Episode
Everybody Loves Raymond: Driving Frank
Overview
After Frank has one car accident too many, Debra decides that the kids can't ride with him anymore, which makes Ray realizes that his dad is getting older.
Details
- Series
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1998-09-28
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Driving Frank is Episode 2 in Season 3 of Everybody Loves Raymond. It aired on 1998-09-28. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 1: The Invasion
When Ray's house is tented for termites, he and his family moves into his parent's house and gives Frank and Marie a taste of their own medicine. Marie's initial excitement that "Raymond has come home!" quickly fades, when the world's greatest home intruders start to feel intruded upon.
Episode 3: The Sitter
Feeling overwhelmed with her responsibilities, Debra decides to get a babysitter. But when Lisa, the babysitter, becomes the smash hit at "Space Station Barone" with her alien-catching games and endless energy, Debra starts to get jealous.
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Episode 4: Getting Even
After Raymond begrudgingly agrees to be the auctioneer at the Our Lady of Faith School auction, he's pleasantly surprised with the laughs he gets at Debra's expense. Debra tells him that she's going to get even, but later retracts her warning, but it's too late, Ray is convinced that Debra is plotting her revenge.
Episode 5: The Visit
When Debra's mother comes to visit the family for a week, she is disappointed that her mother doesn't want to help around the house or that she doesn't show any interest in her grandchildren. Debra finds herself shocked to discover that she wishes her mom was more like Marie.
Episode 6: Halloween Candy
After Debra suggests that she might be more consistently romantic if she weren't in charge of the birth control, Ray decides to "cut the wires." But after a discussion with Robert and other guys, chickens out. But he does muster enough courage to go to the drugstore and buy "the stuff."
Episode 7: Moving Out
Feeling pathetic because he lives with his parents, Robert finally musters up the courage to move out on his own. Encouraged by Ray, and much to his parents' horror, Robert packs up his bags, takes his dog and moves into a garage apartment.
Episode 8: The Article
It has been Ray's life long dream to get an article published in Sports Illustrated. So when his friend and coworker Andy, the "stats guy" at work and novice sportswriter, sells a piece to the magazine, Ray is devastated.
Episode 9: The Lone Barone
Raymond is in a bad mood. Forced to wait home all day for the delivery of Debra's new curtains, he can't go play golf and laments to his brother, that marriage is like a prison. So, when Amy breaks up with Robert, everyone blames Raymond.
Episode 10: No Fat
Since Debra's parents will be out of the country on Thanksgiving Day, she, Ray, and the kids make plans to spend the holiday at Frank and Marie's house. But their dreams of turkey with sausage stuffing and yams with marshmallows on top are quickly shattered by Marie's new heart-healthy diet.
Episode 11: The Apartment
Robert has moved into a new apartment, and Raymond is jealous. Not because of the apartment, but because everywhere he looks, beautiful women are coming out of the woodwork, and they all seem to come by Robert's apartment.
Episode 12: The Toaster
Ray is overjoyed by the reaction he is getting from friends and family who received a personalized "Barone" toaster from him for Christmas, even Debra's parents seemed thrilled with it, but not having heard from them, Ray decides to visit his parents to find out what they truly think about present.
Episode 13: Ping Pong
When Ray finds out that his father let him win a game of ping pong when he was twelve, he challenges him to a new game.