
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.

Debra's attempt to write a children's story turns into an all-out storytelling war with Ray.

Ray buys his father a fancy aquarium for his birthday, which depresses the older man.

At his high-school reunion, Ray discovers Debra is cool and he is not.

After her Tupperware party is ruined, Debra decides she's had enough of her interfering mother-in-law.