One of my favorite bits was in the episode where the daughter (forgot her name) was upset about Frank’s bad temper. He’d been eating grapes in the grocery store, an employee told him to stop, and Frank yelled at him.
Later in the episode, Frank explains why the daughter is upset. He says it’s because he “yelled at the fruit guy”. Marie says “Frank, they’re called homosexuals!”
ELR isn’t always great. But it can get really funny.
Marie and Frank driving a car into the living room was great moment. Especially seeing how everyone reacts to the incident.
Marie is my favorite character. Here are some of the reasons why.
Here she is trying to get Robert to admit that he’s a homosexual (because he’s still single at age 40).
I haven’t seen too many episodes of ELR, but MrWhatsit and I happened to catch the one with the suitcase – it’s the one where Raymond comes back from a trip and leaves his suitcase sitting on the stairs, and neither he nor Deborah put it away because they each think it should be the other person’s responsibility, but they don’t actually say this to each other. It just turns into this giant passive-aggressive situation where they’re both glaring at each other about the damn suitcase, but nobody says anything and it just sits there. Then Deborah gets really smug because Raymond has to leave for another trip and she knows he’ll finally have to use the suitcase…until he comes downstairs that morning and reveals that he is going to pack his clothing for the trip in a plastic grocery bag. At which point she goes completely postal, screaming at him that you cannot take a plastic grocery bag full of clothing onto an airplane, etc.
MrWhatsit and I will still often refer to this episode, as in, “Hey, I think that pile of unopened mail next to the toaster is turning into a suitcase situation.”
I am pretty sure the episode would not have been funny to me before I was married.
I completely agree on both counts.
This. And the turkey drop was not scripted. I think Patricia Heaton was channeling Lucille Ball.
I’m watching it right now (lying on the couch, sick, absolutely NOTHING else on TV), and I think it’s one of the best things ever put on TV. When I’m going through one of my many bad patches, I find it oddly soothing to watch a couple episodes in the evening, knowing I am guaranteed to laugh at least once per episode. My favorites: Robert Turns Black, The Garage Sale, Deb’s low-cut sweater at the PTA meeting (Marie: “dear, a woman always reaches the age where she CAN show off something…but she really SHOULDN’T”) and the episodes with Amy - she’s such a REAL person, wish I had a sister in law like her. How can you not laugh? The father is hilarious! (and I’m also the world’s biggest fan of Married With Children, another subject altogether). I loathe the fat slob/hot wife combos that are on and have never watched them.