Everybody Loves Raymond is an all-time classic. It's a sitcom that is hilarious because of how realistic it is. It's your everyday family that will remind you of your own. Even though Ray Romano is the star and very funny it's the supporting cast (Brad Garrett, Peter Doyle, Doris Roberts) which separates this from other great sitcoms. While it may not be the best supporting cast ever it's definitely up there. This is a show that's been done numerous times before but not nearly as well. It's also one of those comedies that you can rewatch as many times as you want and it'll still make you laugh.
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Supermanfan-131 February 2023Everybody Loves Raymond is just as funny today as it was when it was on 15-20 years ago. If you look up any list of the best sitcoms of all-time I promise you that Everybody Loves Raymond will be on it. It's absolutely hilarious. This is one of those sitcoms where you can watch the reruns over and over and find them just as funny as the first time you saw them. You can have it on in the background while you do other things and just pick up anywhere in the episode and start laughing. The cast is perfect. The show is so funny because it'll remind you of your own family. There are at least a few characters in the show that you'll think was based off someone from your own family.
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coreycitn6315 March 2022My favorite character of Everybody Loves Raymond is Robert. Robert is the poor soul whose mother obsesses over Raymond and gets no respect from his father. Raymond is a whiny mother's boy and in order to put up with Raymond and his family Debra is a screeching shrew. Robert is the most tolerable character.
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I first watched this during my vacation in 2011 and have watched it several times since. Its my go to series when I just want to sit back, relax and have a good laugh. I have not seen a TV series as perfect as this. Each and every character, the script, the dialogue.. Everything came together to make this the best family comedy show EVER. I watch a lot of TV and have watched almost all the popular series that I could get my hands on but nothing beats this. I love and adore Ray. His antics are really endearing. I see a lot of him in my husband and a lot of me in Debra. They are what every family is, with the regular day to day problems faced by all families presented in a satirical form.
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fee_tambo5 January 2006...but now I'm hooked, and I've even bought 5 DVD boxsets of it! Its weird because its both subtle AND sharp humour.
Its about Ray Romano, a sportswriter who just wants a quiet life...but he has 3 kids (a girl and twin toddler boys) and Debra (his wife) who struggles to juggle housekeeping and being a mother because Ray just will do anything to stay out of her way and not help! Debra is not your typical sitcom mum. She's independent and opinionated, and a very good match for Ray - she keeps him in line!
His Italian American parents (Marie and Frank) and divorced 40 year old brother (Robert) stay in the same street and facing across from Ray & Debra's house. And they are never away from there - The parents are very loud, expressive, overbearing people, but they don't mean to be....It's just their way. The brother is quirky to say the least! he's 7 foot tall and has a voice like Eeyore from the winnie the pooh movies (he IS the voice from the cartoon). He has weird little habits and is a little obsessive compulsive and insanely jealous of his younger brother Ray. However, at heart they are good, caring people and the family are extraordinarily close...but you'd never know it by the drama and shouting that goes on all the time! This is where the comedy comes from....
Now, I am married to an Italian man and I know from experience what Italian in-laws are like! so this might be why I find this so funny....watching Marie (Rays mum) is like watching my MIL (only its not so funny in real life, believe me!!)
If you like Seinfeld, King of Queens (another sitcom which took ages to grow on me), CLASSIC Woody Allen movies, the film Mambo Italiano or My Big Fat Greek Wedding, then you'll like this. Give it a go, watch more than one episode and you'll end up hooked like me - I promise! -
tsdanclason1 January 2012EBLR is one of my favourite shows out there But their are flaws 1. Ray gets a bit annoying sometimes 2. Some parts of the series gets a bit repetitive 3. It gets stupid sometimes
There are a few more downers but that does not mean I dislike Everybody Loves Raymond as it's a very funny show and as I said one of my favourite shows along with Friends and Family Guy.
So for that reason I give Everybody Loves Raymond a 7/10 It's no a perfect TV series but the what is.
This review is my own personal opinion.
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tvaoga22 July 2015Everybody Loves Raymond is just one of those shows you can't get enough of. I remember watching it as a child everyday before dinner, getting excited to watch all the Barone family drama and getting a good laugh out of it, even today. I absolutely love the characters and plot of each episode because as a viewer, you never really know what you're in for or what the Barones have in store for you and that's what makes it stand out in my books. Beautiful. Funny. Hilarious. You name it, this show has it all. If you're looking for a show where you quite literally form a special bond with the characters and stories, then Everybody Loves Raymond is the show for you. Great for the family and kids and never yields to disappoint. 10/10!
