Just before Robert walks through the door, the doctor emerges and says that Ray is awake and that it occasionally happens due to hypertension.

She finally gets Frank to tell her what happened at the hospital and is hysterical when she finds out that "her son almost died" and nobody told her.

With a central theme of the series being Marie's coddling of Ray, an annoyed Debra says to nobody in particular, "I knew one day this would happen."

There is a pause and Ray irritably envisions what he thinks must have been going through Debra's head, saying that while she has to plan a funeral and raise three kids herself, she can finally start dating again.

The final scene of the series shows the entire family eating breakfast together after Frank breaks Marie's stove in an attempt to "work on it."

[1] On the night of its airing, "The Finale" aired after Everybody Loves Raymond: The Last Laugh, an hour-long behind-the-scenes documentary of making the episode; and an episode of Late Show with David Letterman that re-showed Romano's 1995 skit on the show that caused Everybody Loves Raymond to be green-lit.

[5] Miriam Di Nunzio of Chicago Sun-Times, awarding "The Finale" three-and-a-half stars, wrote the premise of all the family members loving each other made the episode "emotional and unforgettable.