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Robert's Date

Episode Number: 62    Season Num: 3    First Aired: Monday February 1, 1999    Prod Code: 9815
Robert's entire demeanor changes when he starts clubbing with his black patrol partner, Judy, and her black friends. When he starts using expressions such as "This is so whack" and "I'm down with it" and showing up in mustard colored suits, Ray and the rest of the family find it hard to believe the extent to which Robert will go to fit in with his new friends.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Jeremy Stevens
Director: Will Mackenzie
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)
Recurring Role: Sherri Shepherd (Judy)
Guest Star: Shelly Robertson (Sareesa),  Kivi Rogers (Man #1)

Notes

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A highlight of this episode is Robert’s mustard-colored suit. In the scene with Ray and Robert alone in the restaurant Robert demands, “Do you know where I had to go to get this outfit?” Ray responds, “Little shop of horrors?” There is an outtake of this scene where Ray’s response is “Guldens?” Brad Garrett breaks up, ruining the scene. (edit)
Voted the fifth favorite episode of the entire series by the fans, and was rerun on February 28, 2005, as part of the events leading up to the series finale. (edit)
Music: "Fantastic Voyage" by Coolio (edit)

Quotes

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Marie: (To Frank as they were leaving) Come on, jackass; and I mean jackass. (edit)
Frank: (to Robert) Nice suit. Where's Gladys and the other two Pips? (edit)
Robert: That is so whack!
Ray: What?
Robert: Tonight Judy and I were going to, you know, go to this club to hang out with our peeps. And now she tells me that she wants to go out to dinner. Just the two of us.
Ray: So?
Robert: She says she wants it to be just us, so we can talk. What does that sound like?
Ray: Well I don't know what it's called in your new world, but we call that a date here in honky land. (edit)
Frank: What did you call me 'dawg' for?!
Robert: That's a nice thing, Dad, you say it to people, it means 'I like you'.
Frank: Oh really? Well, from now on... I'm calling you 'Jackass'!
Marie: Frank!
Frank: That's a good thing, it means 'He's great'.
Ray: Hey.
Frank: (to Ray) Hey Ugly!
Ray: What?
Frank: That's Robert talk, it means 'You're good looking'. (to Marie) Hey good looking. (edit)
Robert: That is so whack!
Ray: Okay, see right there... we're Italian. "Whack" means something else to us. (edit)

Trivia

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This episode's lunch special is rigatoni primavera. (edit)

Allusions

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When Frank said "Nice suit, Where's Gladys and the other two Pips?"

Frank was referring to Gladys Knight and the Pips. An R&B group in the 1970s. (edit)
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10.0
Perfect
Robert's Date
"Silly"
Robert goes black.
Continue » Posted May 8, 2007 6:36 pm PST
9.4
Superb
Robert's Date
"Series classic"
Robert becomes Super Fly.
Continue » Posted Dec 1, 2006 10:03 am PST
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