses their partners cause, ranging from the typical (the title refers to Pat, Amy's mother, hiding the fact that she smokes cigarettes) to the bizarre (like rearranging toothbrushes in a cup). After hearing everyone talk, Marie and Frank reveal their method for handling their own marital frustrations--[[BrutalHonesty blatantly telling one another to shut up and knock it off]]. The other couples protest, but Marie points out--quite rightly--that it's a lot healthier to communicate honestly with your spouse/significant other about issues rather than bottling them up or acting passive-aggressively, especially since that doesn't do anything to solve the problems in the first place. |
| 199 | ** "Frank Paints the House": Frank insists on painting the house yellow, despite Ray wanting it to be white. When Ray confronts him about it after firing him, Frank reveals his reasons: "Because yellow covers better! It won't fade as fast! And you got white houses all around you, it makes your house pop a little! And it goes with the trim and [[SophisticatedAsHell friggin']] daisies you got!" While Frank was wrong to do it without asking Ray's permission, he had valid reasons for doing so, it wasn't just to have his way. |
| 200 | ** "Ally's F": While Mr. Putnam was being a total jerkass in the way he said it, he did have a point that it doesn't matter ''why'' Ally was distracted during math class- she was still failing and needed to be more attentive. |
| 201 | ** "Lateness": Sure, Ray was being a little jerky by just leaving Debra behind, but as he mentions, they had made an agreement that he could do it, and in his defense, he had no way of knowing that she'd gotten her hair stuck in her curler. |
| 202 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Frank is so much this trope. While he definitely has his angry, judgmental moments and often acts boorish, many episodes end with him doing something genuinely sweet or heartwarming. He may have a gruff exterior, but he's definitely not a bad guy. |
| 203 | ** In one episode, Frank, Ray, and Robert are having lunch, trying to come up with therapy "breakthroughs" to tell their wives while they're at the track instead. Frank reveals that his father used to beat him all the time, just like his grandfather used to beat his own son, father of Frank. Ray notes, "So his father hit him, he hit you, and you...you never hit us really." Frank replies "I was always weaker than him." Robert offers, "Maybe you didn't want to be like him." After a quiet moment, Frank replies "I didn't." |
| 204 | --> '''Ray''': [[MoodWhiplash The girls'll buy that]].\ |
| 205 | '''Robert''': They'll eat it up like a bag of candy! |
| 206 | ** Marie is arguably this trope too. She's manipulative and controlling, but she does it because she genuinely wants her children to be happy. It's more apparent with her grandkids, who she loves and spoils ''without'' any of her typical trickery. |
| 207 | * {{Jewish Mother}}: Although Marie is portrayed as an Italian-American Catholic, like Ray Romano's real-life family, she is also partly based on producer Phil Rosenthal's Jewish mother, and the character shares many of the {{Jewish Mother}} trope traits. |
| 208 | ** When Robert briefly moves in with an elderly Jewish couple called the Stipes, the wife, an actual Jewish mother obviously, fits the trope 100%. When Ray meets the couple, it's {{lampshade}}d how similar they actually are to Frank and Marie, and that their being Jewish is literally the ''only'' noticeable difference between the Stipes and Frank and Marie. |
| 209 | * KarmaHoudini: Debra could get this way regarding her treatment of Ray (he was rarely ever able to verbally defeat her -- just annoy her), but Marie would nearly ''always'' get the best of her, and the Barones regularly invaded her home and directly and indirectly criticized her, so she's never getting off scot-free. Marie is a better example, almost never getting her comeuppance. The writers would claim after the series had ended that this was a deliberate way of making their wives like the show more. |
| 210 | ** Robert managed to avoid karma a couple times too--- most notably in "Jazz Records". |
| 211 | ** It could also be argued that Marie having to deal with Frank is karma in and of itself. Frank himself does some pretty bad things, and constantly belittles and insults every member of the family and treats Marie like she's his servant and usually the only punishment he gets is someone mouthing off to him, which he is more than willing to dish back. |
| 212 | ** Ray does one of the worst things he's ever done on the show, lied to her about how other women at the PTA think Debra dresses "trampy" when they really didn't, '''because Debra complained about him dressing sloppily at PTA meetings'''. This makes Debra depressed because she thought those women were her friends. Does Ray decide to tell her the truth? No. At the next PTA at their house Debra comes down the stairs dressed in a low cut red sweater, leather miniskirt, and boots to the shock of everyone. After the meeting Ray finally tells Debra he lied about what the other women said and Debra is mortified and humiliated. Even though she is (rightly) angry afterwards the argument gets to the point where it's somehow Debra's fault and she has to sooth Ray's ego and tell him because he always feels bad that she's better looking. |
| 213 | ** In a late episode, Robert gets scammed out of $2,000 by a group of con artists who made him believe that he could be a model. He decides not to pursue charges due not wanting to admit to Amy and his parents that he got ripped off and mainly because it would make him look like a "giant schmuck" to his cop buddies. |
| 214 | * KnockKnockJoke: One of the biggest fights between Debra and Marie started with Debra not allowing Michael and Geoffrey to tell a knock knock joke to Marie's friends. But to be fair, Debra had been trying to settle her kids down and Marie wasn't helping at all. |
| 215 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: Marie. |
| 216 | --> '''Marie''': I may not be a certified therapist, but I've been told by many people that I could be.\ |
| 217 | '''Frank''': That's not what people mean when they say you're certifiable! |
| 218 | * LameComeback: In "Ray's Journal", after Robert said he kept his real journal in a safety deposit box at the bank (which contained the stuff he didn't want Marie to read): |
| 219 | --> '''Ray''': What did you put in that one?\ |
| 220 | '''Robert''': Well, certainly nothing I'd have to write with my pants down. (referencing a journal entry of Ray's where he measured his erect penis)\ |
| 221 | '''Ray''': Yeah, if your pants ''were'' down, the only thing you could write is, "Hey, where's everybody going?"\ |
