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Robert's Divorce

‘Robert's Divorce’

Season 4, Episode 24 -  Aired May 22, 2000

Robert and his family run into his ex-wife, Joanne (guest star Suzie Plakson), at a restaurant, bringing back memories of their break-up.

Quote from Ray

[flashback:]
Robert: Three minutes ago I was watching cartoons and eating a banana. She still there?
Ray: No. What's scary is, I think I just saw a bat fly away.

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Quote from Robert

Robert: Thank you. This is a very special night for me. I finally feel like I've put my bull wound behind me. I said, "behind me." [laughter]
Debra: Oh, I got it.
Robert: No, but I gotta tell you, it's been a tough few months getting back on my feet, and now that I have Amy at my side again, and I'm back doing the job that I love, I've never felt better. And also I think I have gotten over my anxiety vis-a-vis public restrooms, so if you'll excuse me, I shall return presently.

Quote from Frank

Debra: Oh my God.
Marie: It's that awful woman!
Ray: That's definitely her, right?
Frank: It's her!
Amy: Who?
Ray: That's Joanne, Robert's ex-wife.
Marie: [spits]
Frank: What the hell? She's got water!

Quote from Robert

[flashback:]
Robert: No no, I'm serious. I'm putting that movie in my top five all-time.
Ray: Any movie with a cop or a dog in it goes into your top five.
Robert: And this one had both! Hey, remember when the dog cleaned himself in front of the mayor?
Ray: That was funny. I'll give you that one.

Quote from Robert

[flashback:]
Joanne: How was the movie?
Robert: Oh, I'm telling you, I wish you'd come with us. I really liked it. I'm thinking of putting it in my top five.
Joanne: Really? Because the preview looked kind of stupid.
Robert: You know now that I think about it, the dog drove a car, what is that?
Joanne: That's why we can never see movies together. We have the exact opposite taste in movies, books... Stop! Music, TV shows. He likes the kind of thing where someone steps on a rake.
Ray: [laughs] This movie had that too.
Robert: Yeah, yeah, it's funny.
[Ray puts his feet on the table and instantly removes them when Joanne looks]
Joanne: Oh, no, no, no. You can put your feet on our furniture.
Ray: That's all right, I'm good right here.
Joanne: No, really, it's okay. Until Robert gets a raise, we are blessed with your parents' old stuff. If you get really close, you can still smell Frank's feet.
Debra: I'll pass.

Quote from Robert

[flashback:]
Robert: Sorry.
Joanne: I thought we weren't doing that anymore. No crazy chin.
Robert: Yeah, you're right, you're right. Sometimes when I eat, I do a little thing with my chin.
Ray: That's all right. I didn't know.
Debra: I didn't notice that.

Quote from Robert

[flashback:]
Joanne: Bobby, tonight could you not plop into bed? Sometimes I wake up in mid-air.
Robert: Okay, got it, no plopping. Night, mushy mush-mush!

Quote from Robert

[flashback:]
Ray: Ooh, boy. I am tuckered out.
Robert: You guys wanna play Monopoly or something?
Debra: Shouldn't you be getting home?
Robert: Well, I really have to make sure that Joanne is in a real deep sleep, 'cause I kinda have the tendency to plop into bed.
Ray: Yeah, mush-mush told us.

Quote from Ray

[flashback:]
Debra: Listen, you've got to talk to Robert. He's so unhappy with Joanne! He's not unhappy.
Ray: What? So she's a little bossy. He seems fine with that.
Debra: She's always putting him down, and he just sits there and takes it.
Ray: Hey, that's marriage. Their marriage. That's their marriage, over there.

Quote from Ray

[flashback:]
Debra: Just tell him that he should talk to Joanne about the way she treats him and how that makes him feel.
Ray: How about I'll just tell him to go home, and then you and I can go upstairs and shake it up.
Debra: If you don't talk to him, I will.
Ray: No, don't, no! Would you- I'll talk to him, okay? I know- I know what to say.
Robert: Found a deck of cards! Crazy Eights?
Ray: Listen, Robert, you really you really should go home to your wife, 'cause Debra's got to pump breast milk.
Debra: Yeah, you know what to say. I don't have to pump, Robert.

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