Everybody Finds Raymond Mediocre
You know that show Everybody Loves Raymond, right? Tim breaks the show down to its basic elements:
For those who’ve never watched, the show is about a dim-witted sportswriter who somehow has duped a woman who clearly loathes him into marrying and breeding with him. And they have decided to live across the street from two people they both detest, his parents, who also have mutually destructively engaged in a long-term relationship in spite of the fact that they’d rather take a weedwhacker to the heart than spend another minute with each other. So when there’s a lag between gags, you’re left with this spectacle of marriage as an inexplicably undertaken ordeal of self-torment.
If there were such a thing as a gay recruitment film, I’d think this would be one. Especially with that parental kitchen being so John Waters tacky.
Amen, sister! (Okay, okay. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t have said it like that, but I finally got a chance to view a full episode in syndication and, well, I didn’t know that pandering to old people could make a TV show so sucessful. Personally, I think they should rename the show Everybody Finds Raymond Mediocre.)
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