| 222 | '''Robert''': ({{Beat}}) What?\ |
| 223 | '''Ray''': (angry) I don't know! (leaves) |
| 224 | ** In "Cousin Gerard", after Ray is told he's annoying: |
| 225 | --> '''Ray''': Hey, Robby, you really wanna see annoying? Why don't you check in the mirror?\ |
| 226 | '''Robert''': [[SarcasmMode Bravo.]] |
| 227 | * LastSecondWordSwap: In "Slave", Robert is about to say the meal that Ally cooked for him is the best he ever tasted. Marie looks at him disapprovingly, so instead he ends the sentence with a round of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" (Ray nervously joins in). |
| 228 | * LateToTheRealization: Peter could fall into this at times: |
| 229 | --> '''Peter''': Listen, man. First, Amy went to college. Then she got a job in the city. Then she met your brother. And now she wants to get married. I'm starting to think she doesn't wanna live at home. |
| 230 | * LaymansTerms: In "The Checkbook": |
| 231 | --> '''Andy''': You're $3,000 overdrawn here! You didn't even open up your bank statement!\ |
| 232 | '''Ray''': I trusted the bank.\ |
| 233 | '''Andy''': You didn't reconcile your checkbook!\ |
| 234 | '''Ray''': Huh?\ |
| 235 | '''Andy''': ''You have to keep track, Ray!'' |
| 236 | * LeaningOnTheFourthWall In one episode, a radio announcer in-universe says that they'll be right back after a break. Then the episode goes to a commercial break. |
| 237 | * LessEmbarrassingTerm: Robert insists for several episodes that a bull gored him in the "upper thigh." |
| 238 | * LongList: In "The Bigger Person": |
| 239 | --> '''Frank''': Anyway, make me a sandwich, will ya?\ |
| 240 | '''Marie''': A sandwich?\ |
| 241 | '''Frank''': Uh, roast beef, mayo, mustard, lettuce, tomato, cheese, easy onion. |
| 242 | ** In "Snow Day", Marie apologizes that with the power outage, she wasn't able to make much, but then proceeds to list a large amount of sandwiches anyway. |
| 243 | --> '''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.\ |
| 244 | '''Ray''': Ma, you're two pickles away from opening a deli. |
| 245 | ** In "The Canister", Ray and Robert get sidetracked about the canister: |
| 246 | --> '''Ray''': This was my Grandma's! You know how many cookies I've had from this thing?\ |
| 247 | '''Robert''': Mmm, and lemon squares.\ |
| 248 | '''Ray''': And brownies.\ |
| 249 | '''Robert''': Blondies.\ |
| 250 | '''Ray''': Fudge.\ |
| 251 | '''Robert''': Chocolate biscotti.\ |
| 252 | '''Ray''': Macaroons.\ |
| 253 | '''Robert''': Oh, the macaroons.\ |
| 254 | '''Ray''': How about the ginger snaps-\ |
| 255 | '''Debra''': Hey, fat people! Who cares?! |
| 256 | * LongLostRelative: Debra's sister Jennifer; she and Debra hardly kept in contact ever since college, and when Jennifer finally pays the family a visit, it's to say she's become a nun and is going on an extended missionairy trip to Africa. |
| 257 | * LostMyAppetite: When Raymond accusing Lois of not letting him having any say in his wife's surprise party, he declares that he's lost his appetite. |
| 258 | * LostWeddingRing: Down the vent. |
| 259 | * LysistrataGambit: A few episodes center around Ray being convinced Debra deliberately withholds sex from him. One, "The Power of No", has Ray turning the tables of being the one to say "no" to sex. |
| 260 | * MacGuffin: The heavily coveted first prize in "Cookies" that spurred the huge rivalry between Ray and Peggy was a cheap beach chair [[spoiler:that breaks as soon as Ray sits in it.]] |
| 261 | * MadAtADream: Bob Newhart shared an anecdote about his wife during the "The First Six Years" special: |
| 262 | --> '''Bob''': I said, "Honey, is there something wrong?" And she said, uh, she said "I had a dream last night, and we were at a party, and you spent the entire time at the party dancing with this other girl." I said, "But it was a dream." She said, "But it's just the kind of thing you'd do." |
| 263 | * TheMafia: It is heavily implied that Stefania's father Marco has ties to the Mafia. In a hilarious scene, Robert discovers that Marco has taken over Nemo's Pizzeria and the following exchange occurs: |
| 264 | --> '''Robert:''' * nervously* What happened to Nemo?\ |
| 265 | '''Marco:''' He go away.\ |
| 266 | '''Robert:''' * freaked out* Where?\ |
| 267 | '''Marco:'''* glares significantly* ''Away''. |
| 268 | ** In "Favors": |
| 269 | --> '''Marie''': And so, yes. Maybe sometimes I ask for a favor in return, once in a blue moon. And you call that "controlling"? I call that "a family".\ |
| 270 | '''Amy''': A ''Mafia'' family...\ |
| 271 | '''Marie''': Is ''that'' what you think, Amy?\ |
| 272 | '''Amy''': ....I'm sorry. |
| 273 | ** In "Mia Famiglia", everybody but Debra is speaking Italian at the dinner table. They start talking about how one of their relatives was the only one brave enough to stand up to the Mafia. Debra, only understanding the word "mafia" in the conversation, says, "Your family is part of the Mafia? I knew it." |
| 274 | * MafiaPrincess: As noted above, it's implied that Stefania is this, although if it's true, then she at least seems to be blissfully unaware of it. She knows that her father can seem intimidating to potential suitors such as Robert, but she apparently has no idea that he might be in the Mafia. |
| 275 | * {{Malaproper}}: From "Party Dress": |
| 276 | --> '''Ray''': It's morally and ethnically wrong!\ |
| 277 | '''Debra''': ...You're out of your element, Ray. |
| 278 | ** In "The Sneeze", Ray says he should take some Ibuproferenium. |
| 279 | ** Debra misuses many golf terms in "Fun With Debra", telling Ray to "slice" the ball into the hole on the green, saying "You didn't ''par off'' without me, did you?", and saying that birdies had nothing to do with golf (she got matching visors with birdies on them). |
| 280 | ** In "The Cult", Ray suggests that they have an insurrection [[labelnote:Note]](intervention)[[/labelnote]] for Robert. |
| 281 | * MamaBear: Marie has many moments of this trope. One is the flashback episode to when Robert and his first wife got a divorce. Upon hearing that Joanne has dumped Robert (after treating him cruelly for years), Marie puts down the cake she was carrying, turns to glare icily at Joanne and growls ''You...'' before beginning a speech about how she had held her tongue for years and that she found out all about Joanne's sordid past. She ends by saying "You think you're dumping my son? No. My son is dumping ''you''. It's time to '''''take out the trash!'''''" and shoving Joanne out the door. |
| 282 | -->'''Ray:*peeking out the window a few moments later*''' ''Joanne's gone already. The scary thing is, I think I saw a bat flying away''. |
| 283 | * ManChild: |
| 284 | ** Ray acts like this. Marie virtually enforces it with her mothering, much to Debra's consternation. |
