List of Everybody Loves Raymond Episodes - Season 3 (1998/99)

After Frank has another car accident, Robert gives him a ticket, which leads Debra to be worried about Frank driving the kids. Ray and Debra then find out that Frank's driving license expired. Ray takes Frank for his test and to Ray's astonishment he passes. Debra then reminds him that he is getting old and they can't trust their kids with him anymore. Eventually Frank realizes this himself.

Ray and Debra hire a baby sitter, much to Marie's shock and disappointment. At first Ray and Debra think it's a good idea because they are able to spend more time with each other, but when the kids favour her more than Debra, Debra decides to give her up and leave the babysitting jobs to Marie. Marie gets hurt during sitting and Ray tries to get Lisa back, but the Parkers have already hired her.

When Robert is unable to get any privacy with Amy, he decides to move out. He finds a place above an old couple's garage. When Ray visits him he sees the striking similarity they have with Frank and Marie. He points it out to Robert who then decides to find a new place. Meanwhile, Marie is spending all her time at Ray's place and it drives Debra crazy.

Ray discovers that Frank had let him win once in Ping Pong, which Ray wasn't aware of. To prove that Ray can play Ping Pong better than Frank, he challenges him. They get into a match and Frank keeps beating and teasing him. When Frank wins, Ray tells him that he let him win. This makes Frank mad and he finally admits that Ray had actually beaten him.

When Ray retrieves a beer bottle cap from the heat vent, he confesses to a party he had 20 years ago when Marie and Frank were out of town. Marie gets mad and refuses to even give him his birth-minute kiss. She starts to favour Robert and Frank starts to bond with Ray. When Robert asks if Marie would be as mad if he had a party, she just assumes that Ray was covering-up for Robert, refusing to hear otherwise and forgives Ray.

When Robert's partner, Judy confronts him about his plans for the night, he reveals that he has none. She takes him out dancing and he likes it. He goes overboard to fit into her group of friends. When she tries to tell him about it, he thinks that she has started to like him. He takes Ray along to ruin the evening. Meanwhile, Marie thinks that they are dating and tries not to freak out.

When Frank wins "Man of the Year" at his lodge, Robert and Ray are asked to make a video about him. When none of his friends have anything nice to say, they ask them about chocolate and then edit it out. When Frank sees it, he is disappointed that his lodge buddy did not say anything nice about him, and shows his anger at Ray and Robert instead. Frank and Marie give a tribute to each other.

When Frank "hurts" his knee, Ray is stuck with going on a cruise with Marie. He keeps eating at all the buffets and Marie gets close to a group of widows. The cruise manager thinks that Ray and Marie are a married couple. Back at home, Frank reveals to Robert that he fakes the injury. Then Frank actually gets hurt and Robert is forced to look after him.

Debra and the kids leave for the weekend to visit their other grandparents. After his friends leave, Ray finds it difficult to sleep in an empty house, so he goes to Robert's apartment and intrudes on his date. After Robert sends him away, he goes to his parent's place, where he finds Robert. They re-live some of the childhood fears with Marie and Frank.

In order to impress Robert at the Baseball Hall of Fame, Ray tries to use his status as a sports writer to jump to the front of the line to meet the 1969 Mets. Robert wants to wait in the line, but Ray insists on cutting the line. They end up missing the event and Robert does not get the autograph of Art Shampsky in Shampsky II's dog collar. On the journey back, when Ray is pulled over for speeding, Robert tries to bail him out, but fails.