Yeah, all I make time for is the FOX animation domination. I really cant watch shows where I have to know what happened the week before. Remembering to watch tv on Sunday nights is hard enough.
sad to see it go. it was my favorite show on television for a while and only scrubs coming along and being sheer brilliance knocked it down to #2. while "two and a half men" and "king of queens" are good sitcoms left (though i only watch two and a half men), it's hard for me to think of scrubs, arrested development, or cartoons as sitcoms without the audience there watching. with seinfeld gone, frasier gone, friends gone, and now raymond, it really does feel like sitcoms have hit a lull (though this is still better than any time in the 70s which seems to have been sitcom hell from what old shows i get to see). they had every character set up so well and had such good writing that it almost seemed like it wrote itself after a while. like they just had to think of a premise for the episode and everything else followed effortlessly. the only other show i can think of like that was Cheers. great ensemble casts where everyone had their niche, had their set of jokes you knew they were gonna use, and had their way of reacting to something you knew they were gonna do, almost to the point every episode was completely predictable, and yet never failed to be completely hilarious. i don't know how either show did it but it's greatness to watch. and i never saw a show like ELR that could get 30 seconds of laughter while none of the characters say anything but just react to what they've walked in on or what has just been said. someone could say something innocent and yet, because you know how everyone is going to take it, it's hilarious and they just pan around to each characters reaction and keep the laugh going. robert was always the best with the facial expressions. oh well, great show and at least it still has the repeats on tbs all the time.
my girlfriend and i watch lost. We love it. We have seen until episode 22(don't know which episode is showed in america). It is a great show. Does anybody remember the show: nowere man? that was the first noncomedy serie i was hooked on. Great ending
Saw the first five episodes including the pilot yesterday. Robert is weird in the early series. Reminds me of Lenny from Of Mice and Men. I can't wait to see the bickering between Marie and Debra with Ray caught in the middle and Frank throwing in the snide remarks! That always cracks me up...
That show is a scam. They give poor families new, huge houses that they can no longer afford. Then what?
I've always wondered about that. Are there any stories of this happening? With how generous they are, I'm guessing that they also pledge to help out those families with the costs of maintaining a new home.
Maybe, but one family has the audacity to sue ABC. They're suing ABC because their property taxes have gone up. They're saying that they never would've done the show had they known that.
yeah...here's your new free house...we're forgiving the mortgage entirely...we're giving you hundreds of thousands of dollars to cover maintenance and expenses. the contractor just offered you a job. enjoy your free new car. BUT DAMN IT...MY TAXES WENT UP!!!!
I hadn't heard about that, I just remember hearing something about people having trouble after the show (but in a quick search I couldn't find anything)...but according to Newsweek, they tell the owners to dodge taxes: http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/articles/story.php?s=2552 Regardless, I have no idea what I am talking about on this issue, I just mostly wanted to discuss the implications of all of the new costs. If the show deals/helps with them, that is great. If not, that is exploitation.
Yea, Lenny from Of Mice and Men is the first thing that came to mind regarding Robert, early in the series.
No cable here. If I had cable, I'd watch it on the cable sindicated stations. I watch this show on Sunday at 10 (the best one from the whole week) and then at 10:30 every other day because of this: Frank has the best lines in that show: Marie: "If you ________, I will leave!" FRANK: "I win again!" FRANK: "HOLY Crap" FRANK: "If there is a sandwich anywhere at the end of this discussion, I am ending it now!" The best one is the one with Marie's sculpture. Frank has the best line, at the end, when the maintenance guy tells him what the sculpture looks like when he's been staring at it throughout the whole show. After the guy whispers it in his ear: "HOLY CRAP!"
One of my favorites Marie: Don't you tell me to be quiet! I have a mind of my own you know! I can contribute! I'm not just some... trophy wife! Frank: You're a trophy wife? What contest in hell did I win?
I really don't think everyone loves Raymond...I think more people kinda like him though... Had some great characters (parents) and decent story lines...I always though Mrs. Raymond was pretty hot...