| 285 | ** Robert is an even bigger man child, but mainly because not only does Marie enforce on him as well, but Robert spent a number of seasons living at home with her and Frank and sponging off them as well. Also, DependingOnTheWriter, Robert's level of maturity is either above or below Ray's. |
| 286 | * ManipulativeBastard: Marie is ''very'' good at controlling the family. They're all aware of it, but they try not to think about it. Can be best summed up by a line uttered by Marie during a time the family is about to connect the dots and realize she's to blame for something: |
| 287 | --->'''Marie:''' Let's all eat this food I made, and remember that this was nobody's fault. |
| 288 | ** Debra has her moments well, such as in the episode where she gets annoyed that Ray is spending so much time volunteering at a hospital, so she tells Robert that he'd be talented enough to take Ray's place there as the resident entertainer. Ray gets upset and leaves the hospital, just as Debra planned. Of course it backfires totally, as she's forced to entertain the cranky seniors who hate her. |
| 289 | * ManipulativeEditing: In-universe, Ray and Robert perform this for Frank's video tribute. The reason? None of Frank's friends have anything nice to say about him, but Ray decides to ask his friends what they think about chocolate. This leads to blatantly obvious cuts in the footage: "Oh I love..." (different footage) "Frank Barone!" |
| 290 | * AManIsAlwaysEager: Ray, even when upset, such as in "The Mentor" when he rants about Frank spending time with a fellow employee instead of his own sons. |
| 291 | --> '''Debra''': Ray?\ |
| 292 | '''Ray''': (angrily) What?!\ |
| 293 | '''Debra''': You wanna have sex?\ |
| 294 | '''Ray''': NO!..... (reconsiders; angrily) Yeeeesssssss! |
| 295 | ** Discussed by Warren and Lois in "Fighting In-Laws": |
| 296 | --> '''Lois''': I am not withholding sex from you, Warren! I'm tired! Can't I ever be tired? Is that ''allowed''?\ |
| 297 | '''Warren''': Well, ''I'm'' never too tired... |
| 298 | * ManlyTears: |
| 299 | ** In "Golf", Ray and Kevin get misty-eyed when Tiger Woods thanks his father on TV. They break the awkwardness by going to check on the car in the garage. |
| 300 | ** This comes up again in "Ray Home Alone," where Doug randomly asks the guys when was the last time they felt like crying ("Other than about sports?" Giani keeps asking); Ray mentions feeling a little choked up when he watched Michael and Geoffrey walking into preschool, hand-in-hand. |
| 301 | * MarsAndVenusGenderContrast: A driving force in the way all the couples are portrayed, though not ''quite'' as much with Robert and Amy. |
| 302 | * MayDecemberRomance: "Young Girl": 43-year old Robert starts dating a 22-year old. Later it's revealed that the woman is actually ''19'', and Robert was lying about his age too, saying he was 35. |
| 303 | * {{Men Are Uncultured}}: Played painfully straight...over and over and over again. |
| 304 | * {{Metaphorgotten}}: In "Sweet Charity": |
| 305 | --> '''Ray''': Dirty laundry has come home to roost! |
| 306 | * MindYourStep: When Ray hurts himself in a particularly athletic bedroom session, he claims he tripped on a broken step to his parents. It backfires when turns out the stairs really were broken and Frank falls THROUGH them when he investigates. |
| 307 | * AMistakeIsBorn: Robert was always told he was born three months prematurely, but at one point in the series, both Marie and Frank confess they gave into temptation, Marie got pregnant, and they got married to "right the wrong"; Robert being born prematurely was a story they both made up to hide the fact that they engaged in premarital sex. |
| 308 | * MistakenForCheating: In "Raybert", Robert dates a woman who thinks he is Ray, and he gets Ray to pretend to be him. At the end of the episode, the woman goes to what she thinks is Robert's house (actually Ray's house). Debra answers the door, and the woman reveals that she is dating who she thinks is Ray and that he told her his wife was dead. |
| 309 | * MistakenForGay: |
| 310 | ** Robert, in "What's With Robert?". |
| 311 | ** Giani invokes this in "Ray Home Alone," after Ray mentions he felt choked up watching Michael and Geoffrey walking into preschool hand-in-hand; Ray, obviously, meant he was touched at seeing his twins' emotional bond, though Giani interprets Ray was upset because he thought his twins are gay (and for each other). |
| 312 | * ModelScam: 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. |
| 313 | * {{Montages}}: In "Cruising With Marie", there's a montage of Ray/Marie on the cruise and Frank/Robert at home, set to "Yellow Bird Up High In Banana Tree". |
| 314 | ** In "The Power of No", there's a montage of Ray and Debra going to bed without sex over the course of many nights, set to "[[TheElevatorFromIpanema The Girl From Ipanema]]." |
| 315 | * MoodSwinger: Debra in general, with a prominent example in "The Walk to the Door", at a wedding: |
| 316 | --> '''Ray''': You win: I'm a bad person. |
| 317 | --> '''Debra''': (angry, to Ray) Oh, how do I ''win''? You know, you- (notices the bride and groom kissing at a nearby table; becomes happy) Ohoho, they're kissing. (back to angry) You know what would make me happy? If you recognized a regret before you did it! |
| 318 | ** Perhaps the most infamous example is in "Bad Moon Rising" when Debra, having just finished berating Ray for not being more sensitive to her during her time of the month, answers the phone. It's Amy on the other end, and after only a couple seconds, she is in a good mood. [[spoiler:But after Ray breaks out that pill again, reading the problems it solves...]]. |
| 319 | * MoodWhiplash: In "Lucky Suit", Robert is angling for a job at the FBI, which it seems Marie unwittingly ruined by sending his interviewer a long apology note for ruining Robert's lucky suit. It's played for laughs, especially when Marie goes to the office to set things right, until she reveals that she did it on purpose because Robert was one year from retirement on the police force, and she was tired of worrying about Robert on the job every night. It's a very moving speech...[[spoiler: until the agent says they were going to pass on Robert because of better candidates. Cue another whiplash back into comedy as Marie doesn't take kindly on someone being more qualified then her Robby]]. |
| 320 | ** The second act of "Golf For It" starts heavy on the comedy as Ray and Robert, still annoyed at Marie's demands, joke about her and place a golf-bet on who has to take her after Frank dies. However, things turn serious when Ray says, "She's gonna be with you 'til the day she dies!" After that, the tone gets more serious as the two golf with the ''reward'' of taking Marie after Frank dies. Robert even accuses Ray of not loving Marie as much as he does. Things veer back towards comedy, though, when the two physically fight and call a truce. |
