Keychain used by Brad Garrett in <i>Everybody Loves Raymond</i>
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content: Metal keychain, part of a New York Police Department service uniform worn by Brad Garrett in the role of Robert Barone on the television series <i>Everybody Loves Raymond</i>. The keychain is comprised of a metal chain with a spring-operated clasp at its end.
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content: <i>Everybody Love Raymond</i> was a syndicated show which originally aired on CBS in 1996 and ran until 2005. <i>Everybody Loves Raymond</i> was created by Philip Rosenthal. The sitcom was built around Ray Romano after his performance on <i>Late Night with David Letterman </i>. During their first meeting, Romano and Rosenthal realized their backgrounds had many similarities including the peculiarities of their Italian and Jewish families. The show ended up being semi-autobiographic about both. The focus of the show was the intergenerational Italian-American Barone family.
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content: The series followed the lives of the Barone family of Lynbrook, Long Island: Raymond, a sports journalist; Debra, Raymond's wife and mother of children Ally, Michael, and Geoffery; Robert, a New York City police officer and Raymond's brother; and Marie and Frank, Raymond and Robert's sometimes-intrusive parents. Each episode of the show includes familial conflict and resolution. <i> Everybody Loves Raymond</i> shows how intergenerational problems are relatable for all families. The connection between Ray, his parents, and his brother, show both the necessity, and annoyance, of constant family presence. In the impressive nine seasons, <i>Everybody Loves Raymond</i> was nominated for 69 Emmys and won 15. In an interview, Rosenthal explains the relatability was what made the show successful, “The biggest compliment we’d get on <i>Everybody Loves Raymond</i> was people saying ‘you were listening outside my house last night’ Other people were going through the same things. I don’t know these people. I don’t know their life. But it turns out, the more specific something is the more universal it becomes.” The relatability and the focus on family is what made the show significant and successful. <i> Everybody Loves Raymond</i> showed that the background of a family did not matter, all families bicker and tease each other over the same things.
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content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Law Enforcement
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content: Comedy
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content: Television
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2018.0200.06.04
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content: 2018.0200.06.04
label: accession number
content: 2018.0200
objectType: label: Object Name
content: keychain
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 in x 3 in x 3/16 in; 58.42 cm x 7.62 cm x .508 cm