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marcusgallo30 December 2010For the most part the comedy show is fairly well-written. The late sibling rivalries, spousal tension are well-done, as are the tensions with the in-laws. The stereotyped hyper-sex routine is over predictable, ennui. The children are pleasant, but are at times either impassive or, hyperactive, cannot figure which persona? 3 Blondes of two dark haired, highly improbable? Why is Raymond conveyed as such as languid individual or semi-depressed, low confidence. I do not understand, however, the humor in debasing, abusive disrespect for the elderly, nice woman, Marie by the obnoxious ogre. This holds no comic value, and only lowers the overall content.
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valentinionut6 October 2020Because its pandemic i went back and rewatched some old tv series and this one beeing one of em i gotta say its still funny after 15 yrs.
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ThunderKing65 September 2020ELR was a cool show. It wasn't obnoxious and lousey like many before and after its time.
The characters are down to earth. They aren't annoying or have a millennial super-complex.
Ray is like a Seinfeld clone, imperfect, sarcastic with a don't give a fk person a. Unfortunately he's married. So he can't date many women. We are stuck seeing 1 girl he is with for 9 years
ELR was one of those rare gems. When it ended The Big Bang Theory took its place, unfortunately. And the rest is misery.
Verdict: Not every show that can past the 8-10 year milestone is great (Example: The Big Bang Theory). ELR proved that it was one of those shows that were great without having some type of millennial super complex. -
witty_alias17 February 2009i've never understood the appeal of this show. there are no sympathetic characters, everyone is yelling all the time, and they all appear to hate each other. perhaps that is the family dynamic of the target audience of the show, and if so, it's just another example of the 'lowest common denominator' thinking of Hollywood. how there were enough people to be duped into watching over 200 episodes of this mean-spirited, dull, repetitive dreck i'll never know. it is as though the writers came up with ONE idea for a pilot: a slow-witted dullard marries a conniving, bitter woman who never stops yelling, then moves next door to his parents--a conniving, bitter woman who hates the other conniving, bitter woman, and a grumpy old man; and then never came up with another one. This show is absolutely the nadir of American comedy.
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I love comedies that are consistently funny, many times over, where the laughs don't all necessarily come from script, but from situation and timing. Other examples are The Cosby Show, Family Ties, and The King Of Queens. Now Ray Romano may, not be the best actor in the world, but he's acting comedic timing, in playing this kind of layabout hunky sports columnist writer, Ray, ha ha, is dynamite. His folks are played by two superb actors, who gave such great performances, both who've sadly passed away, one most recently (another sad day in Hollywood). I love household comedies, and this is just another household, I'd loved to be part of. ELR has a high ratio laughs level, and for people to say this is crap, honestly, this has left me dumbstruck. Ray's older, less fortunate, and big cop brother, Robert (Brad Garrett) too has wonderful comic timing, with great character to boot. He never slips up, where in stand up, he's bloody fun. I know too, the kids go very neglected here, with not much time on the acting field, but this is the right decision, on part of the writers, as this would take away, the hours of laughs, or magic within the other characters. ELR is one of the best comedies of the last twenty years, where disregard, totally the bad and unfair criticisms. Wonderful frickin' show, and honestly, how could you hate Raymond?
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vosveld7 January 2023Fun to watch serie about some italian american family and their daily shenanigans. But there is one thing that starts to ruin the show half way through the seasons. And that one thing is named: Debra. She becomes more toxic the further the series goes on. Constantly yelling, PMS'ing, withholding sex, acting all high and mighty, and just being a well rounded B*TCH! It becomes so bad in some episodes, that i skipped them all together. I'll tell you this...if my wife treated me like that more than once, i would kick her out and divorce her.
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PeteRoy6 April 2004This show is bad. Raymond needs to apologize to his wife in every episode.
I watched this episode where Raymond was being hit by a women at the airport (because he lost his wedding ring), he turned her down and when he got home Debra heard about it and got mad, threw his clothes out of the window and yelled at him.
I find it absurd that in every episode Raymond has to be afraid of his wife, always needing to please her.