| 321 | ** "Snow Day", which starts out light-hearted as usual, gets a sudden mood whiplash when Debra blurts out that she's surprised she's having a good time with Frank. Frank, offended by the idea that Debra doesn't enjoy his company, sullenly walks out of the house. Cue commercial break. |
| 322 | ** In "The Home", Ray, Debra, Robert, and Amy are all ecstatic about Marie and Frank moving to a retirement community. However, in the next act, Debra begins to have conflicting feelings about it, and bears her heart to Marie just before the two leave: |
| 323 | --> '''Debra''': Okay. I know I should have said this years ago, but... We kind of... no, we ''have'' butted heads a lot over the years and... we've said some unfortunate things to each other and about each other, and I guess we've just decided that that's how it is. But I know that you and I are not okay with the way things are between us. You know, when you told me that you were moving, I was happy, because it meant I wouldn't have to deal with all the fighting and the tension. But I don't like feeling that way. I feel like we're just giving up, and I don't want to do that. I don't. I... I think that there could be so much more for us. And I'm sorry that we haven't gotten there yet, but I think that we can.\ |
| 324 | '''Marie''': Oh Debra... do you know what your problem is? (audience laughs) You're always so dramatic. I'm ''fine'' with the way we are!\ |
| 325 | '''Debra''': ...Have a great trip. |
| 326 | ** "Separation" has a very touching scene where Warren consoles Debra, who is upset that he and Lois are getting divorced. Then towards the end of the scene, Warren admits that he wishes his marriage was a lot like Marie and Frank's. "They seem to have the secret." |
| 327 | --> '''Debra''': ...But they're maniacs! |
| 328 | ** Then there's the finale, which runs the gamut of comedy and drama, especially concerning Ray's near-death experience. |
| 329 | ** "She's the One" runs the absolute gamut. It opens with Robert introducing his new girlfriend Angela to Ray and Debra. She seems perfect, until Ray sees her eat a dead fly ("AND SHE ''AAAAAAAAAAAAAATE IT!''") The audience laughs hysterically at the entire bit--one of the longest recorded reactions on the show. The scene where Robert goes back to Angela's place and discovers that her [[RoomFullOfCrazy bedroom]] is ''overflowing'' with live frogs in terrariums, toy frogs, frog paintings, and general frog-themed paraphernalia is also played for big laughs, especially when Robert escapes out a window and tries to have a perfectly "normal" conversation with Angela while hanging there. It's all extremely funny--and then Robert goes back to Ray's and has a complete emotional breakdown, admitting that he fears he's completely unlovable (except by bizarre people) and, even worse, resigning himself to the fact that he will ''always'' be alone (something that [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness makes Frank try to be kind to him]]). And then, in a final twist, the HopeSpot ending reveals Robert meeting Amy for the first time... |
| 330 | ** "Alone Time": Done for comedy. Debra tries to get Ray to experience honest emotions by recounting the night Ally was born. It doesn't get the reaction she wanted. |
| 331 | --> '''Debra''': The night Ally was born, remember that? It was this really long labor, and you were so worried about it and then, and then she came and, oh my God, she was just so beautiful. And the doctor handed her to you and he said, "Here is your daughter."\ |
| 332 | ''(after a beat, Ray bursts out laughing)''\ |
| 333 | '''Debra''': You are a ''monster''! |
| 334 | * MsFanservice: Debra provides this in at least two episodes - one where she "tells off" a woman who she thought accused her of dressing provocatively by overdoing it in front of her, and another where she tries to seduce Ray wearing only a nightie. Generally though, it's relegated to her wearing tight, but not out-of-place in reality clothing. |
| 335 | ** [[HeadTurningBeauty Stefania]] was also a good example of this trope. [[{{Lampshade}} Lampshaded]] in one episode where the Barones are hosting a party for singles, in hopes of getting Peter together with a girl. When Stefania shows up and takes off her winter coat, revealing a sexy dress on her already-sexy body, the other women simply declared "I'm out!" and left, assuming that they had no hope of getting a guy's attention with Stefania in the room. However, [[spoiler: it turns out they were actually wrong: ''Peggy'', aka the "Cookie Hitler Lady" as Ray calls her, and Peter end up falling in love]]. |
| 336 | * TheMutiny: "Thank You Notes", where Amy offends Marie by not agreeing to write her wedding thank-you notes as soon as possible. Debra realizes that now that it's two against one, she finally has a chance to take down Marie once and for all. |
| 337 | * MyBelovedSmother: Marie, Marie, Marie. |
| 338 | * MyFriendsAndZoidberg: In "The Thought That Counts", Ray hands Marie a birthday present from himself, Robert and Frank. Marie says, "Oh, a present from my sweet sweet boys, and Frank." |
| 339 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In "It's Supposed to be Fun", it takes a talk with Debra to get Ray to realize that his joking around about Geoffrey's inability to play basketball hurts his feelings and caused him to quit. When Debra helps Ray remember that Frank once hurt his feelings in the same way, Ray goes upstairs to apologize to Geoffrey. |
| 340 | * MyWayOrTheHighway: In "A Job For Robert", Marie only lets Robert and Amy live in her and Frank's house if they'll keep trying to have a baby. |
| 341 | * TheNapoleon: Frank Barone. Frank is by no means a short man, approaching six feet tall. But both his adult sons are taller still. Frank therefore tries to exert dominance and alpha-male status over Raymond and Robert - especially the hulking six-foot-eight Robert - at every possible opportunity. An unfulfilled working life as an accountancy wage-slave, low on the employment totem pole, didn't help. Frank also has military fantasies expressed through American Civil War re-enactment. But his "Josephine" generally gives him short shrift. |
| 342 | * NearDeathExperience: Occurs to Ray (without his knowing) in "The Finale". Later in the episode, he is told he almost died on the operating table; he remarks that now that he mentions it, he thinks he saw a light. |
