Everybody Loves Raymond

When Ray and Debra’s house is fumigated for termites, they move in with Frank and Marie. However, when Marie informs Ray that Debra is being intrusive, Debra decides to show how real intrusive she can be and encourages Ray to join her, to teach them a lesson. Debra cooks her own meals and spoils Marie’s. She hides away the remote. Ray breaks the fridge door. But their plan backfires.

After Frank has another car accident, Robert gives him a ticket, which leads Debra to be worried about Frank driving the kids. Ray and Debra then find out that Frank’s driving license expired. Ray takes Frank for his test and to Ray’s astonishment he passes. Debra then reminds him that he is getting old and they can’t trust their kids with him anymore. Eventually Frank realizes this himself.

Ray and Debra hire a baby sitter, much to Marie’s shock and disappointment. At first Ray and Debra think it’s a good idea because they are able to spend more time with each other, but when the kids favour her more than Debra, Debra decides to give her up and leave the babysitting jobs to Marie. Marie gets hurt during sitting and Ray tries to get Lisa back, but the Parkers have already hired her.

When Ray embarrasses Debra at a school fundraiser, Debra feels humiliated. When Ray asks her to stop feeling that way, she tells him that she would get back at him. For the next few days Ray becomes very neurotic and finally Debra tells him that she didn’t do anything, and just let him imagine everything.

Debra’s mother comes to visit, but she seems very detached. When Marie is very helpful during dinner, Debra blurts out that she wants her mother to be more like Marie. This delights Marie and shocks Lois. Ray tries his best to be nice to Lois.

Debra pressures Ray into getting a vasectomy, but Ray has another idea. He buys multicolour condoms and leaves it in the kitchen shelf. They leave Frank alone at the house to give out candy, while they take the kids out for Trick or Treat. When he runs out he gives out the coloured condoms by mistake, which embarrasses Ray and Debra.

When Robert is unable to get any privacy with Amy, he decides to move out. He finds a place above an old couple’s garage. When Ray visits him he sees the striking similarity they have with Frank and Marie. He points it out to Robert who then decides to find a new place. Meanwhile, Marie is spending all her time at Ray’s place and it drives Debra crazy.

Andy asks for Ray’s feedback on a article he wrote. When Ray gives his comments, Andy is devastated. But when Sports Illustrated publishes the article without any changes, Ray is jealous because he could not get into Sports Illustrated himself. Debra then points out to Ray that he is very self-cantered. Robert, Marie and Frank also agree with her.

When Amy starts decorating Robert’s new place he feels pressured to move forward in his relationship. When he comes to Ray for advice, his comments on marriage do not help his fears. When Robert breaks up with Amy, Marie and Debra blame Ray. When Ray tries to fix the issue, Robert clarifies that it was his own decision and Ray is not responsible for the break-up.

When Marie’s cholesterol is close to the danger zone, she decides to cook a fat free Thanksgiving dinner (this includes a tofu turkey). Debra convinces the family to be supportive, but when Ray orders a real Thanksgiving meal from a restaurant, all pounce on it. In the end, Marie also joins them.

Ray is jealous of Robert’s new apartment, where there is hot tub and lots of pretty girls. Ray starts visiting Robert often and lies to Debra that Robert is lonely and wants his company. When Marie, Frank and Debra drop by, they realize the truth. Meanwhile, Frank turns Robert’s old room into a lounge and installs a hot tub.

Ray finally gets a gift (an engraved toaster) he thinks everyone will love. Everyone but his parents likes it. When Ray discovers that Frank and Marie have returned it without even looking at it, he feels bad. Marie then tries to get back the toaster Ray gave them, with disastrous results.

Ray discovers that Frank had left him win once in Ping Pong, which Ray wasn’t aware off. To prove that Ray can play Ping Pong better than Frank, he challenges him. They get into a match and Frank keeps beating and teasing him. When Frank wins, Ray tells him that he let him win. This makes Frank mad and he finally admits that Ray had actually beaten him.

