• Top 5 Reasons Why You Watch Everybody Loves Raymond

  

  Written by Zeromage 9 Comments
  Last Updated:: September 8, 2008

  “Everybody Love Raymond” has secured for itself a seemingly never ending rotation on modern TV. This show usually runs around 7 o’ clock on multiple channels at once. There must be a reason for this show’s popularity, right? We at Old-Wizard though find this show to be one of the most noticeable signifiers of western civilization at its lowest point. In this article, we’ll go through why anyone would watch this show with any sense of enjoyment. Hopefully we won’t offend the “Everybody Loves Raymond” bandwagon too much with this article, but as always with Old-Wizard, we aren’t out to coddle that which is shit.
  

  5. Tiredness

  An excusable reason why someone would watch this show is out of being too tired. One comes back from work and is beyond tired. They turn on the TV and it’s the first thing that pops up. Being too lazy to even switch the remote, the decide to watch it and fall asleep to the mediocre humor and average arguments happening between Raymond and his wife. This barely confrontational drama is the perfect soporific agent for the tired worker who wants to switch off his mind into endless mundanity. Nothing usually gets remembered after the episode is over which is helpful for the tired worker who doesn’t want to remember anything anyways after his long day at work

  4. Boredom

  Sometimes there is so much of nothing on TV that one has to watch “Everybody Loves Raymond” due to a moderately funny scene with Raymond’s brother who represents an innocuous folly traversing the suburban household. When Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune don’t catch the muse of the eternally benumbed, “Everybody Loves Raymond” comes in to fill the viewer with an average experience of modern life. This average experience of modern life keeps the entertainment of the viewer for at least 5 minutes or until the next commercial break. When there is no movie on or no want for knowledge beyond ones work environment, “Everybody Loves Raymond” because the solution for ones boredom.

  3. Identity with Family Life

  You have chosen a family life for yourself. With the inherent pressure of society to get married and have children, you find a justification for your familial instinct in “Everybody Loves Raymond”. The Raymond household is a one just like yours. You have two kids, a wife/husband that you have pretend conflicts with to fulfill your unconscious role for banal drama, and two parents who stereotypically represent grumpiness and naggingly critical dispositions. While time always seems to be taken up bringing this person this place or dealing with this parent that way, what you’re really doing is filling up your time on earth with what is considered normal. “Everybody Loves Raymond” confirms these all too human instincts for you and gives you a sense of being-in-the-world as should be. The should never gets analyzed in “Everybody Loves Raymond”, and for good reason; its important when living one’s life never to think of anything beyond ones surroundings.
  
  2. You are an Italian American

  While I am an Italian American, and the Italian identity has survived passionately through the work of Martin Scorsese, the Italian American for the most part has survived through a softening of traditional Italian culture by modern influences. You like to eat spaghetti and talk about how your grandmother makes the best lasagna. You once and a while talk about how your family from the old country had customs that are lost within modern culture, but you as an Italian American never practice these customs yourself except for talking about them to others when trying to establish yourself as someone who comes from a tougher old country attitude. You are Ray Romano who slavishly discusses menial problems with your wife while putting up an Italian demeanor to others. Oh yeah, you never visited Italy also. You probably don’t know where it is on a world map.
  
  1. You have no taste for anything in life

  The most important reason why you watch “Everybody Loves Raymond” is because you have no taste for anything in general. You define Philistinism to a “T”. You desire to watch this show knowing that it will give you pleasure because you can relate to the “dramas” of Raymond’s household, like Raymond not wanting to see the same movie as his wife, and his wife thinking that Raymond never wants to do what she wants to do. This satisfaction in relation to conflicts that really aren’t conflicts but culture in its most self-satisfied and lazy moments make you happy and entertained like a monkey given a banana at a zoo. Taste for you is recognizing yourself in others, without recognizing who you are the first place, or why you are the way you are, or why you would even want to recognize yourself in others. These questions never come to the forefront of your mind, and because of it, taste is not a recognizable source of any happiness in general.

9 Comments

1. #1 Rutvergas says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 10:35 pm

   haha. Fantastic
2. #2 Belialxyn says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 1:45 am

   Yeah, I gotta agree, though I admit i like Peter Boyle, and him and the old lady (Doris-something i think) are somewhat humorous, though for the most part its a half hour of ray and his wife bitching..and those kids have to be the worst actors in TV history
3. #3 Nate says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 11:26 am

   Thank god finally a place for people who hate that show to congregate….
4. #4 Jim says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

   its true…ray fills that void for me…
5. #5 Osama says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 2:36 pm

   Peter Boyle is hilarious. But that’s about it
6. #6 Pingfa says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 7:03 pm

   Heh. How about a list of Top 5 Reasons Why Anybody Would Make a List of Top 5 Reasons Why Anybody Would Watch Everybody Loves Raymond.

   I think the Top 5 would be very, very similar to this one.
7. #7 Jasmine says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 10:17 am

   What concerns me is that I can identify with a few of these [although not the Italian American part]..
   Here it’s on at something stupid like 2am, which makes me wonder and reconsider JUST how lame I am XD
8. #8 RagingKore says:
   November 20th, 2009 at 5:33 pm

   This is gay… so gaaaayyyy….