Everybody Loves Raymond, Enter Question

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You are over thinking OP. It is fantasy.

Good question.

I am from a suburb like the Barones.

We NEVER used our front door and my parents nagged us to ONLY use the back door, the front door was seemingly for company, I guess. I think a lot of people are like this, and prefer family and very close friends come in the back door. Ours was just like the Barone's, the back door entered into the kitchen.

Oh for Godsakes, get a life.

r5 You completely miss the point. The in-laws always entered through the front door when the Ray and his wife were in the living room. When Ray and/or his wife were in the kitchen they'd enter through the kitchen door. Completely going around the side of the house.

Oh, I get it now, r7.

They do this BECAUSE IT'S TELEVISION, and it works better this way.

I was too busy admiring the decor to notice.

I wonder if they ever had Frank and Marie enter from the kitchen while Ray and Debra were in the living room.

Marie: Why aren’t you in the kitchen? You’re always in the kitchen at dinner time - why aren’t you cooking dinner?

Debra: I’m not cooking dinner tonight.

Marie: You’re not cooking dinner tonight? What’s wrong? What happened?

Debra: Ask Ray.

Marie: Raymond, what happened. Did Debra burn the dinner again? Never mind. Come with me. You’ll eat over at our place.

Frank: I’m not sharin’!

Marie: Hush, Frank. Kids! Come down, we’re eating at Grandma’s tonight.

Kids [racing down the stairs]: Yay!!!!!

They exit through the front door.

People enter through the door they know will be open.

I have a number of friends who leave their side or back door open when they know you’re coming over

I have another question: why was Debra Barone the biggest cunt EVAH in the history of TV sitcom moms/wives?

Because it was stupid TV show set designed to accommodate the story lines, not logic. Is it really that hard to understand?

R13: Debra Barone's rival in cuntery.

[quote] as your watching

Oh, dear

People have spent countless threads over the past decade picking apart tv shows, over and over again, ad nauseam, so I won't begrudge OP for asking.

The real explanation is: the actors entered wherever the scene was taking place from the nearest entrance in that scene. If they're shooting in the living room then they come through the front. If they're shooting in the kitchen then they come through the back.

The TV explanation is likely: the characters entered wherever they knew the person they wanted to talk to was. Why go through the front if you know Raymond is in the back? If Marie suspects Debra is cooking then she'll go straight through the kitchen door.

I was always bothered by the surprise visitors ringing the doorbell on "The Jeffersons." They lived in a luxury building with a doorman. They shouldn't have been surprised by strangers. (Yes, the Willis family and Mr. Bentley could drop in whenever as they lived in the building.)

But it destroys the credibility of the show.

R12 she is SUCH a bitch. She doesn't seem to like Ray at all. IDK why they stay married.