Laura's cold

[Samme]

I recently read the all-time favorite episode thread and someone mentioned "Long Night's Journey Into Day." I really like that one and it reminded
me of something I always wondered about it. How did MTM do that with her voice? I mean the cracking of her voice when she got stressed. It sounded very real. I somehow doubt she worked up a cold just for the week they filmed that episode. I've never heard that done before, or since, by anyone else. And yet I have heard the opposite. Where a character
clearly has a cold but it is never mentioned simply because it isn't part of the script and the actor just had a cold the week they filmed. Patricia Heaton recently and Ted Knight once on TMTMS. Anyway, Mary
was great. It was very creative and
unusual. But I still don't know quite how she did it. And I've never seen it mentioned anywhere.

[MTM1Fan]

I've always wondered the same thing! I thought it was a weird question to ask though because of the same reasons you mentioned. Maybe it was just a coincidence. I mean, she did that voice the entire episode. I honestly think she really did have a cold that week, unless she' s really really good at acting, which she is. Just out of curiousity, which Everybody Loves Raymond episode where you talking about?

[Samme]

Ya know, I'm sorry to say but I don't remember which episode it was with Patricia Heaton. I'm almost watching the show complusively lately and they're sorta blending together.
(And with satellite the reruns are
on five or six times a night, so it get kinda crazy sometimes.) Anyway,
I just remember it was in the last week or so and her voice was kinda
hoarse. I wondered if it would be mentioned, but it wasn't. And that
situation always reminds me of Mary
on DVD that time and her "cold."
Where, of course, it was mentioned as an important part of the story.