Review(s): DVD Everybody Loves Raymond - The Series Finale
A fine ending to a fine (if not GREAT) series!
I caught this on TV on the day it showed. It was excellent! It's a shame the series came to an end. but this was worth the time!
Ray has something very weird about him: he has an infection. He goes to the doctors to get it taken care of... But then the Doctor tells Debra that Ray is dead and upsets the family. But it turns out he was unconscious for a few seconds. Then, Ray has Ice cream to cool what happened earlier. Then, Marie, Frank and Rob get upset.
Also, I like how the "where's lunch" thing says "No charge, thank you!"
The end of Everybody Loves Raymond era!
On May 16, 2005, the cast of Everbody Loves Raymond, said good-bye to thier fans, for at least for new episodes, but the show still airs on repeats, even through the episode was taped far in advance. And this is how they said good-bye to thier fans, but at least to me, that this doesn't seem like a real series finale to me, a series final is when the cast says good-bye to each other, and there is all this drama, but I guess a series finale doesn't have to be like this, since you don't see the characters saying good-bye to each other.
In the finale, Raymond "Ray" Barone (Ray Romano) has to have his adenoids out, and he thinks that they will cut him open, to get his adenoids out, but his wife Debra Barone (Patricia Heaton) tells him that they will go in through his mouth, but Ray doesn't want the doctors going through his mouth. And then who comes to protect him is his Mom Marie Barone (Doris Roberts), and she brings him soup, but that doesn't stop his father Frank Barone (Peter Boyle) and his brother Robert Barone (Brad Garrett) follows to the house. The next scene, the family is at the hopsital, in the waiting room, and then Marie goes to the bathroom, when the nurse (Henriette Mantel) comes out, and brings the news that Ray is having trouble waking up from, the stuff that knocked him out, and it looks like he had died. And with barely any time to grief, then the doctor (Charles Chun) comes out, and says that Ray is fine, they brought him out of stuff that knocked him off. Then Amy tells Robert and Frank, that nobody tells Raymond, and then Frank says "or his mother". So in the next season, Ray is home, and is in bed with Marie, and he is eating ice cream, and they are talking, and she doesn't make him thinjk there is something going on. But Franks is bed, thinking, and Marie is trying to get some sleep, but he turns down the pie that is left in the refistator, and he starts rubbuing Marie on the back, that gets her thinking that something is going on, Frank tries to deny it, but she gets it out of him.
In the pilot, Ray is on a vaction, and is due to return home but he is late. And so he returns home, just in time for her birthday, and while Ray was away, his parents and his brother have been coming over un-annouced, and she is tired of it. But of course, they still do that when he returns, so Ray offers for her to go out for a night, and he stays home to babysit, the kids Ally Barone (Madylin Sweeten), Geoffrey Barone (Sawyer Sweeten) and Michael Barone (Sullivan Sweeten). And while she is out, Leo (Stephen Lee) comes over, and asks Ray to go out and have pizza with him, Ray doesn't want to at first, but then his mom comes over, and Leo asks her to stay and watch the kids, and manges to get Ray to agree, but he does, and decides to be gone for 1 hour, and returns to his father and brother, at his home as well, and he gets them to leave, but Debra still finds out that they were over, and asks Ray to tell his parents and brother not to come over on her birthday.
Where's the Retrospective?
This series has to rank with the very top comedy series of all of TV's history. The only reason I am not giving a 5 star for this DVD is that it does not include the retrospective. Those of us who are all out fans want to have this in our collection. I hope that they get the feedback and have the wisdom to put this in the final season's DVD. It is definitely my favorite comedy series ever. The cast selection was brilliant. The writers were the best and did a brilliant job of displaying the quirks of a dysfunction loving family. I do not agree that it copied Mad About You. Some experiences in family life, USA style, are almost across the board. This cast's interpretations of that are unique and display the scope of their acting abilities. Mad About You was an excellent show but does not come close to the cast of lovable characters in this show. Many of my friends, with children and parents, relate to these hysterical stories.
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I'm really glad for the release of these DVD box sets, because without them, I never would have gotten into this show...now one of my very favorites!
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