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* [[Continuity Porn]]: {{spoiler|Robert and Amy's}} wedding was [[Loads and Loads of Characters|filled to the brim with characters we'd seen throughout the series]]. Most of them didn't have speaking parts in this episode, but almost everyone attending the wedding was recognizable as a previous guest star.

* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Whenever Debra would [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male|physically abuse her husband]], or say something bitchy, or do something hypocritical, the people sitting in the studio audience would invariably react by......[[Unfortunate Implications|erupting into wild cheers]].

* [[Follow the Leader]]: Helped restart the somewhat-dormant trend in dysfunctional family comedies (after several years of ''[[Home Improvement]]''-style [[Dom Com|Dom Coms]]) and basically jump-started a whole new era of [[Ugly Guy Hot Wife]] sitcoms. ''Many'' of the sitcoms from the ''Raymond'' era are clones -- ''[[The King of Queens]]'' being the most notable and famous one.

* [[Follow the Leader]]: Helped restart the somewhat-dormant trend in dysfunctional family comedies (after several years of ''[[Home Improvement]]''-style [[Dom Com|Dom Coms]]) and basically jump-started a whole new era of [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]] sitcoms. ''Many'' of the sitcoms from the ''Raymond'' era are clones -- ''[[The King of Queens]]'' being the most notable and famous one.

* [[Freud Was Right]]: Used in "Marie's Sculpture" with Marie's...rather "feminine" abstract statue.

* [[Informed Wrongness]]: Ray in practically every episode of the later seasons is portrayed as being wrong no matter what, whether or not it actually makes sense. Even in episodes where Debra does the exact same thing or does something worse, ''Ray'' will inevitably be the one forced to apologize and/or the one who gets humiliated at the end of the episode.

* [[~~Its~~ Popular Now It Sucks]]: Initially, the sitcom was highly-touted by critics as a great new show that wasn't as popular as it deserved to be. Once the ratings started growing and the show became huge, the series was now considered an easy target for people mocking "modern sitcoms".

* [[It's Popular, Now It Sucks]]: Initially, the sitcom was highly-touted by critics as a great new show that wasn't as popular as it deserved to be. Once the ratings started growing and the show became huge, the series was now considered an easy target for people mocking "modern sitcoms".

* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: He was usually [[The Woobie]], but Robert did have some [[Jerkass]] moments.

* [[The Scrappy]]: Debra

* [[Ship to Ship Combat]]: Robert/Amy shippers vs. Robert/Stefania shippers.

* [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]]: Robert/Amy shippers vs. Robert/Stefania shippers.

* [[Straw Man Has a Point]]: As the seasons went on, Ray generally morphed into the show's main strawman. A lot of times the show would seemingly attempt to paint Ray's opinion as the "wrong" one, even though Ray often ''did'' have a good point.

* [[Too Good to Last]]: Avoided; initial worries among critics were that this unusual -- at the time -- family comedy would go the way of the dinosaur within one or two seasons. It lasted nine.