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List Price: $44.98 | | Label: Hbo Home Video
Salesrank: 5719
Released: September 18, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
TV Special
Description of Everybody Loves Raymond - The Complete Ninth Season:
Everybody Loves Raymond's Emmy-winning final season makes it official: Debra Barone (Patricia Heaton) is hot! The scenes in which she scandalizes a PTA meeting in a "trampy" outfit ("P.T.& A") and attempts a lingerie-clad seduction of Raymond (Ray Romano) in "The Power of No" are the reason YouTube was invented. This season begins on a giddy, albeit bittersweet note as Frank (Peter Boyle) and Marie (Doris Roberts, honored with another Emmy) announce that they are moving to a New Jersey retirement home 85 minutes away. The surreptitious kitchen celebration between Raymond and Debra and put-upon Robert (Brad Garrett, also an Emmy-winner) and Amy (Monica Horan) is a play-it-again classic. Their joy is inevitably short-lived when Frank and Marie manage to offend and alienate all the other residents and are kicked out. This season produced a mere 16 episodes, but the majority of them are gems, including "Ally's F," in which a failing math grade leads to a tentative mother-daughter connection ("Are all boys stupid?" a lovelorn Ally asks her mother. "Yes," she assures her).
In the best Raymond episodes, you laugh until it hurts (in "Sister-in-Law," Raymond, ever the "selfish ass," resists extroverted Amy's attempts to get to know him better) and it hurts until you laugh (in "Boys' Therapy," Raymond, Robert and Frank, unwittingly make personal breakthroughs when they ditch group-therapy sessions for the track). At the heart of the final season is Marie's definition of family: "We stick together, we support each other." In the pitch-perfect finale (watched by a reported 32 million people), all resentments and bickering are forgotten when Raymond, undergoing minor surgery for adenoids, momentarily does not awaken following the operation. This set contains "The Last Laugh," an emotional series retrospective built around the filming of the finale (which had to be delayed when Heaton developed laryngitis), amusing deleted scenes, and rollicking, spontaneous commentaries on eight episodes. The brief blooper reel is hardly worth the trouble, but we do get to see Romano break up Boyle with a Young Frankenstein reference. --Donald Liebenson
Everybody Loves Raymond - The Complete Ninth Season Reviews:
Still the funniest sit-com ever 
2008-03-28 - We really loved to watch Raymond and his family and were sorry to watch the last season. But all good things have to come to an end. We are sure that we will watch it over and over again and can only recommend all seasons to everyone.
TV COMEDY
2008-02-20 - BEST TV SHOW EVER. I WATCHED EVERY EPISODE MORE THAN 10 TIMES AND STILL FIND ALL OF THEM AGELESS AND PRICELESS.
We all love Raymond
2008-02-11 - Great! We all love Raymond. We like the commentaries of the writer's too. That really adds to the enjoyment of the episodes.
Very Funny
2008-01-19 - I didn't watch Raymond when it was on TV. I do own all nine seasons on DVD. The nineth season is just as funny as all the rest. When you hear someone talk about how funny something is you wonder. I can honestly say Everybody Loves Raymond made me laugh out loud not just smile. It's like Frasier you laugh till it hurts. I do think that short seasons should be put on less discs. I am curious how they are going to market the strike shortened seasons.
Too bad it's the last season
2008-01-12 - The only thing wrong with the last season of Everybody Loves Raymond is that it is the last season. The season ended with a series of best episode repeats and then one finale episode, so the last season is only 16 episodes. The producers and writers were afraid that if they continued, the material would stop being fresh, so they ended the series while still ahead.
The season beings with Frank and Marie moving to a retirement community some distance away which at first sounds like the story pattern would change, but an extremely funny twist just made the last season better as Robert and Amy find themselves living under the same roof with Frank and Marie.
The nine year run was enjoyable and unfortunately, a bit too realistic for anyone who is part of a family. I bought the entire series for my wife and we will enjoy it often. Too bad there isn't a season 10.
