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.

Floyd Bishop writes:
I was an animator on "Ice Age." I missed you at the premiere (you were mobbed at Radio City) and never got a chance to ask you two things:
1) what was your favorite part of "Ice Age"?
2) Do you plan on making any more animated films?

You have a lot of range in the speed and tone of your voice, giving lots of stuff to the animator to work from. My son loved the movie, too. His favorite line from the film is yours: "Get off my face". He's a weird kid. Thanks, Floyd Bishop, Animator

I loved the dodo scene and the cave scene , where Manny relives his past. Great work, by the way, on the animation. As far as another animated film, I'm waiting for the Ice Age Two offer.
Thanks for the letter, and the great work.
Ray

My husband and I love your show. You told a knock knock joke the other week that we have been trying to remember to tell our five-year-old daughter. She's into
those now and we can't remember it. Can you help?
Mary Ann C.
KNOCK-KNOCK.
WHO'S THERE?
GOLIATH.
GOLIATH WHO?
GOLIATH DOWN, YOU LOOKETH TIRED.

If this show doesn't win an Emmy for writing, there's no justice.

Hey Ray:
I just wanted to know if you have any animals, if so, feel free to elaborate.
Love Always, Sarah N.
I have a dog named Polly, part Lab, part Shepherd, who's not impressed with my TV show. At least I don't think she is. I don't think anyone who likes the show would poop on my rug.

Alex K. writes:
Question about my favorite show. The bull that gored Ray's brother, was that a real bull?
Ray responds:
The bull was real, the gore we made up. We shot this scene on the studio lot. And may I say this: where there is a bull, there is bull poop. It made parking a little difficult.