
Ray Barone is a successful sports writer and family man who deals with a brother and parents -- who happen to live across the street. Mom Marie loves to meddle in his life, while older brother Robert sometimes resents his success, and Dad Frank just makes comments and raids the fridge. Nevertheless, Ray manages to keep a bright outlook and a sense of humor, leaving the hard issues to his more-practical wife, Debra.

Ray offers his basement office to Robert and Amy when they want to be alone.

Ray and Debra prepare Ally for her first play date and reflect on their own first meeting and kiss.

After a PTA meeting Debra makes a comment about a mother who had a breast enhancement and gets upset after seeing Ray's reaction; when Ray returns home from a trip, Debra has a "big" surprise for him.

The family is forced to take sides when Ray and Debra have a fight over a new can opener and each relates the story of what happened with radically different viewpoints.