| 343 | * NeverLendToAFriend: Ray & Debra lend Robert money after visiting his run-down bachelor pad, but Ray gets upset when Robert goes to Las Vegas. By the end of the episode, though, Ray has admitted to Robert that he secretly envies him. As Ray puts it, a vacation for him would be going to the bathroom for 2 minutes "without a gang of maniacs pounding on the door." As Robert is still single, he can afford to just up and go to Vegas. Ray urges him to go. |
| 344 | * NeverMessWithGranny: You do '''''not''''' want Marie angry with you. She usually won't retaliate with violence (unless you're someone like Joanne), but she will find other ways to settle the score... |
| 345 | * NewJobEpisode: Robert got two of them; the first was in "Confronting the Attacker" when Robert briefly quit the police force to sell appliance insurance, and the second was in "Security" when he sold home security systems as a second job. |
| 346 | ** Debra got back into the work force in "Working Girl", though her job at an advertising agency was short-lived due to butting heads with the other execs over a new pizza mascot (her creation was Professor Pete Za). |
| 347 | * NewsMonopoly: In "Brother", Ray and Robert sit down to watch a sports game on TV but are horrified to discover that every channel is airing the president's State of the Union Address instead. They very quickly turn it off, only for Robert to turn it on a couple minutes later after Ray shared an uncomfortable bit of info about the first time he had sex with Debra. |
| 348 | * NewYorkIsOnlyManhattan: It averts this. The location is Lynbrook, Long Island. |
| 349 | * TheNicknamer: Ray seems to always have a weird little pet name for Debra anytime he enters a room. |
| 350 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: In "The Lone Barone," Ray is blamed for Amy breaking up with Robert. After saying he couldn't commit to Amy, Robert repeats some of Ray's jokes about marriage to Amy. It isn't really Ray's fault, but Debra and Marie don't see it that way. |
| 351 | * NoAccountingForTaste |
| 352 | * NoodleIncident: Whenever Ray and Robbie reminisce about their rather ''interesting'' childhood, they seem to mention a lot of incidents that seem to fit this trope. |
| 353 | ** One is brought up by Frank in the episode where it is found out that Ray pre-wrote Frank's eulogy: |
| 354 | -->'''Frank:''' (referring to Ray) I remember one time I went up to the attic, turned the light on, and lo and behold...\ |
| 355 | '''Ray:''' Alright, stop it Dad! |
| 356 | *** Validated in the {{Stinger}} when Robert also leads in to the same scenario, but never clarifies it. |
| 357 | ** In "Golf", when Ray is at the doctor's: |
| 358 | --> '''Doctor''': How are Robert's feet doing?\ |
| 359 | '''Ray''': ...Fine. It's been a while since I've seen his feet.\ |
| 360 | '''Doctor''': I tell you, that was an uphill battle. (pause) Anyway... |
| 361 | ** In "The Model", Ray's trying to make Robert smile during his photo shoot: |
| 362 | --> '''Ray''': Uh, remember when I almost got fired?\ |
| 363 | '''Robert''': ''(perks up)'' You almost got fired?\ |
| 364 | '''Ray''': ''(taking pictures)'' There you go! There you go! Hold it.\ |
| 365 | '''Robert''': Why did you almost get fired?\ |
| 366 | '''Ray''': I don't know, but Debra almost left me. |
| 367 | * NoEnding |
| 368 | * NoPeriodsPeriod: The episode ''Bad Mood Rising'' didn't just avert this trope. [[AllPeriodsArePMS It smashed it to pieces]]. %%Aversions to NoPeriodsPeriod shouldn't be listed. |
| 369 | * NoSympathy: In "Separation", Debra tells Ray that her parents have separated and are on the path to divorce. After a brief pause, Ray smirks and almost laughs. Debra is understandably aghast at his reaction, and Ray tries to explain himself by saying the atmosphere was too serious and that he was amused at the way she phrased it (he was picturing a ''literal'' path to divorce in his mind). Later in the same episode, when Debra opens up to him about it, she uses the analogy that her parents' marriage was like a rock. Ray responded with: "It was like a stone, and now it's passed." |
| 370 | * NotDistractedByTheSexy: In "The Sneeze", Ray and Debra don't have time for "going away" sex before Ray's trip. When he gets back, Debra wants to make it up to him by dressing in a skimpy nightie, lighting candles, shaving her legs, and generally being amorous. But Ray's too distracted by the man who sneezed on him at the airport to be turned on. |
| 371 | --> '''Debra''': (after Ray leaves, sans sex) I want credit for this! Can't believe I shaved my legs... |
| 372 | ** The entire plot to "The Power of No", where Ray deliberately turns down sex with Debra so he can have the "power" for once. The highlight of the episode is when Ray and Debra both try to turn the other on; Ray goes to bed oily and shirtless, wearing satin boxers, and flexing, while Debra wears skimpy lingerie, crawls seductively into bed, and lays on the bed outside the covers. Neither give in. |
| 373 | ** Both played straight and subverted in "Older Women": Frank tells a story about a cleaning woman that used to help Ray and Debra when they were first married. After Frank lugged a high chair up the steps of their building, the cleaning woman asked Frank if he wanted a drink to cool off. But when she handed him the glass, she pulled it back in a flirty way. Frank didn't want to play games and firmly asked for the drink; after he drank, she washed the glass, and he left. He told the story in order to prove that he loves Marie and wasn't tempted by another woman. But then Debra asks a question: |
| 374 | --> '''Debra''': Wait a minute... you ''watched'' her wash the glass? |
| 375 | --> '''Frank''': Well ''yeah'', I'm not a monk! |
| 376 | ** In "A Date For Peter", Peter isn't distracted by the beautiful Stefania; he's more interested in Peggy. |
| 377 | * NoteToSelf: In "Bad Moon Rising", Ray revealed that he made an audio recording of Debra chewing him out so he had proof of her PMS-based mood swings. After playing the tape, Debra (bordering on tears) told him, "You are a gigantic ''ass''!" and left. At this, Ray talked into the tape recorder: "10:32: "Gigantic ass"." |
| 378 | * NotHelpingYourCase: In "The Cult", Robert says he joined the cult to get love. Marie replies: "You have that ''here'', you stupid ass!" |
| 379 | ** In "The Mentor": |
| 380 | --> '''Robert''': How could we respect a guy who said, "Stop brushing your teeth so loud! I'm trying to watch ''Series/{{Gunsmoke}}''!"?\ |
| 381 | '''Marie''': You ''did'' brush loudly, Robert.\ |
| 382 | '''Robert''': Are ya helpin' me, ma? |
| 383 | ** In "Homework", Ray gives a speech to the PTA about lessening the homework load. However, he basically negates any points he made by using technically bad grammar at the end of it: |
