The BEST episodes directed by Gary Halvorson

#1 - The Apartment Episode

Committed - Season 1 - Episode 3

Marni has never seen Nate's apartment, so she invites herself over one night. However, Nate is embarrased to have Marni see the clutter in his apartment, so he makes excuses to keep her away. Tess tells Marni to break in to see it while Nate is at work, only they get more than they bargained for when they do.

#2 - Finale

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 9 - Episode 16

Ray fears getting his adenoids removed, but Debra convinces him to go through with the surgery. At the hospital, while Marie is in the bathroom, the nurse says that Ray isn't waking up from the anesthesia and everyone fears he may die. Fortunately, thirty seconds later, the doctor comes out and says he's just fine. Everyone agrees not to tell Ray or Marie about it; however, Frank ends up telling Marie who rushes over to smother Ray with kisses. Ray finds out about it and begins acting weird as if he thinks he really is going to die. After a couple minutes, he gets out of it. The show closes with the entire family sitting around the table eating and arguing, just like the Barones always have in the past nine years.

#3 - Mr. Mullen's Opus

Grace Under Fire - Season 3 - Episode 22

While working for a crisis hot-line, Grace encounters the nasty janitor, Mullens, again and he hasn't improved.

#4 - Principal for a Day

True Jackson, VP - Season 3 - Episode 10

Ryan takes over as temporary principal, after injuring Principal Ruckman in the science lab. Ryan's control over the school soon gets out of hand when he gives the teachers permanent detention and with Lulu being the only one to stop him. Meanwhile, True and Jimmy discover that Amanda has four other jobs in the building where Mad Style is located.

#5 - Pilot

Lucky Louie - Season 1 - Episode 1

Louie works part time at the local muffler shop while his wife Kim works works as a nurse at the hospital and runs the household. Louie begins to wonder if his wife wants another baby when she tries to seduce him out of the blue. Meanwhile, Walter is upset at Louie's friendly gestures.

#6 - Italy (2)

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 5 - Episode 2

When Marie surprises the family with the news that she's treating them all to a two-week vacation in Rome, everybody loves the idea – except Raymond. It's virtually impossible not to enjoy oneself in a country as beautiful as Italy; but, if anyone can manage it, Raymond can. Not willing to let his sour mood spoil it for the rest of the family, Debra, Frank, Marie, Robert and the kids go on their merry way and soak up the atmosphere, sights, smells and tastes of the city of love and try their best to ignore Ray. Meanwhile, Robert meets the girl of his dreams – she's stunningly beautiful, unbelievably sexy and works in a gelato shop.

#7 - Trapped in Paris (Part 1)

True Jackson, VP - Season 2 - Episode 17

True accidentally places Doris' wedding ring in a vest pocket and sends the vest to Paris. So True and Lulu disguise themselves as flight attendants and sneak to Paris. But they get trapped in an old mansion must design a dress for complicated french heiress. Meanwhile, Amanda hires Ryan as a model for her boy fashion line.

#8 - Italy (1)

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 5 - Episode 1

When Marie surprises the family with the news that she's treating them all to a two-week vacation in Rome. Everybody loves the idea except Raymond. It's virtually impossible not to enjoy oneself in a country as beautiful as Italy, but if anyone can manage it, Raymond can. Not willing to let his sour mood spoil it for the rest of the family, Debra, Frank, Marie, Robert and the kids go on their merry way and soak up the atmosphere, sights, smells and tastes of the city of love and try their best to ignore Ray. Meanwhile, Robert meets the girl of his dreams. She's stunningly beautiful, unbelievably sexy and works in a gelato shop.

#9 - How They Met

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 3 - Episode 26

Ray and Debra reminisce about their fateful first meeting 15 years before. Memories flood back when Ray and Debra prepare Ally for her first playdate with a little boy. The first time Ray and Debra laid eyes on each other, their first kiss, the first time Marie met her future daughter-in-law and what she thought of her, and the first time Ray sampled Debra's cooking are all revealed.

#10 - Trapped in Paris (Part 2)

True Jackson, VP - Season 2 - Episode 18

True accidentally places Doris' wedding ring in a vest pocket and sends the vest to Paris. So True and Lulu disguise themselves as flight attendants and sneak to Paris. But they get trapped in an old mansion must design a dress for complicated french heiress. Meanwhile, Amanda hires Ryan as a model for her boy fashion line.

#11 - Crazy Chin

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 8 - Episode 18

Amy's parents put Robert on the defensive when they point out his strange habit of touching food to his chin before he eats it. When Amy confides in Debra, who tells her that Robert's strange behavior could be psychological, she devises a plan to break him of his chin habit for good.

