Frank Quote #140
Ray: Come on, Dad. I wanted to do something nice!
Frank: Nice? That's more than I paid for my first car! Next year, why don't you get me a coffee mug that says: "l make more than you"? And if I want a fish tank, I'll get my own damn fish tank!
Ray: I know you can, Dad, but then it wouldn't be a gift.
Frank: You know what's a nice gift? I'll tell you. One of those magnetic coin holders for your car. $1.50 at any car wash! That's a nice thing for a son to give a father!
Ray: Dad, come on. Look, I make a good living. I can afford to buy you this.
Frank: I know! Okay? I know! How would you feel if little Geoffrey went out and got you some big, expensive thing?
Ray: I'd wonder why Michael didn't get me something. But then, I would feel proud. I'd feel proud that one of my boys could do that.
Frank: You think that's how you'd feel!
Ray: No, I would. I would feel proud. So you don't feel proud of me.
Frank: No, no, no, no. There's some of that. But then there's me. I still have to feel about me.
Everybody Loves Raymond Quotes
‘The Gift’ Quotes
Quote from Ray
Ray: Don't you see? I've set a precedent now. I got him a tropical fish tank. Now every year I got to get him something bigger and better.
Debra: No, no, no. Nobody says you have to keep topping yourself.
Ray: Yes, you do. That's the way gifts are. You have to. You can't get him an aquarium one year and the next year, Isotoners.
Debra: Your dad loves the gift. Just enjoy the moment.
Ray: I've had no training for that.
Debra: The good news is you don't have to worry about this for a year.
Ray: You know nothing about worry. It's not that I don't have to worry for a year. It's that I have a year to worry.
Quote from Marie
Frank: Hey, it's not that fruit-of-the-month thing again, is it?
Ray: No, no, no.
Marie: Oh, that was the worst!
Frank: They're still coming! We got grapefruit out the wazoo!
Marie: You promised. You promised you'd stop them.
Debra: You're still on the computer. It's gonna take a couple of months.
Marie: Dear God!
Quote from Frank
Ray: Okay, I understand. That's more of the symbol thing. You don't want me to replace the fish because you don't want me to replace you when you, you know? When you're dead.
Frank: When I'm dead? What are you bringing that up for? I don't want you to replace the fish because I found out it costs $40! Who the hell buys a $40 fish? Salmon costs $13.95 a pound, and you can eat it!
Ray: That's what you're mad at?
Frank: Yeah, yeah. Then I find out the whole fish tank costs $600! Where do you get off spending that kind of money? How's that supposed to make me feel?
Ray: Happy?
Frank: Jeezalou. $600 on a box of water!