Carmen loves poetry and romance. Ernie is somewhat envious of George because although they grew up together, George's life led to a beautiful wife with two children and him being manager, while Ernie gained no such thing and has been on the manufacturing floor for almost 30 years. Angie on the other hand would much rather not and instead do some other activity. In "God Needles George", he shares the beginning of a speech he saved for Benny's death; the beginning of his speech was "The reason I'm drinking champagne is because". He has a huge crush on Angie, and can often be seen hitting on her, much to George's distaste. Television. Taylor (played by Valeria Andrews) is Carmen's friend. He was known for his on-again-off-again romance with Carmen. Max and George had a close relationship together as father and son at the beginning of the series but as the series progressed and Max became a teenager, their relationship together became more estranged. At the 9th ALMA Awards in 2007, George Lopez called the song the "Chicano National Anthem". George finally gets to meet her for the first time at a Valley School district meeting in the episode "Feel the Burn". He is often very shy around women and cannot seem to ever get a date due to his awkwardness and overall inability to connect with women, let alone talk to them. Helford and Borden also serve as showrunners and are executive producers. [11] Bullock, Helford, and two of the show's other executive producers met with ABC executives later that month, and the network tested the show with 4 episodes, before committing to 13 episodes the following fall and eventually adding an additional 9. George adds to this by replying that Ernie's mother sneezed and he "popped out to her shoulders". Written by Dailyn Rodriguez, the episode, which was written by John Pasquin, originally aired on ABC-TV on November 28, 2003. Despite his usually good-natured personality, he had been known to cheat on her and break up with her constantly in exchange for different and more experienced girls. Later, George learns from the other George that Manny lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his construction buisness and is now rich. [8] In August 2000, after being given one of Lopez's comedy albums to listen to, actress Sandra Bullock saw Lopez perform live at the Brea Improv Comedy Club. If you have kids with her, your mom and I will have to pay a dollar to visit our grandkids at the carnival.". and "George's Relatively Bad Idea") is George's successful, long-lost sister who he never knew about until the episode "Feel the Burn", Benny and Manny's daughter, Angie's sister-in-law, Oscar Lopez's niece and Carmen and Max's Aunt. [9] Bullock approached Lopez backstage after the show and made her pitch to produce and star in a situational comedy centered around the comedian. George is often annoyed by his stories about Cuba and his expressions, earning comical, sarcastic remarks. The show's theme song "Low Rider" is intact in these releases. He and Angie begin searching for Manny, in hope to find him. He is also dyslexic, which often comes into play on the show. In the three episodes which he actually appears, Manny is played by William Marquez. George smashes the watch, and then Benny tells him it was worth a lot. Also, despite being a housewife, Angie is rarely shown doing any house work in the series especially during the later seasons, heavily implying that she hardly ever does any work at all. Carmen gets suspended from school when she gets in a fight with Piper. He was even willing to run into the burning building to save her if it weren't for a firefighter holding him back. She is very melodramatic, always displays superior intelligence and a love of writing laughably dramatic, dark, or melancholy poetry. And I walked in on her checking a man for moles in a place where sun damage is not a possibility!"). [13] Lopez stated that the explanation was "painful to hear," noting that the show had four different time slots in only five years and had to constantly compete against shows like American Idol, yet the final season of the show was still able to outperform a comedy series that was renewed by ABC: Notes from the Underbelly. Maximilian Victor Roberto Magic Johnson "Max" Lopez (Luis Armand Garcia) is George and Angie's second-born child and only son, Carmen's younger brother and Vic, Benny, Emelina and Manny's grandson. At Thanksgiving dinner later that year, Manny is revealed to need a kidney transplant, so George offers to donate his kidney. George always gives Max advice on how to deal with hardships he himself dealt with when he was Max's age while Angie gives him sympathy and unsuccessful advice mainly because she never dealt with the kind of problems Max deals with. Throughout the series, George demonstrates several times how self-righteous and uncaring he is of Angie, such as in "George's Extreme Makeover: Holmes Edition", where George promises to renovate the garage into an office space for Angie, but resorts to paying a couple of his old friends to do it with "a couple of cases of beer". Max once ended up in the hospital for alcohol poisoning after drinking grain alcohol mixed with fruit punch at a party. Despite all this, Angie still loves him. 