#12 - The Letter

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 2 - Episode 11

When Marie crashes and ruins her Tupperware party, Debra decides that she's had just about enough of her mother-in-law's constant interference. She takes pen to paper and writes a letter to her mother-in-law, telling her to stop intruding into her life. Horrified by the problems that this letter might trigger, Ray does everything in his power to intercept the offending document – but he fails. Surprisingly, the family discovers that honesty really may be the best policy.

#13 - The Canister

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 5 - Episode 19

Tempers flare when Marie accuses Debra of not returning a borrowed canister that holds sentimental value and Debra insists that she has already given it back. Debra is then horrified when she discovers that she does indeed still have the canister in her possession. With Ray and Robert's reluctant assistance, she concocts an elaborate scheme to get rid of the evidence, rather than confess to Marie that she was wrong and her mother-in-law was right all along.

#14 - Nick Kicks Butt

Complete Savages - Season 1 - Episode 4

Nick discovers that one of the boys have been smoking cigarettes. Worried that his son might have an addictive problem, Nick agrees to give up smoking cigars if his son agrees to give up smoking cigarettes. When his son complies with the arrangement, Nick starts to feel proud of his decision. However, when Nick starts to show that he is having a hard time fighting his addiction, the boys become worried that Nick is the one with the addictive problem. Meanwhile, Sam joins a club to impress Angela but is soon regretting his decision when he learns that he is not fitting in.

#15 - The Model

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 8 - Episode 21

After the agent tells Robert he has a unique look, he convinces him to pose for head shots with their "in-house" photographer. But when Robert and Ray return for the pictures, they are surprised to find the modeling agency has mysteriously disappeared.

#16 - The First Time (3)

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 6 - Episode 24

After Marie has Frank return an anniversary gift Ray and Debra gave them Ray and Debra reminisce about the first time they slept together. Debra then decides to go apologize to Marie but Marie refuses to accept her apology when she learns that Debra lied to her in front of a priest.

#17 - Fairies

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 5 - Episode 16

Ray is upset when he finds out that Debra signed up Michael and Geoffery to play fairies in a school play.

#18 - Toothache

Marvin Marvin - Season 1 - Episode 3

Marvin "fends for himself" and eats a huge amount of chocolate when a family meal is called off, and soon he develops an explosive toothache.

#19 - The Bird

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 8 - Episode 9

Robert and Amy convince their families to spend Thanksgiving together. When the Barones arrive at the Pennsylvania home of Amy's parents, they find that their differing family traditions encourage lots of lively conversation. If only the MacDougals owned a television set! Things start to come together when the families separate into Pilgrims and Indians for the annual MacDougal Thanksgiving Family Pageant. All is well until a bird flies into the house and Pat McDougal decides to "put it out of it's misery."

#20 - The Pilot Episode

Committed - Season 1 - Episode 1

Nate is set up to go on a blind date with Susan, only when he goes to pick her up, he picks up Marni, who was set to go on a different blind date. After talking through dinner, they realize they are perfect for each other, but also realize that they are on the wrong dates.

#21 - The One with Rachel's Going Away Party

Friends - Season 10 - Episode 16

The friends throw Rachel a small going away party and she proceeds to say goodbye to each of her friends individually.

#22 - Golf for It

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 8 - Episode 23

Robert and Ray end up with the mother of all guilt trips when they decide not to help Marie with a home project so they can land a prime spot on the golf course. Their overnight wait in the car for a tee time becomes a brawl over their respective roles in their parents' future.

#23 - Raybert

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 6 - Episode 10

Robert meets a beautiful woman who is a big fan of Ray Barone's sports column. But when the woman mistakes Robert for Raymond, Robert doesn't set her straight. Now, Robert has to involve Ray in a complicated plot to keep the woman from learning Robert's true identity. Ray warns him that this could blow up in his face, but Robert keeps it up so he can get her to like him instead of Ray. As Ray expected, things go wrong when she shows up at Ray's house and she tells Debra, who she thought was dead, that she and Ray are dating.

#24 - Third Aunt From the Sun

Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Season 1 - Episode 7

Sabrina's zany Aunt Vesta pays her a visit and soon hatches a plot to entice her niece into moving to the Other Realm.

#25 - The Skit

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 6 - Episode 17

Thinking it would be hilarious to show the partygoers a typical day in the life of Frank and Marie, Ray and Debra do a dead-on impersonation of the two that brings down the house at the party. But, when Frank and Marie turn the tables and do a "Ray and Debra" imitation, Ray and Debra don't find it funny at all.

