Question: Why does Hank call Pat "mother"?
Question: Does Ray ever stand up for Debra when his mother insults her?
Everybody Loves Raymond (1996)
2 questions in show generally
Starring: Ray Romano, Doris Roberts, Brad Garrett, Patricia Heaton
Genres: Comedy
The Sister - S4-E6
Continuity mistake: Marie comes over with a cake shaped like a cross. In almost all the scenes where the family is sitting at the table different pieces of cake are missing. In some of the camera angles there are no pieces of cake cut from the bottom yet when the cake is seen from other angles there are.
Marie Barone: He hates it when I cry. It reminds him of our wedding night.
Trivia: The flashback of this episode has several similarities to Ray Romano's real life. He was a futon delivery man before he was a comedian, he worked with his friend Claude, and he once walked into a customer's house to find her naked, mistaking her saying, "coming." for "Come in."
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Answer: It's something which some more formal / conservative couples do, possibly just as a byproduct of having kids and using a consistent reference.