I have always just refered to this show as “I Don’t”.
Or perhaps Ray could be convicted of something and sent to prison. Then the show could be called “Everybody (in cell block d) REALLY loves Raymond”.
My family loves the show, i’m the only one who hates it and the characters. Ray is an idiot and his stand up isn’t that good. His wife is a bitch. His brother is a Nose-Talking Frankenstein. His parents are cool though b/c they are mean, but not bitch-wife mean. The kids don’t serve any purpose on this show.
No, no, the correct phrasing would be Everybody Does Raymond.
I don’t mind Raymond, but I can’t stand his brother, whatshisname, big doofers, too much in touch with his feminine side, sucking up to the chicks, etc. I was so happy when he got shafted by the Photo shoot con.
And I don’t like Lucy, trying to be so arty, with all them black and white sequences.
[QUOTE=Philster]
Everybody Loves the Dumb White Middle American Husband Who is Always Dumber than his Bitch Wife.
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This is brilliant Phil. I’d swear its a secret network formula, hidden in the depths of the CBS building under lock and key.
What with todays sitcoms I would like to add two words to your title :
Everybody Loves the Dumb White Middle American Husband Who is Always Dumber than his Very Hot Bitch Wife.
None of these idiot guys would end up with women that smokin’ in real life.
In King of the Hill Hank is the level-headed one where his wife is…how do I say this…crazy and his friends are idiots. He is a normal person, except for his love for propane and propane accessories (excessories? I don’t know).
I think this show is, like most sitcoms, totally stupid and inane. Inexplicably, one of my coworkers LOVES it. She’s also quite a lot older than me (I’m 26, she’s old enough to be my mom) and any discussion about family life leads to her making condescending remarks about how I don’t know what I’m talking about and I’ll change my mind eventually. ie, she was shocked when I told her that if my hypothetical husband didn’t help raise the hypothetical kids, I’d hypothetically divorce him. Also, I’d have to cook my husband meat because men don’t like vegetarian diets. My remark that any meat my husband would want would have to be prepared by him just causes her to laugh and shake her head at my innocence.
Anyway, once she brought up this stupid show as an example of realistic family life. The power stuggles! The arguments! She couldn’t believe that I didn’t like it, and insisted that I must not have seen a good episode. THAT’S WHAT FAMILY LIFE IS LIKE!
Well, excuse me. I may not be married and have kids, but I didn’t grow up in a vacuum. No freaking sitcom - especially this retarded one - is in any way similar to real life and if I do ever get married and have kids and it turns out to at all resemble Raymond’s life, I’ll be forced to commit hara-kiri.
I’d have told this woman to take a hypothetical long walk off a short pier a long time ago.
I just love people that think their way is the only way, and if you don’t agree, well, you must be wrong. :rolleyes:
This had me in stitches. Then I told Mrs. Chastain, and she started cracking up. Good form.
Hello. You may have heard of me. I’m Raymond.
No, not the one Everybody Loves… or the one who has a TV show. No, I’m the one who gets to hear:
“Hello, I’m Paul.”
“Hi, I’m Raymond.”
“Oh, like Everybody Loves Raymond. Heh heh.”
“Yeah, just like that…”
No, I’m shy, geeky Raymond who hung out in the library in high school and was definitely not the object of everyone’s love… but whose parents insisted on watching that inane sitcom all the time.
I thought the show would help… but no, people… TV LIED. Everybody doesn’t love Raymond.
These days I introduce myself by my last name.
(Okay, so it wasn’t all that bad. 
It was worse than that Far Side cartoon with the duck, though. Actually, reading this thread has been sort of amusing.)
Oh, and:
Hey… I can’t tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing. 
How about the other set of in-laws? Now, they should have their own show! Cancel Raymond and let them have a whack at it!
A-FUCKING-MEN!!!
If he caught on fire, I wouldn’t bother pissing on him to put it out.
(Hell, I’d probably be the one who struck the match)
This is right on the money.
Most Americans Only Like Raymond As A Friend
Everybody Loves Raymond, Just Not In “That” Way
Gomez Addams.
Gomez rocked.