I don't like a show that the husband is always stupid and childish and the wife is smart and adult.
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DomNickson84324 April 2015Spoiler Alert! First off R.I.P. Sawyer Sweeten or Geoffrey Barone This show is the best thing I could remember from my childhood memories. I have always loved how evil some of the characters could be to each other because it reminds me of Family Guy and the Simpsons. My favorite characters are Robert and Frank out of the whole TV show. I really miss this Show because I grew up watching it with my mom. This show really had my feelings each episode it made me laugh and cry at times showing it did it's job on me. I really hated the first season because it just wasn't appealing to me but it sure got better. I really miss shows like these because I haven't seen a good comedy series since the end of this one. Family Guy is getting old and less funny and the simpsons as well. I'm praying that one day a good comedy series comes that could get my attention as much as this series did but I don't think that will ever happen anytime soon! :( Anyway I give this show a 10 out of 10. I really wish I had my childhood back where I could watch this series.
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phantom_lover_18815 October 2006I love this show. It's hilarious. It has the weird, over protective, annoying, critical mother, the gross, dim-witted father who yells a lot, the over-looked first born brother, and the "perfect" second born son who writes for a newspaper and has a wife and 3 kids. In one way or another, you'll be able to relate with this show. I get mad when I miss an episode, even if I've already seen it. They're all so funny. The acting, writing, and directing are all wonderful. I think it's one of the best shows out there. If you like comedies about real life that aren't cheesy (like those so-called Disney channel comedies) you'll love this show just like I do.
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labiqui5 October 2022I really enjoyed the comedy the first few seasons. The characters were funny and many of the lines were brilliantly brilliant. One of the unforgettable best episodes was when Robert got into the club scene. Disappointingly each season became increasingly a war of words and insults. Debra's character turned into a raging shrew. I actually started to turn it off mid espisode because of her unrelenting litany of how Ray doesn't know or do anything. It got to the point where I thought she should divorce him because she criticized everything about him. Additionally, the incessant insults to Robert about how he was such a lover was bad enough, but the unnecessary insults about Robert's height were not not kidding in good fun they were mean-spirited.
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seraichyk14 January 2022I loved this show. It was smart and touched on many relatable topics. Realistic enough to be funny, but not so much that it's depressing. Can't imagine who is not finding something to love about this show. I guess if you don't like Ray Romano... but for the rest of us.. it's a home run.
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DKosty12316 January 2007When David Letterman decided to help Ray Romano put this show on with World wide Pants Productions, nobody knew if it would be a success. Thanks to the great casting of Peter Boyle, Marie Roberts, Patricia Heaton & Brad Garrett, this became the quietest & most successful family sitcom show produced in recent times.
The writing on this show is very good. There is almost not an episode where you can't help but laugh several times. All the characters are well drawn & easy to identify with. It is just entertaining.
The recent death of Boyle just shows how elusive success is & how short it lasts. I can't really think of a sitcom recently that is done better & more consistently than this one was. The situations were always minor plots, but once you watch this for a while, you know exactly how the characters will fit in.
Romano had never acted prior to this series, but the folks around him made him fit in like he had. Patricia Heaton as Ray's wife has an amazing range as the wife who is constantly bothered by the In-Laws. She also is amazing because she could be flexible enough to be the wife of Raymond, but could also be attractive & vivacious when she needed to be.
Brad Garrett is the real discovery on this show. His dead pan type of humor is right on all the time. The In-Laws were perfect too. Many times I have noticed the kids are like not there. I just think with all the other talent, there were a lot of times the kids just did not have enough room to fit in the house.
This show is out on DVD & still being rerun in many markets. While it is not a must see, if there is nothing else to watch, this show always pleases me to watch. I especially got amused by one show where Raymond & Patricia wrestled in the living room. A lot of husbands wouldn't mind wrestling with her. -
It's One of the best sitcoms there is. Every character is so strong that not once in the entire series would you feel that someone is out of character. They come up with wittiest responses and funniest circumstances that you can't help but laugh out loud in amusement. This is the only series that I can rewatch after friends and each time I rewatch, it's funny. Please do yourself a favour a go watch it. I envy you if you haven't already done so.
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nauru-128 November 2004I Don't Know about some people but this is a very realistic show unlike most other sitcoms. The show is just an exaggerated version of Ray's real life besides being an actor/comedian and the normal-to-be-abnormal North American lifestyle.
