Episode
Everybody Loves Raymond: What Good Are You?
Overview
When Ray doesn't react to Debra's choking everyone makes fun of him so he tries to be more attentive in relative situations.
Details
- Series
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2001-01-08
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
What Good Are You? is Episode 12 in Season 5 of Everybody Loves Raymond. It aired on 2001-01-08. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 11: Christmas Present
Ray buys Debra an elaborate Christmas gift in the hopes that she will be so impressed, she will let him go on a weekend golf trip with his buddies. Ray believes he has the whole scenario worked out. However, he doesn't figure on the even more extravagant gift that Debra has purchased for him.
Episode 13: Super Bowl
Ray gets to go to the Super Bowl and cover it for his newspaper. He brings Gianni but feels bad about not having brought Debra when he sees that all the other reporters brought their wives so he has her flown in and to prove that he wants to spend time with her he rips up the tickets to the Super Bowl.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: The Sneeze
Ray gets sneezed on at the airport and he fears he might have caught something so Debra tries to take care of him but Marie takes over.
Episode 14: Ray's Journal
When Marie blurts out an embarrassing incident from Ray's past, he can't figure out how she came by that information. He is mortified when he realizes that she used to read the personal diary he kept as a teenager.
Episode 9: Fighting In-Laws
While celebrating Thanksgiving, Ray discovers that Debra's seemingly contented parents are really not happy with each other. When things come to a head at the Thanksgiving table, it's apparent that there really isn't that much of a difference between Ray's parents and Debra's parents.
Episode 15: Silent Partners
Ray and Debra discover that they have nothing to talk about except the kids.
Episode 8: Young Girl
Robert starts to date a 22 year old woman and Marie and Debra don't think it's right. Things take a turn when he finds out that she's really 19 and she finds out that he's really 43.
Episode 16: Fairies
Ray is upset when he finds out that Debra signed up Michael and Geoffery to play fairies in a school play.
Episode 7: The Walk to the Door
Ray is mortified when he meets a girl whom he dated 25 years earlier and believes he treated with disrespect. Meeting Elizabeth again, Ray, wracked with guilt because he feels he didn't behave properly on their high school date, is determined to apologize. However, when he finds out the real reason Elizabeth went out with him that night long ago, he regrets ever bringing up the past.
Episode 17: Stefania Arrives
Robert gets a surprise visit from Stefánia, the woman with whom he fell head over heels in love when the Barones went on holiday in Italy. Robert's excitement over having his summer love Stefania so close quickly gives way to annoyance when he is witness to a few of her idiosyncrasies. Meanwhile, Stefania's father, who has accompanied her to America, has his own change of heart with respect to his feelings for Robert.
Episode 6: The Author
The competition for attention between Ray and Robert reaches an all-time high with the brothers ending up in a fight. Ray's dreams of authoring a sports book get squashed when the publishing company takes a pass on it. To make matters worse, Robert receives the good news that he is being promoted to lieutenant.
Episode 18: Humm Vac
Ray purchases a new state-of-the-art vacuum cleaner from an attractive door to door saleswoman and it ignites a housekeeping war between Marie and Debra. Determined to prove to Marie that she's is just as good at "keeping house," Debra attempts to use the new vacuum to find some dirt, any dirt, in Marie's home.