Half-listening, I’ve probably seen every episode by now (on TVLand) several times each. Now paying more attention as the show has grown on me, there is one episode that makes no sense the way it was staged. Here’s the premise:
Amy comes to take Ray and Deborah to the airport, until she learns the weather has road closed and the airport closes. Then, Marie (and Frank) come over either bearing a deli spread that is “two pickles short from opening a deli”.
I thought the show would naturally have been filmed in Ray and Deborah’s home. I mean, where else would Amy pick them up from to taken them to the airport. Yet, the show is staged in Ray’s parents’ home. Does the way the pros staged this episode make any sense?
They are across-the-street neighbors. Actually the parents’ driveway aligns with Ray and Debra’s living room . . . which is important in one episode.
This episode (“Snow Day”) starts out in Ray and Debra’s house, as they’re preparing for a trip (the kids are in Connecticut with their other grandparents). Amy comes in and tells them the airport’s closed. Then the power goes out. That’s when they all go across the street, where there is always food and a wood-burning fireplace.
No, this has bothered me from day one. They live in some sort of vortex wherein Ray’s front and back door have a direct line of site to Ray’s parents house. And somehow, Ray’s parents magically know where exactly Ray and Debra are in the house because they always come in the door closest to where they are. (Most of the time./)