Everybody Loves Raymond‘s very own Ray Romano has taken it upon himself over the past couple years to watch every episode of his beloved sitcom, and got the chance to rate all 210 episodes across nine seasons. Teasing to People that he “got on a little kick there,” he noted that he ” hadn’t seen the episodes” before beginning his epic binge.
“They took on a new look to me,” he shared with the outlet. “I was appreciating them more.”
After confessing that he was “very hard on them back then,” he realized that when he was “removed from it a little,” he felt more “like an audience member.”
“And then I said, ‘Let me rate them,’” he recalled. “I rated them, and I was hard on some.”
While he refused to disclose his least favorite installments, joking that he “still ha[s] dinner with the writers, and [he’s] written a bunch [him]self,” Romano deemed a mere three episodes worthy of a 96 on a scale of 0 to 100, the highest ranking he considered bestowing.
“We were never perfect,” he claimed.
What were those episodes, you might ask? Season 2’s “Good Girls,” and Season 7 episodes “She’s The One” and “Baggage,” the last of which garnered the series one of its eventual 15 Emmys, per People.
Nonetheless, Romano acknowledged that “when you do 210 episodes, you’re going to have episodes that you think are brilliant and you’re going to have episodes that you think, ‘Wow, you know what? We kind of missed it on that one.”
“Then you’re going to have episodes that are very good, great and somewhere in the middle, you know what I mean?” he added. “That’s just to be expected when you’re cranking an episode out every week.”
Similarly, Jerry Seinfeld recently reflected on the maligned finale of Seinfeld, admitting to GQ that he’s “a little bit” bothered by the way the famed sitcom wrapped in 1998.
“I don’t believe in regret,” he clarified. “I think it’s arrogant to think you could have done something different. You couldn’t. That’s why you did what you did.”
Everybody Loves Raymond is streaming on Paramount+.
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