Everybody Loves Raymond
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I Love You
I love you screenshot
Ray and Debra in "I Love You"
Season 1
Episode 2
Air Date September 20, 1996 (USA)
September 6, 2004 (Canada)
Cast Ray Romano
Patricia Heaton
Brad Garrett
Doris Roberts
Peter Boyle
Madylin Sweeten
Sawyer Sweeten
Sullivan Sweeten
Tom McGowan
Maggie Wheeler
Susan Varon
Director(s) Paul Lazarus
Writer(s) Phil Rosenthal
Preceded by Pilot
Followed by I Wish I Were Gus

I Love You is the 2nd episode of Season 1, and is episode 2 of the full 210 episodes for the entire series. In this episode, Ray has trouble saying the words "I love you".

Episode Information[]

Synopsis[]

The episode begins with Ray interviewing Tommy Lasorda over the phone. While he's on the phone, he's yelling at Ally for eating a cookie. This short opening sequence has no real relevance to the main story of the episode.

Later, Ray and Debra are out at Nemo's Pizza with their friends Bernie and Linda Gruenfelder. With all the kissing that goes on, it's obvious that neither Bernie nor Linda are afraid to show their affection for each other in public. When Debra tries to be affectionate with Ray, Ray doesn't play along. He's too shy to do that kind of stuff in a public place. That night after they get home, Debra mentions that they don't even say "I love you" to each other anymore.

The next day, Ray gives a card he bought for Deb, saying 'I love you' amidst a greeting-card saying. Debra notices the effort, but says she actually wants the words spoken, organically.

Later, Ray talks to his parents, Frank and Marie, about the situation. He tries to figure out why he is afraid to say the words "I love you".

It turns out, Frank stopped saying it to Marie, thus, she stopped saying it to her kids. After a huge "I love you" fest, Debra is upset, not having wanted the entire family knowing about her feelings.

Later, before Ray leaves on a road trip with the New York Mets, he notices the unmade bed, and does his best to make it. Debra notices and is touched. Then, noticing the moment-- Ray holds Debra in his arms and tells her he loves her. After a couple seconds of silence, Debra laughs at him for being so serious when he said it.

Running Gags[]

  • While Frank is doing repair work in Ray and Debra's bathroom, Marie makes him a big sandwich and carries it all the way across the street to him. Throughout the series, Marie is constantly bringing her own food over from her own house.

Trivia[]

  • At a few different times during the episode, Ray makes mention of a cat that he and Robert had as kids. That is the only time it's mentioned in the entire series. It's unknown whether this is the same cat Whiskers that's talked about in the episode "Why Are We Here?".

Production Notes[]

  • Now that Everybody Loves Raymond has the green light to become a series, changes are made to make better episodes:
    • Production moves from Universal City Studios to Hollywood Center Studios.
    • Stephen Nathan and Kathy Ann Stumpe join as co-executive producers.
    • Lew Schneider joins as co-producer.
    • Lisa Helfrich Jackson joins as coordinating producer.
    • Holli Gailen takes over for Maureen Milmore as associate producer.
    • Steve Skrovan joins as story editor.
    • Mike Berlin takes over for Mikel Neiers as director of photography.
    • George Escobar takes over for Frank Mazzaro as editor.
    • Stewart A. Lyons starts producing til the end of Season 2 and moves up from first assistant director to unit production manager, taking over for Mark J. Greenberg. Tena Yatroussis fills in as first assistant director.
    • Veronica Gonzalez-Rubio takes over for Cameron Loring as second assistant director.
    • Donna Stamps takes over for Deborah Lakeman as set decorator.
    • Rhonda Robinson takes over for Tim Schultz as property master.
    • Dan Fendel takes over for Dana DeValley as technical coordinator.
    • Karen Wald takes over for Lisa Knox as script supervisor.
    • Lorraine Shaw takes over for Lisa Taylor as production coordinator.
    • Tom Paris joins as executive consultant.
    • Erin Champion, Timothy Griffin, Michael Haukom, Amy Janon, Randall Lowe, Kristin Newman, Lisa Percell, Nicole Ranadive, Raymond Rice, Julie Sherman, and Susan Van Allen take over for Susan Boyd, Monika Cox, Vidal Jordan, Kristen Payne, and Gayle Yoshida as the production staff, but were first credited in the next episode.
  • The show from this episode on marks an IA-IATSE stamp on the copyright disclaimer.
  • A copyright sign is also stamped to make sure of the disclaimer in original airings, already present in today’s syndicated reruns of the pilot.
  • This is the only Season 1 episode to credit Re-Recording Mixer Anthony Constantini correctly, instead of as Anthony Costantini. This mistake will return in the next episode and remain for the rest of Season 1.

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  • RAY: When was the last time you said "I love you" to...anyone?
  • FRANK (Incredulously): "I love you"?
  • RAY: Yeah.
  • FRANK: What, do you live in a freakin' fairyland or something?

Ray: I just think that maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if we said "I love you" around here.

Marie: Well, we're not living in a fairy land Raymond.


Frank: To tell you the truth, at first I felt a little embarrassed, but now, oh God!


Marie: I'm sorry.

Robert: for what?

Marie: For never saying it! From now on I'm going to say it all the time to all of you, even Frank!


Debra: Can we just go back to how things were before, before everybody loved each other?


Ray: I thought that maybe I could find out the reason why I am the way I am, and now I know, it's because I'm from a mental institution!


Frank: This 'I love you' stuff, we never mention it again.

Robert: It never happened

External links[]

Season 1 Episodes

PilotI Love YouI Wish I Were GusStandard DeviationLook, Don't TouchFrank, the WriterYour Place or Mine?In-LawsWin, Lose or DrawTurkey or FishCaptain NemoThe BallDebra's SickWho's Handsome?The CarDiamondsThe GameRecovering PessimistThe DogNeighborsFascinatin' DebraWhy Are We Here?

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