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I always laugh at the episode where Robert goes all "ethnic" with his partner Judy. Big 'ol Robert is pretty light on his feet at the club-- and the scenes where Marie tries to act nonchalant at the thought of Robert and Judy possibly dating--with her fake smile--cracks me up every time.

Frog Lady of Massapequa--hilarious

The one where Robert and Ray fight over "who gets Ma"--funny, sad, and kinda sweet (mixed with a good dose of dysfunctional sibling rivalry)--one of the series' best moments, imo

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I always laugh at the episode where Robert goes all "ethnic" with his partner Judy. Big 'ol Robert is pretty light on his feet at the club-- and the scenes where Marie tries to act nonchalant at the thought of Robert and Judy possibly dating--with her fake smile--cracks me up every time.

Love Marie's reaction of "Is she black?"  And I love the reactions at the restaurant when Raymond exclaims to Robert, "Judy doesn't want to go out with you because you're BLACK!"

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The one where Robert and Ray fight over "who gets Ma"--funny, sad, and kinda sweet (mixed with a good dose of dysfunctional sibling rivalry)--one of the series' best moments, imo

 

I think it says a lot about ELR that some of the funniest scenes and best thought out episodes came in the later years. Sure there were a few clinkers but overall the series held up well enough that if I had to make a "10 best" list some would definitely be chosen from the last 2 years of the show.  That's not something I think I could say about most other long running sitcoms.  The Pat smokes episode which was the last to air before the finale definitely would make my top 5 if only for Marie's "don't you know smoking can stunt your growth" comment to Robert.

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Yes! When Ray slams Debra into the fridge...

 

That's actually from the episode before, when Marie and Frank announce their intention to move (The Home).  In the next episode (Not So Fast), Debra and Ray visit them and are called into the director's office to be informed that Marie and Frank are being kicked out.  I actually like that one a little less, but they both have their moments.  The clip above is hysterical.

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I was watching some ELR episodes on Netflix and the one where Ally is having trouble sleeping where she hits Ray in the groin. I had to laugh when they were tired one morning and Ray questioned Debra on the juice top being tampered with. Ray asked if it was, Debra said it wasn't and something along the lines of not drinking it, Ray asked some more about it and Debra said there was nothing wrong with it because she just had some and Ray calls Debra out on saying she didn't drink any and Debra said she forgot, then Ray asks when she brought it did she know if the juice top was tampered with and Debra screams that she doesn't know as she's tired and Ray says he's not drinking it as he'll wait and see if something happens to Debra first. Cracks me up all the time.

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I just watched the "She's the One" episode.  I don't care how many times I see it I always laugh out loud at the scene between Robert and Marie when she tells him to admit "I'm a gay".  Doris Roberts is such a great actress - too good as sometimes I just hate her for the way Marie behaves :).  And of course the ending with Amy is just golden.

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The greatest thing about it is that we're supposed to assume that Marie is intolerant, but she's not.  She mentioned her gay cousin Frieda and said it would be fine by her if the twins were gay.  I loved Marie's reaction when Frank was mad at Jimmy from the grocery store & called him the fruit guy...Frank, they're HOMO-sexuals.

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I agree that the later seasons were at least as strong as the earlier ones. Some of my favorite scenes/episodes are the ones with Amy's parents.

I loved the episode that Robert goes to see Amy's parents and they say no to him asking to marry Amy. Their dead panning "no" cracks me up. What was even funnier was when they were doing the Jesus puzzle and Ray asked if it was the guy selling t shirts on the street, and when Amy's mom almost fainted when Peter told her that Amy wasn't a virgin. Good stuff.

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What was even funnier was when they were doing the Jesus puzzle and Ray asked if it was the guy selling t shirts on the street

 

Robert looks at Ray with his eyes wide open shaking his head like "Bad idea!"

 

One of my favorite episodes is where Debra gets jealous of Lisa, the young babysitter because the kids love her. The part where she tells Raymond she wants to fire her always makes me laugh:

 

Deborah: You know, I don't think I'm gonna have Lisa sit for us anymore.

Ray: What? No! Listen, I never think of her, ever.

Deborah:(disgusted):Uck. No, idiot. God! No, I was just thinking-- I don't know, leaving the kids with a sitter so much it just-- it feels wrong.

Ray: Wrong? What-- it gives us more time to love each other.And if loving you is wrong Baby, I don't want to be right.

 

 

When they have Marie look after the kids and then she ends up tripping and hurting herself playing a game:

 

Frank: I told Nemo you were hurt, he threw in some free breadsticks.

Marie: Oh, these seem old.

Frank: "You are what you eat.

Marie: Oh, Robby, give your father his order of miserable bastard.

 

 

Debra feels guilty and confesses and after enjoying that she did something wrong instead of him Ray gloats:

"Yet you know what the beautiful thing is here? Whenever I do something connivy like this, you always look at me like, "How could you do that?" When what you're really thinking is, "How do you do that?"

 

 

Ray actually has one of his best moments when he assures her:

 

Ray: Would you stop that! Will you come on? You don't have to compete with some babysitter. You're Mommy, huh? The kids love Mommy. Every time I want to do something with them, they always yell, "We'd rather have Mommy!"

Debra: Oh, yeah right, they yell that.

Ray: Yes! Yes! "We prefer Mommy!" "All things being equal, where's Mommy?" Shut up.

Come on, you're-- you're number one.

 

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You can't hate Pat, she's so funny, Georgia Engel played her so well.

 

I laughed in Meeting the Parents when Pat and Hank arrived at Robert and Amy's apartment and Robert was only wearing his underwear and covered himself up and Pat goes: "That's grandma Trudy's afghan!"

