The Emmys AKA "Everybody Really Freakin Loves Raymond"

Anyone watch? It's like CBS bought off the esteemed "Emmy voters" to hand the show over to that crap sitcom that everyone supposedly loves (it says so in the title!)

Plus, the whole "Emmy Idol" thing was pathetic, the Shaloub win was odd (considering how Monk has become unwatchable this year), the Life and Death of Peter Sellers did better than I would have expected, and the awakward Family Guy moments have me convinced that the show should've stayed away from new episodes and be remembered for its brilliant run a few years back.

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I think the parents are funny the rest is crap.

I remember watching a two part episode where the whole family went to Italy, what a load of shit, thats when i really fell out with this show and moved onto 'King Of Queens' which i only ended up watching because Jerry Stiller made me laugh so i moved on again, now i'm currently watching 8 simple rules, although since john ritter's not in it anymore its not as good.

i've never watched raymond. not once. and i never will.

the only part i saw was william shatner and the mezzo soprano doing the theme song to star trek. that was awesome.

i love everybody loves raymond. i grew up watching that show. too bad it ended

Gaurav Rana wrote: i love everybody loves raymond. i grew up watching that show. too bad it ended

i am feeling very old right now.

I'm not saying it's a bad show (the few episodes I've seen were pretty good), but it's a case of wondering how much the "final season" phenomenon had to do with them effectively sweeping the Emmys (and screwing a better show, "Arrested Development", along the way).

I was glad that Sellers got the recognition, it's a fantastic flick.

Shaloub (for he will always be "Shaloub", his talents ordinarily transcend the bourgeois affliction of a first name) is good as Monk, but...I stopped watching the show sometime around thirty minutes into the new season premiere. From what I understand (looking at Jump the Shark and IMDB.com) it hasn't come up for air since

At least Desperate Skanks didn't take home "best comedy"...

AgentWood wrote:

Gaurav Rana wrote: i love everybody loves raymond. i grew up watching that show. too bad it ended

i am feeling very old right now.

Me too, and I'm only 20!

Who loves Raymond. Name names, so you can be ruthlessly hunted down, so that the TV station finally puts Seinfeld back in their rightful spot.

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Who loves Raymond. Name names, so you can be ruthlessly hunted down, so that the TV station finally puts Seinfeld back in their rightful spot.

you can't beat a bit of seinfeld

I've only ever seen one episode of Raymond, the one where his brother was going out with a girl who was barely half his age, and both of them were lying to each other about their real ages. Peter Boyle was absolutely hilarious in that one, but I've never felt compelled to watch another episode, I never even knew what day of the week it was on.

Glad to see that the P. Sellers pic got some recognition, I found that to be quite an interesting view. (Nice cameo by Mackenzie Crook as the "car" salesman... )

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Who loves Raymond. Name names, so you can be ruthlessly hunted down, so that the TV station finally puts Seinfeld back in their rightful spot.

you can't beat a bit of seinfeld

no soup for you!

It was sad to see Peter Boyle so sick though.

Is is true there's a "Everybody hates Chris" (Rock)? Is that worth?

I love 1987 wrote: Yep. there is a new series called Everybody Hates Chris...

Based on Chris Rock's childhood, if you believe the stuff you hear on the telly!!!

And it's on UPN...which means I can't watch it (I have the shittiest cable outlet, but I'm too cheap to upgrade)

AD was pretty good, GOB found out he was a dad, Michael found out that it was his uncle Oscar and not his dad in jail, and George Michael and Maybe were awkward around one another. Good stuff (still shoulda gotten the fucking Emmy, I say...)

Fuck the Emmys

Thank God Raymond is over. I never found that show funny in the least. The only people I know who enjoyed Raymond are one's that enjoyed Matlock and Murder She Wrote.

:barf:

AgentWood wrote:

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Who loves Raymond. Name names, so you can be ruthlessly hunted down, so that the TV station finally puts Seinfeld back in their rightful spot.

you can't beat a bit of seinfeld

no soup for you!

