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Everything I learned about successful TV from 'Everybody Loves Raymond'
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | May 15, 2005 | Rob Owen

Posted on 05/16/2005 7:40:32 AM PDT by AmishDude

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To: Balding_Eagle

Great. She's one of the few Conservatives in Hollywood and you don't like her character.


21 posted on 05/16/2005 8:08:49 AM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: AmishDude

It was a very cute show.

Never watched it much, though.


22 posted on 05/16/2005 8:09:56 AM PDT by tiamat (Can't sleep...clowns will get me..can't sleep...clowns will get me...can't sleep....clowns will get)
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel
So, when the Romano character famously refers to himself in one episode as a "sexual camel", you were aware that my children may have been watching? How considerate of you.

Two weeks ago the entire show was one sexual reference after another. I really enjoy the show, but to be honest it never really was a family show, and I do not permit my kids to stay up and watch it. If the kids are up, "Raymond" was off. Having said that, I will be sad to see it go, it was really one of the last truly funny shows on the air... much more of a reality sho than the (despite what they tell you) HEAVILY SCRIPTED shows like Survivor, Amazing Race, American Idol... anyone who believes that stuff is even remotely spontaneous belongs in that audience.

23 posted on 05/16/2005 8:10:54 AM PDT by AbeKrieger
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To: TattooedUSAFConservative
I rather like Patricia Heaton. I Loooove this woman! I like her views, her wit, and her looks. I find her incredibly sexy. She has that proper look to her, but with a glance from the corner of her eyes, you know she can be naughty. Her husband is a luck man!
24 posted on 05/16/2005 8:12:40 AM PDT by Paradox (In my heart, I will always be something of a Liberal, in my head, a Conservative. Head wins.)
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel
Guess where this scene is from (dialogue to the best of my memory):

[Husband and wife are trying out for a talent show. After stumbling around, the slightly-built husband ends up on the wife's lap.]

Director: Well, here's a new act: A girl ventriliquist with a life-sized dummy!

Wife: This isn't a dummy, it's my husband.

Director: Your husband?

Wife: That's right, his name is [John Smith].

Director: You mean he's alive, flesh and blood? That he can walk and talk and make love like other men?

Wife: No! I'm telling you, he's [John Smith]!

I substituted the name of the husband. Where is this dialogue from?

25 posted on 05/16/2005 8:12:55 AM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AmishDude fan club: "Very well put, AD. As usual." -- Howlin; "ROFL!" -- Dan from Michigan)
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To: Luddite Patent Counsel
So, when the Romano character famously refers to himself in one episode as a "sexual camel", you were aware that my children may have been watching? How considerate of you.

That was George Costanza on Seinfeld, not Ray Romano.
26 posted on 05/16/2005 8:14:41 AM PDT by motzman (now whatda?)
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To: R. Scott
I agree with you. To me, not funny stuff...can't seem to relate to the predictable, dysfunctional set ups...thought Raymond's character was a moron and his character wife a double moron for staying married to such a pant load.

Where would the writers on "Raymond" and "Seinfeld" be, if they couldn't have someone inappropriately, opening a personal door, bursting in on some embarassing scene? It seems that in every Seinfeld or Raymond episode I happened upon, while surfing, it always heppened one way or the other...gets old, real quick.

To me this is campy regional humor. I don't like wise crackers from NY....hate Letterman, the original wise a$$.

27 posted on 05/16/2005 8:20:30 AM PDT by Banjoguy (Don't be brain dead.)
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To: motzman

Well, It might have been George on Seinfeld, but Ray does proclaim himself a "sex camel" during an argument with Debra where she gets mad at him and tells him she has a headache.


28 posted on 05/16/2005 8:21:24 AM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (Be nice, I'm new here)
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To: R. Scott

Yep, every show on tv goes to the same joke writers. It is just like the evening news, the same jokes get used on different shows in the same week. Only a confirmed curmudgeon could tell you that. My family HATES to watch tv with me, I know what will happen and the lines that will be milked for a laugh.


29 posted on 05/16/2005 8:22:32 AM PDT by jeremiah (Is it not treason, to allow the flow of illegals to be unchecked?)
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To: Balding_Eagle
Raymond is funny, but his wife is a real *itch. Can't watch it 'cuz of her. She's just not funny.

The series should end with a divorce. Those two characters clearly don't like each other.

30 posted on 05/16/2005 8:23:11 AM PDT by Wolfie
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To: AmishDude

I never liked this show until I got married and had kids.


31 posted on 05/16/2005 8:24:36 AM PDT by wmichgrad ("The only difference between what Senator Kennedy said & a bag of excrement is the bag" Rush 3/2/05)
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To: Radioactive

Boy you are 'so' full of yourself!


32 posted on 05/16/2005 8:26:58 AM PDT by thornbush
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To: Radioactive

WOW! Good for you. Less TV is always a good thing. Keep up the good work.


33 posted on 05/16/2005 8:31:09 AM PDT by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: Radioactive

"I wonder why so many people are watching these shows when there is so much to experience in life."


And I wonder why you are wasting time talking about things you claim you don't care about.


34 posted on 05/16/2005 8:33:10 AM PDT by macamadamia
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To: Wolfie

I'm with you. They should divorce. Ray is a lazy slob. His mother is a control freak. The old man tells it like it is. Robert is adorable. I'm still waiting for the wife to tell Marie off, in spades. Can you imagine this show when the kids grow up and all the inherited Barone genes kick in??


35 posted on 05/16/2005 8:34:59 AM PDT by thornbush
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To: motzman

Duh.............ROFLMAO. Busted!


36 posted on 05/16/2005 8:36:11 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: bonfire

*Sigh*

Prigs on Patrol.


37 posted on 05/16/2005 8:37:43 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: Howlin

shakin' my head here.


38 posted on 05/16/2005 8:43:06 AM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: bonfire

There doesn't appear to be anything that can't or doesn't offend them, even when they have to HUNT for something.


39 posted on 05/16/2005 8:44:45 AM PDT by Howlin (North Carolina, where beer kegs are registered and illegal aliens run free.)
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To: Howlin

There must be something wrong with me as I'm rarely offended.

btw, have you ever heard of the comedian Ron White? Just discovered him and he's hysterical!!


40 posted on 05/16/2005 8:46:20 AM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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