You're right Babe about the writers sometimes going too far. I think they went too far with the suitcase episode. It's supposed to be a comedy series, but all I took from that episode was that, as I've posted previously, Ray was simply living there in that house. He contributed very little to what is upposed to be a family.

I watched the HBO series about Ray Romano and it portrayed him almost exactly as he was portrayed in the series - he does as little as possible.