When Ray retrieves a beer bottle cap from the heat vent, he confesses to a party he had 20 years ago when Marie and Frank were out of town. Marie gets mad and refuses to even give him his birth-minute kiss. She starts to favour Robert and Frank starts to bond with Ray. When Robert asks if Marie would be as mad if he had a party, she just assumes that Ray was covering-up for Robert, refusing to hear otherwise and forgives Ray.

When Robert’s partner, Judy confronts him about his plans for the night, he reveals that he has none. She takes him out dancing and he likes it. He goes overboard to fit into her group of friends. When she tries to tell him about it, he thinks that she has started to like him. He takes Ray along to ruin the evening. Meanwhile, Marie thinks that they are dating and tries not to freak out.

When Frank wins "Man of the Year" at his lodge, Robert and Ray are asked to make a video about him. When none of his friends have anything nice to say, they ask them about chocolate and then edit it out. When Frank sees it, he is disappointed that his lodge buddy did not say anything nice about him, and shows his anger at Ray and Robert instead. Frank and Marie give a tribute to each other.

When Frank "hurts" his knee, Ray is stuck with going on a cruise with Marie. He keeps eating at all the buffets and Marie gets close to a group of widows. The cruise manager thinks that Ray and Marie are a married couple. Back at home, Frank reveals to Robert that he fakes the injury. Then Frank actually gets hurt and Robert is forced to look after him.

Debra and the kids leave for the weekend to visit their other grandparents. After his friends leave, Ray finds it difficult to sleep in an empty house, so he goes to Robert’s apartment and intrudes on his date. After Robert sends him away, he goes to his parent’s place, where he finds Robert. They re-live some of the childhood fears with Marie and Frank.

In order to impress Robert at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Ray tries to use his status as a sports writer to jump to the front of the line to meet the 1969 Mets. Robert wants to wait in the line, but Ray insists on cutting the line. They end up missing the event and Robert does not get the autograph of Art Shampsky in Shampsky II’s dog collar. On the journey back, when Ray is pulled over for speeding, Robert tries to bail him out, but fails.

Ray tells Debra he’s not sleeping well because of her being too close to him when they’re sleeping. He cooks up a story about his granny to get out of touching Debra in a non-sexual way. When Debra learns the truth from Robert, she gets mad. Ray consults Father Hubley over this and he suggests being physically close during the day to avoid the closeness at night. Ally takes Robert to school for Show-and-Tell.

When Ray complains about the vacation plan, Debra asks him to pick up a place. They go to a BandB in Vermont. Amy and Debra go shopping and Debra confides in her that she feels that Ray finds her boring. When Marie moves-in for baby-sitting, Robert feels left out and wants to bay-sit instead. Ray then asks Robert, but Marie moves in anyway supervises in stealth. In the BandB there is no TV and a common bathroom. They clash a lot and end up having a fight in the bathroom.

Debra decides to go back to her PR job for part-time. She finds a job in Manhattan but gets fired on the very first day. Ray who has trouble looking after the kids is secretly happy. He then feels bad for Debra and tries to get her job back.

Debra and Ray realize they are nicer to strangers than to each other. They decide to be nicer to their own families. But the situation gets awkward when they are just pretend-nice to avoid being honest.

On Ray’s suggestion, Robert takes Debra swing dancing and they start to love it. Ray becomes a little jealous and tries to break them up, but gets caught.

Robert and Amy get back together and spend a night together in Robert’s apartment, but the whole building ends up seeing them from their window. Robert is too embarrassed and moves into Ray’s basement. While spending another night with Amy, Marie walks-in on them. Semi-dressed Robert and Amy try to explain themselves when Frank, Debra and Ray also join them.

A flash back to when Ray and Debra first met. Ray is working as a Futon delivery guy and he brings her a futon. After fixing up a date with her, he accidentally sees her naked. Embarrassed, he cancels his date. Later she visits him and asks him over with a false complaint and then offers him food, making it their first official date.