#ray vecchio

best wardrobe on the show by a mile

"i learned two things from my father. one: timing. mostly when to duck. and two: you never hit a kid because it doesn't teach him anything"

everything we learn about his family generally, but i especially simply enjoy that it's mainly a household of women

he's canonically got game. there's a series of exes and flirtations where he's not just haplessly unaware of how to act, but is actively portrayed as suave and sexy

sharp and smarter than perhaps considered -- good at wordplay, leadership decisions, and staying cool under pressure (moreso in s2 on that last one)

keeps an eye on the world around fraser, because fraser doesn't habitually do that and it's up to him to keep him safe from it (and he knows its ugliness very well)

"You should've kept the money."

Oh the feelings I have about the inclusion of this minor but major eyebrow man saying this to Ray in One Good Man.

And Ray's reaction face!

The show knows what it's cooking with.

Ray giving the Riv sale money (dreams and a bit of self wrapped in a bit of selfish possession) for Fraser (the perception sell of Benny's ideals but it's that that makes a belief truer too).

That the show acknowledges or makes the time to show the bittersweet edge.

It costs. You know it does.

Maybe Fraser doesn't get that but Ray does.