Marie's Sculpture

This 'Raymond' episode, like most others, is brilliantly acted and has the traditional 10-star-quality writing (Marie's reaction when she realizes what the statue looks like is genius.) It loses a couple points for pushing the vulgarity factor just a bit too far for a prime-time show. It's amazing that the CBS censors let it by in the 1990's.

I saw this once and it's good. Not as good as the other episodes because the I think they went abit to far with the tone, especially given this is a family show and features children too.. The UK doesn't air this episode and even tho it does have some funny moments it really isn't memorable. It seems rushed. As tho it was made as a joke or gag.

So many comedies these days seem to feature way too many sexual references and I was hoping the wonderful show Everybody Loves Raymond would not stoop to that level but unfortunately they chose to with this episode. I saw this episode only once and I didn't even watch the whole thing cause I was so disgusted. I change the channel whenever I see that it's this episode. I fail to see the humor in a statue of a woman's private area. There are much funnier and more cleverly-written episodes than this one. I will always be a fan of this show but this episode is a black eye on an otherwise hilarious comedy series. I know many people don't share the same opinion and that's fine. I'm just not one of the people that enjoyed this particular episode.

It's a funny episode, it's not like most the other episodes as this one has more of an adult theme to it, given what the sculpture is mistaken for.. What's really annoying is that channel 4 in the UK don't air this episode. We can only watch the reruns of this show on channel 4 and they won't play this episode.

Show creator Phil Rosenthal and I grew up in the same town in a Rockland County, NY and were friendly acquaintances. He was always a very funny guy to be around. One day our city fathers erected a statue and placed it at a prominent corner of the courthouse grounds. Many were oblivious to the sculpture's resemblance to women's anatomy. When someone finally mentioned it, suddenly you could not unsee it. It still stands, but I'm told it has been turned slightly to less obvious.