No one expected anything there. On Mondays, they expected something. Worries centering around Romano's acting abilities were disappearing, too. It's the sort of family that does not stand on formality, and sometimes that's the problem. No one believes in knocking on doors.
Privacy is a luxury.
That twist comes from real-life experiences. The show takes plots from instances in the lives of the writing staff. With this show, if you write very universally, it would never work. Ninety percent of the show's writing staff is still in place from the beginning, and no one has left in the past two years. During the past five years, Raymond has garnered 15 Emmy nominations, winning only one.