The show is titled Everybody Loves Raymond because Robert, Ray's brother, thinks that he is the favored one at home and in life .        Everybody Loves Raymond is a show I keep returning to when I’m feeling down and need a good laugh.  The sitcom is an American comedy that ran from 1996 to 2005 and can currently be watched on Amazon Prime Video. The show is centered around the dysfunctional Barone family. How the Barones take on life and one another provides for the comedy.      Ray Barone   Sportswriter Ray Barone, who works for Newsday, lives with his long-suffering wife, Debra, daughter Ally, and twin sons, Michael and Geoffrey. His intrusive parents, Marie and Frank, along with his jealous brother, Robert, live across the street. Ray, a beleaguered and shy person, often finds himself delicately poised in the middle of a confrontation between his wife and mother or a family, sometimes having to make peace and sometimes havin...