#26 - The Return of Todd Episode

Committed - Season 1 - Episode 2

To make it up to Marni for throwing Todd out on their first date, Nate decides he will spend a day hanging out with Todd. However, Nate doesn't really want to hang out with him. Nate makes up excuses to avoid Todd, but Marni ruins his plans. Todd joins in on a basketball game that Nate and Bowie are playing. Todd continuously harasses Nate, causing Nate to bring out his true feelings about Todd.

#27 - The Statue Guy Episode

Committed - Season 1 - Episode 10

Nate faces his fears when he attends the funeral of Fred the Statue Guy, but accidentally takes communion even though he is Jewish. Elsewhere, Marni introduces Tess to her hairstylist, who when washing Marni's hair, causes Marni to have ""hairgasms"".

#28 - The Perfect Person Episode (1)

Committed - Season 1 - Episode 12

Todd, in an attempt to break up Nate & Marni, sets Nate up by getting him drunk, and placing him in bed with the person he has a lot in common with.

#29 - The Burger Episode

Committed - Season 1 - Episode 11

Nate loses a bet to Bowie, and must buy him a $29 hamburger. Just as they are about to leave, they run into Marni, who invites herself out with them. Nate needs to go get cash from the ATM, only he runs into trouble with a homeless man he tries to help. All of this delays Bowie from his hamburger, which he fasted for 24 hours to have.

#30 - Little Shakespeare (Flirting with Fame - Part 2)

True Jackson, VP - Season 2 - Episode 3

#31 - Down in the Boondocks

Grace Under Fire - Season 5 - Episode 14

Bev, the mother of Quentin's girlfriend, leaves her husband and moves in with Grace and the kids.

#32 - Pierce Brosnan

Muppets Tonight - Season 2 - Episode 4

Pierce Brosnan is depressed over the fact that he isn't as debonair as his James Bond character, but he finally gets a chance to prove himself when the Crustacean Liberation Army attempts to take the Muppet Studios hostage and only he can save them.

#33 - Lucky Suit

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 6 - Episode 16

Robert is ecstatic when he is recommended for an FBI job. That is, until it becomes apparent that Marie's intrusive ways may be his undoing. This time, she may have gone too far and Robert may not be able to forgive and forget.

#34 - The Angry Family

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 6 - Episode 1

The Barones clash even more than usual in the sixth-season opener when they get a child's-eye view of all the bickering that goes on in the family. The fireworks begin when the whole gang attends an open house at first-grader Michael's school, during which the kids all read stories that they've written themselves. Most of the students tell tall tales that are obviously fictional. But then Michael gets up and reads the title to his story, "The Angry Family." The shocked Barones fear the worst---and for good reason---as Michael begins the saga of a clan that is constantly arguing.

#35 - Blabbermouths

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 8 - Episode 20

When Robert informs Ray that Amy filled him in on some juicy gossip about him, Ray decides to get even with Debra by sharing some nasty secrets of his own.

#36 - When Teens Collide

Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Season 2 - Episode 19

Sunspot activity causes molecular instability for the witches present in the moral realm: Zelda's left arm attaches itself to Hilda, who is auditioning to become part of a classical trio, and a black hole forms in their kitchen sink. Because Sabrina is half mortal, they are not sure how she will be affected. Participating in a charity drive to collect food for the homeless, Sabrina is at first relieved to experience no worse symptoms than temporary hair loss; but when she protests at Libby's conniving with Mr. Kraft to turn the drive into a competition, things take a turn for the worse: Sabrina and Libby bump into each other and exchange personalities. While Libby become sweetness and light, Sabrina becomes a teenage terror who soon rules the school and - with the connivance of Salem - begins to plot world domination. When she is arrested and brought to trial, it's up to a repentant Salem to find a way to save her.

#37 - Pilot

What I Like About You - Season 1 - Episode 1

When her father accepts a promotion overseas in Japan , high-spirited 16-year-old Holly has no plans to head to Japan with him. She decides she'd rather live in the New York City with her "straight-laced" sister, Valerie. In the opener, Holly's attempts to prove herself a perfect roommate backfire when she misinterprets a remark about Feng Shui and rearranges the apartment. To make matters worse, Holly jeopardizes Val's job with a marketing firm when she disrupts a promotional event featuring skateboarder Tony Hawk.

#38 - Baggage

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 7 - Episode 22

Ray and Debra wind up in a two-week standoff over a suitcase. When Robert asks Ray if he can borrow a suitcase sitting on the stairway landing for his honeymoon, Ray explains he and Debra have been locked in an "unspoken" battle of wills since a weekend trip over who is responsible for putting the suitcase away. Although Robert thinks Ray and Debra are insane, Frank and Marie can easily relate and offer their own words of wisdom – with Frank counseling Ray and Marie advising Debra on how to resolve their marital differences.

