re: "Everybody Loves Raymond" son commits suicide

So if my calculations are correct, and then there were 7?

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I really am starting to question if the Olsen twins have teeth. I'm not sure if I've seen either smile in any pics as adults.

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meth will do that

Except that they look like crack whores and date way older men. Plus Mary Kate purportedly has a drug problem.Seems like they have daddy issues as well. I wonder if they were ever molested in Hollywood?

I had never watched ELR until a couple of years ago. I was struck by a few things:

1) How old fashioned, almost Ozzie and Harriet, many of the situations are. The wife (hell, MILF) is actually a stay-at-home mom who worries b/c she can't cook as well as her mother-in-law!

2) It wavers between classical sitcom form and post-Seinfeld quirky. Sometimes it's a standard sitcom, in both style and content, that could have been a Dick Van Dyke Show episode 50 years ago. Other times it's all the cast members standing in a row like talking heads exchanging dialogue for 5+ minutes.

I can't talk about ELR without mentioning it had one of my all-time favorite sitcom lines. Somebody tells Raymond he's wasting himself on sports and should write something serious, and he replies: "I don't want to write The Great American Novel. I don't even want to read The Great American Novel".

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Any scene with Frank was money

Holy Crap!

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I don't know a character in all of TV that had as the number or greatness of "one liners" as Frank...