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T. R. S. Ranking Report: 01 Thru 210", "Getting Funny, Not Angry: Comedy: George Lopez deals with the stereotyping of Latinos by using humor to help fight the slights. Eventually she admitted that her parents were right all along about Zach when she confessed that he had dumped and ditched her in a nightclub shortly after she refused to sleep with him at a hotel he had taken her to. Episodes from the first four seasons of George Lopez do not use those respective seasons' opening titles, the season five version is used instead (this is evident as Emiliano Diez is credited in the sequence, which is slightly longer than how they were originally broadcast on ABC, though there is also a short version also used in syndication that also differs from the original short opening credits that does not credit him for seasons 13, even though Diez did not make his first guest appearance until season two and did not become a cast regular until season four); the final two seasons use those seasons' appropriate versions of the opening credits. Veronica's charms often play a key role in earning her what she wants, enticing men into filling out her wishes, much to the jealousy of her aging aunt in one episode, fearing for her reputation as the family's main beauty. She took Carmen to a club past midnight and got her grounded, although she had good intentions and was only helping Carmen stand up to mean kids who were teasing her just like in her old school. In Lopez vs. Lopez, George and his daughter discover that theyre not that different after all which is also true IRL. Read on for more. He was purchased from a homeless man who was unable to afford medical treatment for his pet, and was named by Max for the countless injections that the dog required in order to lessen the symptoms of its numerous illnesses. Amy's first appearance occurs at the plant when she returns from breaking her arm. [8] With an absence of TV deals, he continued to perform standup through the 1990s and into the 2000s. George! Comedian George Lopez had been performing standup throughout the early 1990s, expressing interest in having his own comedy television show like Seinfeld. Distractify is a registered trademark. This is the episode list for The George Lopez Show "Prototype": George Lopez, a worker at an aviation factory for 20 years, gets promoted to manager. At the end of the episode when George and Angie were at the restaurant Angie told George that her father does not want her to go to Cuba unless Castro is not in power anymore. Est loco! Ricky (J.B. Gaynor) is Max's closest friend. After confessing to leaving Carmen at a nightclub, he runs outside where Benny hits him with a wrench. But there seems to be little to no footage of the show on . One joke was made by George when Ernie asked if George listens to his voicemail. He even said "My mom's been training for this; she's been smoking three packs a day for years!" Carmen Consuela Lopez (Masiela Lusha) is the daughter of the Lopez family; Max's older sister; granddaughter of Vic, Benny, Emelina and Manny. Later, they broke up because Tammy still wanted to sleep around when she and Ernie got married. He had a better attitude!" She disapproves of the constant fighting between George and Benny and consistently tries to mend fences between them. Veronica is a talented poker player; in Season 6 she beats Ernie, George, and Vic in a game. Ernie is depicted as silly, socially awkward, and very loyal to George. Angie is a know-it-all who always thinks that George, is wrong, but there have been multiple times when she has to apologize to him. George Lopez Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. when Max's school called. Danny boy, a lazy worker voiced by Lopez, always called into work with hilarious phone calls, making excuses for not being there. It is later revealed that the child belongs to someone else, and Ernie's fiance makes a swift and permanent exit. Manny dies in Momentos, the next episode, before the surgery. When Angie's mother dies, George . Privacy Policy George runs into his aunt at the store and finds out that Benny has been lying to him for over 30 years and that his father is alive and is living in California. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Later, George learns from the other George that Manny lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with his construction buisness and is now rich. Piper invites Carmen and Toby to her party; and Carmen tells Toby they're only inviting Toby to make fun of her. Becomes a Brick Joke in 'George Drives the Batmobile', where the . Carmen goes to private school after people keep harassing her, including a guy pulling her shirt up in the hall, and another who follows her into the bathroom and asks her if she wants to have sex with him. So let's wrap her around the keg and start this party!" For the late-night program hosted by the same comedian, see, (select episodes of seasons 26 seen in syndication), Due to a creative difference that she had with George Lopez, Masiela Lusha's character, Carmen was written out of the sixth season, only appearing in the premiere episode. Copyright Fandango. Another running gag in the series is her hitting George at least once an episode after he says something she doesn't want to hear or something that she believes is too inappropriate in front of the kids. Originally, after George found out Manny was alive, it was assumed Manny never gave George any support, only to figure out he left behind his own fathers golden watch that would be worth a fortune by the time he was an adult. Initially, George stayed quiet about her accusations. Max's learning disabilities were so bad that he nearly failed the 5th