As the pilot episode of the long running comedy series Everybody Loves Raymond.
It starts things off a bit uncertain and the gags are less polished.
It also spends time on the set up particularly Ray's overbearing parents who suffocate his wife Debra. She doesn't want his family over on her birthday even though they live opposite.
So the setup includes Ray guessing Debra's age. Ray tells her about the various times he proposed to her and how she finally accepted when he got a job. That should make her in her early 30s.
Ray describes his brother Robert's various eccentricities such as putting food on his chin before eating it.
When Robert appears he is jealous that Ray gets awards for being a sports journalist and he gets nothing for being a cop who gets shot at.
Still Robert and parents Frank and Marie are oddities which makes the show worth sticking with. Ray is an amiable everyman character.
It starts things off a bit uncertain and the gags are less polished.
It also spends time on the set up particularly Ray's overbearing parents who suffocate his wife Debra. She doesn't want his family over on her birthday even though they live opposite.
So the setup includes Ray guessing Debra's age. Ray tells her about the various times he proposed to her and how she finally accepted when he got a job. That should make her in her early 30s.
Ray describes his brother Robert's various eccentricities such as putting food on his chin before eating it.
When Robert appears he is jealous that Ray gets awards for being a sports journalist and he gets nothing for being a cop who gets shot at.
Still Robert and parents Frank and Marie are oddities which makes the show worth sticking with. Ray is an amiable everyman character.
