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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 3049
Released: May 8, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Standup comedian Ray Romano stars as Ray Barone, a successful sportswriter who deals with his brother and parents, who happen to live across the street. Patricia Heaton ("The Goodbye Girl"), Peter Boyle ("While You Were Sleeping"), Doris Roberts ("Remington Steele"), and Brad Garrett ("Til Death") round out the stellar cast.
DVD Features:
3D Animated Menus
Additional Scenes
Audio Commentary
Gag Reel
Description of Everybody Loves Raymond - The Complete Eighth Season:
A recurring theme throughout Everybody Loves Raymond's excellent eighth season might be, "No good deed goes unpunished." In the episode "Misery Loves Company," annoyingly happy newlyweds Robert (Brad Garrett) and Amy (Monica Horan) offer unwanted marriage advice to Raymond (Ray Romano) and Debra (Patricia Heaton) and even in-laws Frank (Peter Boyle) and Marie (Doris Roberts), who gives them a reality check on what marriage really is ("You plow through"). In "The Ingrate," Raymond pays tribute to Debra in his newspaper column after forgetting to acknowledge her in a speech, only to raise the ire of a resentful Marie. In "Debra at the Lodge," Debra volunteers at Frank's lodge, only to become an object of lust for the randy elderly members (this season, Debra begins to blossom as a suburban goddess in the grand Laura Petrie tradition).
After eight seasons, we know these characters like our own family members. So, much of each episode's comedy is built upon our anticipation of how they will react to each other, as when Marie catches Raymond and Debra in an escalating series of lies or when the Barones share Thanksgiving with Amy's more uptight family, who, she observes at one point, "wouldn't yell if they were on fire." In one of the season's best episodes, Debra seizes on a rift between Marie and family newcomer Amy over thank-you notes to shift the balance of power from the manipulative and Machiavellian Marie (as always, a losing battle).
Raymond is one of those rare sitcoms that stayed on top of its game during its nine-year run. This penultimate season is filled with classic episodes and priceless moments. The incisive and intimately observed writing, brought to life by the peerless, Emmy-winning ensemble, could turn on a dime from funny to genuinely moving. In "Golf for It," the season finale, Raymond and Robert pull an all-nighter waiting for a tee-time. Their conversation turns to the indomitable Marie, and which of the brothers will care for her in her dotage. Marriage, as Paul Rudd's character observes in Knocked Up, "is like a tense, unfunny version of Everybody Loves Raymond." But the secret to Raymond's enduring success is that it's funny because it's true. --Donald Liebenson
Everybody Loves Raymond - The Complete Eighth Season Reviews:
raymond 
2009-11-13 - Our family enjoys watching and rewatching this series. It's different than on tv cause you can watch in order as they ooriginally aired.
This show reminds me of my family!
2009-11-04 - This is without a doubt one of the funniest shows on TV. Each character is so distinct and will probably remind you of somebody in your own family. Unlike most sitcoms, which seem to take really unrealistic characters and throw them into unrealistic situations, Raymond works taking a normal situation and exaggerating it to show the humor. I pull these DVDs out whenever I need a laugh. They're well worth the cost.
Some more episodes to make you laugh 
2009-06-06 - This second-to-last season of what I believe to be one of the few decent sitcoms of the decade has some of those episodes that can make me laugh each time I watch them, and that's all that really matters in a sitcom. These include "Home from School" where Ray and Debra can't get Michael to go to school, "Peter on the Couch" where Amy's brother moves in with Robert and Amy, and "The Model" where Robert gets conned into thinking he can be a model. It also includes the episode "Lateness" where Ray decides to leave Debra at home because he is tired of waiting for her - something I have always wanted to try but never had the guts to do...
Everybody Loves Raymond Season 8
2009-05-14 - Everbody loves Raymond is one of the better sitcoms to come out recently. Season 8 doesn't disappoint either. It's another season of Everybody Loves Raymond.
Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 8
2009-05-13 - One of the greatest television series of all time. I love owning this series.
