Feeling depressed, Homer finds another bar, "Knockers" (a parody of the restaurant Hooters), where he meets a friendly man named Ray Magini.

Meanwhile, Marge and the kids leave Santa's Little Helper with Grampa and the Springfield Retirement Home residents, because they seem to like him.

Lisa, Marge, and Maggie arrive back at the retirement home, only to discover that Santa's Little Helper has become one of the old people.

When Homer spots Ray outside from the window of his hospital room, Hibbert assigns him to "electro-shock" (or electroconvulsive therapy).

Hibbert, seeing how angry Homer is as he was made to go through shock treatment for nothing, offers to make it up to him by doing a free eye scraping for him.

[1] The real 350th episode (in production code order) is "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star", which was temporarily shelved following the death of Pope John Paul II.

[4] The title of the episode is a reference to the song "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult.

While some repeats have included this material, other viewings have edited out both parts because of Everybody Loves Raymond's having finished its network run long ago.

[5] On the United Kingdom's Channel 4, and in American syndication on Fox affiliates, as well as on the season 16 DVD boxset release, the entire post-credit conversation between Homer and Ray about CBS's Everybody Loves Raymond was re-dubbed with the traditional end music for the show.

He liked the scene with Stephen Hawking and Homer's solution of using a race track to divert the water from the roof, but he thought the episode became less funny as the plot became more convoluted.

[2] Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide thought the main plot was original but "fails to take flight" while he felt the subplot at the retirement home was funnier.

[7] On Four Finger Discount, Guy Davis and Brendan Dando liked Ray Romano's performance and liked seeing Homer have a friend.