#39 - The One with the Rumor

Friends - Season 8 - Episode 9

Monica invites an old friend from high school over for Thanksgiving dinner. Meanwhile, Joey vows to eat an entire turkey by himself.

#40 - Sabrina Gets Her License (1)

Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Season 2 - Episode 1

An hour-long second season opener finds Sabrina celebrating her 17th birthday - which means that besides presents, she gets her copy of the witches' handbook and instructions to study it for a forthcoming test. But she must also cope with her classwork (including extra algebra), her responsibilities to boyfriend Harvey (including baking cookies and making a poster of him for the school dance), her shy new friend Valerie, and Libby's plot to take over as editor of the school newspaper. Exhaustion causes her to fail her preliminary exam, and be sentenced to witch boot camp; and her aunts are not allowed to warn her about the more serious penalty if she fails a second time. Meanwhile, when Hilda and Zelda's 300-year-old bond matures, Zelda decides to switch from physics to chemistry and buy a top of the line "lab-top" chemical laboratory which naturally proves irresistible to Hilda, Salem and Sabrina; and Salem makes off with some of the cash to buy new cat toys and a meal at a sushi bar.

#41 - Mother's Day (1)

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 6 - Episode 22

Debra takes offense when Marie accuses her of being rude and the two wind up fighting and not speaking to each other. When Ray tries to make things better by getting each of the women to apologize to the other, he only achieves in making a bad situation worse. Then, the unthinkable happens (at least to Ray)—Debra decides she likes it when Marie doesn't speak to her and she intends to keep it that way.

#42 - Civil War

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 2 - Episode 13

Feeling left out when he thinks that his father selectively asked his brother to join a Civil War re-enactment, Ray voluntarily enlists for the Battle of Gettysburg. As the men prepare for Battle, a funny thing happens and Ray is finally able to tell Frank that he wishes they did more together. So, although Frank's on the side of the North and Raymond's on the side of the South, the Barone soldiers are able to put their political differences aside and share much more than a Civil War handshake.

#43 - The One with the Nap Partners

Friends - Season 7 - Episode 6

Rachel and Phoebe compete to be Monica's maid-of-honor. Joey and Ross find themselves in awkward positions after a nap.

#44 - The One with Ross' Tan

Friends - Season 10 - Episode 3

Joey and Rachel struggle to be more than friends. Ross gets a spray tan.

#45 - The One Where Joey Speaks French

Friends - Season 10 - Episode 13

Phoebe tries to teach Joey to speak French for an audition. Ross and Rachel head out to Long Island after her dad has a heart attack.

#46 - As Westbridge Turns

Sabrina, The Teenage Witch - Season 1 - Episode 21

A bored Sabrina gets more than she bargained for when Hilda offers her a "can of worms" spell to spice up her daily grind, which is transformed into a melodramatic soap opera. When a mysterious one-eyed janitor accidentally beans Harvey with a ladder, Sabrina's sweetheart wakes up with amnesia, and a dastardly Libby seizes the chance to steal him, convincing him that he has agreed to kiss her publicly at the climax of the school fashion show; Libby also steals the diamond ring Mr. Poole is about to offer the buxom school nurse and plants it on Sabrina, who must enlist her aunt's help to demonstrate her innocence before the spells runs its narrative course. A chastened Sabrina joins Salem in the less hazardous hobby of watching floating lint.

#47 - The One with the Lottery

Friends - Season 9 - Episode 18

The friends purchase lottery tickets in hopes to win a huge jackpot. Meanwhile, Chandler waits for a phone call that could mean a new paying job.

#48 - Snow Day

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 6 - Episode 14

Held captive at Frank and Marie's during a snowstorm, Debra, Ray and Amy actually find themselves having a great time. Then Debra makes a nasty comment to Frank which totally upsets the good mood. This causes Marie to defend Frank and finally reveal her true feelings for Debra.

#49 - Ergo, the Booty Call

Two and a Half Men - Season 3 - Episode 16

Alan has trouble deciding if he should bring his younger girlfriend to Jake's birthday party to meet his mom and his ex-wife. Rose tries to get her boyfriend to act more like Charlie.

#50 - Stefania Arrives

Everybody Loves Raymond - Season 5 - Episode 17

Robert gets a surprise visit from Stefania, the woman with whom he fell head over heels in love when the Barones vacationed in Italy. Robert's excitement over having his beloved, and stunningly gorgeous, Stefania so close quickly gives way to annoyance when he is witness to a few of her idiosyncrasies. After spending some quality time with the Italian beauty, sans gelato and gondolas, Robert has to rethink his feelings for her. Meanwhile, Stefania's father, who has accompanied her to America, has his own change of heart with respect to his feelings for Robert.