grade, but managed to avoid this. The series was also shown on Paramount Global sister networks MTV Tres and TV Land. At one point, George finds out that Manny is alive from Manny's sister Cecelia Lopez. He is also an avid sports fan of teams such as the Oakland Raiders, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. George, who's preparing to give a kidney to his father, is in trouble with Angie because he threw away a box of her family mementos, but both their priorities shift when Benny delivers bad news: Manny has died. George pathetically tried to counter it by asking her "You sure it's not because you want to see me with my tool belt?" This made her a source of jealousy among other girls her age and leaves her with few friends, thus leaving her with extremely low self-esteem. Many episode plots had often been established through George's discovery of a protected secret, such as the revelation of his having a sister named Linda (who had enjoyed a far more loving childhood after Benny had given her up for adoption), and many jokes had been brought up referencing one of Benny's numerous acts of child abuse directed toward George and mistreatment of him. It is also implied he lives with his parents in Switzerland. His mother, Benny was neglectful and verbally abusive, which took a toll on George's childhood. Viewing herself as sexually-appealing and erotically-charming, Gina's main character hallmarks of her countless attempts at charming her male co-workers and at sex appeal are often the object of ridicule. It has also been heavily implied that Angie's typical housewife status and inability to get a decent well-paying job is because George is the one who kept her from going to college and obtaining a degree. Fans were surprised by the breakup considering Ann donated her kidney to George a few years prior after he suffered a condition that deteriorated his kidneys. Since his divorce from his first wife, Mayas mom, the relationship between father and daughter has been rocky, to say the least. The show moved to ION Television on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. He likes everyone in the family except for Benny, who sometimes barks at him due to his personality. , and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes. They got back together in the same episode, during which Randy proposes and Benny finally relents and says yes. He speaks with a thick Cuban accent which George often mocks; George has stated that Vic's heavy Cuban accent makes every sign sound angry. Due to this, Benny is disgusted at what her son George has been reduced to, which further causes her to dislike Angie. Breakin' bones and breakin' hearts." Bullock executive produced the show; normally a film actress, Bullock's three episodes as Amy are her only television acting credits in the twenty-first century. This may be because she was pampered like a princess during her childhood. ("I don't listen to any of your messages. He is the son of Manny and Benny Lopez. It is mentioned by Carmen that the reason for Zack's undisciplined behavior stems from his father not being there for him and having a "bitter old drunk" of a mother. "George and Ann Lopez have made the decision to end their 17-year marriage," they said. Throughout grade school, he and Ernie had the reputation of being outcasts or "unpopular". Angie could not choose between the first three names while George wanted their son named after someone famous. George Edward Lopez (played by George Lopez) is the main protagonist of the series. Carmen and Toby don't go to the party and Carmen and Toby remain best friends. Jason was abandoned by his parents, so George and Angie took him in. However, George frequently underestimates Carmen's intelligence and has little faith in her, sometimes apparently perceiving her as dim and airheaded (similar to how Benny sees Carmen as a future stripper). When George finally decides to approach his estranged father, Manny Lopez (guest star William Marquez), his solitary journey is transformed into a family vacation and a day of reckoning for Benny. This is often demonstrated when a particularly challenging situation arises and rather than admit that he is in over his head, George will quote in a very high-pitched voice, "I got this! In the "fantasy dream flashbacks", in which George supposedly has when he's trying to describe to his son Max what his dad Manny, whom he's not seen since he was two, and doesn't remember how he looked, might look and act like, Manny's played first by Esai Morales in "Who's Your Daddy?" Before Randy and Benny got married, Amy showed up at Randy's bachelor party and told Randy to leave Benny at the altar. At first, she and Benny do not seem to get along, but then they realize that they have so much in common. I realized I wasn't the best dad, but when your kid's twerking upside-down, you've got some real f--king problems.. Ernie's inept social skills and inability to talk to women is obviously a result of the over sheltered childhood he had and his parents own problems rubbing off on him. George had a troubled childhood which is referenced throughout the series. Ernie dates her and takes care of Ricky for her because of her personal issues. Manny comes to George in jail, and tells him he only got him arrested to talk to him, as he admits that he thought that he would be bettor off without Benny and George, and that it was a "terrible thing" to think about his son. 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