Everybody Loves Raymond Season 1 Episode 21

Ep 21. Fascinatin' Debra

  • TV-PG
  • March 17, 1997
  • 23 min
  • 7.5  (501)

Fascinatin' Debra is the 21st episode of the first season of Everybody Loves Raymond. The episode starts with Debra's friend Amy visiting the Barone household. While everyone in the family likes Amy, Debra feels like Amy is stealing the limelight and being too irritating. Debra immediately starts to feel more and more stressed out by Amy's presence.

At dinner that evening, Amy reveals that she is studying to become a psychologist, which Debra finds interesting. She suggests that they should analyze each other for fun and suggest ways in which they can improve themselves. Ray picks up on this and tries to have fun imitating Debra and her new found interest in psychology. But when Debra takes it too seriously and tries to analyze everyone, Ray and the rest of the family lose their patience with her.

Afterwards Debra feels guilty and apologizes to Ray. They decide on a new activity, which is to pick a topic and have a debate about it. This quickly turns out to be a bad idea since the topic that was picked was spankings as means of discipline. Debra's opinion that it is wrong to hit your children opposes Marie's who used to hit Ray as a child. When the conversation escalates to the point of screaming, Debra storms out of the house and goes to a café, where she encounters Amy again.

Over coffee, Amy tells Debra that she should try to be more relaxed around her husband and try to get close to him more often, since that’s likely the root of her frustration. She further suggests that Debra should try to get Ray interested in what she is passionate about, instead of trying to get interested in his hobbies. Debra decides to give this advice a try, only to have it backfire on her as Ray becomes more obsessive about her fledgling psychology career than she is.

In the end, Debra has a heart-to-heart conversation with her husband about the nature of her stress and realizes that she was subconsciously trying to impress Amy. Ray and Debra eventually have a good laugh about Debra's neuroses and the episode ends on a lighthearted note.

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  • First Aired
    March 17, 1997
  • Content Rating
    TV-PG
  • Runtime
    23 min
  • Language
    English
  • IMDB Rating
    7.5  (501)