The BEST episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond

#1 - Ray Home Alone

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/22/1999

When Debra and the kids go away for the weekend, Ray is looking forward to a couple of days of bachelor living. But instead of enjoying himself, the night is turns into a harrowing experience, and Ray is forced to confront the real reason he doesn’t want to stay home alone.

#2 - Italy (1)

Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/2000

When Marie surprises the family with the news that she's treating them all to a two-week vacation to Italy, everybody loves the idea except Raymond. Not willing to let his sour mood spoil it for the rest of the family, Debra, Frank, Marie, Robert, and the kids go on their merry way and soak up the atmosphere, the sights, and tastes of the country.

#3 - Golf for It

Season 8 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/24/2004

Robert and Ray end up with the mother of all guilt trips when they decide not to help their mother with a home project. The reason they skip out is so that they can land a prime spot on the golf course, by waiting in line in their car all night.

#4 - Finale

Season 9 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/16/2005

Ray fears getting his adenoids removed, but Debra convinces him to go through with the surgery. At the hospital, while Marie is in the bathroom, and everyone else in the waiting room, the nurse comes out and tells Debra that Ray isn't waking up from the anaesthesia.

#5 - Pet the Bunny

Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/2002

Ray writes a eulogy for his father Frank, who hasn't died yet. In the eulogy, he tells a childhood story about watching his tough dad pet the family bunny named Hoppy. Unfortunately for Ray, Marie reads the eulogy and gets offended when she learns that Ray hasn't written one for her.

#6 - The Sneeze

Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/27/2000

Ray gets sneezed on at the airport and he fears he might have caught something so Debra tries to take care of him but Marie takes over.

#7 - Why Are We Here?

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/7/1997

In this flashback episode, Ray and Debra remember their days in their first apartment.

#8 - The Lone Barone

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1998

Raymond is in a bad mood. Forced to wait home all day for the delivery of Debra’s new curtains, he can’t go play golf and laments to his brother, that marriage is like a prison. So, when Amy breaks up with Robert, everyone blames Raymond.

#9 - The Ride-Along

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/23/1998

Raymond decides to accompany his brother Robert, who is a policeman, on a ride-along. Initially, spending night shift in the back of Robert's patrol car bores Raymond, but his boredom quickly turns to terror during a chance visit to Nemo's restaurant.

#10 - Moving Out

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1998

Feeling pathetic because he lives with his parents, Robert finally musters up the courage to move out on his own. Encouraged by Ray, and much to his parents’ horror, Robert packs up his bags, takes his dog and moves into a garage apartment.

#11 - The Invasion

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1998

When Ray’s house is tented for termites, he and his family moves into his parent’s house and gives Frank and Marie a taste of their own medicine. Marie’s initial excitement that “Raymond has come home!” quickly fades, when the world’s greatest home intruders start to feel intruded upon.

#12 - Robert's Wedding (2)

Season 7 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/19/2003

#13 - Frank Paints the House

Season 5 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/21/2001

When Ray and Debra find Frank painting their house, they find out that Marie put him up to the job due to his retirement. But when Frank paints it the colour they don't like, Ray fires him. That's when Marie reveals the truth behind Frank's retirement.

#14 - Italy (2)

Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/2000

Ray is complaining about the heat, Debra is getting tired of following Marie's strict schedule and of Ray's pessimistic attitude, Robert meets Stefánia's father, who is not thrilled with his daughter choice of man, and Frank is enjoying himself playing pétanque. After going on a long walk with his mother, Ray slowly starts to enjoy himself and appreciate where he is, no thanks to Marie.

#15 - Big Shots

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/1/1999

Trying to impress Robert when they visit the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Ray uses his “weight” as a sports writer for Newsday to jump to the front of the line to meet the members of the ’69 Miracle New York Mets.

#16 - How They Met

Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/24/1999

Memories of how they first met flood back when Ray and Debra prepare Ally for her first play date with a boy.

#17 - The Apartment

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1998

Robert has moved into a new apartment, and Raymond is jealous. Not because of the apartment, but because everywhere he looks, beautiful women are coming out of the woodwork, and they all seem to come by Robert's apartment.

#18 - Crazy Chin

Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/22/2004

Amy's parents put Robert on the defensive when they point out his compulsive habit of touching food to his chin before he eats it.

#19 - The Canister

Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/9/2001

Tempers flare when Marie accuses Debra of not returning a borrowed canister that holds sentimental value. Debra insists that she has already returned the canister, so she is horrified when she discovers that she still has the canister in her possession.

#20 - The Letter

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/8/1997

When Marie crashes and ruins her Tupperware party, Debra decides that she's had just about enough of her mother-in-law's constant interference. She puts pen to paper and writes a letter to her mother-in-law.

#21 - Driving Frank

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1998

After Frank has one car accident too many, Debra decides that the kids can’t ride with him anymore, which makes Ray realizes that his dad is getting older.

#22 - No Fat

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1998

Since Debra’s parents will be out of the country on Thanksgiving Day, she, Ray, and the kids make plans to spend the holiday at Frank and Marie’s house. But their dreams of turkey with sausage stuffing and yams with marshmallows on top are quickly shattered by Marie’s new heart-healthy diet.

#23 - The Model

Season 8 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2004

Robert has been discovered. While he and Amy are out buying Chinese food, a modelling agent gives Robert his card. Robert and Amy tells everyone about the modelling opportunity and Robert later goes to the agency for his first profile shoot. Ray, who really wants to meet the models, especially the Swedish kind, accompanies Robert to the agency, but when they get there, everything has mysteriously disappeared.

#24 - The First Time (3)

Season 6 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/20/2002

After Marie has Frank return an anniversary gift given to them by Ray and Debra, the two reminisce about the first time they slept together. An encounter Marie had tried to stop by inviting a priest to Debra's department.

#25 - The Gift

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/17/1997

Ray, feeling guilty about only getting his dad a card for his 65th. birthday, makes up for it by buying him a fancy and expensive aquarium just like the one he always admired in the Chinese restaurant. Frank, at first adores the gift, but after one of the fish dies, he starts hating it.