Jazz Records

Jazz Records
Ray in "Jazz Records"
Season	8
Episode	10
Air Date	December 15, 2003
Cast	Ray Romano Patricia Heaton Brad Garrett Doris Roberts Peter Boyle Madylin Sweeten Sawyer Sweeten Sullivan Sweeten
Director(s)	Gary Halvorson
Writer(s)	Tom Caltabiano
Preceded by	The Bird
Followed by	Debra at the Lodge

Jazz Records is the 10^th episode of Season 8, and is episode 181^st of the full 210 episodes for the entire series.

Episode Information

• Episode Title: Jazz Records
• Episode Number: Season 8, Episode 10 (#181 of 210)
• Air Date: December 15, 2003
• Episode description (from DVD): ""
• Cast:
  • Ray Romano as Ray Barone
  • Patricia Heaton as Debra Barone
  • Brad Garrett as Robert Barone
  • Madylin Sweeten as Ally Barone
  • Doris Roberts as Marie Barone
  • Peter Boyle as Frank Barone
  • Monica Horan as Amy MacDougall Barone
  • Sawyer Sweeten as Geoffrey Barone
  • Sullivan Sweeten as Michael Barone
• Crew:
  • Gary Halvorson - Director
  • Tom Caltabiano - Writer
• Preceded by: "The Bird"
• Followed by: "Debra at the Lodge"

Synopsis

Ray enters the living room to find his dictionary destroyed. Debra informs him that the boys were sliding down the stairs on it. Ray is upset because he won it in a spelling bee in school. Frank tells Ray that it's payback for when Ray destroyed Frank's jazz records as a child.

The next day, Ray arrives at his parents' house and gives Frank an early Christmas gift: CDs of his old jazz records. Ray asks him where the CD player he bought them is, and Frank tells him it's still in the box in the basement. Ray goes to the basement and finds all the old gifts he gave them, including a new CD player. While Ray tries to put the CDs on, Frank reminisces about listening to his old records and how Ray accidentally melted the records by setting up his race car track. Frank and Marie find the CD player too complicated and leave.

On returning to the house, Ray tells Debra about his parents refusing to listen to the CDs. Debra tells Ray to sit down and tells him to not let his father get him down. Ray ignores her and lays out a plan to sneak into the Barone house and set up the CD player and play the CDs when his parents arrive at home. When Frank and Marie arrive at the house, Ray plays the CD which is extremely loud causing Marie to drop all the groceries. Robert and Amy arrive with gifts and slip in the spilled egg nog.

After Frank refuses the CDs again, Robert presents him with his own Christmas gift: new copies of Frank's old jazz records. Ray once again plays the CDs, but Frank unplugs the CD player saying that they don't sound the same as the old records. Ray tells Frank that he doesn't remember destroying the records, but Frank calls him a liar. Finally, Robert reveals that he was jealous of Ray's race car track because he got corrective shoes for Christmas. Out of jealousy, Robert moved the race car track and accidentally destroyed the records. Robert apologizes, and Frank quickly forgives him causing Ray to question why Frank didn't forgive him. Robert turns on the old jazz records, much to Frank's delight.

On Christmas morning, Michael and Geoffrey give Ray an electronic dictionary, which Ray begrudgingly accepts.

Quotes

• Robert: Ah, another one of Raymond's triumphs, the seventh grade spelling B. Gosh, what word put you over the top Raymond, boat?

• Frank: Once upon a time, I had great jazz records. You were born, now I don't.

• Ray: I wanted to give you the opertunity to hear your jazz records like you've never heard them before.
• Frank: Yeah that's like I've never heard them before, I didn't realize it was going to be the soundtrack to my funeral!

• Ray: Putz. P-U-T-Z. The putz walked into the door. Putz.

• Robert: That Christmas, I wanted the hot wheels racetrack set so bad. I would see those commercials, and I would think, 'this is my year, man.' And you know what was under the tree waiting for me? Custom ordered corrective shoes!
• Marie: Dr. Fishman said that they were the best for oversized feet.
• Robert: I looked over, I saw Raymond, elbows deep in a box of hot wheels. ...My hot wheels!
• Ray: You moved his records.
• Robert: Later that day, after Raymond was tired of playing with his new hot wheels for a total of four minutes, I pulled off my clunky, corrective shoes and slipped down stairs, and now it was my turn. Raymond of course, had the track set up all wrong, an oval. Oh what a visionary you are! I wanted to set it up like that kid on the box, that happy, brother-less boy. And, in doing so, your records may have been moved.
• Frank: They may have?
• Robert: I moved your records.
• Ray (furious): YOU MOOOVED HIS RECORDS! UNBELIEVABLE! YOU LET ME SUFFER FOR THIRTY YEARS!

• Ray: Why don't you go dip your pants in some cinnamon and make us some French Toast!

• Amy: What happened here?
• Marie: Oh, it was Raymond's horrible machine!
• Ray: It's not a "horrible machine", Ma. It's a CD player.

• Frank: I loved those damn albums! I was hoping some day you might love them too, instead of your hippie jungle crap.
• Marie: Those Beatles were awful, Raymond.

• Ray: Great, so what am I supposed to do with my CD's now?
• Frank: You take them, you listen to them, you might like them. You should try to keep an open mind about things.

• RAY: My mother and my father? We're through with them!
• DEBRA: You read my letter to Santa!