Changes: Marie Barone

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Marie is the overbearing, annoying, manipulative, angry, insensitive, selfish, paranoid, intrusive, and possibly evil mother of Ray and Robert Barone in Everybody Loves Raymond. She is played in the series by veteran actress Doris Roberts, who is also known for her role on the 1983-88 NBC-TV series Remington Steele.

She is the matriarch of the Barone family. As in the sixth season episode titled Lucky Suit (#6.16), Robert refers to her as "Queen Marie". Even though her sons are in their forties, she still coddles them like little kids, but she has always favored the younger son Ray over Robert.

She is an exceptional cook and always has a clean house. Marie often criticizes Ray's wife Debra for not keeping her own house clean and feeding her family properly and she dismisses anyone who doesn't live up to her standards. Even though she loves Frank, she constantly bickers with him and calls him a lazy, stubborn slob.

Marie has a habit of making someone feel guilty in order to get what she wants. Most of the time, the person that she makes feel guilty is Ray.

Personality

Marie is rude, judgmental, selfish, controlling, opinionated, obnoxious, and according to her, "sweet".

Epilogue, Jail Sentence, and Death

After Debra moves out and takes the kids, all of Rays money, and the car, due to the divorce and moves into an apartment in Manhattan, Marie chases her down and tries to convince her to "call off the divorce", and atepts to do so by blaming her and not her son. Infuriated, Debra takes a final stand against Marie, calling her an egomaniacal housewife, with nothing better to do than talk down those she finds threatening. She then proceeds to push her out the door, and recites the phrase, "It's time to take out the trash" (referrence to when Marie did the same to Roberts first wife Joanne). Fueled with anger, Marie schemes a plan to take the kids when Debra is not there so she can keep them for herself, in an attempt to use them to her advantage to convince Debra to go back with Ray, not think this is a crime. Robert finds out what is going on, as he is over hearing Marie talk to herself reciting the plan. Marie arrives at the apartment, and convinces the kids that she is picking them up to go to the Happy Zone. They go along with her, but her plan is ruined when Robert is waiiting outside the building in his uniform with his squad car, saying that if she doesn't take the kids back up, then he will have to put her under arrest. Another squad car arrives, with another police officer wondering wat is going on. Robert informs him that he is merely talking to Marie, but an eyewitness, tells the officer, that she was attemting to kidnapp the children. Marie is sentinced to 15 years in jail, where she eventually dies, and Robert Barone is demoted to Cadet for lying to a fellow police officer.

Relationship to other characters

Mother to Ray and Robert
Mother-in-law to Debra
Wife to Frank
Grandmother to Ally, Michael and Geoffrey
Mother-in-law to Amy

Memorable Quotes

MARIE: I can't talk! There's too much fruit in the house!
MARIE: (frequently throughout the series) I don't like that, Raymond.

DEBRA: (chuckles) Cleaning is cleaning.

MARIE: You'd think so!

RAY: Did you say that you like Amy more than Debra?
MARIE: I am not...saying that.

RAY: I know. I know you're not saying it now. But did you say it--ever?

(Pause)

RAY: What if I told you that we have a tape of you saying it, Ma?
MARIE: Give me the tape.
MARIE: (as Debra rolls eyes) May I say something as an impartial observer?

MARIE: Years ago, I gave birth to two beautiful boys. And I wanted nothing more than to see them grow up, get married, and give me grandchildren. But if you want to take that away from me, by all means you go and tell that to Robert. And I'll just be back across the street living out the rest of my life...as best I can...with a hole in my heart.

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 Marie has a habit of making someone feel guilty in order to get what she wants. Most of the time, the person that she makes feel guilty is Ray.
-==History==
-'''Season 1'''
-'''Season 2'''
-'''Season 3'''
-'''Season 4'''
-'''Season 5'''
-'''Season 6'''
-'''Season 7'''
-'''Season 8'''
-'''Season 9'''
 ==Personality==
 Marie is rude, judgmental, selfish, controlling, opinionated, obnoxious, and according to her, "sweet".
+==Epilogue, Jail Sentence, and Death==
+After Debra moves out and takes the kids, all of Rays money, and the car, due to the divorce and moves into an apartment in Manhattan, Marie chases her down and tries to convince her to "call off the divorce", and atepts to do so by blaming her and not her son. Infuriated, Debra takes a final stand against Marie, calling her an egomaniacal housewife, with nothing better to do than talk down those she finds threatening. She then proceeds to push her out the door, and recites the phrase, "It's time to take out the trash" (referrence to when Marie did the same to Roberts first wife Joanne). Fueled with anger, Marie schemes a plan to take the kids when Debra is not there so she can keep them for herself, in an attempt to use them to her advantage to convince Debra to go back with Ray, not think this is a crime. Robert finds out what is going on, as he is over hearing Marie talk to herself reciting the plan. Marie arrives at the apartment, and convinces the kids that she is picking them up to go to the Happy Zone. They go along with her, but her plan is ruined when Robert is waiiting outside the building in his uniform with his squad car, saying that if she doesn't take the kids back up, then he will have to put her under arrest. Another squad car arrives, with another police officer wondering wat is going on. Robert informs him that he is merely talking to Marie, but an eyewitness, tells the officer, that she was attemting to kidnapp the children. Marie is sentinced to 15 years in jail, where she eventually dies, and Robert Barone is demoted to Cadet for lying to a fellow police officer.
 ==Relationship to other characters==