Frank has been named "Man of the Year" at The Lodge, Ray and Robert are asked to make a tribute video about him.
There, he is confronted by a still cross Marie, who is now wearing over-night facial cream (To which the startled Frank remarks, "A man wants to go to bed and he gets attacked by a Kabuki!").
In an unexpected show of tenderness, Frank goes to the bathroom to wet a towel and proceeds to gently wipe the facial cream off Marie's face.
Upon its airing, "Frank's Tribute" received a mixed review from Virginia Rohan of The Record, who criticized the dramatic tonal shift in its second act and found it "well-acted, but wrenchingly unfunny" overall.
It landed in a 2002 unranked list of the top ten best Everybody Loves Raymond episodes by The Star-Ledger, which claimed it had the "funniest" and "most poignant" sequences of the entire show.
[2] It was also claimed the second funniest episode of the series by Screen Rant, which highlighted Ray and Robert's tribute video.
[4] DVDTalk, in a review of season three of the show, called both "Frank's Tribute" and "Cruising with Marie" "pretty funny and put the characters at the center of some great situations.
[6] Roberts was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for acting in "Frank's Tribute" and "The Toaster.