| 384 | --> '''Ray''': It feels like the kids today have ten times the homework we had. You know? And I don't want my daughter to hate learning; I want her to be curious and thoughtful, and, I think I speak for all parents, I want her to be happy. I mean, I think there's homework that's important and everything, but then I feel like there's overload. Are we piling it on? We're so worried that our children aren't going to be competitive in the future that we're taking away their present. (pause) Anyway, maybe we could all just keep that in mind. Because after all, isn't that the kind of school we want our children to be a part of? (is about the leave the podium, but returns when he realizes he ended a sentence with a preposition) I mean, "in". I mean, "of". I mean, "a part of". I mean... isn't that- isn't that the kind of school we want our children to be a part of. (pause) In. (sits down)\ |
| 385 | '''Teacher''': (to another teacher) And ''you'' wanted to cut down on the English homework. |
| 386 | ** In "Father Knows Least", Debra wants herself and Ray to attend a parenting class. Ray doesn't want to, and says that his parents never took a parenting class. Debra gives him a look that basically says, "That's not helping your argument." |
| 387 | *** Similarly, in "The Annoying Kid", Debra complains that she doesn't have any friends. Ray says, "I'm your friend." Debra responds, "This is the argument??" |
| 388 | ** In "Lateness", Amy goads Robert into seeing Dr. Greenburg for therapy: |
| 389 | --> '''Amy''': I just think you could be happier!\ |
| 390 | '''Robert''': Do we have to talk about this here?\ |
| 391 | '''Amy''': I just want you to feel better about who you are!\ |
| 392 | '''Robert''': (angrily) ''I AM FANTASTIC ABOUT WHO I AM!!!'' |
| 393 | ** In "Seasons Greetings", when Ray criticizes the way Debra and Marie worded the section about his job in the Christmas letter: |
| 394 | --> '''Debra''': Ray, come on, you're overreacting.\ |
| 395 | '''Ray''': (raised voice) [[PunctuatedForEmphasis I. AM. NOT. OVERREACT-TING!]] |
| 396 | ** In "Tissues", when Ray said that his "outfits" that Marie made for him got him beat up as a kid, Marie told Ray to give him the names of those kids. |
| 397 | --> '''Ray''': I'm all grown up, ma! All grown up!\ |
| 398 | '''Marie''': And look how you dress. |
| 399 | ** In "Robert Moves Back", after Marie walks in on Robert and Amy having sex: |
| 400 | --> '''Marie''': You are out of control, young man!\ |
| 401 | '''Robert''': ''(dressed in just his police top)'' No I'm not, Ma.\ |
| 402 | '''Frank''': Hard to make that argument without pants. |
| 403 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: 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. |
| 404 | * NotWhatItLooksLike: Subverted in "Sleepover at Peggy's"; Ray patting Robert's butt was meant to demonstrate what Peggy did to Ray, but since Ray didn't want Debra to know that, he pretended he was showing Robert how the college and pro football players pat each other. |
| 405 | --> '''Debra''': I'll let you guys get back to your "half-time show"... |
| 406 | ** Similarly, in "Debra's Parents", just as Hank and Pat show up for Thanksgiving, they see Warren and Lois in nothing but bed sheets, with Warren proudly proclaiming to Debra, "Sweetie, you don't have to be married to have sex!" Hank and Pat are shocked, so Robert quickly covers, saying that they're rehearsing a play. |
| 407 | ** In "The Apartment", two women invite Robert to an apartment-wide party. He goes to get his checkbook, and while he's gone, Debra comes in. When Robert returns, he gives them a check and says, [[TheOldestProfession "Here's your money, girls!"]] One of the women jokes, "Thanks, but we don't usually take checks. (laughs)" |
| 408 | ** In "Cruising With Marie", the activities director doesn't believe Ray when he says that Marie is his mother, not his older lover. Ray's insistence on this fact isn't helped by a scene later in the episode when Ray says he doesn't know how to dance, and Marie shows him. Guess who walks by their room when this occurs? |
| 409 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Several episodes suggest that Ray is actually far more clever than he lets on. One episode has him & Frank actually telling Robert to deliberately act this way so the wife will do all the work. |
| 410 | ** The idea of Ray being more clever than he lets on is hinted at further during the "Angry Sex" episode: if you look closely during one scene, Ray is actually reading a book about Zen Buddhism. |
| 411 | --> '''Ray''': I may ''seem'' stupid, but that's just to get your mother to not ask me to do stuff, okay? |
| 412 | * ObnoxiousInLaws: Frank, Marie, and Robert are practically the {{Trope Codifier}}s |
| 413 | * ObviousBeta: [[invoked]]In "Security", Ray is irritated that the alarm system that Robert installed keeps going off for no reason at all. |
| 414 | --> '''Robert''': Yeah well, you know, the Excalibur 2000 can be a little buggy. For an additional $99 a month, I could install an upgrade.\ |
| 415 | '''Ray''': Yeah, how 'bout I install my foot right up your--\ |
| 416 | '''Debra''': [[CurseCutShort RAY]]. |
| 417 | * ObviousStuntDouble: In the opening credits for an early series, Ray Romano needed to be seen performing desperate athletic feats, such as propelling himself across the living-room on a tea-trolley and somersaulting towards the door to lock it - in order to prevent his parents getting in. It only becomes apparent a stunt double was used if you look really closely. [[note]] The stunt double landed awkwardly, face-first into the door, and broke his nose. Imagine Ray Romano's famous nose getting damaged in this way. Would he have taken the door with him?[[/note]] |
| 418 | * OccidentalOtaku: Peter. |
| 419 | * OhCrap: In "Bad Moon Rising", Ray buys Debra some pills for PMS, and says it should take care of all her symptoms. Debra examines the package and her reaction causes an OhCrap response in Ray: |
| 420 | --> '''Debra''': Except for "bitchy", right, Ray?\ |
| 421 | '''Ray''': ...Huh?\ |
| 422 | '''Debra''': (raising voice) I mean there's nothing ''in'' here for ''BITCHY''.\ |
| 423 | '''Ray''': ...Probably need a prescription for "bitchy"... |
| 424 | ** From the episode "Frank's Tribute," a few hours after Marie storms upstairs after Frank refuses to talk about his issues with her, Frank goes upstairs to find her in bed, seemingly asleep. He gets in next to her, and... |
| 425 | --> '''Marie''': We're going to talk about this, you know. |
| 426 | --> '''Frank''': Oh, ''crap!'' |
| 427 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Played for laughs in numerous episodes; Frank will claim that Marie is impossibly old, often claiming she's as old as cavemen or dinosaurs. |
