Episode cast overview: | |||
Ray Romano | ... | Ray Barone | |
Patricia Heaton | ... | Debra Barone | |
Brad Garrett | ... | Robert Barone | |
Madylin Sweeten | ... | Ally Barone | |
Doris Roberts | ... | Marie Barone | |
Peter Boyle | ... | Frank Barone | |
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Amber Ferreira | ... | Matthew |
Stephen Lee | ... | Leo | |
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Drew Ferreira | ... | Matthew |
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Justin Ferreira | ... | Gregory |
The episode begins with Ray arriving home from a sports-related road trip he was covering. He walks in to the kitchen where Debra is frantically trying to control Ally and the twins. While Ray mentions that Cal Ripkin signed his hat, Debra mentions how one of the twins spit up on her shirt. Later, Debra goes out to the movies and leaves Ray to take care of the kids. While Debra is gone, Ray's friend Leo arrives at the door and wants to take Ray out to Nemo's Pizza. Ray then allows his mother Marie to babysit for him. When Ray gets back, he finds the house in shambles. He kicks out his parents and brother and hurriedly cleans before Debra gets home. Later that night, Debra finds out that Marie, Frank and Robert were yet again interfering with their lives. She demands that Ray tell them NOT to come to her birthday party the following weekend. Afraid to tell his parents "no", Ray ends up lying to them, saying that he and Debra are going to Bear Mountain for her birthday. That Sunday, on ...
This show was pretty good. Pilots are usually a little rough around the edges and this is no different. But as far as the show premise is concerned, i thought it was creative and refreshingly un-preachy. Thank you for that! Really liked it. Very entertaining.