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Be Nice

Episode Number: 70    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Monday May 3, 1999    Prod Code: 9822
When Ray and Debra realize they're nicer to strangers than to each other. They vow to each other to work on changing their ways... and be nice to each other.

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Writer: Lew Schneider
Director: Steve Zuckerman
Star: Ray Romano (Raymond Albert Barone),  Patricia Heaton (Debra Barone),  Brad Garrett (Robert Barone),  Doris Roberts (Marie Barone),  Peter Boyle (Frank Barone),  Madylin Sweeten (Ally Barone),  Sawyer Sweeten (Geoffery Barone),  Sullivan Sweeten (Michael Barone)
Guest Star: Mary Jo Keenen (Lori),  Stephanie Erb (Elise),  Kevin James (Doug Heffernan)

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(reading what a classmate wrote in her year book)
Marie: Look, Frank. Billy Smith, 'Have a great summer'. I could have married Billy Smith.
Frank: There's still time.
Marie: Robbie, you're a policeman, find Billy Smith. And it doesn't have to be this Billy Smith. (edit)
Marie: Frank! You took all my books!
Frank: What, you never look at those!
Marie: My high school year book, Frank? I want this!
Frank: I don't want it in the house, it's depressing!
Marie: What are you talking about? I look beautiful in these pictures.
Frank: That's what's depressing. (edit)
Ray: I didn't say I had a problem with it, all right? I'm just trying to be nice.
Debra: Yeah, "fake" nice.
Ray: (shouting) What's the difference? (edit)
Debra: I don't think you want to go yet. You're going to miss the awards ceremony.
Ray: Huh?
Debra: Yeah. And the winner for Best Performance as a Husband goes to (pretends to open an envelope like a presenter at an award ceremony) Ray Barone for Mr. Fantastic Visits A Park. (edit)
Marie: Kindness--that's always been my motto.
Frank: Hmm, that's a slightly different motto than "Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah." (edit)

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While Ray is at the park with the kids, Debra shows up with the twins' jackets, because Ray forgot them, and it is cold out. However, Debra just tosses the jackets on the bench and proceeds to talk to Ray. If she was that concerned about the boys not having their jackets, why didn't she make sure they put them on right away? For that matter, the jackets never get put on the kids at all for the entire scene. (edit)
This episode's lunch special is enchiladas, a taco, Spanish rice, and borracho beans. (edit)

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This is an episode were ray and debra decied to be a little bit nicer to each other. But after a sandwitch incident it all turns pear shapped.
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