[9] Bullock had been interested in developing a TV show with a Latino storyline, being concerned about the lack of visibility for Latinos on American television. He eventually accepts George as a good match for his daughter, as his son and other daughter's marriages ended in failure while Angie is still married. She was a cheerleader in high school and was very popular. [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. The show entered syndication one month after the series finale on ABC, and is distributed by Warner Bros. Television Distribution. Many episode plots were established through his stay in the Lopez household. A prime example is when George believed his mom died in a house fire and was genuinely anxious. Angie is very overprotective of Max and supportive of Carmen. Lopez said that ABC "dealt with us from the bottom of the deck" and that it was "hard to take after what was a good run. 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. As soon as Manny insults Benny, George punches him in the face. Based on their true story, George and Mayas new show tells their tale of reconciliation. On September 8, 2020, the show was removed from syndication on Nick at Nite, ending its almost 13-year run on the network. She is also portrayed as a goody-two-shoes, very naive, and often takes people at face-value. 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". The series was also shown on Paramount Global sister networks MTV Tres and TV Land. Another running gag is that whenever George is angry at her for something, such as a kept secret, she usually resorts to selling him her body in order to avoid consequence. Carmen often shows a liberal bent to political issues (even more than others in her household) and has an affinity for social justice causes. ", or when he thinks an idea is crazy or stupid, or when he clearly knows someone is joking about something, he will usually quote "Est loco!.. George raises daughter Carmen and dyslexic son Max with his wife Angie, after surviving a miserable, dysfunctional childhood at the hands of his neglectful alcoholic mother Benny, who is portrayed as selfish and cold-hearted. In reality, Zach was only trying to lure her into having sexual intercourse before dumping her. 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). Though when Carmen was no longer affected by this, it's left questionable as to why she was not put back in public school. One of my favorite shows growing up, George Lopez was a show I constantly found myself rewatching. After Carmen's departure from the series, Angie's overindulged niece Veronica moved in, laden with a large trust fund that is entrusted to George's care. When Manny sends George a check to help him out of financial trouble, George goes to see him in Phoenix, and ends up punching him in Benny's honor (the first gift Benny actually wanted from him). George!'") Manny also stole George's birth certificate when he left him and Benny and used it to legalize the second George, who was born in Mexico. and the Amaury Nolasco in "Long Time No See", both in Season 2. Vic does not care. (He clearly thinks Benny is going to hell when she dies.). He was even willing to run into the burning building to save her if it weren't for a firefighter holding him back. In Season 3 he went through several tutors until Jason started tutoring him, which helped him significantly. However, it is later revealed Vic paid him off to do so (with George joking that he'd leave Angie if he got paid $200,000). Both George and Angie see him as a delinquent; he once stuck a grilled cheese sandwich in George's VCR, he and Max accidentally burned down George's garage after letting Max light off a bottle rocket, and when he and Max skip school and try to take George's car for a joyride, they end up driving it into the backyard. As Max grew into a teenager, a number of problems made George begin to seriously doubt his son's capability, intelligence and overall future after leaving education. 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. George initially believed Manny, his father, was dead (which was what Benny told him so he would stop asking where his father was), but learned he was actually alive from Manny's sister and George's aunt, Cecelia. He also suffered from insomnia at one point due to the stress of having to work harder than anyone due to his dyslexia, so Vic suggested he take up boxing to help him cope with anxiety. She is known for having an attitude problem and for being very rude to people. Max is an avid skateboarder. She is said to be deeply religious, though she was pregnant with Ernie before marrying his father. This results in Carmen being devastated, as he left California to pursue his baseball career. Joe appears and dies in the episode "Super Bowl". Distractify is a registered trademark. The other George gives Manny the first George's number, and Manny calls, where as George hangs up, upset of the fact Manny left him and Benny. How can I help your ass?" By continuing, you agree to the Privacy Policy and Max took on a more selfish attitude mainly from George's part and begins to make decisions based on his own insight rather than George's, which is seen towards the end of season 5 and beginning of season 6. However, every appearance after that, the character is never shown and is voiced by a man. When Manny sends George $20,000 to pay off his debt, he decides to go to Phoenix and meet his long-lost father, with his family tagging along for the ride. Taylor (played by Valeria Andrews) is Carmen's friend. See production, box office & company info, The Rotten Tomatoes Show: Dinner for Schmucks/Charlie St. Cloud/Get Low, Stage 4, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA. A major recurring trait throughout the show, Angie's family is seen more than George's family as they greatly hate each other. After they tell Carmen she can