| 428 | --> '''Marie''': When I was your age-\ |
| 429 | '''Frank''': You sat around the fire and wondered how it got there. |
| 430 | ** Or this example, from the finale: |
| 431 | --> '''Marie''': What's my birthday?\ |
| 432 | '''Ray''': Uh, December 9th.\ |
| 433 | '''Frank''': 1802! |
| 434 | * OneShotCharacter: A relative rarity for the series; it was more content to focus the storylines on the five main characters. Regardless, there were some one-shot characters over the years: |
| 435 | ** "Pilot": Leo, a friend of Ray's who is never featured in any other episode |
| 436 | ** "I Wish I Were Gus": Aunt Alda |
| 437 | ** "All I Want For Christmas": Erin |
| 438 | ** "The Sitter": Lisa |
| 439 | ** "Working Girl": Charlotte |
| 440 | ** "The Sister": Jennifer, Debra's sister |
| 441 | ** "Debra's Workouts": Nick the aerobics class instructor |
| 442 | ** "The Christmas Picture": Steven Golden the photographer |
| 443 | ** "Marie and Frank's New Friends": Seth |
| 444 | ** "Italy": Aunt Colleta, Giorgio |
| 445 | ** "Ray Home Alone": Robert's girlfriend Eileen |
| 446 | ** "The Walk to the Door": Elizabeth, the woman that Ray didn't walk to the door when they were teens |
| 447 | ** "Young Girl": Robert's 19-year old girlfriend |
| 448 | ** "The Angry Family": The school counselor |
| 449 | ** "Older Women": Emma, Warren's older girlfriend |
| 450 | ** "Raybert": Natasha, Robert's girlfriend who thought he was Ray Barone |
| 451 | ** "Homework": Miss Purcell |
| 452 | ** "She's the One": Angela, Robert's fly-eating girlfriend |
| 453 | ** "The Annoying Kid": Spencer, as well as his parents |
| 454 | ** "Somebody Hates Raymond": Jerry Musso |
| 455 | ** "The Shower": Mr. Hodell; Officer Keon |
| 456 | ** "Robert's Wedding": Reverend Stevens |
| 457 | ** "The Mentor": Sammy |
| 458 | ** "Not So Fast": The condo president and his assistant |
| 459 | ** "Ally's F": Mr. Putnam |
| 460 | ** "Boys' Therapy": Cousin Bella |
| 461 | ** "The Faux Pas": George and his son, Chris |
| 462 | ** "The Finale": The doctor and his assistant |
| 463 | * OnlySaneMan: Ray, particularly in the early seasons. |
| 464 | ** The kids, fit this trope throughout the entire series, as they were the only characters who appeared to be relatively "normal." |
| 465 | ** Amy as well. It's true that she was a bit naive, but for the most part she was one of the few "normal" members of the family. |
| 466 | ** Debra is this on occasion as well. Though, she can be just as crazy and a Jerkass as the others. Frank considers ''himself'' and Debra as the "normal ones". |
| 467 | -->'''Debra:''': When I got married, I didn't just get a husband, I got a whole freak show that set up their tent right across the street! |
| 468 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When Frank suddenly compliments Ray's writing in "You Bet", Ray suspects something's up (turns out Frank was pumping Ray for information about sports teams to win bets). |
| 469 | ** While Robert initially enjoyed the attention Marie suddenly lavishes on him in "Pants on Fire", he suspects she has other motives for it (he's right; it was just to make Ray jealous). |
| 470 | ** In "Robert's Rodeo", when Ray is cracking jokes about Robert being gored by a bull: |
| 471 | --> '''Debra''': Do you realize, in a room that includes your father, ''you're'' being the most insensitive?\ |
| 472 | '''Ray''': Yeah, I don't know what's wrong with dad. He must be tired. |
| 473 | ** Frank is unusually introspective and grateful in "Italy Part 1": |
| 474 | --> '''Frank''': It's a beautiful place, huh?\ |
| 475 | '''Ray''': Oh, yeah yeah, good night.\ |
| 476 | '''Frank''': I'll tell ya, when your mother told me she'd been hiding that money from me, I was thinking what dress to lay her out in. And now I'm here... in friggin' Italy. It's like a dream. I'm from Lynbrook. I worked my whole life. I never thought I'd be in such a place.\ |
| 477 | '''Ray''': ''(sharing the same bed)'' I was just wondering, could your ''leg'' be in another place?\ |
| 478 | '''Frank''': I happen to be serious.\ |
| 479 | '''Ray''': All right, okay.\ |
| 480 | '''Frank''': No, I know I I complain about stuff and all that, but I'm a lucky man. I'm a very lucky man. ''(rolls over, presumably crying tears of joy)''\ |
| 481 | '''Ray''': ...I'm not holding him. |
| 482 | ** In "The First Time," Debra tries to bury the hatchet with Marie over their largest and longest argument, but Marie has none of it and tries to ignore her. Marie then offers Frank and Robert some extra sauce for their pasta. Frank, for the first time in the series (and maybe in their entire marriage) refuses Marie's cooking, and instead insists that she talk to Debra. |
| 483 | * OpenHeartDentistry: When policeman Robert Barone thinks he has to deliver Debra's baby during a traffic jam on the Queensborough Bridge while rushing her to hospital. Fortunately for Allie and Debra, it's a false alarm. |
| 484 | * OrderedApology: In "Ray's Journal", Debra is aghast that Marie made Ray apologize for private thoughts he wrote 25 years ago. Marie retorts with a hypothetical scenario, which convinces Debra to force Ray to apologize again: |
| 485 | --> '''Marie''': Imagine little Michael, who loves you, who lights up whenever you get near him. Now imagine him at fourteen, and he doesn't talk to you anymore. And you don't want to push him, so you just offer him more love. And then one night you make him his favorite dinner and you try to give him a kiss good night, but he walks upstairs with a grunt. Then one day, you come across his journal, and you open it, and it says "I hate my mom." I wouldn't wish that on ''you'', Debra.\ |
| 486 | '''Debra''': ...Ray?\ |
| 487 | '''Ray''': What?\ |
| 488 | '''Debra''': Apologize to your mother.\ |
| 489 | '''Ray''': ...I-I already did--\ |
| 490 | '''Debra''': DO IT AGAIN. |
| 491 | * OutOfCharacterMoment: In one episode, Marie is excited by violence-heavy action movies. This seems in direct contrast to what we usually think of with her. |
| 492 | ** Frank is so touched by the gift Amy and Robert brought him from their honeymoon in Italy, that he completely ignores the ''perfect setup'' for a crack about Marie's age that she provides him when she asks his opinion about her own gift, a hundred-year-old antique pin. |
| 493 | -->'''Marie:''' What do you think, Frank? A ''hundred'' years old!\ |
| 494 | '''Frank:''' ''[long beat]'' ...I think it's lovely. Just lovely!\ |
| 495 | '''Ray:''' What the hell? |
| 496 | * OutOfFocus: The kids, most of the time. As Ray says in the original opening sequence, "It's not really about the kids." |
| 497 | * {{Overcrank}}: Seen in the "Ode to Joy" and "football game" opening sequences. |
