A message from Mark C.:
How has your wife reacted to your Emmy win? Loved your in-show comments.
I wonder if you’re asking what I think you’re asking. If you are, the answer is no, we didn’t. Seriosly, though, she’s very happy, but if you read the last chapter of my book, her attitude is the same: I’m still the d--- she married. And that’s the way I like it.

A message from Marian G.:
First, congratulations on winning the Emmy. I have to tell you that your winning an Emmy sent me to the hospital. I ended up with two stiches in my head. I jumped up and hit my head on the coffee table, I was so excited that you had won. The rest of the show was taped.
Thanks for the support and your enthusiasm. Sorry about your cut, and I hope it heals quickly. Don’t pick at it.

A message from Judy A.:
Hi Ray, I love the show. Congrats on your EMMY! Yay! I love everyone on the show, but please congratulate Doris and Brad for their Emmys for me. I still miss Doris as Mildred Krebs on Remington Steele, but I'm so happy that she's playing the part of Marie on your show. She's a hoot! Is there anything that you have wanted to do on the show that you were not allowed to do, or do you make all final decisions on everything?
The network go very involved when we were creating the show, especially things like where the characters would live, what our names would be, the occupations. They didn’t want us in New York, they wanted my brother to be a security guard instead of a cop, and they wanted my wife to be a blond, mid-western looking woman. We fought them on a number of choices at that point, but now we basically run ourselves and make all the creative decisions. We know what we can and cannot do.

A message from Fonda H.:
Did you ever use your "real family" in your show?
Yes, a number of times, most recently the episode airing tomorrow (October 14) where I go to my father's lodge to take a steam. My real father is in the steam room wearing only a towel. I hear it is a pretty funny scene. I don't know because I havent been able to watch it with my eyes open. My younger brother was one of the cult members in the season premiere, and my older brother, the police officer, will be playing a police officer in a future episode this year.

A message from Dorothy P.:
Why can't Raymond be spruced up a bit, with nice pants like Dockers and nice sports shirts? Why does he have to appear so dorky? After all, he's a published writer and must have some smarts.
You've obviously not met many writers, especially sportswriters. Just because they are smart enough to write, they're still, like most men I know, fashionably ignorant. I know I am, so I'm just keeping it real.

A message from E SOLIS:
I am a mom of 4, my husband works two jobs and whenever we get a chance, we all sit down to watch the show. My husband and I had a long discussion over the axed vs asked. He drives me nuts because he always says hisself vs himself. We love your show. We (married couples w/kids) can certainly relate. How will your show deal with the topic of Allie becoming a pre-teen? My daughter is 10 and things happen earlier than usual. Will this be a storyline soon?

As you know from watching the show, we dont do many storylines involving the children, so when we do, it's usually something that we can all relate to and we've all lived through. We being myself and the writers. My daughter will be entering her teen years soon so the chances of that becoming a story we explore are probably good, even though it scares me, in a good way.

From John Collins:
Somehow, through all the verbal fire and brimstone, it seems to me it's becoming clear on the show how much Frank and Marie Barone love each other. Is this intentional on the part of the show's creators, or just my imagination?
No matter how much yelling and screaming they do, like most families, it all comes from love. So yes, it is deliberate that we occasionally show affection between Frank and Marie because that gives us the license to show a whole lot of the other stuff.

From Ginger Jarboe:
Whatever happened to Robert's dog Champskee (I'm not sure of spelling)?
We had to get rid of him - he wanted his own trailer.

From Amanda P.:
When I was in line at the store, I saw you on the cover of one of the tabloids. Have you seen it yet? You have a "naughty secret"... you love strippers. Isn't that nice?! What do you think about that?
I’ll say two things about that:
1. Please don’t believe anything you read in the tabloids, and
2. I love people. You do the math.

From Sharon & Chris S.:
We had a question about the episode where Debra & Marie try to make Robert jealous and set Amy up with Raymonds friend. At the beginning of the show Ray was eating cereal. We swear that we saw him spill milk on his black shirt and then it was gone. Are we right?
I don’t remember that, but if it happened, we probably changed shirts in between takes of the scene. Aside from that, how did you like that episode, because it was one of the ones I wrote? I write about three by myself a year.

By the way, I spill a lot of things on myself.