go back to school now, she refuses, telling them that she's the school whore now after revealing a phone call from boys who were asking if they could leave a message for the school whore. When individual episodes have scores, they will influence the final season score. After convincing George that his father had died, Benny showed her son an abusive, dysfunctional home life and childhood, desensitizing him to her constant criminal actions as if they were any normal occurrences, guarding numerous other secrets from her son as well that were unveiled during his adulthood. Synopsis: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 . George Lopez, commonly referred to as The George Lopez Show,[1] is an American sitcom created by George Lopez, Bruce Helford and Robert Borden, which originally aired for six seasons, consisting of 120 episodes, on ABC from March 27, 2002, to May 8, 2007. George Lopez, commonly referred to as The George Lopez Show, [1] is an American sitcom created by George Lopez, Bruce Helford and Robert Borden, which originally aired for six seasons, consisting of 120 episodes, on ABC from March 27, 2002, to May 8, 2007. He told Jimmy Fallon in a November 2022 interview, It was a video of her twerking upside-down. All of these releases are now out of print. 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. George adds to this by replying that Ernie's mother sneezed and he "popped out to her shoulders". Originally, Vic strongly disapproved of Angie marrying George (In "A Kiss is Just a Kiss," it was revealed that as he walked Angie down the aisle on her wedding day he told her to leave George), even saying "when you make waffles, you always toss out the first one"; he later said he tailored his message to the moment as he told his other daughter "don't let this one go". ", usually followed or preceded with the crazy idea or joke (example: "I enjoyed meeting your mother'? He's also a foster father to Max's best friend, Ricky. And I walked in on her checking a man for moles in a place where sun damage is not a possibility!"). He starts to say all those words and dropping dollar bills everywhere, before he says "what-cha" (George's catchphrase) to George in his own house. In her first appearance, however, she was shown to be average size and played by Lillian Hurst. His mother, Benny was neglectful and verbally abusive, which took a toll on George's childhood. [22] The sixth and final season was released on November 24, 2015. George often buys expensive jerseys of the teams and wears them on his days off. She is seen partly on-screen in the episode "George Takes a Sentimental Ernie" due to her appearance. He and Angie begin searching for Manny, in hope to find him. [10] The George Lopez Show was seen as an attempt from ABC to diversify their programming, while still appealing to the widest possible audience. She talks like a valley girl. 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?" He is the son of Manny and Benny Lopez. Unfortunately this has left her quite easy to manipulate, as her search for true love and acceptance from her peers blinds her to a person's true nature. In a later episode Ernie announces that he broke up with Tammy over irreconcilable differences explaining that he "wanted to communicate more and she wanted to have sex with strangers while he [Ernie] was at work". 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. For her part, Angie will side with George against her father Vic, and will always help her husband no matter what problem he has. He decided to return to Emilina, who had indicated that she wanted him back; unfortunately, she died before they could reunite. He is believed to be a Super Bowl fan, because he always has tickets. scaring the living daylights out of Vic and Octavio, who angrily pursue him. That was until Mayan posted a viral video that saw her twerking while simultaneously doing a handstand, and it would've made Megan Thee Stallion proud. Amy's first appearance occurs at the plant when she returns from breaking her arm. Meanwhile, Carmen gets a job working at the restaurant that George worked at as a teenager. George attempts to teach Veronica responsibility by helping her find a job in the factory, though his efforts are often thwarted when Veronica seduces the male workers (particularly Ernie and Mel Powers) into carrying out her duties for her. Angie is also not above bullying George around with his power around the house. Max also shares George's sense of humor and will make decisions based on his father's actions. After one bad accident, Amy loses her vision; she also appears wearing glasses and thrusting her hands out trying to identify people who speak to her. She rebelliously fled to San Francisco with him against George and Angie's wishes in one episode. A bit of a running gag in the series is whenever George says something that upsets Angie, he tries to make up an excuse for his actions while trying to kiss her wrist. George and Ernie worked at Mr. Carrillo's restaurant during high school. When George was talking to Angie he says,"You remember the guy we fired that came back and tried to shoot up the place? But George and Angie learn that he is enduring a childhood similar to and even somewhat worse than George's: a missing father and a drunken mother. [14] The series joined TBS on September 28, 2020.[15][16]. George is not publicly dating anybody new at this time. Vic later became engaged to 27-year-old Lindsay Cafferty (Stacy Keibler), but later discovered she was cheating on him with a younger man. In the series finale, Jack and Mel eventually end up being bought out for the factory and announce they are co-presidents at a similar airplane factory in Cancun, leaving the factory to George. when Max's school called. She lost her job early in Season 4 and became a wedding planner. 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