The Visit

The Visit
The Barones having dinner with Lois in "The Visit"
Season	3
Episode	5
Air Date	October 19, 1998 (USA) October 11, 2004 (Canada)
Cast	Ray Romano Patricia Heaton Brad Garrett Doris Roberts Peter Boyle Madylin Sweeten Sawyer Sweeten Sullivan Sweeten Katherine Helmond
Director(s)	Richard Marion
Writer(s)	Susan Van Allen
Preceded by	Getting Even
Followed by	Halloween Candy

The Visit is the fifth episode of Season 3, and is episode 52 of the full 210 episodes for the entire series. In this episode, Debra's mother Lois comes for a visit, and she gets to see just how good a mother Debra actually is.

Episode Information

• Episode Title: The Visit
• Episode Number: Season 3, Episode 5 (#52 of 210)
• Air Date: October 19, 1998
• Episode description (from DVD): "Debra's mother comes for a visit."
• Cast:
  • Ray Romano as Ray
  • Patricia Heaton as Debra
  • Brad Garrett as Robert
  • Doris Roberts as Marie
  • Peter Boyle as Frank
  • Madylin Sweeten as Ally
  • Sawyer Sweeten as Geoffrey
  • Sullivan Sweeten as Michael
• Guest Stars:
  • Katherine Helmond as Lois
• Crew:
  • Richard Marion - Director
  • Susan Van Allen - Writer
• Preceded by: "Getting Even"
• Followed by: "Halloween Candy"

Synopsis

When Debra's mother Lois comes for a visit, Debra realizes she's not the same type of mother as Marie. And when she mentions that, the tension grows between her and her mother.

Running Gags

• Debra makes lemon chicken in this episode, and it's criticized by the other characters.

• This is also an episode where Ray calls Debra by a funny nickname as he enters the scene: Noodle.

• As with many appearances by Lois, Ray has trouble calling her by her name. And Robert is really weirded out by her. As he says in the episode, Lois gives him "the willies".

Trivia

• Debra's father (and Lois' husband) Warren is mentioned but never actually seen in the episode.

Production Notes

• By production order, this is the sixth episode of the third season.
• The Production Staff credits squish a bit.
• This episode features a held-back lunch from the first season in original airings, hence the later version of the 1996 Where's Lunch? logo, which also happened in the Season 2 episode, Traffic School. Today's reruns feature the later version of the 1996 logo too, but the dish is replaced with an alternate version of the dish from Why Are We Here?. In this version, a different angle of the dish is used, and a grain of rice moves. The logo and spoon are more centered, and the dish doesn't cover the logo entirely unlike the first version.

Quotes

• Ray: (hoping she'll appear) "Xena: Warrior Princess. Xena: Warrior Princess."

• Lois: (regarding Debra's dinner) "It smells wonderful."
• Ray: "That was me. I burped."

• Robert: (after Marie finds him eating her cake) "It was Raymond. I tried to stop him."

External links

• "The Visit" at IMDb.com