- A radio psychologist comes to interview Debra for a book, but she winds up being more interested in Raymond and his family. Therefore, Debra comes to the conclusion that she is too boring.
- The episode opens with Ray meeting with Desmond Howard in a bar. They talk about the article Ray wrote about the football star. This opening sequence has nothing to do with the main story of the episode. As the main story begins, Ray comes home to find his wife Debra on the phone with the radio psychologist Dr. Nora. Debra then explains to Ray that she and Dr. Nora talked about Debra feeling unappreciated at home. After the radio show ends, Dr. Nora calls Debra back and says she would like to interview her for a book she's writing. She tells Debra that she's a dying breed: a housewife. Debra tries so hard to impress Dr. Nora when she arrives that things begin to go terribly wrong right from the start. First, Ray starts in with his sense of humor, than the kids act-up, and to top it off, Frank, Marie, and Robert all barge in. Trying to continue on with the interview, Debra tells Dr. Nora that she did PR work of a hockey team. But Dr. Nora wasn't paying attention to her at all...she was more interested in the rest of the Barone family's behavior. For the remainder of the episode, Ray and his family try to make Debra feel better because she thinks that she's a boring person. Ray ends up telling Debra that she was weird and twisted because she willingly married into his crazy family.
- Dr. Nora (Mary Kay Adams), a phone shrink, comes to interview Debra for a book she's writing on the American Family. Debra had called her radio show to share that she didn't feel appreciated by her husband Ray. Nora thinks housewives are a vanishing breed and wants to see things from Debra's perspective. Debra is very sensitive about making a good impression on Nora and wants Ray on his best behavior. Ray has to be look like someone she would be with. Ray has to be there as the book is about families. Debra preps Ray for the interview so that both Ray and Debra provide matching answers to tough questions.
Debra moves the TV as she doesn't want Nora to believe that the TV is the focal point of their living room.
Debra tries hard to make a good impression. Nora is left alone with Ray when Debra goes to tuck the kids into bed for their afternoon nap. Ray compares the home to a frat house. Everything is broken, nobody sleeps, and there is a lot of throwing up. The Barone family interrupts, and to Debra's dismay, Dr. Nora finds them more interesting. Marie is a huge fan as Dr Nora taught her to express herself, while Frank is rude to Nora for interfering with his life by giving unsolicited advice to Marie. Nora notes that the parents live right across the street and have rather informal boundaries between the 2 families. Marie wants to know what is wrong with Debra and is glad that she is finally seeing a therapist.
Meanwhile Frank wonders why Nora is on radio as she has a nice figure. Marie says that Frank is embarrassing her and that he always does that in front of her guests. They get into a shouting match with each other in front of Nora. Nora notices Robert touching the food to his chin before every bite and is fascinated. Robert thinks that Nora has come to analyze him. Debra wants to get rid of the family, but Nora wants them to stay and calls Ray funny. Debra tries to distract Nora with incidents from her sex life, but even that does not work.
Debra confides in Ray that she feels left out, Debra realizes that she is boring and normal with no weird quirks. Nora was interested in Ray's weekly underwear schedule rather than to talk to her. Ray says that Debra is normal and that he prays for normal. Robert has even named all his toes. Ray encourages Debra by saying that she can be weird and have quirks if she wanted to. Even Ally has a quirk as she mixes her chocolate milk with her sausage.
The whole family tries to prove that she is not so boring and has her own quirks like Turkey dogs and wearing socks and slippers at the same time. Debra realizes that Ray put up his family to do this. Ray admonishes them for coming all together at the same time, and not one by one which would have been more subtle and smart. Later Ray concludes that she must be a weirdo to have knowingly married into the Barone family. Debra accepts Ray's argument and is finally happy.
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