Everybody Loves Raymond: Season 3

When Ray and Debra's house is fumigated for termites, they move in with Frank and Marie. However, when Marie informs Ray that Debra is being intrusive, Debra and Ray team up to teach Ray's parents a lesson by interfering with their lives. Debra cooks her own meals for the family and spoils Marie's. Ray hides the TV remote from Frank and breaks the fridge door. However, despite their efforts, their plan backfires.

After Frank has another car accident, a fed-up Robert gives him a ticket, which leads Debra to be worried about Frank driving the kids. Ray and Debra then find out that Frank's driver's license is expired since one year after he cuts off a funeral procession. Ray takes Frank for his test, resulting in a harrowing ride for him, and to Ray's astonishment he passes. Debra then reminds him that he is getting old and they can't trust their kids with him anymore. Eventually Frank realizes this himself

After the kids cause chaos at the supermarket, Ray and Debra hire a baby sitter, Lisa, much to Marie's shock and disappointment. At first Ray and Debra think it's a good idea because they are able to spend more time with each other, but when the kids favor Lisa more than Debra, Debra decides to give her up and leave the babysitting jobs to Marie. Marie gets hurt during sitting and Ray tries to get Lisa back, but the Parkers have already hired her. Note: First appearance of Bill and Carrie Parker

When Ray embarrasses Debra at a school fundraiser, Debra feels humiliated. When Ray asks her to stop feeling that way, she tells him that she would get back at him. For the next few days Ray becomes very neurotic and finally Debra tells him that she didn't do anything, and just let him imagine everything.

Debra's mother comes to visit, but she seems very detached. When Marie is very helpful during dinner, Debra blurts out that she wants her mother to be more like Marie. This delights Marie and shocks Lois. Ray tries his best to be nice to Lois.

Debra pressures Ray into getting a vasectomy, but Ray has another idea. He buys multicolour condoms and leaves it in the kitchen shelf. They leave Frank alone at the house to give out candy, while they take the kids out for Trick or Treat. When Frank runs out of candy sooner than expected due to snacking on some himself, he gives out the coloured condoms by mistake, which embarrasses Ray and Debra.

Robert moves out of Marie and Frank's house to get some privacy with Amy. When Ray visits Robert’s new home, he notices Robert's landlord's, Rita and Harry, behavior is similar to Marie and Frank's.

Andy asks for Ray's feedback on an article he wrote. When Ray gives his comments, Andy is devastated. But when Sports Illustrated publishes the article without any changes, Ray is jealous because he could not get into Sports Illustrated himself. Debra then points out to Ray that he is very self-centered. Robert, Marie and Frank also agree with her.

When Amy starts decorating Robert's new place he feels pressured to move forward in his relationship. When he comes to Ray for advice, his comments on marriage do not help his fears. When Robert breaks up with Amy, Marie and Debra blame Ray. When Ray tries to fix the issue, Robert clarifies that it was his own decision and Ray is not responsible for the break-up.

When Marie's cholesterol is close to the danger zone, she decides to cook a fat free Thanksgiving dinner (This includes a tofu turkey). Debra convinces the family to be supportive, but when Ray orders a real Thanksgiving meal from a restaurant, all pounce on it. In the end, Marie also joins them.

Ray is jealous of Robert's new apartment, where there is a hot tub and many pretty girls. Ray starts visiting Robert often and lies to Debra that Robert is lonely and wants his company. When Debra drops by, she realizes the truth. Meanwhile, Frank turns Robert's old room into a lounge and installs a hot tub.

Ray finally gets a gift (an engraved toaster) he thinks everyone will love. Everyone but his parents likes it. When Ray discovers that Frank and Marie have returned it without even looking at it, he feels bad. Marie then tries to get back the toaster Ray gave them, with disastrous results.

Ray discovers that Frank had let him win once in Ping Pong, which Ray wasn't aware of. To prove that Ray can play Ping Pong better than Frank, he challenges him. They get into a match and Frank keeps beating and teasing him. When Frank wins, Ray tells him that he let him win. This makes Frank mad and he finally admits that Ray had actually beaten him.

When Ray retrieves a beer bottle cap from the heat vent the day before his birthday, he confesses to a party he had 20 years ago when Marie and Frank were out of town, impressing Frank but angering Marie, who starts to favor Robert, causing tension at Ray’s birthday party. When Robert asks if Marie would be as mad if he had a party, she just assumes that Ray was covering-up for Robert, refusing to hear otherwise and forgives Ray.