 

Love when Pat calls out Marie, she called Marie out on the Thanksgiving episode and Robert and Amy's wedding.

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Based on the last episode I watched, when I read "Pat" above, I heard it in Amy's voice saying "Hank 'N Pat."  I absolutely love the episode with the invitations.  "Hank 'N Pat? They're not hillbillies, Robert!" and then the attire optional part. "There's going to be nude people! At the church! On a Wednesday!"

 

It's one of the lower points for the guys and how low they'll stoop, but it's just so funny. 

I think one of my favourite episodes is the one where Debra gets arrested for "intent to nap".  Good line after good line - the classic one from Robert "oh my God she finally killed Ma" but also the other prisoner who, when she sees Debra falling apart because she needs a tissue says "don't make me go in there!"

I love "intent to nap", and also when Debra calls Ray and tells him to call "my phell sone - cell phone - shut up!" I do the same thing when I get my words garbled. I'm not sure if I learned it from Debra or not.

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I have a super soft spot for the Christmas family newsletter episode, where Marie is determined to counter the relative's letter with one of her own.  And she hands the relative's letter to Debra, who reads it aloud to the group.  I can't even remember what the woman said, but Debra reads a seemingly innocuous line or two and says "Oooh, she's a bitch!" And she is absolutely right, but the guys are incapable of picking up the bitch move in the woman's comment.  

 

The women get it, though.

 

I thought it was one of those moments from real life they mined so well -- that men and women often operate on completely different wavelengths.  It was also one of the rare but genuine moments when Debra and Marie bonded -- the others I recall are Debra wishing aloud that her mother were more like Marie, and Marie smacking Ray for disrespecting Debra as a mother.    I can't even remember what it was he did.

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Marie smacking Ray for disrespecting Debra as a mother.    I can't even remember what it was he did.

I don't remember that one, but it reminds me of the time Marie was horrified that Ray taped over their wedding video. It started with Ray asking if he can move in and Marie gleefully asked what Debra did, then turned a 180 when she found out what Ray did.

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I can't even remember what the woman said, but Debra reads a seemingly innocuous line or two and says "Oooh, she's a bitch!"

She said something to the effect of "...living just a stone's throw from each other, not that they'd ever throw stones, ha ha"  To be honest, I thought she was doing a play on words, I didn't take it to imply that they don't get along.  I love that episode as well and rewatch it often, but I always feel as stupid as Ray when she says that line :)

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I always love that the show stayed true to the credo "It's not about the kids" but I do love when an episode occasionally is about them. Like when Michael wanted to stay home from school and Ray gets angry but eventually finds out that it's because the kids were teasing him because he accidentally called the teacher "Mommy". Then Ray asks in all sincerity "Why? Was she yelling?" Then when Debra and the other kids come home and Ray tells them, Ally(also being sincere) asks "Why? Was she yelling?" LOL!

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I never much cared for the episodes that featured the twins (they had no charisma and perhaps the worst hair in the history of child actors) but I love the scene in Fairies when Robert sings "Old Man River." Basso profundo! I also have a deep and abiding love for T-Ball thanks to Dan Castellaneta's Brian Trenberth and the way Ray smuggles every "approved" snack in that gym bag as though he's carrying 100 pounds of pure heroin. :)

I couldn't even begin to choose my favorite Christmas episode, but The Toaster, Christmas Present and Jazz Records are probably my top three. Lois's "It's so retro chic," Ray's "I got me a black magic woman!" and Robert's "An oval. Oh what a visionary you are" never get old. Nobody did the holidays better than ELR, although a couple of Friends episodes come very close.

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I watched two episodes this weekend back to back - one is always a favorite of mine and the other is one that I don't always think of as being as funny as it is.  They were "The Shower" and "Baggage."  Baggage is always one of the first ones that comes to mind for favorite episodes for me but I was absolutely cracking up at "The Shower."

 

Some favorite parts:

-when Debra tries to prove she had "intent to nap"

-when Ray asks her (when she calls from jail) if she knows where his brown belt is

-Robert's casual "Hey Ray. Hey Deb" before realizing what he was seeing and then following up with "She finally killed ma!"

 

Baggage is one of those episodes that hits it on all notes - a realistic fight, great verbal lines, and physical comedy.  

Baggage is one of those episodes that hits it on all notes - a realistic fight, great verbal lines, and physical comedy.

My favorite part of Baggage was Frank's response to Marie's speech about taking down the giant fork & spoon (and her anger over the image of the fork & spoon on the wallpaper)  "When did we get those?" :)

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Oh baggage - one of my favourite episodes!  I think it should be required viewing in marriage prep classes :).  It was definitely one of those episodes where I could see my husband and I doing something like that.  Maybe not over luggage or a big fork and spoon but for sure there have been those kinds of fights over other way more important things.  Like emptying a dishwasher...

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One of my favorite parts comes from the episode where Ray and Debra were worried their kids wouldn't listen to them anymore.

Debra: The other day Ally asked me if she could buy a mini skirt.

Ray: Oh crap!

Marie: You've already lost!

Ray: You tell Ally no! No skirts of any kind! Pants! Snow pants!

The whole delivery of that gets me every time!

Edit: Another one that just came to me today. Overall the episode about Robert's lucky suit is one of my faves, but specifically the part where Marie apologizes, saying she thought it over while eating banana cream pie. Then she reveals it was actually coconut and says "I don't know why I changed it." For some reason this always cracked me up, I think it's because it's so within her character to do that.

Another favorite line comes from the canister episode when Ray and Robert talk about all the desserts their grandma used to make for them and Debra goes "Hey fat people - who cares!"

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