Episode
Everybody Loves Raymond: Why Are We Here?
Overview
In this flashback episode, Ray and Debra remember their days in their first apartment.
Details
- Series
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 22
- Air date
- 1997-04-07
- Runtime
- 21 min
Episode context
Why Are We Here? is Episode 22 in Season 1 of Everybody Loves Raymond. It aired on 1997-04-07. The runtime is 21 min.
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Episode 20: Neighbors
The neighbourhood is up in arms over Ray's noisy dad and meddling mom, and the neighbours demand a meeting at Ray's and Debra's house.
Episode 19: The Dog
Ray brings home a stray bulldog that reminds him of the dog he had to give up as a boy due to his allergies, but his brother Robert bonds with the dog and the siblings have to decide who gets to keep him.
Episode 18: Recovering Pessimist
When Debra tries to change Ray's pessimistic attitude about winning the Sports Writer of the Year Award, he agrees to change his ways and become more positive, but he soon has to suffer the downside of being the only optimist in his family.
Episode 17: The Game
When Ray and his family play a game of Scruples after their cable goes out, they find themselves arguing about honesty. To make matters worse, when Ray complains to the cable company about the disruption in service, he is informed that he has an illegal hookup.
Episode 16: Diamonds
Ray finds out that the diamond on Debra's engagement ring is a fake, so he steals it from her to get it changed, only to find out after that she already had it exchanged it with her grandma's $15,000 diamond.
Episode 15: The Car
Debra, already annoyed at getting stuck driving the old car Ray bought from his parents, really gets upset when she discovers that it was his old "make-out-mobile."
Episode 14: Who's Handsome?
Ray can't face the fact that everybody thinks that his brother Robert is "classically handsome," while they consider him "adorable like a hamster."
Episode 13: Debra's Sick
When Debra comes down with the flu and is bedridden, so now the inexperienced Raymond must take care of her and the three kids.
Episode 12: The Ball
Ray discovers that the autographed Mickey Mantle ball he got as a kid from his father isn't authentic. Feeling hurt by the fact that his father wasn't truthful about the ball, Ray decides he's going to tell Ally the truth about Santa Claus.
Episode 11: Captain Nemo
When Ray's free time goes to coaching Nemo's basketball team in preparation for the Pizza League championships, he is reminded by Debra that their kids are growing up fast and he's missing precious time with them.