S9.E16

The Finale

Name: The Finale
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2005-05-16
Duration: 23 min
Rating: 8.4
Cast: Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett

Episode aired May 16, 2005
TV-PG
23m

IMDb RATING

8.4/10

762

YOUR RATING

Peter Boyle, Brad Garrett, Patricia Heaton, Doris Roberts, and Ray Romano in Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)

Comedy

Ray undergoes a routine surgery. The medical personnel have difficulty waking him for a while causing most of the family to panic. Ray finally wakes up, and everyone is a little nicer to him... Read allRay undergoes a routine surgery. The medical personnel have difficulty waking him for a while causing most of the family to panic. Ray finally wakes up, and everyone is a little nicer to him afterward.Ray undergoes a routine surgery. The medical personnel have difficulty waking him for a while causing most of the family to panic. Ray finally wakes up, and everyone is a little nicer to him afterward.

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IMDb RATING

8.4/10

762

YOUR RATING

7User reviews

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Trivia
Filming of the series finale was delayed twice when Patricia Heaton and then Doris Roberts were ill and couldn't speak well on the filming days.

Goofs
When the entire family is sitting around the table, Marie places syrup on the table twice.

Quotes
Nurse: Debra Barone?
Debra Barone: Yep. Hi how'd it go?
Nurse: Mrs. Barone are there any allergies or conditions your husband may have neglected to tell us about?
Debra Barone: What do you mean? Why?
Nurse: Well we're having difficulty bringing him out of the anesthesia.
Debra Barone: What?
Nurse: He should have been out by now. He's not responding and his blood pressure has dropped below a certain level.
Debra Barone: [Begins crying] Robert
Robert Barone: What is it?
Debra Barone: He's not...
Robert Barone: What? Raymond?
Amy MacDougall: What's happening?
Debra Barone: He's not waking up!
Robert Barone: [to the Nurse] Well just let me go in there I'm his blood type
[the nurse shakes her head]
Robert Barone: No no listen to me! He is my brother I can wake him up. Raymond!
Nurse: [Robert runs to the door] Sir please
Doctor: Hi are you the Barones?
Robert Barone: My brother is in there! Raymond!
Doctor: He's fine now. His blood pressure's returning to normal and he's coming out of it. This happens sometimes. It's a form of hypertension but he's perfectly all right.
Debra Barone: Oh, thank you.
Doctor: You can see him in a few minutes
Debra Barone: [Obviously relieved] Oh, Oh my God.
Robert Barone: Well okay but it was fine.
Amy MacDougall: Yes.
Robert Barone: He said it went fine. It went good.
Amy MacDougall: I noticed the nurse was still buttoned.

Crazy credits
The Where's Lunch production logo shows a bill reading: "NO CHARGE! Thank you." Bills are presented at the end of a meal, which fits with this being the final episode.

Connections
Featured in The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2005)

Soundtracks
Jungle Love
(uncredited)
Performed by Steve Miller Band
Used as the theme song for season 7-9.

User reviews7

Review

Featured review

10/10

They Got It Right

It's beyond belief that anyone would consider the Raymond finale to be bad. Unfortunately, too many viewers have grown to expect fireworks and fanfare and guest stars in a series finale. That never works. See the Seinfeld finale for how to screw it up terribly. The last episode of a series should indeed be just another episode. What it should do, and what this one does admirably, is strike the tone of the show on the nose (pun not intended). The theme of the episode captures the emotions of Ray and his family for each other, something that is at the center of the series' success. It seems that too many people want to twist the show into a soap opera and subvert everything it was about just to cap things off with a bang. That's nonsense. Raymond is an example of one of the finest finales of all time, right up there with the Mary Tyler Moore Show and Scrubs.