| 498 | * OverlyPrepreparedGag: In "Blabbermouths", Ray told Debra that he had a dream where a train ("choo choo") left him behind, and was saying "Choo choo gone!" in his sleep. When Robert and Frank come over, Frank asks for the chips from Robert and both eat with their mouths open. |
| 499 | --> '''Ray''': Hey animals, could you chew with your mouths closed, please?\ |
| 500 | '''Frank''': Oh sorry, don't you like the way we "chew chew"?\ |
| 501 | '''Robert''': Hehehe, "chew chew"! [[DontExplainTheJoke "Choo choo gone!"]] |
| 502 | * ParentalFavoritism: What do you think the title means? |
| 503 | ** TheUnfavorite: Where else could Robert fit? |
| 504 | *** Amusingly, in "A Job For Robert", Marie claims that the only reason she lavished so much attention on Ray was because he was a needy, weak little boy, and she never had to worry about Robert. Of course, when Marie secretly winks at Ray, it pretty much disproves that, and she was only saying those things to butter up Robert enough so that he'd deliver on wanting to have kids with Amy. |
| 505 | *** Also, in "Pants on Fire", Marie suddenly lavishes attention on Robert, merely because she's mad at Ray for throwing a party in her house when he was a teen. |
| 506 | --> '''Robert''': All right, what's going on?!\ |
| 507 | '''Ray''': Yeah, stop it, Ma, you're freakin' him out. |
| 508 | * ParentalHypocrisy: The problem in "The Disciplinarian"; Ray and Debra realize they have a hard time telling Michael and Geoffrey to behave when they did rebellious things as teenagers. (Ray repeatedly broke curfew and Debra took her top off at Mardi Gras) |
| 509 | * ParentingTheHusband: Used frequently, especially in the later seasons, either due to Ray being lazy or Debra wanting control over Ray. Ray at one point outright states he pretends to be a buffoon so that Debra does all the work. |
| 510 | * PetTheDog |
| 511 | * PleasePutSomeClothesOn: Debra, to Warren in "Debra's Parents" when he attempts to hug her in nothing but bed sheets (he and Lois were having sex just a few minutes prior). |
| 512 | * PoorMansPorn: The educational variety. In "The Invasion," Ray picks up one of his childhood encyclopedias and jokingly asks Debra if she wants to look up reproductive organs. Debra gives him a look and Ray says, "It's all I had. Until Farrah." |
| 513 | ** In one episode, Frank is going to hold down the fort while Debra and Ray take the kids trick-or-treating, and he asks if they still have the "naked channel." Ray says it's all scrambled and Frank says, "I don't mind." In another episode, Debra mentions Ray periodically checking this channel just in case the cable company forgot to scramble it. |
| 514 | * {{Portmanteau}}: In "Sister-in-Law", Robert combines "jealous" and "ass" into "jealass", in describing Ray. |
| 515 | ** Then there's "Raybert". |
| 516 | * PottyFailure: In "Blabbermouths", it's revealed that when Amy laughs, she pees a little. At the end of the episode, Frank walks in the house with a toupee. Everyone laughs at how ridiculous it looks, including Amy, who abruptly stops laughing and slowly crosses her legs. |
| 517 | ** In "Who Am I?", Ray joins Frank and his old friends in the lodge steam room. To fit in, Ray admits some physical issues he's been having, and one of them is, "I got up ''twice'' last night to pee." The guys express sympathy for him, and one of them says, "At least you got ''up''." |
| 518 | * PreacherMan: While not actually a preacher, Amy's father Hank definitely ''could'' have been one. |
| 519 | * PreAssKickingOneLiner: In "The Sigh", after Ray tells her to get out of the basement: |
| 520 | --> '''Debra''': ''(currently on the phone)'' Amy... can I call you back? |
| 521 | * PreemptiveApology: |
| 522 | --> '''Ray''': So it should be all me. I should go to work and raise the kids. And what do ''you'' do all day? I'm sorry.\ |
| 523 | '''Debra''': Excuse me??\ |
| 524 | '''Ray''': I'm sorry.\ |
| 525 | '''Debra''': That's ''right'', you're sorry.\ |
| 526 | '''Ray''': That's right, I'm sorry. |
| 527 | * PrimalFear: "Ray Home Alone" reveals that Ray and Robert have not quite gotten over their childhood fears of the dark. |
| 528 | * PrisonEpisode: The one where Debra is put in the tank for drunk-driving. Fortunately, Lieutenant Robert Barone is nearby. |
| 529 | * ProgressivelyPrettier: Debra spends the early seasons with short, dowdy hair, "mom jeans" up past her waistline, and big sweaters. By the final three seasons, she's wearing the tightest T-shirts humanly possible, painted-on jeans, and has glamorous hair, as if someone suddenly realized Patricia Heaton was attractive. |
| 530 | * PublicDomainSoundtrack: The intro to certain episodes in seasons 3-5 used Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" as its theme. |
| 531 | * PublicServiceAnnouncement: Robert gives one at the end of "Confronting the Attacker": |
| 532 | --> '''Robert''': ''(standing with Nestor, the bull that gored him)'' Hello, I'm Sergeant Robert Barone of the New York City Police Department. Now you may remember me and my friend Nestor here from this little video. ''(cue footage of Robert running away from Nestor)'' That's me, and that's Nestor. Not a fun day. Remember, always be alert when crossing the street. Use crosswalks and always look in both directions for oncoming traffic before stepping off the curb. Take it from me and Nestor, when you're out on the street, ''anything'' can happen. And that's no bull. |
| 533 | * {{Pun}}: From "Confronting the Attacker" during the public service announcement where Robert's standing next to the bull that gored him: |
| 534 | --> '''Robert''': When you're out on the street, ''anything'' can happen. And that's ''no bull''. |
| 535 | ** Earlier in this story arc, Frank showed Robert his favorite newspaper headline: "Runaway bull: Cop gets horny". |
| 536 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFRwY1KCSbI LOVELESS MARRIAGE?!]] |
| 537 | ** An exchange from the episode where Robert ends up dating a girl who secretly eats bugs and raises hundreds of frogs: |
| 538 | -->'''Ray:''' ''Angela ate the fly!''\ |
| 539 | '''Robert:''' ''What?''\ |
| 540 | '''Debra:''' ''What?!''\ |
| 541 | '''Ray:''' ''The fly, that was flying around...Angela killed it, it landed on her napkin, she picked it up...and then [[PunctuatedForEmphasis SHE. AAAAAAATE IT!!!!!!!!'']] |
| 542 | ** In "Faux Pas": "FE, FI, FAUX PAS!" |
| 543 | ** In "Not So Fast", Robert tells God, "YOU, ARE. NOT. FUNNY!" |
| 544 | ** Ray: In "A Vote For Debra" when Marie tries to give water to Michael and Geoffrey: "I SAID NO. MORE. WATER!!!" |
| 545 | * PutOnABus: Ray's friend Dave (played by Dave Attell) was not seen after the start of season 2. Kevin/Doug (Kevin James) was also not seen after season 3. |
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