I have relatives who get a little too comfortable and cranky in public and at home. I also have unintentional as well intentional family who care and almost criticize in a loving way that sort of embarrasses you.
So basically , this show captures an exaggerated decent-income family in a hilarious manner to create a top-notch entertainment television show! -
A show where nothing ever goes right for the main character is a sitting duck. The plots are guaranteed to be thin and repetitive; the acting is guaranteed to be bad; the writing is guaranteed to be flat; and the characters are guaranteed to be mean. Shows where things don't work out for the main character rarely succeed. "Married... with Children" fell flat on its face because of this, and this show falls just as badly.
Ray Romano was never funny at all. Gearing a series around him was a bad idea, but then the producers/writers/whatever inserted the notion of nothing ever going right. As if this wasn't clichéd enough, the writers gave him a vicious wife, cutesy twins, mean parents and a somewhat stupid brother. Then they hired television standbys to "act", put in plots where everybody blames Ray for everything, and skipping down the path they went, not realizing that the path was the Hellbound road.
I am typically not of the sort to laugh about somebody else's misfortunes. Many comedies have been based around this idea, but the best of them- "Sanford and Son," "NewsRadio," "Seinfeld"- have always provided some sort of comedic foil to offset the misfortunes of the main character. In "Sanford and Son", typically either Fred or Lamont would be in trouble, and the other one would make fun of him. Thin, but it worked. "NewsRadio" gave you the powerhouse quartet of Bill, Jimmy, Matthew and Beth to provide comedic relief whenever Dave was in a tight spot. "Seinfeld" gave you the insanely out-of-luck George on one hand, and Kramer, Newman and Uncle Leo on the other. Balance and equilibrium.
"Raymond" doesn't do this. It gives you one guy who does everything wrong, and a bunch of snotty, selfish, intensely self-assured people to totally hate. And yet you're supposed to sympathize with Raymond, despite every force telling you otherwise. Any series that does something like this puts itself in a bad spot. Because of all the negative elements about it, I'm willing to call "Everybody Loves Raymond" one of the worst series of all time. -
jarodpitmon-708485 January 2019This show is a classic. Honestly, it's funny, sweet, and at times emotionally powerful. I love to sit down and watch this show with my family.
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SamPamBam8 June 2020Frank Barone is the BIggest A-hole father on TV, surpassing even that despicable piece of crap Red Forman on the 70's crap show. When frank ruined his sons proposal, ray should have marched out, got in his car and driven to alaska and never come back. What A Jerk Wad!
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soulassassinx17 September 2007This is how you quit drinking!
It's ten o'clock on a Sunday morning and I wake up with a bad hangover or at least I used too. This used to happen too may times and then I found the perfect cure. Do not drink the day before, because if you do you are forced to wake up the next day and face the most obnoxious person in TV-history, Ray Romano.
In the end credits we read: "Based on the comedy of Ray Romano". What comedy? I am not an American but I've seen a few stand up acts from USA and most of it is funny, but in not even in the darkest corner of my imgagination can I even begin to understand how Romano's comedy would be like. Is this Romano's comedy? To go on the Leno show or Letterman and cut his pants legs?
Follow this chain of events and you have every episode of Everybody Loves Raymond:
Ray enters his kitchen and the audience laugh for some unexplained reason. He takes a bottle of beverage and starts to talk to his wife about how cool a game would be to watch. His wife says Ray has to do laundry/cut hedges/pick up kids/ or something along the line.
Rays parents enter and the audience laugh again. Rays mother comments the wife's cooking while his father says something funny about bowel movements and how stupid HIS wife is. Enter two twin (Age around)2 and the audience goes "Oww-aahh!" and then enter the daughter of the house. She shows a drawing; it later becomes a centre piece on the kitchen door.
Enter the brother. Ray's brother is called a cowardly, dumb, retarded bumhole by his entire family, yet again for some unknown reason. Ray's wife stands up for the brother.
Classic sit-com. split storyline. Ray want to see the game and maybe his brother has a problem with a date. Now we see every cliché in history of sit-coms evident and then the writers seem to go back to the drawing board, rinse, repeat.
Don't writers have any dignity, introspection, pride.
There is nothing lower in TV-comedy except the two shows that should not barely be mentioned: All of us and the catastrophe USA High.