When Robert's partner Judy confronts him about his plans for the night, he reveals that he has none. She takes him out dancing and he likes it. He goes overboard to fit into her group of friends. When she tries to tell him about it, he thinks that she has started to like him. He takes Ray along to ruin the evening. Meanwhile, Marie thinks that they are dating and tries not to freak out.

When Frank wins "Man of the Year" at his lodge, Robert and Ray are asked to make a video about him. When they discover none of his friends have anything nice to say and Frank was elected out of pity, they ask them about chocolate and then edit it out. When Frank sees it, he is disappointed that his lodge buddies lied just to make him feel good, and shows his anger at Ray and Robert instead. Frank and Marie give a tribute to each other.

When Frank "hurts" his knee, Ray is stuck with going on a cruise with Marie. He keeps eating at all the buffets and Marie gets close to a group of widows. The cruise manager thinks that Ray and Marie are a married couple. Back at home, Frank reveals to Robert that he fakes the injury. Then Frank actually gets hurt and Robert is forced to look after him. Note: Patricia Heaton (Debra Barone) does not appear in this episode due to her maternity leave, making this the only episode she is not in with

Debra and the kids leave for the weekend to visit their other grandparents. After his friends leave, Ray finds it difficult to sleep in an empty house, so he goes to Robert's apartment and intrudes on his date. After Robert sends him away, he goes to his parents' place, where he finds Robert. They re-live some of the childhood fears with Marie and Frank. They then try to scare Frank for scaring them as kids, but he foils them.

In order to impress Robert at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Ray tries to use his status as a sportswriter to jump to the front of the line to meet the 1969 Mets. Robert wants to wait in the line, but Ray insists on cutting the line. They end up being ejected from the event and Robert does not get the autograph of Art Shamsky in Shamsky II's dog collar. On the journey back, when Ray is pulled over for speeding, Robert tries to bail him out, but fails.

Ray tells Debra he's not sleeping well because of her being too close to him when they're sleeping. He cooks up a story about his granny to get out of touching Debra in a non-sexual way. When Debra learns the truth from Robert, she gets mad. Ray consults Father Hubley over this and he suggests being physically close during the day to avoid the closeness at night. Meanwhile, Ally takes Robert to school for Show-and-Tell.

When Ray complains about the vacation plan, Debra asks him to pick up a place. They go to a BandB in Vermont. Amy and Debra go shopping and Debra confides in her that she feels that Ray finds her boring. When Marie moves-in for baby-sitting, Robert feels left out and wants to baby-sit instead. Ray then asks Robert, but Marie moves in anyway and supervises in stealth. In the BandB there is no TV and a common bathroom. They clash a lot and end up having a fight in the bathroom.

Debra decides to go back to her PR job for part-time. She finds a job in Manhattan but gets fired on the very first day. Ray who has trouble looking after the kids is secretly happy. He then feels bad for Debra and gets her job back, but she gets upset with him for interfering. However, she soon realizes his true intentions and apologizes. Marie then applies at Debra’s work to keep an eye on her. Note: This is the first of four episodes in the series in which Peter Boyle (Frank Barone) does not

Debra and Ray realize they are nicer to strangers than to each other. They decide to be nicer to their own families. But the situation gets awkward when they are just pretend-nice to avoid being honest.

On Ray's suggestion, Robert takes Debra swing dancing and they start to love it. Ray becomes a little jealous and tries to break them up, but gets caught, leaving Debra and Robert shocked that Ray would believe such an absurd thought. Note: This is the second of four episodes in the series in which Peter Boyle (Frank Barone) does not appear.

Robert and Amy get back together and spend a night together in Robert's apartment, but the whole building ends up seeing them from their window. Robert is too embarrassed and moves into Ray's basement. While spending another night with Amy, a horrified Marie walks in on them. A semi-dressed Robert and Amy try to explain themselves when Debra, Ray and Frank also join them. Amy ends up losing her temper with Marie for being too possessive of Robert.

A flashback to when Ray and Debra first met. Ray is working as a futon delivery guy and he brings her a futon. After fixing up a date with her, he accidentally sees her naked. Embarrassed, he cancels his date. Later she visits him and asks him over with a false complaint and then offers him food, making it their first official date. Note: This is the third of four episodes in the series in which Peter Boyle (Frank Barone) does not appear.