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* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]: Is Ray just a bumbling doofus, or does he actually have Asperger's Syndrome? Let's go over some of Ray's most notorious characteristics:
** He often does things other people perceive mostly as rude and inconsiderate and seems genuinely oblivious to it. Yet he is also always the peacemaker, indicating that he never ''intends'' to hurt others.
** He frequently betrays Debra and says mean things about her yet when she gets mad and storms off he feels guilty about it, indicating that he is unaware of how bad his actions are until someone points it out to him.
** He is immature, lazy, and hates it when other people pull him away from something he's doing. When he is interrupted in the middle of something and prompted to do something against his will, he gets angry or upset and whines. Real-life people with Aspergers tend to strongly dislike spontaneity.
** He also has strong social difficulties insofar as he simply ''cannot'' deal with people. Whenever he tries to, he has the most simplistic method of doing it which ''never'' works with people and it often backfires on him.
** He can't even get his kids to clean their room properly and when he tries to handle things with them, he invariably does a piss-poor job of it, yet he is clearly not stupid: if he's able to be a writer in any way, then he is obviously smart, and he seems to know how to settle situations when it comes to logical reasoning, but when it comes to dealing with people's emotions and knowing what to say, he is often utterly clueless.
** He repeatedly throughout the show (and his actions seem to back this up) claims that he has trouble "reading" Debra, and there are clues that he has trouble reading people in general.
** He doesn't seem to really "know" Debra at all.
** He also never seems to know what Debra likes unless someone tells him.
** He never likes doing things he doesn't want to, and seems to genuinely not understand that a person can be capable of doing things that aren't fun, such as the epsiode where he royally screws up the checkbook and Debra even says to him that, just like a child, he simply will not do something unless it is enjoyable.
** The only reason Ray has never been diagnosed is because he was raised in a very traditional and conservative Italian household and because his wife would apparently rather nag him than see him get proper treatment.
* [[Anvilicious]]
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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 (TV series)|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.
{{quote|'''Marie:''' ''Oh my God, I'm a lesbian.''}}
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