I'll just have to make it myself then. Actually I think I'll pay the soup nazi a visit when I do make it to the states.

Isn't complaining about the Emmys a little like complaining about the Grammies?

Patrick wrote: Isn't complaining about the Emmys a little like complaining about the Grammies?

damn grammies.

Don't even get me started on the Oscars...Bill Murray is continuously robbed!

At least ricky Gervais didn't win anything

I've just read that they're in negotiations for a Spin off of everybody loves raymond with the brother....should be good?

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote: I've just read that they're in negotiations for a Spin off of everybody loves raymond with the brother....should be good?

Oh, great. Something else for me to bitch about...

I live in the UK where "raymond" was shown at 08:00, to fill dead air, that is the low estime it is held. I was staggerd to find that it was the top rated comedy in the US.

The other day I was ispired to make my own tribude to this festering pile of garbage.

http://www.everybodylovesraymondisfuckingshit.com/

I live in the UK where "raymond" was shown at 08:00, to fill dead air, that is the low estime it is held. I was staggerd to find that it was the top rated comedy in the US.

The other day I was ispired to make my own tribude to this festering pile of garbage.

http://www.everybodylovesraymondisfuckingshit.com/

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Who loves Raymond. Name names, so you can be ruthlessly hunted down, so that the TV station finally puts Seinfeld back in their rightful spot.

you can't beat a bit of seinfeld

I bleeding wish that I could. Its hummdrumm by-the-numbers rubbish cut from exactly the same cloth as raymond. How anyone can class this rubbsih as top notch comedy is quite beyond me.

Raymond will be first against the wall when the revolution comes, Sinfield will be just behind him, followed by Joey and the whole cast of Friends.

Mindelss PAP!!!

The Brownhaze wrote:

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Who loves Raymond. Name names, so you can be ruthlessly hunted down, so that the TV station finally puts Seinfeld back in their rightful spot.

you can't beat a bit of seinfeld

I bleeding wish that I could. Its hummdrumm by-the-numbers rubbish cut from exactly the same cloth as raymond. How anyone can class this rubbsih as top notch comedy is quite beyond me.

Raymond will be first against the wall when the revolution comes, Sinfield will be just behind him, followed by Joey and the whole cast of Friends.

Mindelss PAP!!!

seeing as seinfeld came out before Raymond shouldn't that make Seinfeld the first in line for the revolution? and won't it make Raymond cut from the same cloth as seinfeld, not the other way round?

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:

The Brownhaze wrote:

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:

Ronald Kirsch wrote: Who loves Raymond. Name names, so you can be ruthlessly hunted down, so that the TV station finally puts Seinfeld back in their rightful spot.

you can't beat a bit of seinfeld

I bleeding wish that I could. Its hummdrumm by-the-numbers rubbish cut from exactly the same cloth as raymond. How anyone can class this rubbsih as top notch comedy is quite beyond me.

Raymond will be first against the wall when the revolution comes, Sinfield will be just behind him, followed by Joey and the whole cast of Friends.

Mindelss PAP!!!

seeing as seinfeld came out before Raymond shouldn't that make Seinfeld the first in line for the revolution? and won't it make Raymond cut from the same cloth as seinfeld, not the other way round?

Agreed, Sinfield came first. But in my revolution the order in which you go to the wall is based on the size of your crime, and Raymond has committed the comedy equivalent of attempted genocide. So I will re-word my statement, thus:

I bleeding wish that I could, I have a lead pipe with his name on it. Its hummdrumm by-the-numbers rubbish and everybody loves Raymond are from exactly the same cloth. How anyone can class this rubbsih as top notch comedy is quite beyond me.

Raymond will be first against the wall when the revolution comes for the attempted murder of comedy, Sinfield will be just behind him for the lesser crime of confidence trickery (trying to convince people that his show was funny), followed by Joey and the whole cast of Friends and the rest of their tired, tired ilk of mind numbingly bad, written by committee, pointless waste of perfectly good electricity.

There, how was that?

Never seen it.

But very glad that Housewives, Lost and Battlestar Galactica all won something; especially Galactica!!!