‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ creator’s mom furious over this storyline

“Everybody Loves Raymond” was a family show in more ways than one.

Series creator Phil Rosenthal is sharing which storylines were inspired by his own life — much to the dismay of his loved ones.

He spoke about the series’ real-life origins and what it was like in the writers’ room while celebrating 30 years of the CBS sitcom at The Paley Museum in New York City on June 16.

Ray Romano (Ray Barone), Patricia Heaton (Debra Barone) and Maggie Wheeler (Linda Gruenfelder) were also in attendance.

Debra’s parents, Warren (Robert Culp) and Lois Whelan (Katherine Helmond), once landed Rosenthal in hot water with his own mother. The “Somebody Feed Phil” star, 65, explained that he loosely based the Whelans on his own brother’s parents-in-law.

“When that show aired, the moment it was over, I got a phone call. It was my mother,” Rosenthal exclusively told The Post on the red carpet. “‘Are you out of your mind? We have to see these people!’”

Although Rosenthal clarified that it was an exaggeration, his mother continued, “‘Yes, but they don’t know that you’re exaggerating. They’ll think that we feel that way about them. What did you do?’”

“I said, ‘Mom, your comfort is something I’m willing to sacrifice for the show.’”

During the panel, the writers took turns sharing a personal story that made its way into an episode, followed by a corresponding clip from the show.

Writer and executive producer Lew Schneider said pulling from their experiences was part of the process.

“We came in every week, and Phil said, ‘What happened to you this week?’” Schneider, 63, told The Post. “The idea that anyone else would care — I think that’s why the show works… it’s like a support group. You weren’t the only one suffering.”

As for which storyline mirrored his life a little too closely, Schneider pointed to the series’ hundredth episode, “The Wallpaper.”

In it, Frank and Marie (played by the late Peter Boyle and Doris Roberts, respectively) crash their car into Ray’s house, prompting Frank to say that the walls are “like paper.”

“Across the street, my neighbor used to back his car out of his driveway and periodically run into my dad’s Plymouth Satellite Wagon,” Schneider said. “And that was Phil’s idea: ‘What if they don’t hit a car? What if they run it into the house?’”

Sometimes, a storyline hit so close to home it caused tension with the writers’ families.

For Schneider, it was “Boob Job,” where Ray’s enthusiastic reaction to a friend’s boob job upsets Debra, leading her to stuff a pair of socks in her bra.

“My wife and I went to a Super Bowl party, and the hostess had had a boob job and showed Liz [Abbe], my wife, the results of the surgery,” Schneider explained. “I was too excited about the procedure, and it started a big fight about how maybe all I cared about was boobs. And that’s not true!”

Writer and co-executive producer Cindy Chupack, for her part, said “Driving Frank” and “What’s With Robert?” were among the episodes inspired by her own life.

In “Driving Frank,” the Barones become worried about Frank’s driving. It turns out his license has expired, and he must take another driving test to renew it.

“I had gone through that with my dad,” Chupack, 60, told The Post. “It was a tricky time for our family and my dad… he was a terrible driver anyway, so we always felt like we might die, but our kids shouldn’t die in the car.”

Unlike Schneider’s and Rosenthal’s families, Chupack’s father embraced the attention.

“Whenever I used to write about my dad, he took it as a compliment, even if it was not complimentary,” Chupack said. “He was just excited to have something out there. He was like, ‘No publicity is bad publicity.’”

In “What’s With Robert?,” the family grapples with the possibility of Robert (Brad Garrett) being gay after he and Amy (Monica Horan) break up.

Chupack said the storyline came from her own lack of “gaydar.”

“I have experience with this sort of thing, having been married once to someone who realized he was [gay],” she said. “But I love how it brought out how a family, and some who might have been homophobic at the time, loved him and accepted him. It was just a sweet way to see how their family would react to something and then grow and learn.”

“Everybody Loves Raymond” premiered on September 13, 1996, and ran for nine seasons on CBS until 2005.

At the anniversary event, Romano and Heaton addressed rumors of a possible revival — and explained why it’s unlikely. 

“The obvious is Peter [Boyle] and Doris [Roberts] and one of the kids — they’re no longer with us,” Romano, 66, told The Post. “We’re all heartbroken. They’re a big part of the show, the dynamic.”

Heaton, 67, agreed, adding: “To try to do it again without the cast members that we’ve lost would be a disservice to the show.”

Boyle died from multiple myeloma and heart disease in 2006 at the age of 71. Roberts died in 2016 at the age of 90. Sawyer Sweeten, one of Romano and Heaton’s on-screen twin sons (Geoffrey Barone), died by suicide in 2015 at age 19.

Still, Romano said a reunion isn’t off the table.

“Will there be a reunion? That we would love to do,” the “No Good Deed” actor said. “So I think we’re considering and working on that happening.”