
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.

While watching the twins play basketball, Ray has a hard time dealing with the fact that Geoffrey is a terrible athlete.

Debra isn't sure what to think when her father brings an older female companion to Thanksgiving dinner.

Robert involves Ray in a complicated plot when he discovers that the woman he is dating thinks he is Ray.

Frank becomes a wanted man after he catches the ball at a college football game and refuses to give it back to the kicker.