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Everybody Loves Raymond: Season 9

16 episodes Premiered Sep 20, 2004 Updated Sep 26, 2026
Previously on Everybody Loves Raymond

Season 9 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Everybody Loves Raymond Season 8.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 9 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 9: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (13): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S9·E1 Mytharc

The Home

Sep 20, 2004 · 22 min

Upon returning from visiting friends at a retirement community in New Jersey, Frank and Marie tell the family that they plan on moving there. Not unsurprisingly, everyone is overjo

S9·E2 Core

Not So Fast

Sep 27, 2004 · 22 min

When Ray and Debra visit Frank and Marie's condo in the retirement community, they learn that they are going to be kicked out due to a number of complains from the other residents.

S9·E3 Core

Angry Sex

Oct 4, 2004 · 22 min

When Debra and Marie have a big fight, Ray is worried that Debra's anger will cause her to forget about their sex date that night. But rather than forgetting, the opposite happens

S9·E4 Core

P.T. & A

Oct 11, 2004 · 22 min

Ray is elected to tell Debra that members of the P.T.A. have problems with the way she dresses.

S9·E5 Core

Ally's F

Oct 18, 2004 · 22 min

After Ally comes home with an F on her report card, Debra feels she is not paying enough attention. Ray, however, feels it might be the teacher.

S9·E6 Core

Boys' Therapy

Nov 15, 2004 · 22 min

The women pressure Ray and Frank to accompany Robert to one of his therapy sessions. Instead, the three of them go to the track. However, even though they skip the therapy sessions

S9·E7 Core

Debra's Parents

Nov 22, 2004 · 22 min

Debra invites her divorced parents to the family Thanksgiving. When Ray walks in on the two having sex, he is traumatised and tells Debra about it. She assumes happily that her par

S9·E8 Core

A Job for Robert

Nov 29, 2004 · 22 min

Ray gets jealous when Marie starts treating Robert better than him, and when he finds out that Marie gave Robert a gift basket, he deduces that Marie is just manipulating Robert an

S9·E9 Core

A Date for Peter

Jan 3, 2005 · 22 min

Amy's parents ask Ray to give their son some advise on dating. Debra likes the idea of helping Peter finding a girlfriend and throws a cocktail party, inviting some single women to

S9·E10 Core

Favors

Jan 17, 2005 · 22 min

Debra wants Ray to clean up after himself and not leave things around the house, Ray wants Debra to stop moving his things. So when Robert stop by with a gift for Raymond, a letter

S9·E11 Core

The Faux Pas

Feb 7, 2005 · 22 min

The twins' new friend has a janitor for a father. When Ray accidentally says a bad joke in front of the father he tries to cheer him up, but keeps making things worse.

S9·E12 Core

Tasteless Frank

Feb 14, 2005 · 22 min

Marie is astounded when Franks puts salt on her homemade lasagna, leading her to believe that she's lost her touch in the kitchen. However, Ray and Robert discover that the problem

S9·E13 Core

Sister-in-Law

Apr 18, 2005 · 22 min

After Amy spends an hour chatting with Ray while he is trying to watch the basketball game, he tells Robert that she talks to much, which of course, Robert repeats to Amy, leading

S9·E14 Core

The Power of No

May 2, 2005 · 22 min

Ray's latest manipulative plan involves constantly turning down Debra in the bedroom.

S9·E15 Mytharc

Pat's Secret

May 9, 2005 · 22 min

Robert discovers Pat smoking and she pleads for him not to tell anyone. When Amy later smells smoke on Robert, she tells everyone that he has been smoking. When Pat doesn't tell th

S9·E16 Mytharc

The Finale

May 16, 2005 · 22 min

Ray fears getting his adenoids removed, but Debra convinces him to go through with the surgery. At the hospital, while Marie is in the bathroom, and everyone else in the waiting ro

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