Everybody Loves Raymond or King Of Queens? Poll/Discussion

I really liked the episodes of raymond when the scenes were with 5 an 6 cast members
Near the end the family of rays brothers wife are funny. Pee wee herman i guess was replaced by chris elliot . Chris was funny on both of the shows.
I voted king of queens

 

The crossover of the 2 shows were funny. I liked the early King of Queens episode when Ray/Debra come over to Doug/Carrie's for dinner. Doug tries to fix the cable in the attic and Doug gets stuck. He does the random "Rocky/Mick" scene from Rocky (which is hilariously random) and he ends up with the red ring around stomach where Carrie says he looks like Saturn.

 

I liked the episode where he has the flu and dreams sequences of jeffersons brians song etc.
Made me think they were aware of cultural history of movies and tv

 

She was annoying and he was an idiot.

 

Exactly. Our oldest son is having some health issues lately. FYI network had KoQ on all night. My wife and I watched a few episodes and helped take our mind off what he and our daughter in law are dealing with.

 

I’m looking over some of the most beloved episodes of King of Queens, and the show was better than I said earlier. For those who know the episode titles, here are some of my favorites:

G’Night Stalker
Furious Gorge
Lush Life
Pole Lox
Tank Heaven
Awful Bigamy

And there’s the episode (not sure the title) where Doug is at the library and needs to clear a computer for Carrie to use. He notices that the girl using the computer is checking out a site about dinosaurs, and he tells her how frustrated dinosaurs must have been having big dingalings but short arms.

Anyway, I still prefer Raymond, but KoQ was pretty darn good.

 

I need to compile a list of my favorite episodes at some point too. Good list!

 

Thanks. Another one: “Affidavit Justice,” where Doug pretends to work at Carrie’s firm so he can play on their softball team.

Some other time I’ll list my favorite Raymond episodes.

 

Here’s the KoQ scene I referenced earlier, from the episode “Class Struggle”:

 

Disliked both shows. They are typical formulaic comedies where the husband is well-meaning, but dumb and the wife is smart, but nagging. I'm not expecting high art here, but a little originality isn't too much to ask for.

 

A sense of humour is a very singular thing. With respect to fans of both shows, neither have managed to raise a smile with me. I will add the caveat that I've only seen two or three episodes of either.

 

I went with Everybody Loves Raymond-as perfect an ensemble cast as any sitcom. I enjoyed it tremendously. I did watch King of Queens and also enjoyed it also.

 

King of Queens is my favorite show of all time. I have been watching Raymond reruns and it should have been called either Here Comes Marie or Meddling Mother because for 9 years almost every episode revolves around Marie, how her sons are afraid of her, how she knocks Debra and Frank’s one liners which in my opinion are the highlights of the show. Ray is an idiot who overreacts to everything. Doesn’t it get boring episode after episode?

I find the King of Queens has more “different “ situations that kept it interesting and funny. And having Jerry Stiller was icing on the cake.

 

KoQ by a country mile. Except for Raymond's dad, that show was a dud. Not Everybody Loves Raymond.

 

I hated Patricia Heatons character. All she did was ride Ray and not in the good way.

 

If she didn't, there wouldn't be much to work with and would a very boring show. The playing off of each other's personality is what made it work for me. Her anger/yelling is what made many of Ray's jokes work so well You needed someone with Debra's personality in the show to make it work and thought she played it really well. A lot of the tension stemmed with Ray's family (which is the main premise of the show - the interplay within the family), and I found the anger hilarious - she just didn't know what to do anymore but yell and flip out a lot of the time. As in this clip:

 

I totally agree. As I said earlier, the show wasn’t very good until Debra changed from nice and sweet to combative.

 

This scene from the movie Knocked Up may explain why some people aren’t crazy about Raymond:



My favorite episodes:

She’s the One
The Angry Family
Bad Moon Rising
Lucky Suit
Marie’s Sculpture
Robert’s Date
Boob Job
P.T. & A.
The Power of No

 

Raymond for the parents. That's about it.

 

King of Queens. I have a fondness for both shows though because I would watch them every week with my parents.

Love this moment in The Strike episode. Doug reminds me of my dad so much here.

 

I liked both these shows.
My wife friggin loves them...
She can watch every episode a thousand times.
Now that they are past and in reruns, I like watching King Of Queens much more.
I am finding Raymond kind of annoying.
Although there is one Raymond episode that might be one of the funniest
half hours of comedy I have ever seen..
The episode when Debra is having her “monthlies” and Ray is scared to death of her.

 

Was Ray never not scared of Debra?

 

True..

 

That's one of things I hate most about the show. She just comes off as a nagging bitch all the time. What kind of man is going to put up with that? If I was in Ray's position, I'd be serving up divorce papers so fast it would make her head spin.

 

ELR could be just a little mean spirited at times.

King of Queens is more blue collar “Everyman” kind of show which worked way better.