I have brick on the front of my house, but siding on the rest, so Ray's house may be like that. And I agree with TIS about the back door thing.

After doing some dogged research, I discovered that the house painting scene was of the back side of the house. However, the house wall they are painting frames part of the kitchen where the back door is located and it is a straight line across the back wall. From inside the kitchen, the doorway is perpindicular to the sink.

I'd have to think that the front of the house had to be painted because Frank demanded that it be painted yellow to stand out in the street where all of the other houses were white.

Then again there had to be some remodeling of the front of the house as Marie drove through the front wall.

Well, I looked at a video of it online and the area that they are painting looks like a sort of vestibule, an entryway, almost like an add-on that's only about 10' wide. It's definitely not the front of the house.

Mudroom.

Just saw the front of the house again. It has quite a few large bushes right up against the house and the yard slants upward towrd the house. There is no driveway, so Marie must have backed across the street, hoped the curve, and then had enough momentum to mak eit up the lawn and crash the outside wall.

She was trying to kill Frank and Debra in one mishap.

One of my all-time favorite moments was when they went to Sicily. Frank and Ray were sharing a bed. Frank recalled to Ray how Marie told him that she used a bunch of their money for something. Frank said that he began to "think about the dress he would lay her out in" at her funeral. It was only then that Marie told Frank that she used the money so they could all travel to Sicily.


A close second is when Frank drove their car through the front of Ray & Debra's house.

Driving the car thru Ray's house was hilarious!!



TIS

I love when Ray puts on the Ice Castles song and tries to cry .

What about when Ray gets caught at the school stuffing meat down his pants? Debra was running for office against some guy who brought prime rib to win votes. Ray stuffed the beef in his pockets to hide that he wanted to eat it while still supporting his wife. Of course he got caught.

Or when Debra came downstairs in the slutty outfit for her PTA meeting?

Classic, Babe!

I don't know which was funnier - Raymond's reaction or Robert's!

Yeah, poor Amy. Robert obviously had a crush on Debra, and he was always getting caught .

Speaking of poor Amy...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CSECwl-gaQ

LOL That was a good one! Talk about the Mother-in-law from hell..AND right across the street???



TIS

That's for sure. That was always anundercurrent in the series that was a bit creepy.

The whole family was in desperate need of analysis and treatment.

Marie keeps them all in line.

She needed analysis and treatment the most. She screamed insecurity.

I thought Marie was a horrible person. Funny as hell, but horrible just the same.

She needed constant reinforcement. Her daily putdowns of Debra substituted for her failure to get that reinforcement. Remember the time she mislabeled the oregano to ruin one of Debra's dishes she prepared? She did that so that Raymond would continue to come to her house to eat.

Horrible, but funny horrible. She was my favorite character. Like Frank, you occasionally saw their softer side.

Debra was my favorite character. Hence, my low opinion of Marie. Debra would get no peace while Marie was still alive and living across the street.

And can you imagine if Peter Boyle had died during the run of the show, and they had to write that into the script? I'm sure they would have taken the meddlesome mother-in-law character into another dimension.

But again, I think Doris Roberts deserved every Emmy that she ever won. The character was hysterical.

Like any good Italian boy, Ray would have moved Marie in to live with him & Debra. That would have been worth seeing!

Reminds me of that episode where Ray and Robert argued in the van about who had to take Marie after Frank died. And then, who got to take Marie.

Ray: "I think you're forgetting a very special little woman called Debra. Do you really think mom will want to live under the same roof with her arch nemesis?"

Raymond, Robert and Frank are dumb, needy and weak. But they are funny. Frank tries to talk tough, but the only ones intimidated by him are his two boys, who never grew up.

And why was Robert always broke?

A police lieutenant in the NYPD makes at least a hundred grand a year, maybe more. He must have had some bad habits .

He probably had to pay it out in lawsuits.

Yeah, can you imagine Robert involved in a controversial, racially motivated shooting?

Reverends Al and Jesse would be no match for Marie Barone .